360Widget has been out for a while now and we have seen some amazing response to it. More and more people are adding it to their blogs or sites and making them musical…

Till now it was only possible to add the 360Widget in ‘My SmartLists’ mode or non-SmartLists mode (i.e Top 10 mode by default). Read our previous post here.

Now we have gone 1 step ahead and added a nice feature, where our users can personalize all the modes and categories for their 360Widget.

You will now have a choise to explicitly chose the mode from ‘My SmartLists’, ‘Top 10′ or ‘Random’.

Once you chose the mode, you can go ahead and chose the category for that mode (only applies to Top 10 and Random modes).

So you can now add 360Widget in ‘Random‘ mode with ‘Pop‘ as the default category (as we added it to our blog to the right) OR

you can now add 360Widget in ‘Top 10′ mode with ‘Oldies’ as the default category and so on…

So.. go ahead … and grab a ‘more personalized‘ 360Widget for your site or blog. As always, we will be more then happy to hear a feedback from you.

Cheers,

Dhingana Team.

A while ago, when we were heavily beta testing our new 360Widget, we had a nice talk with Madhur from iLeher.com. If you haven’t heard of iLeher before, here is what their about page says:

Leher in Hindi means “wave”. iLeher is a guide to catch that high rising wave of Internet in India. Through analysis of news and events, case studies, comparisons of features, guest commentary and interviews with key players, readers will gain an in depth understanding of Internet industry in India, an industry buzzing with activity.

iLeher has touched different aspects of Dhingana in terms of it’s features and mainly the 360Widget. Here are some inspiring extracts from this coverage:

“Dhingana is a refreshing change in this space and with their simple interface and rich features that promote stickiness and viral spread, I think they are moving in the right direction.”

This is what they had to say about our new 360Widget:

“This is one viral feature, which if takes off can go a long way in making their brand a common place and eventually help make Dhingana a destination site for all Indian music needs”

You can read the complete post here..

During our talk with iLeher we answered some really interesting questions related to the operation and features of 360Widget, the marketing model for widgets, the bandwidth burst this might entail, why users would love to use this widget and who can use it and why?

Finally, we had some really interesting conversation with the readers of iLeher. So don’t miss the comments section here.

Thank you Madhur for covering Dhingana and our new 360Widget.

So….does your blog or site sing? If not, ask you doctor about Dhingana’s new 360Widget.

You can add this widget to your blog or site in 2 simple steps. Once you add it, your users and visitors can listen to your own SmartLists, Top 10 songs and Top Rated random songs from your own blog or site.

This is how your widget will look when you add it in SmartLists mode:

Feel free to listen to any of our SmartLists. You can also chose to share them with your friends using the icon. We have also added this widget in Top 10 mode on our blog, as you can see to the right.

It is really easy to switch from one mode to another. Click on icon to change to SmartLists mode. When in SmartLists mode, click on the Switch to Top 10 link at the bottom of the widget to change to Top 10 mode. When in Top 10 mode, click on the Switch to Random link at the bottom of the widget to change to Top Rated Random mode.

So why 360? Well because when you add this widget on your blog or site, your users and visitors can complete the full circle of Indian music genre i.e listen to the Top 10 songs or Top rated random songs from all the genres or music categories present on Dhingana viz. Movies, Oldies, Pop, Remixes, Ghazals, Bhajans and Marathi.

We thank the following power users for helping us test this widget and for being the first ones to give it a spin on their blogs. So here are some cool blogs that now sing ….

• Dushyant’s - liveforcars.blogspot.com
  Dushyant has added 360Widget in the Top 10 mode with Movies as the default category.
• Jigar’s - kahanipoorifilmyhai.blogspot.com
  Jigar has also written a nice blog to cover this widget here. Thanks for covering the 360Widget Jigar. Jigar has added 360Widget in the SmartLists mode.
• Diwaker’s - floatingsun.net
  Diwaker has also covered our 360Widget on his blog here. Thank’s Diwaker for the kind words. Diwaker has added 360Widget in Top 10 mode with Movies as the default category.
• Madhur’s - iLeher.com
  Madhur has written an interesting blog on Dhingana’s widget here. He has also added 360Widget to his blog post in Top 10 mode with Movies as the default category.
• Nitin’s - ngupta.com
  Nitin has added the 360Widget in Top 10 mode with Ghazals as the default category.

So go ahead, grab your own 360Widget from here and make your blog or site musical … add that extra musical dimension to your blog or site and give a nice treat to your users ears

Cheers,
Dhingana Team.