Comments on: Track Your Widget’s Global Domination on Clearspring

By: Gigya’s Big Win With Top Widget Companies

Gigya’s Big Win With Top Widget Companies — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 12:52:23 +0000

[...] different strategy than what other widget tool startups are doing. We reported on another company, ClearSpring, which similarly helped developers track and spread their application. However, in contrast to [...]

By: Just a random blog !

Just a random blog ! — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:53:56 +0000

By: ProgrammableWeb.com » Blog Archive » New APIs: Widgets, Travel and Patents

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 05:33:39 +0000

[...] with over 4.2 billion widget views for major clients like the NBA and Universal (for more, see this recent TechCrunch review). They have big API plans and the initial pieces are now available including their Placement API [...]

By: Alex Bard

Alex Bard — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:32:23 +0000

I think you will see that quality will now matter more than ever with all of the widget choices out there. It means that companies that want to execute a widget strategy need to give more thought to audience, value proposition, feature set, experience, etc. Just having a widget is not a widget strategy.

The measurement and analytics will be critical in understanding your success and failure and iterating until the right balance is reached between user experience, value, and syndication. Platforms like clearspring and yourminis will be critical in helping content providers and 3rd party developers through this process.

By: metrobellevue

metrobellevue — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:49:32 +0000

Sounds like a pretty cool widget platform. Really like the idea that you can get analytics on your widget.

By: Concrete Stain

Concrete Stain — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:42:48 +0000

We already are Widget saturated /

– Yahoo Pipes / kinda makes your own widget –

– the simplier you can make it for a user to make a widget / the simplier the widget is going to be – therefore ….

– it wouldnt work so well …. – RB

By: VCMike

VCMike — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:50:09 +0000

Good point Don. Widgets aren’t a new distribution platform, they are a tool that makes it easy for consumers themselves to redistribute content. And I agree that it is hard to imagine consumers wanting to proliferate spam.

By: Don Synstelien

Don Synstelien — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 01:51:38 +0000

Springwidgets.com has been up and allowing people to produce and distribute widgets though either an instant widget process or an advanced social, web and desktop API since November of last year.

We have not noticed significant spam-related widget creation. Widgets in general are a consumer-distributed platform, and it’s unlikely that a large audience would voluntarily distribute spam unless it was very cleverly disguised as content.

Good luck Hoo!

-Don

By: Wes

Wes — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 01:45:10 +0000

Yes Brian, we are soon going to be widget saturated.

By: bdb

bdb — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:45:26 +0000

I believe one can already make their own simple google gadgets, webclip was just announced by apple, and their are a whole host of services out there that can benefit from the extra distribution and usage of their service while the consumer is viewing other sites. It seems this company is providing added value to companies (or people) creating the widgets creators on top of offering the ability to easily create them. As far as spam is concerned, this is an opt-in situation where the consumer either won’t install a “spammy” widget or will uninstall it as as that’s discovered.

By: SOLOVEI

SOLOVEI — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:30:19 +0000

I agree with what Brian said

By: Brian Hoffman

Brian Hoffman — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:50:01 +0000

It makes me think about how long everyone can ride the widget train. I mean at some point there’s going to be extreme saturation. Once a roll your own widget company opens up widget development to the general public making it easy to make your own and deploy them everywhere it will be spam spam spam. I know it’s a little off-topic but this widget business has me all worked up.

By: Free Web Templates

Free Web Templates — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:26:36 +0000

That’s a really good idea. Never heard of any site like it.