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	<title>Comments on: Gigya To Ease Widget Publishing On Social Networks</title>
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		<title>By: Hits Singapore &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Gigya Raises $11 Million For Two-Pronged Widget Strategy</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/09/gigya-to-ease-widget-publishing-on-social-networks/#comment-2489185</link>
		<dc:creator>Hits Singapore &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Gigya Raises $11 Million For Two-Pronged Widget Strategy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] money will fuel two main widget services: Wildfire, which helps widget makers distribute their wares, and Socialize, a Google Friend connect [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Gigya Raises $11 Million For Two-Pronged Widget Strategy</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/09/gigya-to-ease-widget-publishing-on-social-networks/#comment-2488137</link>
		<dc:creator>Gigya Raises $11 Million For Two-Pronged Widget Strategy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] money will fuel two main widget services: Wildfire, which helps widget makers distribute their wares, and Socialize, a Google Friend connect [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Gigya&#8217;s Big Win With Top Widget Companies</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/09/gigya-to-ease-widget-publishing-on-social-networks/#comment-1492777</link>
		<dc:creator>Gigya&#8217;s Big Win With Top Widget Companies</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] designing for the other 99.9 percent of the web not running solely on Facebook, Gigya offers Wildfire, a simple interface for spreading, tracking, and monetizing your widget across 12 social sites. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] designing for the other 99.9 percent of the web not running solely on Facebook, Gigya offers Wildfire, a simple interface for spreading, tracking, and monetizing your widget across 12 social sites. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Blair Golson</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/09/gigya-to-ease-widget-publishing-on-social-networks/#comment-1329669</link>
		<dc:creator>Blair Golson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How meta:

A widget for embedding wedgets...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How meta:</p>
<p>A widget for embedding wedgets&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Shawn</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/09/gigya-to-ease-widget-publishing-on-social-networks/#comment-1328348</link>
		<dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Facebook:
Facebook is going down just like the sub-prime loan market did.  They should have sold at the market peak.

Invest:
I must say, getting a fool to give you money to auto insert html code into someone else's site is genius.  I commend them for fooling the fools.   

Bankrupt:
The investors will end up forcing these guys to do something else after their trivial code stops working on these third party sites, just like Photobucket’s code stopped working on mySpace.   It’s a simple search and replace script that is implemented on these third party sites before they have to call the bankruptcy attorney.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Facebook:<br />
Facebook is going down just like the sub-prime loan market did.  They should have sold at the market peak.</p>
<p>Invest:<br />
I must say, getting a fool to give you money to auto insert html code into someone else&#8217;s site is genius.  I commend them for fooling the fools.   </p>
<p>Bankrupt:<br />
The investors will end up forcing these guys to do something else after their trivial code stops working on these third party sites, just like Photobucket’s code stopped working on mySpace.   It’s a simple search and replace script that is implemented on these third party sites before they have to call the bankruptcy attorney.</p>
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		<title>By: Bill Jones</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/09/gigya-to-ease-widget-publishing-on-social-networks/#comment-1325562</link>
		<dc:creator>Bill Jones</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 03:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We are a photo widget service that just implemented Wildfire. It works great!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We are a photo widget service that just implemented Wildfire. It works great!</p>
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		<title>By: Simon</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/09/gigya-to-ease-widget-publishing-on-social-networks/#comment-1324696</link>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@TY (the peanut gallery) - InCircles is becoming a new company that will launch in the next month. A lot of development and great work has been accomplished behind the scenes and we are launching a very sophisticated blogging widget. InCircles was always just our an 'alpha' product/test and we're over 10,000 sites right now, so some people must like it. Might I suggest actually achieving something before you criticize others. 

And btw dude. Did you actually look at your email before you posted that comment. I emailed you inquiring about 'maybe' using your services, so your little post ends our discussions from now on. I might also suggest in future that you don't title your job application emails 'Genius for hire' and then proceed to try and get me to back your company, then in the same breath ask for a job. Good luck with your own venture - if you actually have experience doing this you would understand what it takes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@TY (the peanut gallery) - InCircles is becoming a new company that will launch in the next month. A lot of development and great work has been accomplished behind the scenes and we are launching a very sophisticated blogging widget. InCircles was always just our an &#8216;alpha&#8217; product/test and we&#8217;re over 10,000 sites right now, so some people must like it. Might I suggest actually achieving something before you criticize others. </p>
<p>And btw dude. Did you actually look at your email before you posted that comment. I emailed you inquiring about &#8216;maybe&#8217; using your services, so your little post ends our discussions from now on. I might also suggest in future that you don&#8217;t title your job application emails &#8216;Genius for hire&#8217; and then proceed to try and get me to back your company, then in the same breath ask for a job. Good luck with your own venture - if you actually have experience doing this you would understand what it takes.</p>
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		<title>By: BillyWarhol</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/09/gigya-to-ease-widget-publishing-on-social-networks/#comment-1324002</link>
		<dc:creator>BillyWarhol</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 05:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think anything that gets using Widgets on Blogs out to a wider audience other than the Techie Geeks is a great thing*

Not everyone is a MySpace GenW2r who grew up doin this sort o thing*

I'm interested in seeing how they well help the Viral Spread aspect of the Widget*

;))

Peace*</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think anything that gets using Widgets on Blogs out to a wider audience other than the Techie Geeks is a great thing*</p>
<p>Not everyone is a MySpace GenW2r who grew up doin this sort o thing*</p>
<p>I&#8217;m interested in seeing how they well help the Viral Spread aspect of the Widget*</p>
<p>;))</p>
<p>Peace*</p>
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		<title>By: Mark Zuckerberg</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/09/gigya-to-ease-widget-publishing-on-social-networks/#comment-1323880</link>
		<dc:creator>Mark Zuckerberg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If Yahoo is to be a serious player in the social networking space then it needs to buy my site Facebook for eight billion. 

Passing on Facebook will be a mistake similar to what happened four years back when Yahoo did not buy Google for three billion. Instead it bought that junkie Mark Cuban’s site broadcast.com for five billion shortly after which it went brain dead like Cuban’s dad. Now how much is Google worth?
 
Yahoo must take steps to gain a real leadership position in social networking or risk not participating in what could be one of the leading sources of growth in the consumer Internet sector over the next five-plus years. It is this growth that leads me to estimate that in five years time Facebook will be worth at least 15 billion. 
If that embarassment Semel does not buy Facebook then he should be fired. That is what happened to Viacom’s Freston after he did not buy MySpace. Having said that if I was a founder of MySpace Tom Anderson then I would have slit murdoch’s throat a long time ago for robbing me and my shareholders of billions of dollars. After buying MySpace for 580 mil News corp does a deal with Google for 900 mil. That was sheer daylight robbery. If Yahoo’s managers are not clueless they will buy Facebook 
before it is too late. 
 
This is also a great tinme to be a web 2.0 entrepreneur. Companies like CBS are lining up in the region of three billion for the next youtube. So there is a good chance to hit the lottery even if the product is junk. Often during boomtime people act stupidly like when Terra bought Lycos which is now dead and buried for $12.5 billion and @Home paid $7.2 billion buy for Excite.
 
Certainly people like Graham Spencer, Joe Kraus, Mark Van Haren, Bob Davis were my role models when I decided to hide online instead of hacking it out in a Mcjob in the real world. They created a junk startup Excite and hit a home run. Though the merger between Excite and @Home fell disastrously short of expectations these bums who took it easy in life laughed all the way to the bank. I hope to similarly be a role model to other net entrepreneurs.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If Yahoo is to be a serious player in the social networking space then it needs to buy my site Facebook for eight billion. </p>
<p>Passing on Facebook will be a mistake similar to what happened four years back when Yahoo did not buy Google for three billion. Instead it bought that junkie Mark Cuban’s site broadcast.com for five billion shortly after which it went brain dead like Cuban’s dad. Now how much is Google worth?</p>
<p>Yahoo must take steps to gain a real leadership position in social networking or risk not participating in what could be one of the leading sources of growth in the consumer Internet sector over the next five-plus years. It is this growth that leads me to estimate that in five years time Facebook will be worth at least 15 billion.<br />
If that embarassment Semel does not buy Facebook then he should be fired. That is what happened to Viacom’s Freston after he did not buy MySpace. Having said that if I was a founder of MySpace Tom Anderson then I would have slit murdoch’s throat a long time ago for robbing me and my shareholders of billions of dollars. After buying MySpace for 580 mil News corp does a deal with Google for 900 mil. That was sheer daylight robbery. If Yahoo’s managers are not clueless they will buy Facebook<br />
before it is too late. </p>
<p>This is also a great tinme to be a web 2.0 entrepreneur. Companies like CBS are lining up in the region of three billion for the next youtube. So there is a good chance to hit the lottery even if the product is junk. Often during boomtime people act stupidly like when Terra bought Lycos which is now dead and buried for $12.5 billion and @Home paid $7.2 billion buy for Excite.</p>
<p>Certainly people like Graham Spencer, Joe Kraus, Mark Van Haren, Bob Davis were my role models when I decided to hide online instead of hacking it out in a Mcjob in the real world. They created a junk startup Excite and hit a home run. Though the merger between Excite and @Home fell disastrously short of expectations these bums who took it easy in life laughed all the way to the bank. I hope to similarly be a role model to other net entrepreneurs.</p>
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		<title>By: Phil Butler</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/09/gigya-to-ease-widget-publishing-on-social-networks/#comment-1323834</link>
		<dc:creator>Phil Butler</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 02:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You know everyone has the preferences, this does seem useful to either technically or time challenged people. I wonder if it is faster than embedding code? 
Good points made about security too BTW.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know everyone has the preferences, this does seem useful to either technically or time challenged people. I wonder if it is faster than embedding code?<br />
Good points made about security too BTW.</p>
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		<title>By: Aston</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/09/gigya-to-ease-widget-publishing-on-social-networks/#comment-1323612</link>
		<dc:creator>Aston</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 23:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Facebook lost its niche when it opened up to everyone, but so what?  It's growing larger than it would have grown had it stayed limited to students, faculty and alumni only.  Don't forget that students graduate, too, so Facebook pretty much had to open up to everyone.  (And getting a new alumni email address sucks.)

Back on topic: Gigya looks like a great tool, I'm definitely going to try it out for the BabeVsBabe widget.  For a small company like mine, this is a great timesaver.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Facebook lost its niche when it opened up to everyone, but so what?  It&#8217;s growing larger than it would have grown had it stayed limited to students, faculty and alumni only.  Don&#8217;t forget that students graduate, too, so Facebook pretty much had to open up to everyone.  (And getting a new alumni email address sucks.)</p>
<p>Back on topic: Gigya looks like a great tool, I&#8217;m definitely going to try it out for the BabeVsBabe widget.  For a small company like mine, this is a great timesaver.</p>
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		<title>By: Ty Graham</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/09/gigya-to-ease-widget-publishing-on-social-networks/#comment-1323499</link>
		<dc:creator>Ty Graham</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 21:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Simon: I thought you were going to come out with something cool, hence your stealthy count down.  Thanks for not hiring me though. Your company looks like its going to be in the deadpool soon. That's kind of funny since you listed off the people you already had on your team from myspace etc...  But your widget is so ugly I wouldn't put that on any myspace page. 

@Michael: Are you sure no one did SN profile certification before 2006? If that's true, I must be one hell of a lucky guy, when I filed my patent! But I'm not going to get too excited, either they wont be around by the time I enforce it or the market will make them die out from user's fear of spam/phishing. 

All that aside, I am more than amazed at the lack of innovation in this market. It's going to be an awesome day soon, everyone is going to get blipd!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Simon: I thought you were going to come out with something cool, hence your stealthy count down.  Thanks for not hiring me though. Your company looks like its going to be in the deadpool soon. That&#8217;s kind of funny since you listed off the people you already had on your team from myspace etc&#8230;  But your widget is so ugly I wouldn&#8217;t put that on any myspace page. </p>
<p>@Michael: Are you sure no one did SN profile certification before 2006? If that&#8217;s true, I must be one hell of a lucky guy, when I filed my patent! But I&#8217;m not going to get too excited, either they wont be around by the time I enforce it or the market will make them die out from user&#8217;s fear of spam/phishing. </p>
<p>All that aside, I am more than amazed at the lack of innovation in this market. It&#8217;s going to be an awesome day soon, everyone is going to get blipd!</p>
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		<title>By: Gopinath</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/09/gigya-to-ease-widget-publishing-on-social-networks/#comment-1323491</link>
		<dc:creator>Gopinath</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 21:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The code for auto-posting can be developed easily, infact ready-made code for this is available for $1k. Check it out here

http://www.improsys.com/dataposter.htm

IMHO, Its better to own the code than to rely on a outside provider</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The code for auto-posting can be developed easily, infact ready-made code for this is available for $1k. Check it out here</p>
<p><a href="http://www.improsys.com/dataposter.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.improsys.com/dataposter.htm</a></p>
<p>IMHO, Its better to own the code than to rely on a outside provider</p>
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		<title>By: Simon</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/09/gigya-to-ease-widget-publishing-on-social-networks/#comment-1323416</link>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We're a widget company looking at this right now - seems interesting...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We&#8217;re a widget company looking at this right now - seems interesting&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Lenny</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/09/gigya-to-ease-widget-publishing-on-social-networks/#comment-1323374</link>
		<dc:creator>Lenny</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>To: mike lewis

We have been using WildFire now for a while over on PollDaddy. You can sign up for a free account with us to test it out. We provide Polls for blogs, MySpace etc.

http://www.polldaddy.com</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To: mike lewis</p>
<p>We have been using WildFire now for a while over on PollDaddy. You can sign up for a free account with us to test it out. We provide Polls for blogs, MySpace etc.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.polldaddy.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.polldaddy.com</a></p>
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		<title>By: Brian Laks</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/09/gigya-to-ease-widget-publishing-on-social-networks/#comment-1323296</link>
		<dc:creator>Brian Laks</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I agree with #4...  Myspace is spamphish central, and i don't like the idea of having to supply loginfo to third party sites.  It kind of reminds me of the aggregator aggregators from another post on this site.  There are just too many sites catering to the stupidity of users.  What's next, "just give us all your info (ss#, bank account, credit cards) and we'll run your life for you because we know you're to stupid/lazy to figure it out, but you still want to seem cutting edge"?  Gimme a break... And facebook probably HAS done some seriously dilution to their image by throwing open the gates to all comers.  It used to be an exclusive club, and the limited affinity relationships were its strong point.  Now that they have begun their myspaceization, its only a matter of time before its inevitable decline toward the dregs of society.  "One rat dropping spoils the soup."  Maybe they SHOULD go public, a great new short to rival Vonazzhh (cue the Jim Cramer dog barking sound effects)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree with #4&#8230;  Myspace is spamphish central, and i don&#8217;t like the idea of having to supply loginfo to third party sites.  It kind of reminds me of the aggregator aggregators from another post on this site.  There are just too many sites catering to the stupidity of users.  What&#8217;s next, &#8220;just give us all your info (ss#, bank account, credit cards) and we&#8217;ll run your life for you because we know you&#8217;re to stupid/lazy to figure it out, but you still want to seem cutting edge&#8221;?  Gimme a break&#8230; And facebook probably HAS done some seriously dilution to their image by throwing open the gates to all comers.  It used to be an exclusive club, and the limited affinity relationships were its strong point.  Now that they have begun their myspaceization, its only a matter of time before its inevitable decline toward the dregs of society.  &#8220;One rat dropping spoils the soup.&#8221;  Maybe they SHOULD go public, a great new short to rival Vonazzhh (cue the Jim Cramer dog barking sound effects)</p>
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		<title>By: pr0xy k1ll3r</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/09/gigya-to-ease-widget-publishing-on-social-networks/#comment-1323290</link>
		<dc:creator>pr0xy k1ll3r</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Mark Z. (fake)
Tw@t!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Mark Z. (fake)<br />
<a href="mailto:Tw@t!">Tw@t!</a></p>
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		<title>By: pr0xy k1ll3r</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/09/gigya-to-ease-widget-publishing-on-social-networks/#comment-1323288</link>
		<dc:creator>pr0xy k1ll3r</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well it started with the YouTube junk comment, like they got time to come here and write a 400 word+ comment. Now facebook.
Arrington you should ban these people...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well it started with the YouTube junk comment, like they got time to come here and write a 400 word+ comment. Now facebook.<br />
Arrington you should ban these people&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Brian Juris</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/09/gigya-to-ease-widget-publishing-on-social-networks/#comment-1323184</link>
		<dc:creator>Brian Juris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@ fake MZ -- seriously stop whining about the fact that no one wants to buy Facebook. It's not anyone's fault but your own. You're not going to get anywhere close to 8 billion, unless you're acquired by Google for relative stock, because it's so inflated right now. You compromised the brand image when you opened up Facebook to everyone -- it was perfect for students, faculty, and alumni. There's no differentiation here. You're now competing in the same sphere as MySpace. Whereas before, you had it made with a narrow niche: Educated consumer base, higher income consumer base, higher expected future incomes, all things that advertisers love. It's not about quantity, it's quality. Believe in the culture of your company. Believe in creating great services. Believe in growing a brand that is unique to people. You cannot be everything to everyone. And what if you were acquired by another company? Would they squander the future growth of the company like others before? I doubt Google would have had the impact it had if it would have been acquired by Yahoo. Because the cultures don't mesh. It's the culture that makes Google so successful. All these companies have buckets of smart people and money, but it's the culture that makes the company great. Does Facebook even fit with any other companies culture? If not, take the company public for crying out loud.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@ fake MZ &#8212; seriously stop whining about the fact that no one wants to buy Facebook. It&#8217;s not anyone&#8217;s fault but your own. You&#8217;re not going to get anywhere close to 8 billion, unless you&#8217;re acquired by Google for relative stock, because it&#8217;s so inflated right now. You compromised the brand image when you opened up Facebook to everyone &#8212; it was perfect for students, faculty, and alumni. There&#8217;s no differentiation here. You&#8217;re now competing in the same sphere as MySpace. Whereas before, you had it made with a narrow niche: Educated consumer base, higher income consumer base, higher expected future incomes, all things that advertisers love. It&#8217;s not about quantity, it&#8217;s quality. Believe in the culture of your company. Believe in creating great services. Believe in growing a brand that is unique to people. You cannot be everything to everyone. And what if you were acquired by another company? Would they squander the future growth of the company like others before? I doubt Google would have had the impact it had if it would have been acquired by Yahoo. Because the cultures don&#8217;t mesh. It&#8217;s the culture that makes Google so successful. All these companies have buckets of smart people and money, but it&#8217;s the culture that makes the company great. Does Facebook even fit with any other companies culture? If not, take the company public for crying out loud.</p>
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		<title>By: mike lewis</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/09/gigya-to-ease-widget-publishing-on-social-networks/#comment-1323141</link>
		<dc:creator>mike lewis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>anyone have any idea of a site that's using Wildfire? They list sites that you can embed on (MySpace, etc.) but what widgets can you embed using Wildfire? I'd love to see an example</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>anyone have any idea of a site that&#8217;s using Wildfire? They list sites that you can embed on (MySpace, etc.) but what widgets can you embed using Wildfire? I&#8217;d love to see an example</p>
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		<title>By: Ralphy Ulrich</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/09/gigya-to-ease-widget-publishing-on-social-networks/#comment-1323133</link>
		<dc:creator>Ralphy Ulrich</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How do all these widget sites raise so much capitol?  I find it mind boggling.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How do all these widget sites raise so much capitol?  I find it mind boggling.</p>
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		<title>By: Liz Gannes</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/09/gigya-to-ease-widget-publishing-on-social-networks/#comment-1323097</link>
		<dc:creator>Liz Gannes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Pretty sure Gigya raised $4 million more from Benchmark. This came out around the beginning of February.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pretty sure Gigya raised $4 million more from Benchmark. This came out around the beginning of February.</p>
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		<title>By: Mike Puchol</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/09/gigya-to-ease-widget-publishing-on-social-networks/#comment-1323096</link>
		<dc:creator>Mike Puchol</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Until a few weeks ago, Wildfire was a well-known Jabber chat server, but had to change the name due to copyright issues. Poorly-researched name IMHO, apart from other views expressed in comments.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Until a few weeks ago, Wildfire was a well-known Jabber chat server, but had to change the name due to copyright issues. Poorly-researched name IMHO, apart from other views expressed in comments.</p>
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		<title>By: Jacob Levy</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/09/gigya-to-ease-widget-publishing-on-social-networks/#comment-1323064</link>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Levy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>MySpace widgets succeeded because Flash is perceived to be safe by end users and because MySpace took measures to ensure that the surrounding HTML is safe (no Javascript or iframes or other crufts allowed).

This Gigya thing solves a problem. I'd definitely offer it as an option if I had a site that I wanted to bootstrap with a virally spreading embedded widget.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>MySpace widgets succeeded because Flash is perceived to be safe by end users and because MySpace took measures to ensure that the surrounding HTML is safe (no Javascript or iframes or other crufts allowed).</p>
<p>This Gigya thing solves a problem. I&#8217;d definitely offer it as an option if I had a site that I wanted to bootstrap with a virally spreading embedded widget.</p>
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		<title>By: Andrew</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/09/gigya-to-ease-widget-publishing-on-social-networks/#comment-1323040</link>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I haven't seen any worthy news lately.</description>
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