API Widget Economy: Social Media Business Podcast

 Featured, Monetization, Money, Online Communities, revenue, social media, Social Media Business, social networks  15 Responses »
Nov 032009
 

Episode 3 focusses on monetizing APIs and looking at revenue streams from widgets. Companies that open their business databases and stream that data out, can have an army of hundreds of thousands (mostly) unpaid developers creating Facebook apps, iPhone apps and blog widgets to help sell their products and services. Web 3.0 is “little bits everywhere” – don’t force customers to come to your site, let them do purchase your products on their site, where they are, and let their social network be informed. An overview of social media monetization revenues.

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Ripple: Social Network Influencers

 Event, Featured, Monetization, Money, Online Communities, revenue, social media, Social Media Australia, social networks, statistics, user generated content  44 Responses »
May 132009
 

While you are reading the presentation outline below I’d like you to think about the Twitter change today. Today Twitter turned off “see replies to those I’m not following”. Therefore if I’m (@SilkCharm) having a conversation with @garyphayes, and you follow me but not him, you used to see my conversation, even though it’s “one sided” for you. Twitter are planning changing it – you won’t see my tweet at all. Now Gone – you don’t have the option to opt-in  to see their conversation anymore. This has sever impact for Twitters “ripple-ability”. Read below and think about the fact Continue Reading…

Widgets moved from sidebar to here

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Mar 062008
 

My widgets, snippets and gadgets were slowing up the site. But I don’t want to delete them, sometimes I show the class my WeatherPixie. And so on. So I keep the code-y bits here. MyBlogLog FacebookLaurel Papworth’s Facebook profile MyClaimID Digg PlazesDownload Flash plugin Google Reader Donate to the Cocktail Fun WeatherPixie Hugh Mcleod JaxtrGet jaxtr | Login Technorati Tags: widgets, social media, bookmarking, gadgets, snippets

Creating a Blidget – Blog Widget – widgetbox

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Feb 152008
 

How I created a blog widget, gadget, snippet, blidget of my crap for you to add to your blog/website. How sexy is this Blidget? Widgetbox is one of those easy to make widget sites. A blidget is a widget or gadget (a box with RSS feeds, like MyYahoo or iGoogle) – people can subscribe to your blog and put your headlines in a box on their page. Pretend you are the Washington Post and a press feed or news feed company like Reuters or AAP are delivering your articles to the Sydney Morning Herald and other newsources. There ya go- Continue Reading…

Economy: Google Offers Money For Gadgets

 social networks, web 3.0  2 Responses »
Jun 272007
 

from Duncan Riley over at TechCrunch: Google has announced the launch of Google Gadget Ventures, a new pilot program that will help fund third-party gadget development and gadget-related businesses. Google will offer two types of funding: $5,000 grants for gadget developers who want to improve an existing gadget, and $100,000 seed investments for new gadget-related businesses. Applications will be restricted initially to gadget developers who have more than 250,000 pageviews per week on their gadget. Google aims to “help create an ecosystem where developers can spend more time doing what they love — building great gadgets”. In other words Google Continue Reading…