IT Professionals Database (ITPD)

Wow…I had completely forgotten about RockYou, a Redwood City, Calif.-based startup that started out as a widget maker but then turned social app developer and now is trying out hawking virtual goods

Adobe partnered with Gigya, a social widget maker, to offer a new service that lets advertisers and developers easily share their Flash-based applications across social, mobile and desktop platforms.

sherl0k writes "Opera 10.0, dubbed Opera Unite, has been released.

Lijit, a blog-search widget maker is planning to launch an advertising network that will show ads against the result of blog searches.

When it comes to the widget ecosystem, lavishly funded companies like Slide, Clearspring and RockYou hog the limelight.

I’m not sure where Qualcomm is going with its Plaza effort, a platform-agnostic widget development and delivery framework for carriers.

Updated: Slide, the San Francisco-based widget company has joined a very special list of web companies that have been banned by the Republic of Turkey for (according to Slide blog) what the local gove

Social voice startup Jaxtr has reached 10 million users, doubling its user base in less than three months.

As we’ve already noted, MySpace plans to hold a meeting for developers interested in building applications

nushoin writes "Gnome and KDE are the two major desktop environments used on Linux today. However, Gnome is growing more and more affiliated with Microsoft's proprietary technologies (Mono, OOXML).

Social shopping site StyleFeeder has bagged $2 million in its first round of institutional funding from Highland Capital Partners and Schooner Capital.

The time to prove that widgets can make money is here.

Netvibes, with today’s release of the latest version of its personalized start page service, Ginger, thinks it finally sees a way to revenue.

BaCa writes "A malicious Facebook Widget actively spreading on the social networking site ultimately prompts users to install the infamous "Zango" adware/spyware.

Spinlock_1977 writes "ComputerWorld is running a story about developers frustration with IE 7, and Microsoft's upcoming plans (or lack thereof) for it.