We're Betta'! :-)

Today we've made it: Widgipedia is now in Beta!

We wish to thank all our friends who contributed to this: all of you who supported Widgipedia, uploaded or downloaded widgets, sent us great suggestions and feedback, helped building such a great community! And, to anticipate a bit what's below, it's exactly the community what Beta is all about. It's about sharing knowledge, inviting your friends, telling others about the cool widgets you've found (or taking those with you in your Web pages!), writing what you would want to see and finally making it happen together with others like you.

Whew! Now let's talk about each of the new cool things you can find on Widgipedia starting today:

1. Check out the new Community box in the left section of the site! You can now invite your friends to any Widgipedia page by simply clicking a link in that box. Or, you can click Link to this page to have the exact page's URL loaded in your browser's address bar. Also, you can tell others about the page by bookmarking it on your favorite sites - such as del.icio.us, digg.com or blink.com.

2. You can now embed into your Web pages a presentation of a widget similar to that we're showing in the widget details pages! If you want to showcase a desktop widget (for example in a blog or a MySpace page) simply upload it to Widgipedia and then copy and paste the HTML code from the Widget embed box to that page. Not only that your page will show a picture and description of the widget, but your users will be able to download it directly from your page!

3. You can embed a link to the widget details, or a direct download link, into your own pages: just copy and paste the links from the Widget page or Widget URL boxes to your page.

4. You can now subscribe to specialized RSS feeds that contain a particular platform or the widgets of a particular user.

5. Another addition is our Widgipedia Blog - you're reading it You'll find here the latest news, updates and plans - and we'd love to hear your comments about them! Simply tell us what you think, what you would like to see on Widgipedia, or anything about widgets and our site! Just as the Forum, the Blog is linked from the top menu, as well as from the Community box on the left side;

6. Along with the Blog, we have now also a Widgipedia Forum with several sections that you would probably want to check out. One of them is Widget Development, where you'll find several exciting topics, mostly addressed to the widget developers:
* The Widgipedia Tutorials, with various tutorials and learning resources;
* Widget Libraries, dedicated to building widget or gadget libraries;
* Widget Platforms Development, where you can share your experiences with any widget platform - or coordinate your efforts to invent a new one :-)
* Widget Development, which is a general development topic;
* Another section of the Forum is Widgipedia, where you'll find our team's announcements (like this one) or post your feedback through the Feedback topic;

7. Finally... our site got wider! We know you liked it before, but surely you'll love it from now on too

Many thanks to all of you - we're happy that we can share all these new features with you. We hope that through these we're one step further in building all together your ultimate widgets resource!

Your Widgipedia Team