Josh Bernoff speaking at WidgetWebExpo

I’m really pleased to announce that Josh Bernoff is speaking. Josh is one of the most experienced and long serving analysts and co-author (with Charlene Li) of the book Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies. His session is entitled “Using Widgets to accomplish business goals”.
Josh has been at Forrester since 1995. [...]

Agency Panel

David Armano is assembling his panel for the session Micro Interactions: Can portable experiences go mainstream
People, Places + Events
Our panel will discuss “micro interactions” from the perspective of
portable, distributed content and functionality. We’ll discuss
the potential or lack of for all this to go mainstream.
I’ll be speaking at Widget Web Expo and have [...]

Web 2.0 goes to work

Wikis, widgets, blogs, mashups and social networks - sounds like WidgetWebExpo
FORTUNE: Web 2.0 goes to work
Web 2.0 goes to work
By Michael Copeland
On the eve of the latest and largest Internet gathering this year, O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Conference and Expo, Forrester Research dropped a report that concludes that companies will spend $4.6 billion on Web2-related [...]

Intel launches widget Mash Maker

It’s in the widgets - the web site as solid destination is dying widget by widget. Intel pushes it all along a bit with a Mash Maker, though I think we’re going to have to invent some new terminology for this soon. Effectively you are creating your own website out of parts on the fly [...]

Introducing our Speakers - Marc Canter

Marc Canter, founder of Broadband Mechanics, opera singer and larger than life evangelist for the mesh, is on a roll. If you want some notion of how widgetized content fits into a larger context, Marc’s your man.
The value of open social networks for widgetsEverybody is in favour of open social networks where widgetized content [...]

David Armano Micro Interactions panel

I’m highlighting the great speakers we’ve got, starting with David Armano of Logic+Emotion who is putting together a panel for WidgetWebExpo. David Armano is VP of Experience Design with Critical Mass, a professional services firm with a sweet spot for creating outstanding experiences.
Micro Interactions: Can portable experiences go mainstream?Whether we call them widgets, [...]

It’s All About the Widget

Rajil Kapoor, a VC at Mayfield Fund, he gets it. It’s always nice to read someone else writing your thoughts exactly. I’ve been banging on this theme for two years now, here’s my theory in Rajil’s words:
It’s All About the Database…
The web is evolving fast from a simple web page/website destination model to [...]

Doubleclick partners for widget distribution

Gigya - Boost Widget Distribution and Get Real Time Tracking
DOUBLECLICK LAUNCHES WIDGET ADVERTISING THROUGH RICH MEDIA
Widget Ads Provide Media and Creative Agencies with Virality, Content Delivery and Consumer Behavior Metrics
New York, March 17, 2007 - DoubleClick Inc, a premier provider of digital marketing technology and services, today announced the support of widget advertising [...]

CBS, DoubleClick, expand widget ad options

Big media in little places: CBS, DoubleClick, expand widget ad options
Big media is getting into widget advertising, in order to reach people on sites across the web. One example: Media conglomerate CBS is launching a local widget ad network today, with the goal of drawing more traffic to its own web sites — and [...]

Conference agenda published

I’ve just put the WidgetWebExpo conference agenda up and it’s looking great. Of course, it will probably change a bit over the next few weeks, but the basic ideas are all there. I’ve tried to cover both practical and theoretical, technical and commercial aspects, with a few wildcards thrown in. My approach is to keep [...]