Enhances distribution for widget creators on this year’s most sought after mobile device

SAN FRANCISCO, April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Widgetbox, home to the largest community of widget makers and users, today announced its iPhone widget gallery, which extends the world’s largest gallery of widgets to the screens of millions of iPhone users around the world.

"Widgets represent a largely untapped opportunity for businesses who need to reach their constituencies in new ways," said Will Price, chief executive officer at Widgetbox. "By hosting a new widget gallery customized for the iPhone, Widgetbox and the widget-making community are able to increase the reach and customization for messages targeted at specific audiences."

As the Internet becomes an increasingly personalized tool for consumers, advertisers need multiple ways to reach audiences online, whether on the desktop or on the mobile. Widgets have emerged as a promising advertising mechanism to address this need that also offer revenue opportunities to widget makers. By enabling the distribution of widgets specifically for the iPhone, Widgetbox will further help advertisers to reach target customers and allow widget makers to be recognized and paid for their creative work.

A range of select widgets are immediately available in the Widgetbox iPhone Gallery including widgets for today’s top ten most interesting flickr images, the Fake Steve Jobs blog, the Yahoo! News RSS image feeds and the popular Magic 8-Ball widget for on-the-fly advice. Widgetbox expects its community of more than 32,000 developers and widget makers to continue contributing new widgets to this custom gallery in the coming weeks and months. A short tutorial on how to develop widgets for the iPhone is available athttp://docs.widgetbox.com/developers/guide/iphone-and -ipod-touch-widgets/.

All widgets in the Widgetbox iPhone Gallery function on iPhones, the iPod Touch and in any desktop web browser environment. Please visit the new gallery by going to http://iphone.widgetbox.com/ from your iPhone.

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