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Widget Industry Struts Its Stuff At 1st WidgetCon
As opt-in distribution networks popular among young consumers, widgets are on the rise, according to the analysts and agency types who gathered Wednesday in New York for the first WidgetCon…
Online Media Daily, 7-12-2007
How To Write Widgets That Work
Today in New York, about 150 advertising, media, finance, research, and coding professionals gathered for WidgetCon, claimed to be the first-ever conference devoted solely to Web widget applications…
Webware, 7-11-2007
Sneak Peaks: Nokia's Phone Widgets, FreeWebs' New Page Builder
At the WidgetCon conference in New York today, Nokia marketing executive Craig Cumberland privately showed us some not-yet-released widgets for Series 60 mobile phones…
Webware, 7-11-2007
Today is Widgetcon, the widget conference put on by Freewebs, and the widget related announcements are starting to trickle in.…
Sexy Widget, 7-11-2007
Jeremy Pepper was at WidgetCon this morning and is less enamored with it than I am. Okay, maybe I'm not enamored, but against my will I've learned a few things, made a few good connections, and had a few too many chocolate-frosted cupcakes…
Inside the Maketer's Studio, 7-11-2007
Second Life and other virtual worlds have grabbed most of the attention when it comes to 3-D imagery online. But Web-building service Freewebs made a splash recently with a new widget - currently in beta - that turns digital photos into 3-D pictures.…
OMMA, 7-10-2007
Young Surfers Spurn Banner Ads, Embrace 'Widgets'
A study of attitudes about online advertising shows that, not surprisingly, preteens and teenagers don't like banner ads and other interruptions from marketers. But the study found that in the right circumstances kids enjoy playing with ad-related features on their personal pages…
Wall Street Journal, 7-2-2007
Freewebs Sharing API with Partners
Freewebs, the personal website creator, will be sharing its API through some its partners, including YouTube, enabling users to add more content directly to their Freewebs accounts…
Mashable, 6-26-2007
Freewebs Announces WidgetCon 2007
Freewebs as officially announced WidgetCon 2007, a conference for marketers and executives to discuss the progressive use of widgets, of course…
Mashable, 6-25-2007