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ShareThis

ShareThis provides a widget for easily sharing content found online with others through social networks, social news sites, and other online services. Users can also email content to friends with the widget. The first version of the widget was launched in November 2007. The latest was launched in March 2008 and features tracking and usage reports for web publishers. From sharethis website ShareThis believes that sharing should be for everyone. It is becoming increasingly difficult to...

Clearspring

Clearspring Technologies is a privately held Web 2.0 software company that offers a web widget platform. Clearspring's viral distribution product enables web widgets to be shared and distributed across blogging, social networking sites, and personal Web sites. Clearspring's product offering also includes two approaches toward advertising with widgets: widgets that are served as ad content through an ad server, and an ad network that provides advertisers the ability to serve advertisements within...

Microsoft turns Windows Live into a social network

Microsoft this week unveiled a slew of new online services that essentially transforms its Windows Live site into a social network. The changes, which include updated photo sharing, e-mail and instant messaging capabilities, have received mostly positive reviews from Web 2.0 industry observers. Microsoft also announced that it is integrating activities from some 50 companies and Web 2.0 services -- including Yahoo Inc.'s Flickr photo-sharing service, LinkedIn Corp., Photobucket Inc., T...

That Web 2.0? We are so over that

As much as economic bubbles keep bursting all about us these days, it seems only a matter of time before the same happens to the ultrahip Web 2.0 phenomenon. In fact, as our Brier Dudley noted in his blog last week, it may already be happening, given that even the tech magazines are making fun of the "cool kids" of Web. 2.0. His case in point: PCMag's feature listing the 10 "most absurd" social networks — you know, sites such as Dogster, a network for dog lovers that claims to have three-q...