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Yardbarker Widget Gallery Goes Live

Jillian Jones — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:31:16 +0000

Yardbarker first launched the Yardbarker Network Widget…

Since then, they have released hundreds of sports widgets featuring content across their network.

Today, Yardbarker has released a custom gallery containing all of their widgets. You can access the custom gallery on Yardbarker. A screenshot is below:

You can find out more about the Custom Gallery and Custom Gallery Express tools here.

Sports Quiz Widget by Yardbarker

Jillian Jones — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:12:08 +0000

Remember the show Stump The Schwab by ESPN? It was basically Jeopardy for sports buffs… featuring the uber-sports geek Howie Schwab (I use that term admiringly…!):

Yardbarker has taken sports trivia one big step forward with the Yardbarker Quiz Widget. Yardbarker has 100s of sports quizzes and the widget features a new quiz each day – the best part, the quiz is played directly inside the widget! Once the allotted time runs out, you achieve a total score and can email it to your friends (or, if you’re proud enough, send directly to Howie).

Use this widget to keep your brain fresh and prep each day for your eventual meeting with Mr. Schwab… it also keeps your blog and website fresh!

Take More Quizzes

Also exciting, the widget is available directly on Yardbarker as it is integrated on every article page. Take a look:

Widgetbox Teams Up With Yardbarker for Yarbarker Network Widget

Jillian Jones — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:23:29 +0000

When we launched the Widgetbox Blog Network a couple weeks ago, you probably noticed that the Sports Channel was powered by Yardbarker.com.

Well today, we have officially launched the Yardbarker Network Widget – which features the best content from Yardbarker’s network of 600+ sports blogs. You can create your own widget by choosing either a favorite team or sport. The widget then is dynamically updated with the freshest, most popular content from Yardbarker.

You can create your own widget by visiting Yardbaker and if you are a sports blogger, you are encouraged to join the Yardbarker Network and have your content seen by their network’s 10,000,000 monthly uniques.

Here are some timely examples of widgets – one for the Boston Red Sox and one for the NFL:

Yardbarker Network Widgetgreat free widgetsWidgetbox

For more information, you can read Mashable’s coverage today:

When Widgetbox debuted its blog network last month at BlogWorldExpo, I described it as “Web rings 2.0.” Today, that vision has come a bit more full circle, as the company has announced a partnership with Yardbarker that will feature Widgetbox Sports Channel widgets being dropped on the more than 600 sports-related blogs in Yardbarker’s network. The deal is exclusive, meaning if you want to participate in the Widgetbox Sports Channel, you’ll also need to join Yardbarker.

Social Widgets to Make Your Blog & Content Viral

Jillian Jones — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:10:58 +0000

If you’re a blogger – you just *might* be interested in sharing your content and posts with additional readers…. now you you can easily make your content go viral with these easy to add widgets from Widgetbox developer Bastawhiz!

These social widgets are easily embeddable via javascript and pull the page’s URL for dynamic submission to social sites like Digg, StumbleUpon, Facebook, etc – effectively enabling readers to share your content and other users to find it!

The best location for these widgets is actually in your blog’s template. Placing one or all of these widgets onto your “Main Index Page” and “Single Post” templates (the terminology for Wordpress) allows you to share your content by only touching your template once!