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Widgetbox

Product Name

Widgetbox

Market Segment

Enabling technology

Funding

Series A: Venture funding from hummer Winblad Venture Partners, $1.5 million

Competitors

No direct competitors.

Product Description

The mission of Widgetbox is to give everyone the power to assemble, share and integrate the best of the Web. Widgetbox is a web-based widget marketplace that provides Web service–based interactive content, or “widgets,” that can be dynamically embedded into blogs, social networks, auctions and home pages.

Market Opportunity

Technorati estimates that there are over 50 million blogs, and, according to Nielsen/NetRatings, social networks attract nearly half of all Web users. With this growth of user-generated content, the Web is rapidly turning into a powerful applications platform.

Demo Says

Blog software has turned a generation into personal journalists. Now, Widgetbox gives bloggers the tools to become media magnates. This marketplace of content and code lets anyone enhance ordinary blogs and create context-rich information portals from its catalog of application “widgets.” Widgetbox will no doubt spawn some sophisticated sites, and more importantly it will turn casual applet developers into widget entrepreneurs by providing a ready marketplace for their programs.