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ComponentOne has released of a kit of UI widgets for HTML5 and jQuery development. The centerpiece of the release – called Wijmo – is the data visualization widgets that include more HTML5 chart types and new HTML5 gauges...
They come in just about every size, shape and color and they are fast becoming one of the most common sights on the Web. That’s according to a company called Lijit, which develops widgets and recently released a study tracking...
ShareThis, the popular social sharing widget, has released an update that is currently in beta. The biggest upgrade is the ability for users to share a page's content to more than one destination simultaneously. With a single click...
ShareThis, one the Web's leading content sharing widgets just got some new upgrades, and they are substantial. Stream is a real-time view of what's being shared across the Web through the ShareThis community. Think of it like...
eBay's affiliate/publisher network has buddied up with Widgetbox to give eBay partners the ability to create custom widgets from any eBay RSS feed. The new functionality was launched this past Wednesday (September 9th, 2009). eBay...
There are a few problems with analytics solutions as they stand today for newer Web professionals. Most don't really want to do a lot of investigation to see who has visited their site, but more importantly, most analytics packages...
One of my favorite press release distrubution services, PRLeap, announced last week the launch of PRTube, a way to embed, share and track press releases on any blog or website. " PRTube takes the social media press release to...
Always on the looking for ways that small businesses can easily sell products online, I came across a PayPal Labs widget which provides just that functionality. The PayPal widget (beta) lets anyone easily create an online store and...
Site search provider and semantic search engine Quintura released several new features for their publishing affiliates this week. If you're looking to add a dynamic widget to your site (and monetize it), this one's for you...
One of the problems I have with deploying widgets on websites is that they are more often than not a tool which promotes and offers value to the service providing the widget more than the website displaying it on their site. There...
Amazon keeps cranking out the widgets; fortunately for Amazon Associates they continue to be relevant and useful in relation to generating revenue. Amazon today announced the release of the Page Recommender Widget which displays links...
Big time widget community Widgetbox ( 70,000 widgets and 45 million unique monthly viewers on over 929,000 domains ) has released some new features and increased support for its Custom Galleries. Online networks across the will be...
Information services company Experian (yes, that Experian) announced the launch of a widget that includes business information from the company's BizSource database. Designed for directory and local search websites, the embeddable...
So you've got page after page of amazing products/content, right? You probably also have a few of those widgets to help users share that content with their friends and colleagues, be it through email or across social networks....
One of the real issues I have with widgets is that they are not the most thoughtful solutions for those of us with our eye on the real prize - revenue. Many bloggers rush to test out each and every 2.0 widget that comes down the virtual...
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