AOL integrates widget tech to boost social-net ads

Install a little photo program to show off pictures of your dog on Facebook, and you might find you're really spreading an ad.

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iGoogle, a personalized homepage that competes with My Yahoo, My MSN, My AOL, Netvibes and others, will release 19 new in-house and third party iGoogle widgets today that add new social and sharing features to users of the service.

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This is a cool widget from E!. it 's their BIG PICTURE and it changes daily.

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Advertising networks and widgets are being cited as the key factors in the performance problems experienced by major news sites during the crush of Internet traffic Thursday as news broke about the death of pop star Michael Jackson.  

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During today's Google I/O keynote, the company unveiled a new set of widgets collectively called Web Elements that are sure to spread across the web like wildfire.

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A new site with blogs and apps for Facebook and Google that looks to be very interesting.

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Nokia's Ovi Store gobbled up the Java-based WidSets platform this morning, as Nokia struggles to build the portal into all things to all men before the start of June.

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Nokia widgets to charm

Woohy, woohaa, widgets. Hijack !Andrew Orlowski hits Nokia for its widgets business strategy.I have to disagree this time with him.

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Learn how to embed almost anything in your HTML web pages from Flash videos to Spreadsheets to high resolution photographs to static images from Google Maps and more. (via American Libraries Direct)

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Social media sites have gone mainstream over the past few years, and it's affected web developers everywhere.

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Come2Play, developer of a platform for multiplayer casual Flash games, announced the release of an open-source application program interface (API) that enables game developers to turn single player Flash games into social gaming networks. The company will wrap those new games …

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TV Widgets Bring "Best of the Internet" Experience to Complement TV Viewing

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Via "American Libraries Direct":

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This peaked my interest because I wanted to see if there might be some tips to learn. I'm always open for suggestions and I love to learn. Especially when in comes to male/female relationships.

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Facebook fanatics who have covered their profiles on the popular social networking site with silly games and quirky trivia quizzes may be unknowingly giving a host of strangers an intimate peek at their lives.

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Big-name brands are advertising to the millions who use the social networking tools made by Slide, the largest maker of mini-software programs known as "widgets" that let people express themselves on sites such as Facebook and MySpace.

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The founder of Netvibes is moving on. Tariq Krim is stepping down as CEO of Netvibes to "spend less time day-to-day" at the company and work on a "new project," he tells me. (More details on that project later).

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I previously mentioned the Chumby in our Holiday Gift Guide and have been waiting anxiously for its arrival. Well, that day finally came and I've detailed my experience below.

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I adore these kinds of ideas

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Google rolled out enhancements to parts of its Google Docs suite this morning that allow users to make use of third-party "gadgets." The gadgets, which can be written by anyone with the help of a Google API, make use of data stored in Google Spreadsheets and display it in a varie …

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Browser start page provider Netvibes has rolled out a major update, codenamed Ginger, with an assortment of user interface enhancements and intriguing new social networking features.

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Last year was supposed to be the Year of the Widget, according to Newsweek, but only in the last few weeks has the beginning of a real monetization story emerged.

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It's 2008, why doesn't every single page on the web offer an RSS feed? We have no idea, but we do have a nifty workaround — Dapper.net. Using Dapper you can set up your own page scraping tool to gather data even when a page doesn't offer an RSS feed.

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There is a great deal of excitement and hype behind the (gradual) release of Google's OpenSocial.

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Not wanting to be left behind, Netvibes is adding a slew of social-networking features and integration with other social networks to its widget start page.

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