Comments on: What do books and widgets have in common?

By: Provides Home Builders

Provides Home Builders — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:59:38 +0000

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By: What Makes a Widget Popular? at Widgetbox

What Makes a Widget Popular? at Widgetbox — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 19:38:05 +0000

[...] â€¢#8226; AddThis Social Bookmarking Button AddThis.com put their widget in our gallery when they launched in October. It’s a widget that promotes your website or blog and works with all popular bookmarking services. AddThis.com is using Widgetbox as a widget â€œ#34;Amazonâ€ to distribute their widget well beyond their own site. This week they got the TechCrunch spotlight, too. [...]

By: Ernesto Quezada

Ernesto Quezada — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 17:29:20 +0000

@ Niall Kennedy:
I understand your point but something very important to take into account is Widget Developers. I think most of the developers are “tech savy” people and thanks God most of them know how bad Micro$oft is, so they prefer to be part of any other company.
How about Widget Users?
same case, many of us (I’m a widgets user) are happy surfing the net on our lovely Firefox, using cool open source tools here and there… Micro$oft? uh, no thanks!

Selling widgets? MS is doing that on their unsuccessful Wallop. Many Flash developers were invited to join the developers team but when they discovered the usual MS policies, they ran away…

@ Timothy Post:
The idea of “copy/paste” widgets is interesting but I don’t think is liable. I think would be better if there is a section where a user can submit or share links to the widgets they found “in the wild” so the developer who did this widget can be contacted and asked to put the widget here.

Interesting analogy Ed, I’m sure if you keep on comparing both you will find more and more similarities or related things, for instance Amanzons target are readers, Widgetbox target are writers! :P

salut!

By: Timothy Post

Timothy Post — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:39:21 +0000

Very cool. I look forward to checking-out this feature. Thanks.

By: ed

ed — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:46:18 +0000

Timothy, you can’t yet grab a non-Widgetbox widget off of a web page but it’s something we’re working on and which will be available soon.

By: Timothy Post

Timothy Post — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:01:56 +0000

Ed:

I like the concept but I would suggest Librarything.com versus Amazon. More personal catalog of widgets versus retail store.

Question for you. Is it possible for widgetbox users to copy/paste widgets they find “in the wild” into their own accounts at Widgetbox. Were this feature available then the discovery of new widgets would really take-off. Plus, it would solve the problem of where to put all those crazy little widgets we all seem to be accumulating.

By: ed

ed — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:36:49 +0000

Niall, I really do think that most bloggers will come to Widgetbox over Windows Live Gallery, actually. I don’t see a lot of Blogger, TypePad, and MySpace users flocking to Windows Live for their web widgets.

As for selling widgets, I think you’re being too literal, we certainly are marketing widgets in the same way that Amazon markets books.

By: Niall Kennedy

Niall Kennedy — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:23:28 +0000

Google, Windows Live, Netvibes, and other web widget endpoints offer widgets compatible with their platform organized by “new releases, most popular, top rated, featured, and a myriad of categories for browsing.” Will web authors come to Widgetbox over Windows Live Gallery?

When I heard the analogy to Amazon, it makes me think you plan to sell widgets.