How long is the long tail of the Widget-Web?

Pretty dang
big it turns out. We passed a major milestone at Widgetbox this week. Since
launching about a year ago, we've spread widgets to more than 130,000 domains Web-wide.
Also, we've served 500 million widgetviews during that time, on a little more
than 20,000 unique widgets. This is particularly cool since Widgetbox is a
community-based, highly distributed platform.

When I was at
eBay, I saw first-hand how breadth and diversity make for a healthy ecosystem.
It's pretty fun to see another open and distributed marketplace take off, this
time with widgets as the merchandise.

When I first
heard about Widgetbox, I was pretty sure this was a good idea. After all, great
web experiences are no longer tied to particular urls. It's fun to see evidence
that millions of people are now consuming the Web in portable chunks well
beyond the Facebook phenom.