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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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AddThis Gets Added to Clearspring

September 30, 2008

Widget platform/ad network Clearspring has acquired AddThis, one of the top widgets for sharing content across bookmarking sites like Del.icio.us and Digg.
Clearspring raised $18 million in May.
Competes with ShareThis.

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Mobilize ‘08 – Plusmo Rolls Mobile Widgets, Then Smokes ‘Em.

September 18, 2008

Update: College Football Live is currently #24 in the top 25 free apps in iPhone App Store. Congrats Plusmo.

Plusmo is easy widget creation, distribution and management that allowers publishers and readers alike to plug in their favorite content.
The plusmo interface as demoed on an Nokia N95 is reminiscent of Nokia’s own WidSets widget management application/platform [...]

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Causecast Wants To Save The World

September 15, 2008

Causecast is a social awareness platform to participate in worthwhile causes and connect with the people that run them.
Find videos, articles and blog posts related to a specific organization or cause and select from a variety of ways to help.
Users can donate money to a specific cause, host a widget on their site that promotes [...]

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Everyday Life Made Easy With Tingz Widgets. Cuban Hates It

September 9, 2008

Tingz Is A New Kind Of Widget Provider That Let’s You Deploy Redundant Widgets Across Multiple Platforms and Devices.
Take content from Tingz such as a recipe you have found, a schedule change you have made, and sync this information with any other device or share with friends.
Tingz scale to the size of whichever display you [...]

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