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Netvibes Premium Service to power leading media and social networking sites

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netvibes.jpgNetvibes today announced the beta launch of Netvibes Premium Universe, which integrates Netvibes functionality into any company’s website to enable users to personalize the delivery of branded online content and applications, including RSS feeds, podcasts, photos, videos, stores, widgets and more. Netvibes Premium Universes are Universes that are incorporated seamlessly within a company’s web domain, giving it full control over all of its branding and content, such as customized feeds, layouts and menus. With Premium Universes, users enjoy the personalization and enhanced delivery of content while publishers benefit from keeping users on their site; retaining user traffic, navigation and revenue generation.

Netvibes Premium Universe offers a unique opportunity for companies to maintain their brand integrity while building and strengthening relationships with users who seek a relevant and customized experience online. A Premium Universe enables publishers to showcase and distribute their widgets while also hosting their users’ start page all within the publisher’s site.

Partners include Tagged, MIVA Direct, France’s Les Echos and Le Figaro have also integrated Premium Universes within their homepages to power their personalized news and media content online.

Originally posted on October 3, 2007 @ 9:56 am

Amazon Widgets launched

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amazonwidgets.jpgAmazon.com launched “Amazon Widgets,” a series of small, visually dynamic and easily configurable widgets that feature products from Amazon on blogs, websites and social networking pages. In as little as one minute, users can populate a widget with their favorite Amazon products and their comments about those products, and select from a set of color and layout themes to match both their mood and website. With earth’s biggest selection of products, including the music users are listening to, movies they’re watching, clothes they’re wearing, and even the food they are eating, Amazon Widgets provide users unlimited options for voicing their tastes.

Amazon Widgets are free to use. Users have the option to make money with their Amazon Widgets by joining the Amazon Associates program and when a visitor to their site clicks through their Amazon Widget to the applicable Amazon website and makes a purchase, they may earn up to 10 percent in referral fees from Amazon.

Originally posted on September 17, 2007 @ 10:44 am

Slide hits major milestone with a million new Flash widgets daily

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slide.jpgSlide, Inc. announced that more than a million new flash widgets are being added to its network every single day. The company also announced that its widgets– including Slideshows, SkinFlix, Guestbooks and FunPix– are now being viewed by more than 134 million unique viewers every month.

“The creativity and passion of the Slide community have allowed us to achieve this milestone in just over eighteen months,” said Max Levchin, founder and CEO of Slide. “It is especially gratifying to see the growth driven across all social networks, clearly showing that the desire for self expression through photos and video is universal.”

Slide’s amazingly simple service helps people express themselves and tell emotionally engaging stories through personalized photos and videos created on Slide.com and viewed anywhere on the web or desktop.

Originally posted on September 4, 2007 @ 3:37 pm

WeShow launches online video widget

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weshow.jpgWeShow, the human-powered guide to online videos, is making it easier for bloggers and website owners to offer high quality and ever-changing collection of videos tailored to the specific interests of their audiences with the launch of WeShow onSite. It combines the dynamic “push” capability of online widgets with editorially selected videos available on the WeShow portal to enhance the web experiences of blog and website visitors.

WeShow onSite is customizable to provide dynamically updated, high quality entertainment from any of WeShow’s 200 channels to meet the viewing preferences of any audience. Once embedded on a web page, WeShow onSite displays thumbnail images of the ten most recent videos featured on a selected channel. By clicking on the thumbnail, WeShow onSite plays the full video directly on the site hosting the widget.

“Maintaining fresh content on blogs and websites is hugely important to attracting and keeping the attention of any online audience today,” said Marcos Wettreich, CEO and co-founder of WeShow. “With the introduction of WeShow onSite, we have simplified the process of sharing tailored video content on the Web with minimal effort to bloggers and site owners. In just a few simple clicks, anyone can display automatically updated videos on their site in a visually engaging way.”

Originally posted on August 10, 2007 @ 10:27 am

Me.dium launches widget on real-time activity on and around websites

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medium.jpgMe.dium today launched a widget that gives registered users the ability to share the Me.dium experience by integrating it into their own web site, blog, or personal page. Through Me.dium, web browsing is a social experience, enabling users to surf with their friends, discover relevant sites, and link up with other users surfing similar sites. Now, the Me.dium widget gives bloggers and web publishers the ability to add a real-time window into the Me.dium user activity on their web page. Non-Me.dium users can now interact with the widget and explore related Web sites that Me.dium’s members are visiting.

Originally posted on August 6, 2007 @ 11:39 am