This is what the web’s all about. Content and applications for the taking, all packaged and delivered in a nifty wrapper. WidgetBox makes it easy for you to grab some of the latest web service trinkets. Typically you’d have to troll all sorts of websites to get the code needed to spruce up your website or blog. Now you can browse their gallery, preview the widget, and automatically insert the code into a “panel” on your blog or website. You can think of their panels as switchable billboards of sorts, giving you the capability to hot swap different widgets on your blog panels.
I took the Yahoo News and Delicious linkroll widgets for a test spin and had problems with Delicious in IE 6, so I shot off an email to support. In less than an hour I was informed of some minor wrinkles being worked out. Nice follow-up.

tags: widgetbox, web2.0, widgets, web+services