The Industry Standard Innovation Awards, based on a community driven nomination and voting process, were announced this week. I am pleased to report that Widgetbox placed second in the widget category.
Thank you to those who voted for Widgetbox and congratulations to Snap Shots, who placed first, and to Rockyou, who placed third.
 
 
 
 

We are pleased to announce a partnership with MeDeploy.
MeDeploy, which recently launched at DEMO, enables the film and television industry to launch digital distribution across websites, social networks, blogs or anywhere else, opening new and untapped revenue streams. MeDeploy’s powerful yet easy to use “Distribution API” is the first of its kind and allows digital video sales and distribution via widgets.
The widgets allow for in-widget video views with built-in e-commerce functionality.  

There’s been a lot of attention on the use of social media and widgets in the election and Widgetbox has been gaining recognition as a resource for contrasting the candidates’ widget strategies. We’ve even seen widgets used as a way to measure a candidate’s momentum on the web…and to infer who’s leading in the polls.
We first got curious about the possibilities last May, when we blogged about how we noticed a surge in the popularity of Obama widgets as his campaign was closing in on the Democratic nomination, while activity …

Thanks to Kristen Nicole and Mashable for today’s article, hi5 Opens to Widgetbox Apps to Expand OpenSocial Distribution. 
hi5 is one of the world’s largest and fastest growing social networks. All of us at Widgetbox are excited to partner with Hi5. As Ramu, Hi5’s CEO,  noted, “Widgetbox’s large community of developers provide millions of hi5 members a variety of new widget options enabling a more immersive and engaging social networking experience. hi5’s popularity in countries around the world meshes with Widgetbox’s global reach.”
Well said.

Voting for the SXSW Interactive Festival ends this Friday, August 29th. There are a ton of great panels that have been nominated – we think we have 2 great ones. I’ve written about our submissions before, but we have some new additional panelists you might be interested in.
For “Cage Match: Battle of the Widget Business Model” we’re getting a great line-up together for a honest, much needed and no holds barred discussion about the various possible monetization schemes for widgets and how, why, and even whether they work. …