Category — Widgets

Chumby Industries recently announced that they have created a new category of widgets called “Widget Laboratory”.

“We have opened up the widget floodgates and have pushed many of the developer widgets live to the chumby network to a new category called “Widget Laboratory”. We are trying to get your widgets pushed live quickly so when you upload a widget and mark it public, we’ll do a quick sanity test to assure the widget works and abides by our Terms of Use, and add the widget to the live site within 2 business days.”

The screenshot below shows the new category.

This is another example that the folks at Chumby are focused on working with developers every step of the way. You can view the new channel at the Chumby widget directory.

Here is a video clip showing a magic 8 ball Chumby widget in action. It shows a good example of the use of the accelerometer. We will no doubt see lots more of this type of application, along with snow globes and other shake enabled goodies.

If you have Flash CS3, you can go to “Templates > Consumer Devices > Chumby” to get started with a Chumby template.