Allen Hurff, while letting the Atlanta MySpace office (SpringWIdgets) go, told us that support would end at the end of January. He then gave Sue and I (the management team of SpringWIdgets) the opportunity to work for free for a week while we notified our users of the date and closed the office, which we did. The rest of the SW team was told to be out by end of day.

I’m on @synstelien on Twitter if you would like to know more.

http://www.springwidgets.com/

The site seems to still be alive, and it’s April 15, well past January.

what else is available to me? any suggestions.

DeadLocator.com – game over

http://kisalt.us/590/

TeamLocator.com – a united front.

http://amazonbe...eal-of-day.html

and

http://iwantdot...m.blogspot.com/

This is Don (formerly) from SpringWidgets.

It’s sad but true that the SpringWidgets team has been laid off. Sue and I, who lead the team have been spending the last week since we left personally notifying developers and clients about the demise of the platform and I was about to send up a note to the site, but since you have found out, I guess this is probably the best place to put it:

Friends,

It saddens me to have to announce that SpringWidgets is closing. The last couple of years have been amazing for myself and the rest of the team here at SpringWidgets. We have had the opportunity to do some truly great work with some amazing people throughout MySpace and the rest of Fox Interactive Media, from the world’s best agencies and brands to the tens of thousands of bloggers and website owners who all helped us serve billions of widgets to hundreds of thousands of people around the world since this product began.

Providing all of you with a platform to share your thoughts, your content, your creativity, your brands, your blogs, and everything else that you could put in a widget has been a high point in our lives and we wish that we could keep this going forever, but all good things must come to an end.

The team and I have all gone home, the computers are shut down and the doors are closed, but your widgets will live on for just a little longer. I have been informed that the platform will continue to operate through the remainder of January, after which all 75,000+ widgets and the website will go dark. If you have a widget in our system, please gather any metrics data you wish to by then as I can’t guarantee how long it will be available.

Again, it has been a pleasure and we look forward to creating something bigger and better sometime in the future.

Thanks,

The (former) SpringWidgets team