The world’s largest widget community Widgetbox announced three extra enhancements for their professional customers last night.
Slideshow Pro
Slideshow Pro lets users create a custom slideshow in a widget. To an extent this will compete with the likes of Google Docs which lets users embed their presentations or even Slideshow and Scribd. Widgetbox’s advantage is that this slideshow widget can be more easily customised by other people re-using it and its integration with the likes of Flickr, Facebook and Google’s Picasa.
Countdown Creator Pro
A simple idea but an effective on; the countdown widget simply ticks down the time to an event. This is the sort of widget that motivates people to book tickets for your conference or online event such as a uStream broadcast. When combined with a portable widget it is possible to empower your entire community to create a buzz and urgency around your event.
Facebook Integration
Finally, Widgetbox have ramped up their integration with Facebook. This means that the publishing widgets, ratings and comments can appear on wall and Facebook news feeds. In fact, Widgetbox have added support for using Flash widgets in-line with the news feed.
Brinkwire
Brinkwire currently has two Widgetbox widgets. If you’re reading this on the blog then the chances are high that you’re looking at one now.
The Brinkwire panel widget is a simple way to show the latest Brinkwire headlines on your blog. Links through this widget are framed so your users can more easily share the news. This widget will appeal most to sites wishing to supply Brinkwire’s press releases to their own community of content consumers.
The breaking news panel widget with the RSS feed from the very popular and very fast @BreakingNews account at Twitter. Brinkwire’s headlines are accessible from a dropdown. This widget appeals to any site owner who wants to have up-to-the-second breaking news on their site and present it with a social media flavour.
July 10, 2009
Widgets