provides easy access to more than 70,000 widgets

Widgetbox announces major upgrades to its custom gallery builder, providing easy access to more than 70,000 widgets

SAN FRANCISCO, July 10 — Widgetbox, the world’s first and largest widget community, today announced new features and increased support for its Custom Galleries by Widgetbox. Custom Galleries allow online networks across the web to offer personalized widget options for their users.

With more than 70,000 widgets and 45 million unique monthly viewers on over 929,000 domains, Widgetbox is home to the world’s largest widget community and is in a unique position to offer unrivalled choice and access to online networks that are under increasing pressure to sustain user and community loyalty.

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“Widgetbox sits at a crossroads where the most important resources are converging to take the widget market from experimentation to realization,” said Will Price, CEO of Widgetbox. “Widget access, choice and reach are no longer simply desired by networks and advertisers; these are requirements for a maturing market. With Custom Galleries by Widgetbox, our partners can meet these requirements quickly and easily — and they can do so anywhere on the web, not just on Facebook.”

Custom Galleries by Widgetbox allow online networks to build their own widget galleries from the largest selection of widgets on the web, customize the appearance of their galleries, and track and manage performance with an intuitive dashboard. Other new features in Custom Galleries by Widgetbox include simple integration options for embedded galleries, customizable categories and sorting that allow partners to choose exactly how widgets are merchandised, easy branding for personalized widgets, and the ability to set up a revenue share program for promoted widgets.

Widgetbox’s suite of gallery services was first announced in May 2007 with initial support for Facebook. Since then, the company has increased its gallery of widgets by more than 500 percent and earlier this year added support for the popular social network Bebo. Widgetbox also provides Custom Galleries for Amnesty Hypercube, Doodlekit, Freewebs, Friendcodes, Netvibes, Nimble.ie, Piczo, staHrt, SynthaSite, TypePad, Webjam and Xanga, among others.

Widgetbox connects advertisers and creators with the largest audiences on the web by providing the only consumer-focused widget gallery. The company pioneered the rise of widgets and is in a natural position to accelerate the next online revolution through unlimited access to and easy use of widgets. Widgetbox widgets are embedded on more than 929,000 unique websites, giving widget creators and advertisers more reach than any other widget company.

Custom Galleries by Widgetbox is garnering rave reviews from Widgetbox partners.

“We knew we needed to add widgets to our toolkit. Custom Galleries by Widgetbox allowed us to bring our users the best widgets and their flexible tools make it a snap for us to manage the gallery,” said Heath Huffman,     co-owner of website maker Doodlekit.

“We’re excited to be able to offer our users a never-ending supply of fresh, dynamic content, without directing them away from our own site,” said Dave Kensell, project coordinator for Global Domains International, the .WS (WebSite) domain registry. “It’s nice to work with a company that’s continually improving its services — bring on the new features!”

“We’re excited to integrate a Custom Gallery by Widgetbox with our Amnesty Hypercube product which will make all 70,000 Widgetbox widgets available for one-click install to the desktop,” said Danny Espinoza, president of Mesa Dynamics.

“Netvibes is the daily widget platform of choice for millions of people worldwide. Now users will have access to an even wider array of high-quality widgets from Widgetbox without having to leave our site,” said Chris Damsen, VP Business Development of Netvibes. “Widgetbox has been great to work with and we’re excited to offer their massively engaging content to our users.”

“Nimble’s custom widget gallery provided by Widgetbox helps make nimble.ie into the fun and vibrant social networking website it is today,” said Per Jacobsson, CEO of the Irish social network nimble.ie. “Our users love the widgets and they keep coming back for more!”

“The powerful tools in the new Custom Galleries by Widgetbox make it easier than ever to build and sustain a custom widget gallery that appeals to our members,” said Jeremy Verba, CEO of Piczo, which launched its first Widgetbox-powered gallery a year ago.

“Widgets have become an ever more important ingredient for the online experience,” said Matt McBride, CEO of StHrt.com. “Custom Galleries by Widgetbox allows us to deliver the best widgets to our users: seamlessly.”

“We’re thrilled to be able to offer Widgetbox’s new Custom Galleries to the SynthaSite community in the coming months,” said Brent Vijolen, co-founder of SynthaSite.

“Our Custom Gallery from Widgetbox made it easy for us to extend our TypePad Widget Gallery with the widgets available from the Widgetbox community,” said Michael Sippey, Vice President, Products of Six Apart.  “We’re excited about giving TypePad bloggers a wider variety of widgets to share with their readers on their blogs.”
“Widgetbox has figured out the right recipe for meeting the increasing demand for widgets that crawl to every corner of the web,” said Yann Motte, CEO of Webjam. “Within a week, the Widgetbox Custom Gallery was seamlessly integrated into the Webjam interface and our users can choose whichever widget they like, fully customize its settings, and embed it onto their webjam in two clicks.”

About Widgetbox

With more than 70,000 widgets and 45 million unique monthly viewers on over 929,000 domains, Widgetbox is home to the world’s largest widget community. Since 2006, Widgetbox has pioneered the rise of widgets and connects widget creators, consumers, and advertisers by providing choice to those who want it and reach to those who need it.  By leveraging its massive widget exchange, and understanding the desire for users to have online freedom, Widgetbox is accelerating the Internet revolution through unlimited access to and easy use of web widgets. For more information, please see http://www.widgetbox.com.

To read the entire press release visit: Widgetbox Gives Online Networks New Tools for Creating Custom Widget Galleries

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