"There’s money in them thar widgets: Clearspring, which helps you build, deploy and track widgets around the web, has raised $10 million more from a single investor, according to a regulatory filing. We already covered the $5.5 million second round in March 2007, which included AOL founders Steve Case and Ted Leonsis as investors. That came on top of a $2 million round from Novak Biddle Venture Partners in April 2006. So, we’re talking $17.5M so far. " Join discussion...

"Clearspring, the widget developer, has officially opened its community platform up for development. This free service enables you to create widgets for your business that perform across platforms, and offers tracking tools as well. Clearspring also plans to open more if its APIs to increase cross-platform capabilities, but for now, the efforts are going towards working with other developers to create an open platform based on a community for widget development. The community is complete with a Join discussion...