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Welcome to the Widget Wars

Eric Friedman

My conclusion is that we are entering into a new phase of the war for the killer app which will be known as the Widget Wars. What is a widget? Yahoo has one definition of a widget (specific to their product of course). WordPress.com has another widget definition. Should we use the Internet.com definition of widget ?

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Prevailing Wisdom

Mucker Lab

1996 – “It’s impossible to get to build a billion dollar company selling widgets at $15 and taking $1 commission one at a time”. 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. 2002 – “Information Technology is not a competitive advantage”. (Internet). Evernote, Dropbox). Everything).

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Prevailing Wisdom

Mucker Lab

1996 – “It’s impossible to get to build a billion dollar company selling widgets at $15 and taking $1 commission one at a time”. 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. 2002 – “Information Technology is not a competitive advantage”. (Internet). Evernote, Dropbox). Everything).

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

You’re also living in an anti-Microsoft fantasy land if you think that all things that need to be done can be done with widgets and APIs provided in.Net. For instance, dropping pre-built widgets into WebPages without any understanding of the underlieing technology (HTTP, HTML etc.). March 26, 2011 at 10:22 am.

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