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Re: Slide largest widget maker on the Web?

Virgina LaCrosse — Thu, 22 May 2008 17:15:51 -0000

Microsoft should buy Slide and learn from Levchin.

Re: Slide largest widget maker on the Web?

Matt Marshall — Wed, 16 May 2007 00:26:15 -0000

Good questions. Dan Kaplan has just done a harder hitting follow up:

http://venturebeat.com/2007...

Re: Slide largest widget maker on the Web?

anon — Sat, 12 May 2007 00:13:00 -0000

Or ask if the slideshow views are passive from simply visiting a MySpace page with an embed.

Re: Slide largest widget maker on the Web?

Kenobi — Fri, 11 May 2007 19:15:25 -0000

Why this company needs of as much money ? I can't understand this bubble . Whats the business model ? Someone explain please ...

Re: Slide largest widget maker on the Web?

reader-beware — Fri, 11 May 2007 19:06:31 -0000

A sign of a bubble is when journalists act as mouth pieces for the hype fed by startups with nary a questions. I'm surprised (should I be?) that Matt doesn't make any effort to decipher the numbers. For instance, ask this question: how many of those 200K widgets created are people just testing out the site and then walking away. This is where the hype lies. Sad to see bloggers swallow hook line and sinker.

Re: Slide largest widget maker on the Web?

Ro — Fri, 11 May 2007 18:46:04 -0000

As a point of clarification, RockYou has more than 150MM views a day and more than 200K flash-based widgets embedded a day. This apparently would (also) make us the largest widget company on the web.