November 06, 2006
Spring a Branded Widget on the Unsuspecting with FeedBurner
In conjunction with the sold-out Widgets Live! event today in San Francisco (not to mention the birthday of parade music sensation John Philip Sousa), we are excited to offer a new promotional service for our publishers. Fox Interactive Media just launched its proprietary widget platform called SpringWidgets, and FeedBurner has made it simple for you to customize the look of this widget and place it on the Web, your blog, MySpace page, or even your desktop.
It's mighty simple to use, assuming you have fashioned yourself a logo image in JPEG format and have it web-hosted somewhere that is publicly available. Here is the process:
- Create a 480x75 pixel image in JPEG form and host it on the Web; FeedBurner has a sample image you can practice with.
- Visit the Publicize tab for a feed in your FeedBurner account and activate the "SpringWidgets Skin" service by providing the web address for your image.
- Once the service is activated, follow the link to the SpringWidgets page to finish customizing the widget to your liking.
- Under the "Share your widget" section, click on the icon for your web publishing service and follow the steps to add the widget to your page.
Additional information, including a challenging movie quote, can be found in the SpringWidgets + FeedBurner FAQ.
This is the just first of several great services we plan to offer you in partnership with Fox Interactive Media. Stay tuned for additional ways to give your FeedBurner-powered content 50% more effective scrubbing action.
Wanna see this service in action? Check out the widget for our blog.
