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Uploading your UWA widget on other widget directories

Having the ability to get your widget to work on many platforms is one excellent thing, of which we are very proud, but we are also aware of the fact that most users of a given platform look for widgets on that platform’s central widget repository/directory. Even if Ecosystem is the best place to submit [...]

UWA widgets now available on Windows Vista and Live.com

Remember a few weeks ago, when we announced that Netvibes worked perfectly on the iPhone through its mobile interface, and therefore UWA too? At the time, we promised a handful of announcement for the following weeks. Well, here we are. Those of you who have witnessed the rebirth of Ecosystem, the Netvibes widget directory, probably [...]

What’s new for UWA developers in the new Ecosystem?

As you might have noticed, the Ecosystem (Netvibes widget directory) has seen a major overhaul, certainly the biggest since it was created. Both front-end (what users see) and back-end (what administrators see) have been rewritten, and while there are still some quirks to iron out, we’re already very proud of it. We already wrote about [...]

Get your UWA widgets on the iPhone

Netvibes’ recent announcement of an improved mobile version together with a special edition specially designed for iPhone users, is also good news for UWA developers. During the iPhone presentation by Apple’s Steve Jobs, he famously made it clear that this new product would not require any SDK, but rather Ajax. While it was a shocker [...]

New feature: BlogWidget export

Two new functionalities have been added to UWA recently: the BlogWidget export and the authentication methods. This post presents the former, while the later will be presented in a forthcoming post... Even though UWA widget are by default able to be used in environments other than Netvibes (namely Google IG and the Apple Dashboard, for [...]

News from the trenches

The Universal Widget API, and its accompanying Developer Network, has been launched a while ago now. While it may seem like so, we haven’t really been resting on our laurels since then: between documentation updating and question answering, we have also been tweaking on several levels the core of UWA, which tends to be faster [...]


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