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
In the waterfall process, wireframes are built and consist primarily of layouts and widgets. You’ll need to design widgets for different views, and not think of a page as a "page." The code also needs to be optimized to ensure that the widgets are the smallest possible unit. 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
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
Hypothetical Case Study: Acme Widgets, LLC. Let’s say you are marketing widgets for ACME Widgets, an eCommerce company that sells $200 widgets. Since ACME Widgets wants a better conversion rate, it decides to start by investing in a little A/B testing. 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
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
Here are two samples presentations to help explain these points: BAD: "Hi, I'm John Doe from Acme and I've been working in the widget industry for 20 years. Acme is the industry leader in widgets with over a million satisfied customers!! 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
The Ghanian startup built a widget to replace contact forms and provide businesses with the kind of customer insights most consumers fail to fill out on websites. Dropifi is looking to streamline customer feedback. 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
35 percent conversion rate (conversion rate means the responding customer then purchases) $500 price per widget (widget being the item sold by your competitor) 1.5 widgets per buyer (average buyer purchases 1.5 MORE
You can change your avatars on your social media profiles, you can send push notifications if you operate a mobile app, you can put a slow loading graphic on your blog or website (there are WordPress widgets if you are on WordPress like I am). We’ve talked a lot here at AVC about Net Neutrality. I hate that term because it’s got so much baggage now that it is essentially meaningless to me. MORE
I just spent a day working with Bob, the Chief Innovation Officer of a very smart large company I’ll call Acme Widgets. Talking to Bob I realized that at Acme Widgets (and in most large companies) the word “failure” was being used to describe two very different events: failure in execution of a known product in known market. Bob summarized Acme’s impediments to innovation. “At At our company we have a culture that fears failure. 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
At its core is a simple JavaScript widget, an animated GIF like the one below, or a WordPress Plugin for your website or blog that will inform your visitors about what’s going on and empower them to easily contact Congress and the FCC about the issue. MORE
You think about what it’ll cost to manufacture your widgets, how many widgets you can sell, and how much you can sell them for. If you buy a widget for $100 and sell it for $150, you should end up with $50 profit, and you have $150 in the bank. Sell a widget . 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
Widgets and badges. A widget is a mini-app that displays or updates data either locally or on the web – to share something of value and interest. 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
Overuse of Widgets And Themes If you use WordPress or other similar hosting service, you know that there are thousands of widgets, plugins, and themes available for you to use. Overuse of widgets, themes, and plugins result in a blog that is too busy and too distracting. MORE
G oogle announced the acquisition of LabPixies , developer of widgets and games for social and mobile applications including Facebook, iGoogle, iPhone, Android and more. 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
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 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
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
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
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
It’s easy to get distracted and invest in a shiny widget or exciting new software when what you really need is an answer to a problem. There are so many new apps or pieces of software designed to make your business life easier – and more new technologies come out every year. MORE
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
MARCH 2, 2008
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.
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.
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?
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;
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.
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)
ArcticStartup
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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.
Growthink Blog
MARCH 22, 2013
35 percent conversion rate (conversion rate means the responding customer then purchases) $500 price per widget (widget being the item sold by your competitor) 1.5 widgets per buyer (average buyer purchases 1.5
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
Feld Thoughts
MAY 14, 2014
At its core is a simple JavaScript widget, an animated GIF like the one below, or a WordPress Plugin for your website or blog that will inform your visitors about what’s going on and empower them to easily contact Congress and the FCC about the issue.
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].
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.
Up and Running
AUGUST 1, 2014
You think about what it’ll cost to manufacture your widgets, how many widgets you can sell, and how much you can sell them for. If you buy a widget for $100 and sell it for $150, you should end up with $50 profit, and you have $150 in the bank. Sell a widget .
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.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 30, 2015
Widgets and badges. A widget is a mini-app that displays or updates data either locally or on the web – to share something of value and interest.
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.
The Next Web
AUGUST 23, 2014
The Ghanian startup built a widget to replace contact forms and provide businesses with the kind of customer insights most consumers fail to fill out on websites. Dropifi is looking to streamline customer feedback.
A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
SEPTEMBER 4, 2014
You can change your avatars on your social media profiles, you can send push notifications if you operate a mobile app, you can put a slow loading graphic on your blog or website (there are WordPress widgets if you are on WordPress like I am). We’ve talked a lot here at AVC about Net Neutrality. I hate that term because it’s got so much baggage now that it is essentially meaningless to me.
ConversionXL
JULY 28, 2016
Hypothetical Case Study: Acme Widgets, LLC. Let’s say you are marketing widgets for ACME Widgets, an eCommerce company that sells $200 widgets. Since ACME Widgets wants a better conversion rate, it decides to start by investing in a little A/B testing.
www.readwriteweb.com
MAY 10, 2012
In the waterfall process, wireframes are built and consist primarily of layouts and widgets. You’ll need to design widgets for different views, and not think of a page as a "page." The code also needs to be optimized to ensure that the widgets are the smallest possible unit.
Blogtrepreneur | Entrepreneur Blog
MARCH 12, 2016
Overuse of Widgets And Themes If you use WordPress or other similar hosting service, you know that there are thousands of widgets, plugins, and themes available for you to use. Overuse of widgets, themes, and plugins result in a blog that is too busy and too distracting.
The Next Web
MARCH 4, 2015
It’s easy to get distracted and invest in a shiny widget or exciting new software when what you really need is an answer to a problem. There are so many new apps or pieces of software designed to make your business life easier – and more new technologies come out every year.
VC Cafe
APRIL 29, 2010
G oogle announced the acquisition of LabPixies , developer of widgets and games for social and mobile applications including Facebook, iGoogle, iPhone, Android and more.
Inc Startups
DECEMBER 18, 2012
Here are two samples presentations to help explain these points: BAD: "Hi, I'm John Doe from Acme and I've been working in the widget industry for 20 years. Acme is the industry leader in widgets with over a million satisfied customers!!
Steve Blank
MARCH 11, 2015
I just spent a day working with Bob, the Chief Innovation Officer of a very smart large company I’ll call Acme Widgets. Talking to Bob I realized that at Acme Widgets (and in most large companies) the word “failure” was being used to describe two very different events: failure in execution of a known product in known market. Bob summarized Acme’s impediments to innovation. “At At our company we have a culture that fears failure.
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