Posted on November 8th, 2007 by Nathan Burke
Lemonade’s offer is simple: They allow bloggers the ability to enroll in multiple affiliate marketing programs at once, and lets them create a custom widget to offer items for sale from with their blog. The store gets a sale, the blogger gets an affiliate percentage, and lemonade takes a cut.
Let’s take a look:
My favorite step, [...]
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Posted on August 2nd, 2007 by Nathan Burke
Quick! Everybody Panic!!!!!!!!!
Dvorak has spoken, and he’s warning us about the looming online market bust. In his words:
Every single person working in the media today who experienced the dot-com bubble in 1999 to 2000 believes that we are going through the exact same process and can expect the exact same results—a bust. It’s déjà vu [...]
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Posted on July 30th, 2007 by Nathan Burke
(Via mashable) Clearspring, the company helping people “build, deploy, and track widgets” has picked up an additional $10 million. If you’re interested in widgets, check out their blog.
I really like their approach and I think it’s smart. Instead of just building widgets, they are offering a platform for development, and ontop of that, they offer [...]
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Posted on July 25th, 2007 by Nathan Burke
Okay, this one is a complete no-brainer, but I just have to mention it because, well, mashable is my favorite blog. The blog is focused solely on “Social software and social networking 2.0.” It’s THE blog on social networking.
But here’s what I love about mashable: they practice what they preach. Instead of just talking about [...]
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Posted on June 21st, 2007 by Nathan Burke
Leah Culver is giving her opinion on Widgets, and, well, she thinks they suck. The post is definitely worth reading, but a few main points are that widgets suck because:
They are usually just novelty items. A lot of widgets really do nothing useful.
They are “leeches.”- You’re depending on another service for your business. (as in, [...]
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Posted on June 18th, 2007 by Nathan Burke
Mike Davidson has an excellent post on “How To Keep Widgets From Slowing Down Sites.” It’s a great point that people seldom think about: the fact that widgets are basically third party applications placed on your site/profile and that need to interact with an outside server. His example:
But there is a big problem with widgets: [...]
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Posted on June 4th, 2007 by Nathan Burke
In my role as Web Community Evangelist here at matchmine, my role (in the most simple of terms) is to find out what people want out of the stuff we’re making. And since we’re in the very, very early stages of making said “stuffâ€, I have to do a lot of thinking in terms of [...]
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Posted on May 25th, 2007 by Nathan Burke
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. Â
Eric Schonfeld of Business 2.0, in his article CBS Goes Widget Crazy reports that CBS is signing [...]
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Posted on May 25th, 2007 by Nathan Burke
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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Posted on May 16th, 2007 by Nathan Burke
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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