Widget NewsWill Price has left VC Hummer Winblad to head up Widgetbox. Techcrunch covers the story and gets a personal piece from Will on why he left VCland to join this widget startup:
Hummer Winblad Partner Will Price Resigns To Head WidgetBox
The best markets and the best companies ride the tide of history. Widgets are [...]
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Well, Widgety Goodness is coming around again - but it’s now called WidgetWebExpo. It’s got bigger and better, with two days and two streams. This means we get to cover a lot more widgety goodness and to hear from more parts of our industry.
The next WidgetWebExpo will be in New York on June 16th and [...]
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From Justin Kirby - excellent coverage of speakers and delegates.
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
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Widgety Goodness crammed a lot into a day. All the feedback we’ve had so far has been positive. The speakers were great, the sponsors were great, the participants were great and the venue was great.
We’re already working on next year’s event - and on taking it to the US next summer. More on this and [...]
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He was busy with his wife bringing Jake into the world. I had told him the baby would never come a week early, but what do I know.Widgety Congratulations to Jon and Jane and Jake
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social network « Widgety Goodness
Of course one of the key reasons for attending Widgety Goodness is to network - express, connect, learn, create - with like-minded colleagues from across the industry. We’re hooking up with backnetwork to create the Widgety Goodness 07 Social Network.Not only do you get all this on The Day, but we’ll [...]
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Platform 4
Platform 4 is keen to discover creative talent wherever it is emerging. And we recognise that some of the most inspiring online work is coming from the bedrooms of passionate hobbyist coders - not always the big name agencies and software giants.To recognise this trend we’re offering £1500 to the most creative mash-up of [...]
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So the good folks of Livejournal have been sold on by their owner, Six Apart, to a Russian oberfuherer. No-one seems very concerned and it probably wont’ have any effect on the users - may even be beneficial. Who knows, they may even have a positive attitude to widgets. But it does raise questions about [...]
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RockYou climbing past Slide, to be number one widget-maker?
RockYou, the company behind popular Facebook applications and Myspace Flash widgets, may soon pass its arch-rival Slide to be the largest widget-maker in the world.Some have accurately called such Facebook applications “mostly silly, useless and time-wasting” — yet this virtual real estate may be worth a lot [...]
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Widgety Goodness afterparty with Techcrunch and the Brighton posse
Immediately following the event we will be holding a drinks reception in the same elegant building as the conference - a further opportunity for attendees to network, mingle and discuss the content of the day. This is sponsored by NixonMcInnes, Spannerworks, doof [...]
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