Over the last few weeks, I’ve noticed an enormous surge in news articles and blog posts about widgets. The articles range from those curious about widgets to those that hail widgets as the online savior of news services. ÂÂ
Eric Schonfeld of Business 2.0, in his article CBS Goes Widget Crazy reports that CBS is signing [...]
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After reading the dozens of articles touting widgets as the savior of news media, the next big thing, and the newest form of acquisition bait, one thought came to mind: how will widget success be measured?
In an article from Social Media Club entitled “How Big Is Your Widget”, Jason Chervokas writes about the size and [...]
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Twitter is so simple. You go to their site and tell them what you’re doing, and it appears on your blog. That’s all.
Even when the value of a service is questionable (I mean, who cares what I’m working on right now? Honestly…), if it is cool, simple, and incredibly easy to spread virally it becomes [...]
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As I barrel through my daily RSS feeds and drink my morning Monster energy drink, I tend to notice some patterns. Most recently I’ve noticed that there is an increasing number of myspace knockoffs trying to be the “Myspace for _________” fill in the blank.
I understand why. As a marketer, when you see that myspace [...]
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Jason Chervokas has a post bringing together different perspectives on whether the widget startup explosion is possible to maintain. In the post, he mentions Dan Kaplan’s comments on how much widget makers like Slide and RockYou rely on MySpace. Though Slide’s stats are through the roof, everything could come crashing down if MySpace decides to [...]
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I was laughing so hard when I saw this widget that someone actually asked me if I was okay. I love it and think it is absolutely hysterical: DryerFox. Created by Doug Schmidt, the widget is: “like Firefox, but inside a dryer!” Here’s what this blog looks like with the widget installed:
I love it. It’s [...]
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For the last few days I’ve been experimenting with Particls, which could be described as a news aggregator/widget/ticker. It could be described as that if you can’t think of a better way to put it. The idea is that you enter some keywords/phrases into the app, and Particls will stream news to you in a [...]
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(via TechCrunch)
The widget space may be getting crowded (see Michael Arrington’s post on “The Attack of the Advertising Widgets“), but when a series of widgets come out that are actually useful, we get to see just how “cool” widgets can be.
TechCrunch reports that mpire has just launched over 75 widgets that are pointed at ebay [...]
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Well, it’s a rumor, but just about everyone in the world is reporting it (via Valleywag, Pete Cashmore at Mashable, Om Malik at, well, gigaom, Mathew Ingram, and Michael Arrington at TechCrunch). The number being thrown around: $300 Million.
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(via the almighty TechCrunch): PR Newswire and Umbria are teaming up to offer a new blog influence/conversation tracking type tool. Rather than simply announcing the news, Duncan Riley instead takes a step back to wonder:
Why do PR Professionals need a service to find out what bloggers are saying about their clients by a third party?……
Many [...]
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