SideFlicks is a widget that allows readers to post video messages for each other without having to bother setting up any fancy equipment or even worry about uploading. This summer I've had the pleasure of meeting several people in person who I'd previously gotten to know via the blogsphere. MORE
Quick post to highlight two widgets currently featured on Widgetbox. The widget, seen below, is a pregnancy calendar that provides week-by-week updates on fetal development. Pamper's widget provides dynamic, relevant, and personal information to the user. By using configuration parameters - such as the birth date - Pampers allows each user to make the widget their own. The first is from Pampers , one of P&G 's crown jewels. MORE
First I created the Widget controller: def ilove @content = render_to_string(:partial => widget/ilove_widget) render :layout => falseend 2. I also wrote some css related to my widget: widget-ilove { margin-left: auto !important; MORE
Location-based mobile advertising network Chalkboard has announced an exclusive strategic partnership with device maker HTC in Malaysia, and launched a Chalkboard widget for HTC users in that country. You can find more information on the Chalkboard widget here. MORE
« New Facebook Apps Review: Batting.400 | Main | Kwik-E Mart Meets Sugary Expectations » Lijit Displaces Technorati as Best Search Widget Several months ago, I ran a complete review of easily available search widgets for my Typepad blog. Christine (.net) MORE
Obviously this is a long way from commercialisation, unless you begin selling the widget. Blurt.at is another of the Garage48 projects that were launched over the duration of 48 hours a few weeks back. They haven't stopped with their development and are moving full steam ahead with the idea. MORE
Widgetbox just launched an embeddable widget creator. Simply enter your blog feed, youtube, twitter, hulu, flickr, or vimeo user id into the the widget below and build a branded, tabbed widget that aggregates all your content, like the BBC widget in the side bar, in seconds. Tags: bbc widget blidget pro MORE
The customer relationships we enjoy are less about our respective widgets and more about the relationship value we offer. Building a better widget will only take you so far The value of customer relationships runs much deeper than a good product or service. Often we receive many great questions and comments from the readers of our Inc.com column. Many inspire us to expand on the topic. One such comment from Jeff Taylor did just that. MORE
I like to think of that as the difference between selling widgets versus selling wisdom. The difference between widgets and wisdom In one sentence, selling widgets is basically selling things, and selling wisdom, is selling actionable… This story continues at The Next Web. MORE
Widgets. Research-driven with a healthy dose of humor and pop culture, WIDGETS is a. Are you a voracious reader? I have to admit that I’m not. I’m what you call a voracious book starter. MORE
Filed under: User eXperience Tagged: 1.3.x , 1.4.x , character , character count , character counter , characters , count , counter , dataut , Forms , limit , max , maximum , maximum characters , Plugins , text , textarea , textfield , twitter , Utilities , widget , word count , word counter. MORE
If you support the Startup Visa and have a blog or a website, put the Startup Visa Twitter Widget up on your site. And – on March 2nd at 12 noon Pacific / 3 pm Eastern – we are going to do a Tweet Hall for the Startup Visa. All you need to do is tweet @2gov supporting #startupvisa exactly at Noon Pacific on Tuesday March 2nd. We’ll collect your Tweets and deliver them during our visit to the White House on March 4th. MORE
Figuring out the right business model means making a difference, not making widgets MORE
We are the leader in widgets. Our widgets are the best. You should buy our widgets because blah, blah, blah. Welcome to our site. We use innovative technology. Yes, this is terrible copy for your site. But look at all the businesses out there that use this kind of language. And while you may not [.]. Business Copywriting Increase Sales Marketing SEO SEO Copywriting Web Copywriting Writing Tips PR search engine optimization Small Business Public Relations MORE
An 8-hour workday only make sense if you're screwing in widgets on an assembly line. Productivity MORE
Digital Hollywood's Widgets as a Platform on Oct 28th Widget Summit's Meet the Galleries , on Nov 3rd Pubcon's The Wonderful World of Widgets on Nov 13th If you plan to be at any of the events above, please let me know. Tags: widget summit pubcon widgets digital hollywood In the next three weeks, I am lucky to be speaking on three great panels. MORE
40 well if theyre worth anywhere near that much, its not obvious 100M+ widgets, walls, & installs are what generates revenue. however, it MAY be because of the social graph data-mined from those users & apps & widgets, and what that means for the future of Social Commerce. MORE
I decided to kill 3 widgets on my blog earlier this evening. I dropped the SideFlicks video widget, the Swapthing swapping widget and the CoComment widget that lets readers see my comments elsewhere in the blogsphere. In theory, I really like all 3 widgets, but in practice the don't seem to get used much. I'm hopping that dropping these widgets will make the pages look a little bit cleaner and load a bit faster MORE
Spotify has now launched a Spotify Play Button widget generator that can get visitors to your blog or website jamming to your tunes of choice with just one click of a button. Currently the widget offers a pretty simple integration -- no live following of a user's playlists or anything, but it should be enough to spice up music blogs with it's easy playback and nice big cover images. MORE
The audience, like many people I speak with, wanted to understand what advertisers can do to leverage social networks and widgets to connect with their audience. With an 11-day campaign, the widget enjoyed a 50,000% increase in hits, a 110,000% increase in uniques, and a 8,800% increase in subscriptions. The best news is AFTER the campaign finished, hits continue to grow and the widget is enjoying steady organic adoption and distribution. MORE
Tags: widgetbox blog social media widget advertising widgetbox MORE
Tonight, SF New Tech is hosting a " Widgets up the Wazoo " event. If you are in SF and interested in the widget space, the event brings together some of the leading players in the space. Tags: widgets up the wazoo sf new tech widgetbox Gigya, Musestorm, iWidgets, Zembly, and Widgetbox are presenting and all will be demoing. Thanks to Lawrence at RateitAll for organizing the event. MORE
Amazon quietly released video widgets this week… * Earn money when viewers follow links to Amazon and purchase products. Easily add product pop ups to your existing videos. Have price and product information pop up anywhere in your video. MORE
Add to Social Bookmarks: Filed under: User eXperience Tagged: 1.1 , cute , cutetime , Data , date , Extension , JavaScript , jQuery , Plugin , time , timestamp , update , Utilities , widgets. cute cutetime Data date Extension JavaScript jQuery Plugin time timestamp update Utilities widgets MORE
On Tuesday, May 15th, VLAB and Hummer Winblad are co-hosting the following event: Concept to Company Event: Widgets to Riches -- Monetization Strategies for Emerging Web Services Platforms The event is scheduled for 6-8:30 pm at Stanford Business School. This year's Concept-to-Company will focus on Widgetbox , the leading web widget marketplace and syndication platform. Tags: widgets widgetbox vlab MORE
Steves Latest Twitter Update (@PoPo) : Home About Steve Poland: Risk Taker Archives Contact Staffing Plan for a Widget Startup Company By Steve Poland • April 21, 2009 I’m interested in what a staffing plan typically looks like for a widget startup company, like: MyBlogLog, Lijit, IntenseDebate, Disqus, etc. After launch, at what # of installs do you need: community manager; relationship manager (someone proactively engaging Publishers to install the widget), etc? MORE
by creating community through " SwapCircles ," widgets and a company blog. So if you have a bunch of business books gathering dust on your shelf and you'd like to swap with me feel free to join the SwapCircle that I created, Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs and/or checkout the new widget at the bottom of my sidebar. Given all of the recent buzz about Chris Anderson's new book titled " The Long Tail ," I decided that I probably should get around to reading it. MORE
Also, I did a podcast (my first one ever) on widgets for Businessweek.com. They recently ran a series of articles on widgets and my talk is part of their CEO Guide to Technology. Tags: why blog widgets podcast Entrepreneur Magazine has a fun article on blogging and how it helps VCs find deals. Brad and I are interviewed - he found Feedburner through his blog and I am very pleased to have found YieldBuild. MORE
Tomorrow, I’m trying out Pubble ‘s product – a Q&A widget that leverages the standard social media platforms (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) but lives where ever you want it to live. I’ll be answering questions live tomorrow (4/24) at 1:00pm MT. Tweet with #askbfeld to ask me a question. Check it out below. The post Pubble Q&A – #askbfeld appeared first on Feld Thoughts. Neat Companies social engagement TechStars MORE
Filed under: modular innovation , user experience Tagged: 1.3.x , 1.4.x , collapse , Data , expand , expandable , facebook , Forms , grow , height , jQuery , limit , max , maximum characters , minimum height , Plugin , Plugins , text , textarea , textfield , Utilities , widget. MORE
The article below is excellent validation of the power of widgets to drive incremental adoption and of Widgetbox, in particular, to outperform Facebook and Bebo for long-tail widgets. Davids SEO Adventure posted a great article about trying to drive web traffic via widgets and gadgets. It came in the name of WidgetBox , the all purpose widget making type system. Tags: value of widgets SEO widgetbox Guest post from Ryan Spoon at Widgetbox. MORE
Sean Kim is the creator of The Growth List, helping you create a business around your lifestyle. This post originally appeared on AccelBlog. Many of you have probably heard of Google Analytics already. MORE
The title, a play on widget and gadget, will address the widget revolution and how marketers can best take advantage of this emerging channel. I expect a lively discussion on how brands can use widgets to reach consumers and how publishers can use widgets to monetize their content. Tomorrow night (1/24) I will be moderating a panel titled "The Wadget Revolution" sponsored by the Bay Area Interactive Group. MORE
The book is displayed through a widget from our portfolio company, SlideShare, of course! Click on the button on the bottom right hand corner of the SlideShare widget to see the book in full-screen mode. Get your own Widget. NextWala. MORE
Simply Hired Social Networking & Social Media Venture Capital & Startup Finance « Tantek DisOBEYed @ Techcrunch August Capital 2008 | Main | For Sale: Silver 2005 Acura TL ($21,500 and its all yours baby) » Sunday, July 27, 2008 Testing PictureSurf iGallery widget Testing out PictureSurf iGallery : pretty cool. Master of 500 Hats A blog about Geeks, Entrepreneurs, & Startups in Silicon Valley, by Dave McClure. The Internet Revolution, Act III. MORE
In my recent article about being bullish on widgets I was asked a lot about supporting data. Read Write Web has a great article about watching widget stats for US politics. I will try to dig up further info on widget trends and stats and other areas that can be benchmarked from installs, users, and daily usage. The article was primarily my own thoughts, but nonetheless people always want more stats. MORE
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 ? The Opera Browser has widgets. Google also has widget advertising called Gadget Ads. Apple of course has widgets. MORE
Steves Latest Twitter Update (@PoPo) : Home About Steve Poland: Risk Taker Archives Contact Lijit Getting Spammed By Steve Poland • April 15, 2008 Just saw this guy’s lijit widget filled with a certain domain. MORE
The third option he covers is pre-selling future income by offering someone $x of every widget you sell forever (it may be a sliding scale that decreases after x units are sold). MORE
Widgetbox , the leader in the web widget space, just released the ability to turn any RSS feed into a web widget. Widgetbox, who recently released a powerful widget syndication platform , is calling blog widgets blidgets. As many of us read Feedburner's Venture Capital Network feed , I turned the feed into a blidget that can be easily added to your blog. Click on the button below if you want to add the VC Network blidget to your blog. MORE
Widget Related Topics Feld Thoughts
FEBRUARY 25, 2010
If you support the Startup Visa and have a blog or a website, put the Startup Visa Twitter Widget up on your site. And – on March 2nd at 12 noon Pacific / 3 pm Eastern – we are going to do a Tweet Hall for the Startup Visa. All you need to do is tweet @2gov supporting #startupvisa exactly at Noon Pacific on Tuesday March 2nd. We’ll collect your Tweets and deliver them during our visit to the White House on March 4th.
The Next Web
AUGUST 29, 2016
I like to think of that as the difference between selling widgets versus selling wisdom. The difference between widgets and wisdom In one sentence, selling widgets is basically selling things, and selling wisdom, is selling actionable… This story continues at The Next Web.
Will Price
DECEMBER 4, 2008
For all my Obama friends, please find below a Change.gov widget that will help you track the transition and the Office of the President-Elect over the next month. Tags: chnage.gov widget
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 28, 2011
Location-based mobile advertising network Chalkboard has announced an exclusive strategic partnership with device maker HTC in Malaysia, and launched a Chalkboard widget for HTC users in that country. You can find more information on the Chalkboard widget here.
Will Price
FEBRUARY 22, 2009
Quick post to highlight two widgets currently featured on Widgetbox. The widget, seen below, is a pregnancy calendar that provides week-by-week updates on fetal development. Pamper's widget provides dynamic, relevant, and personal information to the user. By using configuration parameters - such as the birth date - Pampers allows each user to make the widget their own. The first is from Pampers , one of P&G 's crown jewels.
Entrepreneurship Blog
JUNE 18, 2007
I decided to kill 3 widgets on my blog earlier this evening. I dropped the SideFlicks video widget, the Swapthing swapping widget and the CoComment widget that lets readers see my comments elsewhere in the blogsphere. In theory, I really like all 3 widgets, but in practice the don't seem to get used much. I'm hopping that dropping these widgets will make the pages look a little bit cleaner and load a bit faster
Will Price
MARCH 5, 2008
Also, I did a podcast (my first one ever) on widgets for Businessweek.com. They recently ran a series of articles on widgets and my talk is part of their CEO Guide to Technology. Tags: why blog widgets podcast Entrepreneur Magazine has a fun article on blogging and how it helps VCs find deals. Brad and I are interviewed - he found Feedburner through his blog and I am very pleased to have found YieldBuild.
Eric Friedman
APRIL 2, 2008
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 ? The Opera Browser has widgets. Google also has widget advertising called Gadget Ads. Apple of course has widgets.
500 Hats
JULY 27, 2008
Simply Hired Social Networking & Social Media Venture Capital & Startup Finance « Tantek DisOBEYed @ Techcrunch August Capital 2008 | Main | For Sale: Silver 2005 Acura TL ($21,500 and its all yours baby) » Sunday, July 27, 2008 Testing PictureSurf iGallery widget Testing out PictureSurf iGallery : pretty cool. Master of 500 Hats A blog about Geeks, Entrepreneurs, & Startups in Silicon Valley, by Dave McClure. The Internet Revolution, Act III.
Eric Friedman
JUNE 2, 2008
In my recent article about being bullish on widgets I was asked a lot about supporting data. Read Write Web has a great article about watching widget stats for US politics. I will try to dig up further info on widget trends and stats and other areas that can be benchmarked from installs, users, and daily usage. The article was primarily my own thoughts, but nonetheless people always want more stats.
Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli
JULY 1, 2010
First I created the Widget controller: def ilove @content = render_to_string(:partial => widget/ilove_widget) render :layout => falseend 2. I also wrote some css related to my widget: widget-ilove { margin-left: auto !important;
Will Price
APRIL 1, 2008
The article below is excellent validation of the power of widgets to drive incremental adoption and of Widgetbox, in particular, to outperform Facebook and Bebo for long-tail widgets. Davids SEO Adventure posted a great article about trying to drive web traffic via widgets and gadgets. It came in the name of WidgetBox , the all purpose widget making type system. Tags: value of widgets SEO widgetbox Guest post from Ryan Spoon at Widgetbox.
Steve Poland
APRIL 21, 2009
Steves Latest Twitter Update (@PoPo) : Home About Steve Poland: Risk Taker Archives Contact Staffing Plan for a Widget Startup Company By Steve Poland • April 21, 2009 I’m interested in what a staffing plan typically looks like for a widget startup company, like: MyBlogLog, Lijit, IntenseDebate, Disqus, etc. After launch, at what # of installs do you need: community manager; relationship manager (someone proactively engaging Publishers to install the widget), etc?
The Next Web
JANUARY 10, 2015
Sean Kim is the creator of The Growth List, helping you create a business around your lifestyle. This post originally appeared on AccelBlog. Many of you have probably heard of Google Analytics already.
Inc Startups
FEBRUARY 14, 2012
The customer relationships we enjoy are less about our respective widgets and more about the relationship value we offer. Building a better widget will only take you so far The value of customer relationships runs much deeper than a good product or service. Often we receive many great questions and comments from the readers of our Inc.com column. Many inspire us to expand on the topic. One such comment from Jeff Taylor did just that.
ArcticStartup
SEPTEMBER 15, 2010
Obviously this is a long way from commercialisation, unless you begin selling the widget. Blurt.at is another of the Garage48 projects that were launched over the duration of 48 hours a few weeks back. They haven't stopped with their development and are moving full steam ahead with the idea.
Will Price
MAY 12, 2007
On Tuesday, May 15th, VLAB and Hummer Winblad are co-hosting the following event: Concept to Company Event: Widgets to Riches -- Monetization Strategies for Emerging Web Services Platforms The event is scheduled for 6-8:30 pm at Stanford Business School. This year's Concept-to-Company will focus on Widgetbox , the leading web widget marketplace and syndication platform. Tags: widgets widgetbox vlab
Christine.net
JULY 20, 2007
« New Facebook Apps Review: Batting.400 | Main | Kwik-E Mart Meets Sugary Expectations » Lijit Displaces Technorati as Best Search Widget Several months ago, I ran a complete review of easily available search widgets for my Typepad blog. Christine (.net)
Entrepreneurship Blog
SEPTEMBER 13, 2006
SideFlicks is a widget that allows readers to post video messages for each other without having to bother setting up any fancy equipment or even worry about uploading. This summer I've had the pleasure of meeting several people in person who I'd previously gotten to know via the blogsphere.
Will Price
FEBRUARY 2, 2007
Widgetbox , the leader in the web widget space, just released the ability to turn any RSS feed into a web widget. Widgetbox, who recently released a powerful widget syndication platform , is calling blog widgets blidgets. As many of us read Feedburner's Venture Capital Network feed , I turned the feed into a blidget that can be easily added to your blog. Click on the button below if you want to add the VC Network blidget to your blog.
Entrepreneurship Blog
JULY 28, 2006
by creating community through " SwapCircles ," widgets and a company blog. So if you have a bunch of business books gathering dust on your shelf and you'd like to swap with me feel free to join the SwapCircle that I created, Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs and/or checkout the new widget at the bottom of my sidebar. Given all of the recent buzz about Chris Anderson's new book titled " The Long Tail ," I decided that I probably should get around to reading it.
Will Price
JANUARY 23, 2008
The title, a play on widget and gadget, will address the widget revolution and how marketers can best take advantage of this emerging channel. I expect a lively discussion on how brands can use widgets to reach consumers and how publishers can use widgets to monetize their content. Tomorrow night (1/24) I will be moderating a panel titled "The Wadget Revolution" sponsored by the Bay Area Interactive Group.
Inc Startups
DECEMBER 30, 2016
Does your business sell million-dollar widgets to dozens or $12 widgets to millions
Up and Running
JANUARY 20, 2015
Widgets. Research-driven with a healthy dose of humor and pop culture, WIDGETS is a. Are you a voracious reader? I have to admit that I’m not. I’m what you call a voracious book starter.
Will Price
OCTOBER 22, 2008
Digital Hollywood's Widgets as a Platform on Oct 28th Widget Summit's Meet the Galleries , on Nov 3rd Pubcon's The Wonderful World of Widgets on Nov 13th If you plan to be at any of the events above, please let me know. Tags: widget summit pubcon widgets digital hollywood In the next three weeks, I am lucky to be speaking on three great panels.
Inc Startups
AUGUST 29, 2017
An 8-hour workday only make sense if you're screwing in widgets on an assembly line. Productivity
ArcticStartup
APRIL 11, 2012
Spotify has now launched a Spotify Play Button widget generator that can get visitors to your blog or website jamming to your tunes of choice with just one click of a button. Currently the widget offers a pretty simple integration -- no live following of a user's playlists or anything, but it should be enough to spice up music blogs with it's easy playback and nice big cover images.
Will Price
FEBRUARY 27, 2009
Widgetbox just launched an embeddable widget creator. Simply enter your blog feed, youtube, twitter, hulu, flickr, or vimeo user id into the the widget below and build a branded, tabbed widget that aggregates all your content, like the BBC widget in the side bar, in seconds. Tags: bbc widget blidget pro
The Product Guy
JANUARY 2, 2011
Filed under: modular innovation , user experience Tagged: 1.3.x , 1.4.x , collapse , Data , expand , expandable , facebook , Forms , grow , height , jQuery , limit , max , maximum characters , minimum height , Plugin , Plugins , text , textarea , textfield , Utilities , widget.
Steve Poland
APRIL 15, 2008
Steves Latest Twitter Update (@PoPo) : Home About Steve Poland: Risk Taker Archives Contact Lijit Getting Spammed By Steve Poland • April 15, 2008 Just saw this guy’s lijit widget filled with a certain domain.
The Product Guy
MARCH 23, 2010
Filed under: User eXperience Tagged: 1.3.x , 1.4.x , character , character count , character counter , characters , count , counter , dataut , Forms , limit , max , maximum , maximum characters , Plugins , text , textarea , textfield , twitter , Utilities , widget , word count , word counter.
The Product Guy
FEBRUARY 1, 2010
Add to Social Bookmarks: Filed under: User eXperience Tagged: 1.1 , cute , cutetime , Data , date , Extension , JavaScript , jQuery , Plugin , time , timestamp , update , Utilities , widgets. cute cutetime Data date Extension JavaScript jQuery Plugin time timestamp update Utilities widgets
Inc Startups
AUGUST 24, 2017
The calculator widget saves time and money for teams & organizations. Team collaboration means high performance. But most meetings aren't effective. Innovate
500 Hats
MAY 2, 2008
well if theyre worth anywhere near that much, its not obvious 100M+ widgets, walls, & installs are what generates revenue. however, it MAY be because of the social graph data-mined from those users & apps & widgets, and what that means for the future of Social Commerce.
Will Price
AUGUST 6, 2008
Tonight, SF New Tech is hosting a " Widgets up the Wazoo " event. If you are in SF and interested in the widget space, the event brings together some of the leading players in the space. Tags: widgets up the wazoo sf new tech widgetbox Gigya, Musestorm, iWidgets, Zembly, and Widgetbox are presenting and all will be demoing. Thanks to Lawrence at RateitAll for organizing the event.
Inc Startups
APRIL 5, 2016
Figuring out the right business model means making a difference, not making widgets
Will Price
AUGUST 21, 2008
Tags: widgetbox blog social media widget advertising widgetbox
Will Price
JULY 21, 2008
The audience, like many people I speak with, wanted to understand what advertisers can do to leverage social networks and widgets to connect with their audience. With an 11-day campaign, the widget enjoyed a 50,000% increase in hits, a 110,000% increase in uniques, and a 8,800% increase in subscriptions. The best news is AFTER the campaign finished, hits continue to grow and the widget is enjoying steady organic adoption and distribution.
Feld Thoughts
APRIL 23, 2014
Tomorrow, I’m trying out Pubble ‘s product – a Q&A widget that leverages the standard social media platforms (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) but lives where ever you want it to live. I’ll be answering questions live tomorrow (4/24) at 1:00pm MT. Tweet with #askbfeld to ask me a question. Check it out below. The post Pubble Q&A – #askbfeld appeared first on Feld Thoughts. Neat Companies social engagement TechStars
Software By Rob
NOVEMBER 16, 2009
The third option he covers is pre-selling future income by offering someone $x of every widget you sell forever (it may be a sliding scale that decreases after x units are sold).
Rembrandt Communications
JANUARY 9, 2011
We are the leader in widgets. Our widgets are the best. You should buy our widgets because blah, blah, blah. Welcome to our site. We use innovative technology. Yes, this is terrible copy for your site. But look at all the businesses out there that use this kind of language. And while you may not [.]. Business Copywriting Increase Sales Marketing SEO SEO Copywriting Web Copywriting Writing Tips PR search engine optimization Small Business Public Relations
NextWala
AUGUST 26, 2009
The book is displayed through a widget from our portfolio company, SlideShare, of course! Click on the button on the bottom right hand corner of the SlideShare widget to see the book in full-screen mode. Get your own Widget. NextWala.
47 Hats
JULY 20, 2011
The battle of the Google+ widgets. Go subscribe to [link] – they blogged about the following two widgets. then, look for your widget in the sidebar after you refresh the page: [link].
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