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Here is quick roundup of this week’s interesting widget news, trends and analysis:

  • Widgetization of the Web Still Strong!
    Wall Street Journal’s “Still A Wonderful World Of Web Widgets For Some Start-Ups” concludes that widgets are still well and alive!
  • Widget Builder Gydget get Acquired
    Gydget, once known for its attempts to go after the music bands, has been acquired by Adgregate, which plays to distribute its ShopAds on the 200,000 widgets that Gydget has created. Can you say, “I wish I owned my own widget”. Gydget was originally founded by Gerardo Capiel, who is now the VP of product management at MySpace.
  • iWidgets Change Name to Transpond
    Company changes focus to try and power native applications for Facebook, MySpace, and iGoogle.
  • Widget Traffic Numbers Continue to Grow!
    Widgets were all the rage last year and the trend seems to be growing. Widgetbox is reporting 500 million impressions in the past month (Quantcast).  RockYou, however, had 9.5 billion impressions and Clearspring had 520 million unique visitors according to comScore.

Originally from Metablocks Blog.

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