Comments on: RockYou says it’s rocking Slide, but both face trouble

By: fox

fox — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 02:10:42 +0000

Great site!i

By: mind new media » Q & A with RockYou — three hit apps on Facebook, and counting

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:49:53 +0000

[...] That’s Lance Tokuda, chief executive of RockYou, telling us in the interview (below) about one of the reasons why Facebook Platform is such a big deal for his company. RockYou provides widgets to social networks and other sites to help people personalize their online spaces. (Our most recent coverage here.) [...]

By: Jay (living in First Life)

Jay (living in First Life) — Thu, 17 May 2007 15:39:15 +0000

Slide and RockYou are totally worthless companies. Myspace should pull the plug on them fast. Entrepreneurs are supposed to solve real problems – not create a widget that hopes to one day monetize by stealing someone else’s traffic.

By: lemon obrien

lemon obrien — Thu, 17 May 2007 01:40:41 +0000

strategically speaking, investing in a widget based service, is like investing in a pilot fish; at best it gets to eat the scraps of the shark; at worst, the shark get hungry.

By: Survival of the Widget at blogstring.com

Survival of the Widget at blogstring.com — Wed, 16 May 2007 15:13:31 +0000

[...] 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 [...]

By: Lance

Lance — Wed, 16 May 2007 14:37:57 +0000

For RockYou, onsite traffic represents only a subset of all widgets created. RockYou offers API’s to partners sites for creating widgets through an iframe. Partners can offer their users an in-page creation experience. See Tagged or Flixster for examples.

By: StartupSquad » Blog Archive » Breaking: RockYou announces funding; Throws back 150 million number at Slide

Wed, 16 May 2007 14:37:18 +0000

[...] views per day. This number is exactly same was what Slide.com had quotes last week. According to VentureBeat earlier today, RockYou had claimed that “their numbers were stronger than Slide’s”. [...]

By: Blake

Blake — Wed, 16 May 2007 06:13:56 +0000

Perhaps it’s a stretch, but it’s interesting to see Max Levchin repeat history in which his firm (Slide/Paypal) is both an asset and a potential thorn in the side to it’s virtual host (MySpace/eBay). Try as they might, eBay could not snuff PayPal even with their own acquired alternative and ultimately had to shell out the big bucks. Difference this time is that I don’t one can argue that Slide carries anywhere near the strategic imposition to MySpace that PayPal did to eBay. So I can’t imagine we’d see the same game of ‘acquisition chicken’ between MySpace and Slide.