Category Archives: Widgets

8 Predictions for 2008 - You Know I Had To Do It...

8 Predictions for 2008 – You Know I Had To Do It…

Welcome to 2008! Another year wraps up and a new year of digital marketing evolution lies before us. It’s an exciting time to be a marketer, and an even more exciting time to be part of the digital marketing community. I’ve … Continue reading

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Google Announces OpenSocial: Pulls "a Facebook" on Facebook

Google Announces OpenSocial: Pulls "a Facebook" on Facebook

In a move that “Facebook’s” Facebook, and in the true spirit of an open source world, Google announced a collaboration with many of the leading social networks including LinkedIn, hi5, Friendster, Plaxo,Ning, and their own Okurt, to adopt the [Google driven] OpenSocial … Continue reading

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Social Wonder: Eye Wonder's Contribution to Web2.0

Social Wonder: Eye Wonder's Contribution to Web2.0

I usually don’t wax on about specific products because they usually don’t reflect the bigger changes happening in consumer-behavior-land. (Ok, so I’ve mentioned Twitter before – the maybe it’s genius, maybe it’s the dumbest thing ever technology, but I guess … Continue reading

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Widget Me This Part II ... "Widget Me That"

Widget Me This Part II … "Widget Me That"

  Congratulations again widget! – in a mere matter of months you went from a buzzword to a tipping point. As I wrote the other week in “Widget Me This: A Buzzword in Perspective”,widgets may be a major buzzword in … Continue reading

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Go Go Google Gadgets!

Go Go Google Gadgets!

Mediapost reported this week that Google Gadgets are officially being integrated into the Ad Words program. This is truly big news. Google now is combining the power and breadth of their massive market place of publishers and consumers , with an incredibly … Continue reading

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Yahoo Follows Facbook ... The Much Bigger Picture

Yahoo Follows Facbook … The Much Bigger Picture

I like the trend that we’re seeing here folks. First Facebook opens up their backend to developers, hype ensues, traffic spikes, and now  Yahoo!, a major portal, is following suit, surely many others will follow. But it begs the question – although MyYahoo was … Continue reading

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Widget Me This: Putting A Buzzword Into Perspective

Widget Me This: Putting A Buzzword Into Perspective

 From Media Post Publications 8/21/07 “WIDGET” IS OFFICIALLY ONE OF the buzzwords of the year. Congratulations widget! However, buzzwords, like folklore, stem from roots that are planted in reality. This is certainly true when it comes to the concept of … Continue reading

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