AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

Big media in little places: CBS, DoubleClick, expand widget ad options - Vetnure Beat
Big media is getting into widget advertising, in order to reach people on sites across the web. One example: Media conglomerate CBS is launching a local widget ad network today, with the goal of drawing more traffic to its own web sites [...]

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Tech Crunch reports that Hummer Winblad partner Will Price is resigning to head WidgetBox & then invited him to post an explanation of why. I found the post about widgets really informative.
Here’s the story:
It’s not often a partner at a successful venture capital fund leaves to do anything except retire. But Will Price, a general [...]

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Yahoo! Tries To Catch Widget Wave - Forbes
In a tech era dominated by Google, Facebook and countless hyped start-ups, one way beleaguered Yahoo! plans to stay relevant is by riding the Web widget wave.
Yahoo! (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ) has been in the desktop widget business since it acquired tiny application platform-maker Konfabulator [...]

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