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http://www.beet.tv/2008/09/tingz-widgets-s.html There are a lot of widgets on the web, but TechCrunch50 presenter Tingz has created a solution that works across almost any platform, including iPhones, Blackberrys, Macs OS X, and Windows Media Center. The widgets look and act the same on each device and automatically sync up, according to CEO Patrick Hunt. Tingz widgets also interact with one another: The widget for sharing video recipes has a feature that lets users write down ingredients that will automatically show up in the shopping list application. The number of Tingz widgets will continue to expand: "The possibilities for Tingz applications is really limitless," Hunt says. Getting users to adopt the product could be a large hurdle for the start-up to overcome, however. TechCrunch50 judge and Digg founder Kevin Rose said he saw no compelling reason to switch over from the Mac OS X widgets, and Don Dodge had doubts that an advertising revenue model would work for the product. The report by TechCrunch has more comments from the judges. Hunt told me Tings will also make money from transaction revenue share. "Every time someone buys a movie ticket from our platform, for example, we take a cut of that revenue," he says. --Kelsey Blodget, Associte Producer

Tuesday, June 10, 2008 http://www.beet.tv/2008/06/gigya-has-128-m.html Gigya Has 128 Million Monthly Uniques for Its Widgets...with Comprehensive Analytics Gigya is powering widgets for over a thousand online publishers, including video producers. As publishers seek to get content distributed, widgets are essential. Gigya's widgets get 128 million unique users per month. It's an enormous base. More than just distributing widgets, the company is offering analytics so publishers and advertisers know how media is being consumed. I spoke with Gigya's Ben Pashman at Advertising 2.0 in New York last week. -- Andy Plesser

Adele McAlear interviews Mitch Joel of Twist Image, Carrie Lysenko of The Weather Network and Jerome Carron of Microsoft Canada in Montreal, November 20, 2007. The Widgets: Tools for Branding and Beyond panel discusses whether marketers should enter the widget space and the barriers to adoption. Presented by the Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada and Marketing Magazine.

Weekly series on creating and developing an independent music label and Internet television channel. Hosted by Mario Hemsley. This time Mario explains the high value of widgets, and how to use them to maintain a dynamic presence throughout the web.

VodPod Expands Video Sources for Widget with Firefox Extension VodPod, the San Francisco-based start-up that creates widgets of multiple video players, has doubled the number of video sites from which users pull clips to 3500 over the past six months. VodPod users have organized some 1 million videos into widgets. Mark Hall, CEO of VodPod, told me on Sunday that most of this increase can be attributed to a Firefox extension which provides a simple way to pull and organize videos. On Monday, VodPod is going to unveil a site redesign. In December, I interviewed Mark and have republished the interview and demo today. Update: My colleague Liz Gannes over at NewTeeVee has an explanation of VodPod and its functionality and value. -- Andy Plesser Posted on Sunday, April 27, 2008

Sunday, June 15, 2008 SplashCast Has Revenue Sharing Deal with SonyBMG for Widget Campaign SplashCast widgets are propagated in social networks for a number of entertainment and media companies. Michael Berkley, CEO of the Portland-based company told me about how widgets are spread. He says that an install base of 10,000 users is critical. His company has a deal with SonyBMG for 20 widget channels. The two companies share revenue on a 50/50 basis. Below is the Usher channel. -- Andy Plesser

CEO Pete Grillo demonstrates iterasi and its latest features: RSS and widgets.

An introduction to the power of NewsGator widgets.

Frank Gruber of SOMEWHAT FRANK & co-founder of TECH cocktail talks widgets with Justin Thorp of Clearspring a DC area startup company. Find out what Clearspring is doing for publishers and advertisers. Is Clearspring soon to be acquired? Distributed by Tubemogul.

TrueNuff once again takes on the new series of the