As widget service shuts down, Chumby lives on with partial functionality

Chumby Industries may have folded back in April 2012, but the community has been keeping the widget platform up and running ever since. Last month, news came that funding for the project had all but dried up, and the 40,000 devices still using the service were at risk of becoming litlte more than paperweights. Unfortunately, the widget platform has now shut down, but the company that bought what remained of Chumby Industries, Blue Octy, has managed to keep some semblance of service running.