For eBay sellers, Cooqy provides fully customizable showcase widgets; For shoppers, Cooqy is the ultimate way to shop eBay Join discussion...

"Flogd has created a commerce widget for you to sell your items directly on your blog, website or social networking profile such as MySpace, hi5 and Piczo. Similar to other widgets you see on MySpace, including Snocap, the widget is designed for a way to independently sell items of your creation. Flogd will work well for things like posters, clothing items, CDs, etc. It’s integrated for use with your Paypal account and enables shoppers to make credit card transactions in a secure manner. Join discussion...

"I’ve been holding off on contributing my two cents on Facebook’s API until I could properly digest the ramifications. At this point, I still don’t know what to make of it. The few Facebook applications that I’ve played around with so far are pretty lousy. The iLike application for Facebook, one of my favorite social media sites and the run away early winner in the Facebook distribution sweepstakes, is a shadow of its destination site. None of the functionality that I enjoy on iLike Join discussion...

"Google Gadget Ventures is a new Google pilot program dedicated to helping developers create richer, more useful Google Gadgets." Join discussion...

I'd estimate that over $250 million dollars has been invested in widget companies during the last 18 months. And just as every consumer-facing Internet company has developed a strategy to leverage Google, they have also developed strategies to “widgitize” a portion of their application for distribution via Myspace. Join discussion...

"Now, I see my job as a tireless enthusiast for widgets. The fact that widgets are now a crucial part of every company's marketing strategy gladdens my heart no end. And I find it hard to put down any widget that is trying to add to the sum of widgety goodness. But this widget is an abomination. It should not see the light of day. Let's step through the problems:" Join discussion...

"My interest in distributed web businesses – web businesses that don’t reside on a single domain, but instead span across various web sites – stems from necessity. While the long tail of the Web is getting longer, so is the percentage of overall pageviews absorbed by the head of that tail. If your site isn’t one of those elite sites at the head of the curve, you’re most likely losing ground every day. In this environment, you either find ways to put your content / functionality / service in front of people where THEY are, or you wither away into irrelevance. At a macro level, there are four broad strategies that can be undertaken to get" Join discussion...

"Like just about everybody else, preteens and teens tend to reject banner ads and other obtrusive forms of online advertising. But an online study suggests younger internet users also tend to be more accepting of using ad-supported widgets and other downloadable promotions that can be tied in to social networking, according to the WSJ. The online survey, conducted by Grunwald Associates and underwritten by MySpace/News Corp, Microsoft and Verizon, looked at more than 1,200 kids ages 9 to 17 an Join discussion...

"More than a year ago, I made a list of what I considered the 6 essential elements of a website widget in these web 2.0 days. It’s a simple list, but nonetheless I’ve used it multiple times when developing widgets, and it has in most cases helped to increase gains from pushing a widget. I then wanted to write about these 6 elements, but as with many of my other posts, I’m slow at finishing it. But now came the perfect time to do it, as Lawrence of RateItAll invited me to test a new rating Join discussion...

"I'm sitting here trying to digest all of the Facebook news and analysis in order to understand what it really means for widget publishers. I'm not there yet - I have some questions out to a few folks to get some clarification, but I will post more when I feel like I have a better handle." Join discussion...