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Good news! Widgetbox, a new syndication service for web widgets, publicly launched today at DemoFall2006, with Quikmaps as a certified partner.

Widgetbox “provides a directory of Web widgets and supporting platform to build, syndicate and manage small, dynamic Web services that can be embedded on Web pages” (see the official press release and zdnet article). Using Widgetbox, you can embed any quikmap into your blog, website, or myspace page by way of a Widgetbox panel and Quikmaps widget. This service is similar to the Quikmaps ‘in your site’ functionality, just aggregated into a much larger widget collection.

Quikmaps is the sole mapping service among 38 launch partners, joining Meebo, Odeo, Typepad, and others. Make sure to check it out!

I’ve received email after email asking about the set of marker icons provided by Quikmaps. Everyone, it seems, would like a new icon added to the panel.

Time to put those demands to rest… I’ve collected a number of freeware icon sets, provided by the folks at the Tango Desktop Project (a new “global” linux desktop icon project, very cool), and Fast Icon.com, and added them to the quikmaps editor.

I’m particularly a fan of the cartoonish people and animals from Fast Icon.com. Thought ladybugs were nice, innocent, pretty insects? Watch out for the monster bugs at Niagara Falls!