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  • Looking for a job? Use a widget

    Posted on Thursday May 8th, 2008 at 19:00 in widgets, widget, widget reviews

    by Al Merkrebs, May 8, 2008 @ 5:38 p.m. PDT A friend of mine asked me if I knew of any good job-finding widgets. The question sent me on a search. The first one I found was a winner: the Simply Hired widget. It has all the essentials for good, easy ...

  • Good 3-minute video on the viral widget world

    Posted on Saturday May 3rd, 2008 at 17:07 in widgets, widget, widget in sight

    by Al Merkrebs, May 3, 2008 @ 3:12 p.m. PDT The AOL Developer Network this morning posted a YouTube video of Alex Bard giving a 3–minute interview that nicely summarizes several viral widget principles. Bard is a co-founder of Goowy Media, which,...

  • Are “disruptive” widgets good or bad?

    Posted on Friday May 2nd, 2008 at 14:04 in widget-related events

    by Al Merkrebs, May 2, 2008 @ 12:32 p.m. PDT. A free 60–minute webinar by AMR Research, entitled “The Platform Revolution – A Look Into Disruptive Technologies” is scheduled for May 15. The presentation will explain not ...

  • Widget metrics getting better

    Posted on Tuesday April 29th, 2008 at 19:55 in widgets, widget, widget in sight

    by Al Merkrebs, April 29, 2008 @ 6:05 p.m. PDT Widget metrics are becoming more sophisticated. Clearspring’s Jodi McDermott today published an article on one of Clearspring’s metrics named Active Placements. The metric measures ...

  • A widget that gives you “conventional wisdom”

    Posted on Tuesday April 29th, 2008 at 18:38 in widgets, widget, widget reviews

    by Al Merkrebs, April 29, 2008 @ 4:38 p.m. PDT There are still a thick handful of analog publications we rely on, including Newsweek, which lands in our snail mail box every Tuesday. If you’re like us, we first flip through the pages to find o...

  • Netvibes to open-source its widget platform

    Posted on Friday April 25th, 2008 at 20:17 in widgets, widget, widget news

    by Al Merkrebs, Apriil 25, 2008 @ 5:55 p.m. PDT This story was reported by Dan Farber last night on Webware. “Netvibes, a developer of customizable start pages, plans to make its widget platform, application programming interfaces, and iPhone ...

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