Widgetbox wants to make widgets more productive
I think of widgets as marketing tools, but build-your-own-widget company Widgetbox says they can make you more productive, too. To that end, the San Francisco startup is making its widgets compatible with Confluence, a business wiki product from a company called Atlassian.
Now, I haven’t really heard of or seen Confluence in action, but it sounds like a basic project-management/collaboration environment. The concept of bringing widgets into that area sounds intriguing. (Widget-maker Sprout has done a… Continue Reading
Widget maker Gigya appoints ValueClick executive as CEO
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David Yovanno has become the chief executive of a leading widget company, Gigya, effective Tuesday. He was formerly chief operating officer of ValueClick.
Yovanno spent nine years at Internet advertising network giant ValueClick, where he ended his tenure as chief operating officer of U.S. Media. He oversaw the company’s display advertising, lead generation, and comparsion shopping business units. During the time he was there, ValueClick vetted more than 300 companies and bought 14. Before he joined… Continue Reading
Gigya brings in $11M to grow widget services
Widget distribution network Gigya raked in $11 million in third round funding to continue building out two existing products of its own called Wildfire and Socialize.
They serve different but related purposes: Wildfire provides a platform for other widget developers to post and share their creations with a broader audience, while Socialize provides any website with the tools it needs to incorporate social networking features (things like a newsfeed that tracks friend activity, and a panel… Continue Reading
Will Price named Widgetbox’s new CEO
Create-your-own widget company Widgetbox has named Will Price as its chief executive. Price was previously a managing director at Widgetbox investor Hummer Winblad Venture Partners.
Price has also served as the chief executive for several software startups. He’s replacing Michael Dearing, who was interim CEO during the search process. Dearing will remain on the board of the San Francisco-based company.
You can read more of our Widgetbox coverage here.
Widgetbox, a create-your-own-widget company, gets more funding
Widgetbox is another create-your-own widget company, although it’s often overshadowed by larger competitors like Clearspring. Widgetbox lets you create and embed a snippet of software code on other web pages, like this game widget called BurgerTime.
The San Francisco company claims strong growth on social network Bebo, and says it is being undercounted by third-party web analytics services like Comscore. This might be a big deal: Widgets are of increasing interest to advertisers and marketers, as… Continue Reading
Attendio leaves event listings in favor of widgets
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After being a portal for events for less than half a year, Attendio has abandoned the the events industry, saying that market is too small. It has decided instead to become a widget-making company, jumping from one crowded industry to another.
It’s just the latest indication that the Web 2.0 market is bubbly, and raises questions about why VCs keep investing in the sector. The San Francisco company raised (see coverage) less than $1 million in… Continue Reading
Roundup: Zlango’s leaked PowerPoint, DIY Facebook apps, and more
Here’s the latest action:
1) For entrepreneurs: Zlango and the art of the PowerPoint pitch
2) DIY widget makers help you create your own Facebook applications, sell ads
3) Compete suggest smaller video sites are eating up market share
4) Do buyouts, young man, not venture capital
For entrepreneurs: Zlango and the art of the PowerPoint pitch — Zlango launched an icon-based language last year that it hoped would replace text messages as a faster, more intuitive way to communicate with… Continue Reading
Quantcast becomes latest widget traffic tracker
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More and more publishers and retailers rely on so-called “widgets,” little boxes placed on other web sites, to deliver their news, entertainment and product advertisements.
So measuring Web traffic to those widgets is important for deciding what content to deliver, and what sites to deliver it on. A number of companies now offer widget traffic measurement tools, with Quantcast being the latest.
Here’s a summary of some of the main players in this nascent but increasingly important… Continue Reading
Widgetbox offers free analytics for widgets
Widgetbox, a company that helps businesses like eBay, Yahoo and scores of Web start-ups offer their widgets to other companies at a central site, has added free analystics.
Some people are calling 2007 the year of the widget. Widgets are exploding in popularity. A widget is, in its most basic form, a box from a third-party that sits on your site. They can showcase a game, weather, ads or other content. eBay lets sellers carry an… Continue Reading