Posts Tagged with ‘widgets’

Toolgether is one of the companies launching today at the DEMOfall conference. Today is the private beta launch date for the company so we should probably be careful in our assessments of its usefulness and future but so far the future looks bright enough to me.
So Toolgether serves as a marketplace for anyone to find widgets and web applications (called tools here) in one convenient place for future use on a website or a blog. It may sound a lot [...]

There’s an interesting article on Business Week today written by CEO of online reputation management company Rapleaf detailing the history of presidential candidates using various cutting-edge technologies of their respective ages to target voters better - from radio to television and cable ad networks. Now that we live in the 2.0 world there’s definitely tons of new tools to use to reach electorate in a more intimate and human manner - and these tools are heavily used by Barack Obama.
This [...]

ProProfs is a provider of web-based learning tools, including flashcards, blogs, forums and social bookmarking. Today ProProfs is introducing a completely revamped tool for quizzes creation - Quiz School - with a totally new interface and a great number of new features.
The company claims that it is bringing quizzes to a new level where they become social, fun and easy both to create and take. The newly introduced interface is rather similar to that of YouTube (and thus familiar to [...]

Today the makers of the recently launched (yet oddly-named) Chumby internet-connected device have acquired $12.5 million in Series B funding, primarily from JK&B Capital, a new investor for the company. Chumby's other existing venture investors, including Avalon Ventures, Masthead Venture and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, were also involved in the financing, which will be used to “accelerate growth” of the San Diego-based company, as well as to expand the Chumby Network onto other screen-based web devices.
“We are pleased to receive [...]

If some of the latest funding news is any indication, widgets are the newest must-have for every content-driven site as well as Web 2.0 apps. Widgetbox allows users to create their own widgets, which can then be used on blogs and other web pages for everything from highlighting the RSS feed of another blog to running games in a sidebar.
And while widgets are the darlings of Web 2.0 companies from MyBlogLog to Flickr, even old-school companies are jumping on the [...]

Back in October I did a review of the AdaptiveBlu's Smartlinks widgets here on Profy. Back then I found the service to have great potential and evidently I was correct. Alex Iskold and the team at Adaptive have expanded the capability and depth of the widgets, which are even now being applied at a rather viral rate by bloggers and site owners. While not a complex tool, Smartlinks is proving that not every great innovation has to be [...]

I couldn't resist the title for this article since I've jumped so whole-heartedly on the desire for what's coming next. Yahoo announced the latest version of their mobile platform at CES, and hopes it's going to be the platform that finally unites the mobile web.
Yahoo Go 3.0 is what CEO Jerry Wang hopes will “get Yahoo yodeling again.” With its new development environment built in XML called Blueprint, the hope is that the ease of development and a forthcoming SDK [...]

The LeWeb 3 conference is underway, and since we highlighted yesterday a couple of startups slated to walk the stage at the event, we figure, why not another?
The next company we profile, dubbed eXo Platform, is a company with a diverse number of holdings in the Web software space. From developments in the realm of cloud-based operating systems, to specially-designed applications and utilities (email, client management, etc.), to those nifty little things we call widgets.
Having taken several glances at [...]

JS-Kit , which I tested and reviewed back in October, has just released another fantastic tool for Web publishers called Navigator . As far as I know this is the first lightweight service of its kind designed to increase traffic and retention while simplifying content management for publishers.
Navigator essentially distills opinion and user behavior into a set of flexible views. The net effect of this is to allow visitors to access content based on their personal preferences. The [...]