Widget box was the first widget company that I had heard of, yet I do not hear enough about widget box in the tech community. The versitility of the blidget and its ability to spread virally seems unstoppable. I guess I will have to horde the internets best kept secret!
Timothy
· 10 months ago
Interesting. I'll have to check this out.
benn
· 10 months ago
myeh. kick apps was doing this about 18 months ago... just sign up for free. it took me about 5 mins to create a simple feed based one and about another 5 mins to brand it. very intuitive. you can also create youtube widgets etc. but it's still not there. and there will never be a replacement for getting a widget professionally developed - particularly on a strategy level.
Monica McPherrin
· 10 months ago
This is so cool! Thanks for the information. I'll have to try this out. Have you had any technical problems with it or does it seem to run error-free?
Oren
· 10 months ago
To #5
I gave Kick Apps a shot, it's in NO-WAY easier or quicker to create a widget than Blidget Pro. It's confusing and requires a little more knowledge.
I do agree that a professional widget is really the key though.
benn
· 10 months ago
I never said it was quicker or easier - i just said how long it took me. I think I also pointed out that it was 'still not there'. overall though, for the amount that you can do I found there design pretty intuitive - no less than any adobe app.
the problem with these projects is that whilst it promotes the functionality and makes it more accessible to users, on a business side you have some clients who wonder why they should be paying $20,000 for something they could *build* on their own lol.
Len Fischer
· 10 months ago
I took a quick look, and it does look easy to set up widgets that have some degree of sophistication. Question here, and I can't seem to find any information about this on the WidgetBox site, is whether the $3.99 subscription is for a single widget or it covers multiple widgets. For instance, I often need to supply the same widget in three different widths to match customers' page layouts. Would I have to pay $3.99 per month for each widget? That's not clear from any of the information on the WidgetBox site. Anyone have a thought? Thanks in advance.
Jay
· 10 months ago
The custom themes are particularly nice - especially the Twitter theme. Super easy and good looking. No coded needed.
fightclub
· 10 months ago
this is cool! thanks for the information.....
Best Blidgets
· 6 months ago
Great post and I like the mashable blidget very much, we will set it up on our site as a news blidget. Hopefully blidgets are going to explode this year and with companies like WidgetBox making it easier to create and share widgets / blidgets / bebo apps / facebook apps etc, the rise seems unstoppable!
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I've tried twice!
Amazing work!
just sign up for free.
it took me about 5 mins to create a simple feed based one and about another 5 mins to brand it. very intuitive. you can also create youtube widgets etc.
but it's still not there.
and there will never be a replacement for getting a widget professionally developed - particularly on a strategy level.
I gave Kick Apps a shot, it's in NO-WAY easier or quicker to create a widget than Blidget Pro. It's confusing and requires a little more knowledge.
I do agree that a professional widget is really the key though.
the problem with these projects is that whilst it promotes the functionality and makes it more accessible to users, on a business side you have some clients who wonder why they should be paying $20,000 for something they could *build* on their own lol.
thanks for the information.....