Welcome to The Foundry!
Create widgets using the Bubbletop Foundry
Welcome to the Bubbletop Foundry – the developer facing site that supports widget development for Bubbletop.
The widget competition is over and the winners will be annonced in April. Thank you for your participation!
How do I build widgets for Bubbletop?
Building widgets for Bubbletop is simple and straightforward, enabling you to bring your ideas and creativity to this new service. Whether you choose to develop a brand new idea, or extend your existing product or service into a widget, we trust you will find everything you need here at the Foundry.
If you’re new to the Bubbletop Widget Platform, we suggesting diving straight into the documentation. You can also test your widget as you develop it inside our Widget Preview – a sandbox area separated to the main Bubbletop proposition. Other option is to add the widget development tool in your own bubbletop. You can add this tool by going to your profile and clicking on the widget development option.
Finally, if you have any questions or concerns about widget development – or have suggestions on what we could do for you to make The Foundry, and Bubbletop better – please email us and let us know!
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Bubbletop Foundry is now OPEN!
We’re pleased to announce that the Bubbletop Foundry is now open and ready to support your widget development!
Mark out Saturday August 4th in your calendar as that’s when we’ll be holding our first Orange C0ding C4mp event in San Francisco. Between now and then we’ll be offering 1-to-1 help and assistance with building widgets, culminating with the C4mp event where the Bubbletop team will be on hand to give advice and personally answer all your questions.
Of course, there will also be prizes for the best widgets - both built/worked on at the C0ding C4mp and the best submitted overall. Please get your widgets in by Aug 1st if you’re not coming to the event but want to be in for the prizes!
Bubbletop will be opening to the public soon, so now is a great time to build some of the first widgets that will be present at the public launch! In order to see what we’re cooking up, we’re offering developers everywhere an invitation to try Bubbletop before anyone else - simply email your details to foundry@bubbletop.com.
Please send us your comments and thoughts about the Foundry - and of course all of your Bubbletop widget questions. Our email address is foundry@bubbletop.com.
16 July 2007 » read » 0 Comments
Foundry Blog
Widget Preview v1.5
We’re pleased to announce that we’ve upgraded the Widget Preview system on Bubbletop Foundry.
A few bugs have been squished and a cool new feature added: Dynamic Preview!
Once you have loaded your original Widget XML file into the previewer you can immediately preview any code additions or changes you make in the source code editor. […]
