Remember, Slide’s applications are targeted at a demographic notorious for spending tons of money on music, movies, and various trendy/useless things.

Slide and their investors may be making a gamble, but they’re not stupid. Creating brand awareness among teenagers (and/or “young adults”) is an incredibly profitable thing to do for a lot of brands, and Slide has more of those eyeballs engaged that most TV shows ever will.

From their perspective, perhaps Slide is the next potential media giant – a Disney, for instance, that can grab millions of eyeballs and sell ads. Maybe it’ll play out that way and maybe it won’t, but just because nobody on TechCrunch uses their widgets doesn’t mean nobody in the world does.

Don’t any of you have younger siblings, cousins, or friends? Look at their facebook profiles… you might be surprised at how many people really do use “useless” and “stupid” apps.

You say tomato….I say tomato….

In terms of advertising and widgets, I’ve recently learned of a couple companies attempting to cash in on this new style of advertising I.e pointroll, rockyou, kickapps. In my opinion I’m not impressed with what I’ve seen this far. I own a blog and truthfully I am not compelled to want to insert one of these widgets on my page.