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Widgets

RockYou Raises $17M, Enters Joint Venture to Rock Asia

November 3, 2008

Social network widget maker RockYou has raised $14 million from Japan’s SoftBank (largest investor in Yahoo Japan) and $3 million from Korea’s SK Telecom.
RockYou & SoftBank are creating a joint venture company with their sites set on three major distribution opportunities:

Xianoei, “Chinese Facebook” that rolled out an app platform similar to Zuckerberg’s earlier this year. [...]

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WidgetLaboratory Goes With Noob Ning, SocialGo

October 25, 2008

WidgetLaboratory is the widget creator that got into a fight with Ning in August after having their widgets banned from the site without proper notice.
Now they have partnered with Bright Things, a UK based company that is rolling out a self-serve private social network creator called SocialGO (currently in public beta and it’s the same [...]

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AOL Ditches YourMini’s Startpage To Concentrate On Building Widgets

October 21, 2008

Yourmini’s is the AOL startpage concept that spwaned from their pucahse of Goowy’s in 2006.
The site was similar to iGoogle, providing a homepage to add widgets created by Yourmini’s that could be exported to work on the desktop or on other destinations (iGoogle, Pageflakes, Blogs, Websites)
Today they announced that on Oct. 27th, they will be [...]

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Rambler, The Yahoo Of Russia Partners With NetVibes For Widget Platform

October 6, 2008

Netvibes, the site that lets users customize their homepages with a variety of widgets, has partnered with the Yahoo of Russia, Rambler.ru
Rambler, who recieves around 40M users and 3B monthly page views, says the deal is in the ‘multi-millions’
Netvibes is marketing its widget distirubtion platform to popular regional portals that compete with the likes of [...]

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