Wix, an online web creation tool, looks like it could be promising. I have signed up for an invite and if I get in I will let you know what I find. Until then, I can only dream.

Want to know which candidate widget is doing the best? It depends on what numbers you look at.

On Facebook, Obama has a commanding lead. On Google Gadgets, Ron Paul is above the rest. On the general internet, Huckabee is tops.

Along a somewhat related note, we have created the Candidate Widgets Facebook Group. Please, get your candidates’ app and put it on your Facebook profile.

Or, poll, as it were. Found this on Widgify.

Widget Developer Survey.

It will be interesting to see what the results are though there could easily be more options than the ones presented. For instance, the ease of porting a widget to new platforms is important for me anyway, and that really isn’t an option though it could fall under the “distribution” one. It would also be interesting to know how many people answered the poll.

Looks like Clearspring is looking for a widget developer. Interesting.

Widgetbox just released a Facebook App Accelerator for widgets in their gallery. It lets developers easily convert their widgets in to Facebook applications. I had the privilege of trying it out before they launched it publicly and I can vouch for its awesomeness. There is a straight-forward list of steps to complete in order to add your widget as a Facebook app. I used it to make 21 of our widgets in to applications and averaged about 10 minutes per application. (3.5 Hours? Wow!) and it worked almost flawlessly each time.

The one time I did have trouble I had accidentally copied something in to the wrong for field. This is something that could probably be remedy but it would require more cooperation between the two companies.

The only real drawback that I see is that instead of making the widget available in the user’s Facebook profile, only an icon and description are displayed with a link to a canvas page that houses the widget. After emailing the people at Widgetbox they said that it is something that they may work toward changing in the future. For now, however, it is nice but also a little disappointing.

All in all, it is a pretty rock solid piece of technology. Good Job.

The RSS Scroller widget is now resizable. Hooray!