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| Jun 29, 2011 | Clearspring Takes AddThis Mobile With Social Sharing SDKs For iPhone, Android And The Web | Clearspring Technologies, the developer of social sharing platform AddThis, is launching its mobile strategy today, unveiling optimized technologies for the iPhone, Android and mobile web.
For background, the AddThis button sharing tool is ... |
| May 31, 2011 | Whoops Redux: Looks Like Partner Just Leaked Google's +1 Button For Websites Launch | Oh, Google. Hate to do this again, but you really need to lock up these partners and get your PR in order.
A week after we got a pitch from a partner NFC company all-but-confirming that Google’s New York City event would be about their mobi... |
| May 10, 2011 | Clearspring Closes $20M Series D Funding Round | Clearspring Technologies, Inc., a McLean, VA-based provider of the social content sharing platform AddThis, has closed a $20m series D financing.
The round was led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), with participation from existing in... |
| May 10, 2011 | AddThis Indeed: Clearspring Raises $20 Million As It Rides Social Sharing Boom | The name Clearspring Technologies may not be terribly familiar to you, but chances are you’ve often clicked on or at least come across its AddThis buttons, which are plastered on publisher sites Web-wide.
The U.S.-based social sharing platf... |
| May 10, 2011 | Big Data Gets Big Investment: $20M for Social Sharing Service AddThis | Clearspring Technologies, the maker of the AddThis widget that facilitates content sharing on the Internet, announced today that it has closed a $20 million round of funding from Institutional Venture Partners (IVP).
Clearspring is all abou... |
| 2011 | Best of 2010 Tech, Year In Review | This year has been loaded with innovations both online and off. Many of these innovations were made by the companies we would expect, like Apple, Google, Facebook, etc. But there were also some fresh faces that pushed us to new heights. As ... |
| Oct 20, 2010 | Get to Plan B with Bootstrap Maryland on Oct 27 | A little short notice but definitely an event to make if you can. Next Wednesday, October 27, 2010, Bootstrap Maryland will be holding a conference on the idea of “Getting to Plan B”. They’ve offered Startup Baltimore a couple free tickets ... |
| Aug 14, 2010 | Lawsuit alleges major web sites spied on users via AddThis tool | A federal lawsuit filed last week alleges that Clearspring Technologies gathered private information on users via its ubiquitous AddThis widget, which is used on a wide variety of top web sites, Cnet reported.
The suit was filed in federal ... |
| Feb 23, 2010 | Never Mind the Valley: Here’s Washington DC | The words “fat cats in Washington” have been uttered in every corner of the nation from Texas to the Bay, yet DC’s tech scene is anything but sluggish. Companies like AOL, Nextel, MCI and Uunet found early success in the region and since th... |
| Jan 28, 2010 | Obama loses to iPad, which loses to Haiti on social networks | Clearspring AddThis makes some of those buttons that let you one-click a story you like onto Twitter, Facebook or email. As a result, the company also collects a lot of data. As a follow-up to my post about iPad tweets going crazy yesterday... |
| Dec 3, 2009 | Widgets startup Clearspring puts all its eggs in AddThis, kills Launchpad | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Clearspring, a startup that raised $35 million du... |
| Dec 3, 2009 | Widgets startup Clearspring puts all its eggs in AddThis, kills Launchpad | Clearspring, a startup that raised $35 million during the widgets craze nearly two years ago, is putting one of its widgets, Launchpad, to bed and focusing all its energy on another it acquired a year ago, called AddThis. (It’s the little w... |
| Jun 19, 2009 | Widgetizing The Web: Widgetbox Hits 500 Million Impressions A Month | Widgets were all the rage last year. And the trend seems to be growing. Widgetbox, a widget creation and distribution platform, is reporting 500 million impressions worldwide in the past month, according to Quantcast. Widgetbox says that th... |
| May 31, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Google Wave, Microsoft Bing, What’s New in ’09, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we report on Google’s announcement of a new communications and collaboration platform called Google Wave, look at Microsoft’s latest challenger in... |
| May 27, 2009 | ClearSpring Sees What 1/2 The Internet is Doing (API Coming Soon) | It’s a little bit scary, but widget and sharing service ClearSpring said this morning that the company’s media widgets and newly acquired AddThis plug-in are now seen by more than 500 million unique viewers each month, according to Comscore... |
| May 23, 2009 | Infinity Ventures Summit Launch Pad in Japan (Part 2: The Best Of The Rest) | The Infinity Ventures Summit (IVS) in Sapporo/Japan, one of Asia’s most important web industry events, is a wrap, and we were there to witness a total of 12 startups presenting at the launch pad. The judges awarded 3D model maker MotionPort... |
| Apr 9, 2009 | Zooming In On ClosR And Zoomorama | To be perfectly honest, I’d never heard of Zoomorama until they commented on this post about the upcoming Web Trend Map from Information Architects. I was planning on doing a review of the web application soon, but now a new, similar online... |
| Apr 7, 2009 | Dynamic Widget Management System Goldenrod Extends Life Cycle Of Your Widgets | Many companies, especially those in the consumer brand and Internet space, use widgets as part of their online marketing efforts. After all, those tiny, standalone apps that can be installed on any web page are inherently viral, aimed at sp... |
| Feb 23, 2009 | Widgetbox wants to make widgets more productive | I think of widgets as marketing tools, but build-your-own-widget company Widgetbox says they can make you more productive, too. To that end, the San Francisco startup is making its widgets compatible with Confluence, a business wiki product... |
| Jan 6, 2009 | Clearspring Lays Off 20%, President And COO Jay Rappaport Leaving | Seems like widget distribution startup Clearspring is another victim of the economic meltdown forced to make some tough decisions. We heard rumors floating that the company laid off about 20% of its staff in early December, and we’ve now co... |
| Nov 10, 2008 | VideoCrawler: AT&T Launches its Own Video Search Engine | It is not quite clear to us how a video search engine fits into AT&T’s portfolio, but the telecom giant just launched VideoCrawler, a video search engine it developed in cooperation with Divvio, a Menlo Park-based startup. VideoCrawler ... |
| Nov 7, 2008 | Roundup: Windows 7 to ruin Christmas, Craigslist cleans up, Pandora’s troubles and more | Here’s the latest action:
Microsoft aiming Windows 7 for 2009 year end — Windows 7, the successor to Vista, should be out in time for Christmas next year.
Craigslist to curb “erotic services” — At some undefined point, Craigslist became the... |
| Oct 30, 2008 | Tweet the Vote. No, Digg The Vote. No, YouTube the Vote. Oh, . . . Just Vote. | If you think there is too much noise about the U.S. election now, wait until next week. On Election Day, not only will every media outlet be covering the vote, but so will voters themselves who will have ample opportunity to Tweet, Digg, vi... |
| Oct 27, 2008 | HearWhere Lets You Discover Live Music In Your Neighborhood | Bootstrapped by Pete Field and based out of Whistler, B.C., Canada, HearWhere is a search engine for live music which was launched in May 2008 but has managed to stay largely under the radar.
The live-performance search engine claims to lis... |
| Sep 30, 2008 | Widget Platform Clearspring Acquires AddThis | Widget creation platform Clearspring today announced that it acquiredAddThis, the popular bookmarking and sharing button. According to Clearspring, this acquisition will allow it to reach a total of 200 million users and 300,000 publishers.... |
| Sep 6, 2008 | Businesses Can’t Hide From 2.0: A Look At 2.0’s Impact Across Industries | If you were interviewing someone for a position with your company and they admitted that they didn’t know anything about the new trends and innovations taking place in their field, what would you think? Likely, what you would think is “next... |
| Jul 24, 2008 | Piczo Launches Pseudo API | Piczo, a social network with a strong teenage following, has launched a new developer platform that allows users to quickly generate content from partner sites while helping brands increase their exposure on the network. Piczo has never rea... |
| Jun 20, 2008 | iWidgets thinks it has a way to monetize on the social nets. FriendFeed should steal it. | Remember Beacon, Facebook’s clever little ticket to revenue? The one that involved tracking your behavior on commercial sites and updating your friends about it without informing you first? If so, you’ll recall that it terrified privacy adv... |
| May 20, 2008 | Widget infrastructure company Clearspring raises $18M | Questions continue to swirl around the viability of businesses built around widgets. Sure, there are hundreds of millions of people who interact widgets on social networks and other sites, but how can you make money on all that engagement?
... |
| Jan 31, 2008 | Widgetbox, a create-your-own-widget company, gets more funding | Widgetbox is another create-your-own widget company, although it’s often overshadowed by larger competitors like Clearspring. Widgetbox lets you create and embed a snippet of software code on other web pages, like this game widget called Bu... |
| Jan 29, 2008 | Sprout: The Online WYSIWYG Editor for Flash | A new application called Sprout, launching in private beta at DEMO today, promises to make the creation of Flash applets a whole lot easier.
Sprout is a browser-based, WYSIWYG editor for Flash with an interface reminiscent of Photoshop or D... |
| Jan 24, 2008 | Widget companies are growing, helped by Facebook | Update
Companies that make widgets grew quickly last year. The largest four — Slide, Myspace, Clearspring and Rockyou — each reached more than 100 million people around the world last November, according to web analytics company Comscore. [... |
| Jan 22, 2008 | Mixercast raises round, introducing new way for publishers to mash up widgets | Mixercast is one of many companies that lets web publishers create and distribute widgets that they can use to feature their own content and ads. A few things make it stand out, besides the $6 million round it has just raised, that was led ... |
| Jan 15, 2008 | Cartfly, other e-commerce widgets, make money without relying on ads | Widgets, the embeddable chunks of code on web pages that can feature anything from videos to RSS feeds, have proven to be a great way to reach lots of users. But how do they make money?
Advertising in a widget is an obvious way to try. Anot... |
| Jan 14, 2008 | Gigya Unveils Monetization Strategy: Distribution of Branded Widgets | Widget distribution company Gigya has publicly launched a distribution service for branded widgets, a premium service for advertisers that complements WildFire, its free service for the distribution of non-branded widgets.
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| Jan 2, 2008 | Back to Widget Basics: Hyplet Creates Embeddable Business Cards and Flyers | We’re not exactly sure how long it’s been around (it appears to have launched late this Fall), but we recently came across a simple widget service with no press coverage to date called Hyplet that helps you create digital business cards and... |
| Dec 10, 2007 | Clearspring Launches Widget Ad Network | Widget platform Clearspring today announced the launch of a new ad network that will allow widget publishers to monetize their widgets with advertising. The ads will run inside widgets and come in a variety of formats. Clearspring has alrea... |
| Dec 10, 2007 | Clearspring launches widgets for Madison Avenue | In the latest evolution of this fast-paced but not yet lucrative world of widgets, Clearspring, a leading widget company, has launched an ad network for widgets (sample widget left).
It comes at a time when advertising agencies on Madison A... |
| Nov 28, 2007 | Mixaloo: The Return of the Mixtape | With the rise of MP3s and other forms of downloadable music, the venerable mixtape, which Wikipedia says gained mass popularity in the 1980s, may be going the way of the dodo. It is, afterall, rather hard to give someone an iTunes playlist,... |
| Nov 7, 2007 | Clearspring Opens Widget Network to Advertisers | Clearspring is announcing today at ad:tech in New York a new service called “Clearspring for Advertisers” that will deliver advertisements in the form of interactive widgets.
The announcement does not bring anything particular new to the we... |
| Oct 9, 2007 | Mixaloo: Share Mixtapes and Make Money While Doing It | Poughkeepsie, NY startup Mixaloo wants to make the experience of purchasing music online more social and rewarding, both emotionally and financially.
The company is taking a phenomenon – the mixtape – that has spanned several decades and me... |
| Jul 9, 2007 | Quantcast becomes latest widget traffic tracker | Updated
More and more publishers and retailers rely on so-called “widgets,” little boxes placed on other web sites, to deliver their news, entertainment and product advertisements.
So measuring Web traffic to those widgets is important for ... |
| Jun 12, 2007 | Track Your Widget's Global Domination on Clearspring | Since last November, Clearspring’s widget syndication platform has served up analytics on over 4.2 billion widget views for clients like Time, NBC, Universal, and Maxim. Tonight, Clearspring is opening up their platform to any developer, le... |
| May 24, 2007 | CBS Expands Its Audience Network | As we reported, CBS’ new online strategy is to court web 2.0 sites and allow their content to spread virally across social media sites. The CBS Audience Network initiative already includes deals with AOL, Microsoft, CNET Networks, Comcast, ... |
| May 18, 2007 | Not Just A Series Of Tubes In DC | More than 250 bloggers, technology enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists gathered at the premier DC night club MCCXXIII for drinks, fun, and socializing last night at TECH cocktail DC 1. In addition to free beer and wine (some... |
| May 10, 2007 | (Over) Counting Widgets | I got an email from a friend the other day.
"Did you see that Clearspring has served 3bn widgets in the past five months?"
I hadn’t actually seen that news, but here is the press release my friend was referring to. It’s clearly an... |
| May 9, 2007 | World Wide Web of Widgets | The web has seen an explosion in the use of widgets over the past year or so. So let’s explore what a widget is and its uses. Note that in this post, we’re discussing Web-based widgets only, rather than desktop widgets such as those provide... |
| Mar 8, 2007 | How To Widget? | Being a publisher ain’t so easy these days. I know a little bit about it now that I have this thing called a blog that I feel compelled to keep fresh and build (whatever that means, my audience has been flat for the past year – maybe becaus... |
| Mar 6, 2007 | Widget company, Clearspring, says it leads market, and raises $5.5M | Clearspring, a company in Arlington, Virginia that provides a way for content owners to syndicate and track their content through widgets placed on other Web sites, has raised $5.5 million in its second round of financing.
The round was led... |
| Mar 6, 2007 | Roundup: USA Today stiffs Google, and Google gossip, Reuters, Geni, Rockyou… | Updated
Here’s the latest action:
USA Today launches new social networking features, but stiffs Google — The newspaper has offered an array of new features, letting registered readers have their own profile pages, where they can recommend a... |
| Mar 5, 2007 | ClearSpring Gets $5.5M from AOL Founders | Red Herring is reporting that AOL founders
Steve Case and Ted Leonsis have invested $5.5-million, as a second round investment, into
widget syndication platform Clearspring. Alex
profiled
ClearSpring back in November and other widget platfo... |
| Nov 14, 2006 | ClearSpring enters the widget space with a developer focus | Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus.
We have written extensively
about widgets here at Read/WriteWeb because widgets offer a new, byte-size way to expose and consume online content. Widgets are really a win-win for all. Co... |
| Nov 9, 2006 | Widget Syndication Service Clearspring Technologies Receives $2 Million in Funding | It was announced earlier this week that Arlington, VA based company, Clearspring Technologies has raised $2 million in venture capital from Novak Biddle Venture Partners and a couple of other investors. Clearspring Technologies offers a wid... |