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Intel and Yahoo Merge TV, Internet

Written on
August 21st 2008
Author
Kathleen

ADOTAS – Intel and Yahoo are hacking away at the increasingly anodyne divide between TV and the Internet. The companies are unveiling the Widget Channel, a TV app framework optimized for TV and related consumer electronic devices that use the Intel Architecture. Consumers will be able to use Internet apps designed [...] more...

MOG Unveils Bloggy Ad Network

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August 12th 2008
Author
Kathleen

ADOTAS – MOG, a music-blogging platform, has launched the MOG Music Network – an ad network for indie music blogs and sites. The network already has more than 30 blogs and site affiliates in place, including Indie Music Filter, Punk Turns 30 and White Folks Get Crunk. Partners can embed widgets [...] more...

WidgetBucks Unveils New Skin Platform

Written on
July 30th 2008
Author
Kathleen

ADOTAS EXCLUSIVE — WidgetBucks is on a mission to help publishers and bloggers enhance their ad inventory. The ad widget company has unveiled a new ad widget skin platform designed to provide bloggers and publishers with more flexibility within their ad inventory. WidgetBucks publishers and bloggers can pick from a catalog [...] more...

Pangea: Mobile Ad Money’s Future in Entertainment Widgets

Written on
July 16th 2008
Author
Kathleen

ADOTAS – Pangea Media, a leader in online quizzes and quiz technology, has caught iPhone fever with its new set of Quibblo Polls widgets. The company was just one of thousands that debuted new apps – but Pangea had a leg up. “We were one of the featured widgets,” Seth Lieberman, CEO [...] more...

KickApps, Clearspring Help Widgets Grow Up

Written on
June 10th 2008
Author
Kathleen

ADOTAS – Are widgets exiting their awkward teen years? The social app, often seen as a gimmicky fad for adolescents on social networking sites, is increasingly being seen as a viable method to get interactive ads to key demographic groups. The latest news from the sector: KickApps, a white-label widget [...] more...

What’s Next for RockYou?

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June 9th 2008
Author
Kathleen

ADOTAS – Is RockYou really rocking? Well, the social networking widget maker certainly isn’t dying, especially with a spanking new $35 mill in their coffers – the third round of funding was led by venture capitalists DCM, with a handful of private backers also throwing money into the pot. But they’re [...] more...

Hayden Panettiere Sells Shirt Off Her Back

Written on
May 27th 2008
Author
Kathleen

ADOTAS – Creepy stalkers rejoice: Hayden Panettiere is selling off items in her wardrobe for charity. The star on NBC’s Heroes, has announced a partnership with social computing site Zude and peer-to-peer social commerce marketplace Shopit to sell some of her favorite clothes in a bid to raise money and [...] more...

Clearspring Jumps Into Pile of Cash

Written on
May 21st 2008
Author
Kathleen

ADOTAS – Clearspring Technologies Inc., a widget syndication tracking service, just secured $18 million in a series C funding round that includes New Enterprise Associates, Novak Biddle Venture Partners and a roster of current investors. The influx will be used to expand Clearspring’s viral marketing network – which currently serves and [...] more...

ScanScout, Clearspring To Spread Videos Like Viruses

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April 29th 2008
Author
Kathleen

ADOTAS – Some online videos (LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!) spread like viruses all by themselves. Others need a little push. ScanScout, a network for brand-safe, relevant online video advertising, is banding together with Clearspring Technologies, a widget-creating, syndication, tracking and monetizing company, to do just that. The partnership will enable viral distribution [...] more...

Yahoo And Google Get Social Together

Written on
March 25th 2008
Author
Editor

ADOTAS - Yahoo put out a statement today that says it supports Google in the development of applications for social networks and will help create a joint foundation to keep it going. Google launched OpenSocial in November to encourage developers who are creating widgets for Facebook to make them, following a [...] more...


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AdMob: Google’s Move Into Mobile Fray Helps UsADOTAS EXCLUSIVE – AdMob offers the biggest mobile advertising marketplace on the planet — and the company was founded just [...] more...

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