Thanks to the Netvibes Universal Widget API, you can now show photos from Polar Rose on your home page (Netvibes/iGoogle), desktop (Apple dashboard/Vista sidebar) or even your website or blog.

You can personalize the widget by setting the name of the person, and show either a thumbnail of the photograph or a mugshot of the face. If Polar Rose doesn’t currently have any photos of this person, you can easily tag some photos with our plugin and they will automatically appear in the widget!

Only a few days after moving from private to public beta we’ve now opened up for partners as well by releasing the Polar Rose Widget.

This first release is initially for partners to test the functionality on their websites. Over the next few weeks will be getting to feedback and making updates and improvements. We will announce when the widget is fully open to all.

Our first partner – Jalbum

Jalbum is one of the fastest growing photo sharing communities in the world. Jalbum photo albums can have any look, functionality and can be published to any site. Millions of photo albums are distributed over 100’s of thousands of web servers globally, with a current rate of 90 million monthly page views.

Our friends at Jalbum are currently finalizing the remaining tasks to have the widget available to all their users as an opt-in feature. You can get a sneak preview of the widget in action at http://davidekholm.jalbum.net/faces/.

We’re very happy to have Jalbum as our first partner and welcome the Jalbum team and users to Polar Rose.

PS. Read more about the partner widget here http://info.polarrose.com/partners/ where you’ll find a presentation, technical specifications and everything else needed to get started. Remember that we’re some days off from the public release so changes can still occur and please use for testing only.