We just released the next version of the Facebook Dashboard extension for Chrome. This update brings a fix to the badge counter, notifications, and a message center overhaul.

Feature List
• Badge Counter fixed and they now rotate to show counts of new notifications, messages, and friend activity.
• Notifications count and list added.
• Message center has been redesigned to account for the notifications list and message counts.
• New notifications and friend activity are slightly tinted blue when first viewed.
• International character read-back support added.
• Manual refresh button added.

Download at Google Gallery

Note: We looked into international character posting support and found that while we can post the characters through by encoding them, Facebook is not decoding the characters on the other side. This means that if you post a non-English character through Facebook’s API, it will come out looking like gibberish on the other side. This is a documented bug that affects all developers. Once it gets cleared up, we will implement posting support in the extension.

We recently started to build extensions for Google Chrome. Currently, we have four released with more on the way. Digg Reader, Market Watcher, Facebook Dashboard, and Market Watcher (Metals) are all available on Google Gallery right now. If you download Google Chrome, the extensions will be readily available to you.

The extensions work on Windows and Linux, Chrome for Mac will have extensions coming soon according to Google.

Take a look at our product listings for links to the gallery: Products for Chrome

We are working on a new update for Facebook Dashboard right now and will also release additional Market Watcher extensions in the future.

We did some tweaking to the Blogger Buddy gadget recently, mostly to re-write the code and try to account for the errors people have gotten trying to login and see their blog to post on. The new version is the same interface, but we cleaned some stuff up and made it more compatible with Windows 7.

The 1.1.0 version of the gadget includes better error handling and logging, so we can track down problems people are having and try to determine the best way to fix them. It’s always tricky trying to fix remote problems that we can’t replicate in the lab, so this version should be able to not only help with that, but we also fixed the view links for blogs (no more going to an odd, obscure XML page, yay!), and added in a lot of try catch code to handle individual error cases (hopefully this means that more blogs will show up for people).

As always, let us know if you run into problems and we’ll see what we can do. And before someone suggests it, we did check out tagging for this update, though Blogger’s API was being sporadic on it, so we decided to leave it out for now. We’ll try to revisit it for future updates once the rest of the gadget is more stable.

Download: BuildAGadget.com – Widgipedia.com – Live.com Gallery

After a couple weeks of testing and feedback, we’re moving ahead with the release of the 1.1.0 version of Fb Explorer! We hope you enjoy it and do let us know if you run into any iussues or if have any requests for future updates.

Feature List
• New login system using Facebook Connect
• Fixes Friend Activity stream filtering
• Fixes attachment viewing problems
• Fixes the character encoding problems in status posting
• Interface will load now before the data, making the process smoother
• Stream flyout can now add / remove like
• Stream flyout can now add comments
• Background have been redone and should look better in Windows 7
• Additional font (family and size) options added
• 2 extra sizes added for people with higher resolutions
• After posting, stream flyout auto-updates the feed when closed
• Graphics and code re-optimized

Download: BuildAGadget.com – Widgipedia.com – Live.com Gallery

We would like to invite anyone stopping by to try out our latest update before it officially hits the internet. This is a pretty major update of the gadget that fixes lots of problems as well as adds in some new features like adding likes and comments to posts in your feed.

We’re looking for any and all feedback on the gadget. If it breaks, tell us how, if it’s working flawlessly, let us know. Go wild, have fun, and post up your experiences.

Beta Test Complete