The Next Web (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
Widget distributor Clearspring has acquired AddThis, a popular social bookmarking tool, for an undisclosed amount of money. “AddThis is the biggest little thing on the Web,” Clearspring Chief Executive Hooman Radfar told Reuters. Clearspring is a widget syndication service that connects web publishers and advertisers to the social 2.0 crowd out there. All 10,000 registered [...]
JESS3 (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
when peter asked me to do these videos I jumped at the opportunity. I think what he has done is great for the DC scene, and we need more people like him to get the ball rolling. Episode #3 includes: Peter Corbett, iStrategyLabs, (host) Hooman Radfar, CEO, ClearSpring Leslie Brandshaw, President, JESS3 and CM/PM at New Media Strategies Nick O’Neill, Founder, Social Times Mae Coughlan, Designer, Bates...
Inside the Marketers Studio (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
Hooman Radfar, ClearspringHeidi Henson, RockYouSam Wick, UserplaneBen Pashman, GigyaKevin Rosenblatt, Context Optional (moderator) Definitions of widgets? Moderator: I'm an advertiser and I want to do business with you. What am I buying? Userplane: They built a platform and they want...
Widgets Lab (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
Over at the Washington Business Journal. they got a nice mini interview with Hooman Radfar from Cleardspring (CEO) on the basics. to whom i promise to do a Widget Interview with very soon. Hooman Radfar builds a better widget Technorati Tags: clearspring,hooman Radfar Share
Wikinomics.com (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
As we look back over the past couple of years there is no doubt about the entrepreneurial spirit that is catching among tech savvy Net Geners entering the workforce. Young people like Mark Zuckerberg, Dalton Caldwell 27, Hooman Radfar and Austin Fath both 26, Andrew Frame 27, are creating and utilizing social networks, and word [...]
Widget Blog - Sexy Widget (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
Here are my highlights from WidgetWebExpo from earlier this week: Debating the importance / likelihood of data portability with Chris Saad and Khris Loux Debating hub & spoke with Khris Loux Clearspring CEO Hooman Radfar's "History of the World of...
Snipperoo (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
VCMike writes about the widget space and why they are backing Sprout Why Polaris is Backing Sprout Back in 2006 I met Hooman Radfar and the Clearspring team, and posted that they were the most interesting company at Web 2.0...
Snipperoo (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
I thought I'd let the great (widget)man say it himself: Widgify » Blog Archive » Hoo be Speaking @ WidgetWebExpo Conference season, conference season. How we love the conferences. I will be a keynote speaker at the WidgetWebExpo in NYC...
Web Strategy by Jeremiah (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
The four panelists did a great job yesterday handling my barrage of questions in the Widget Strategies and Social Platforms session, Hooman Radfar (Clearspring Technologies, Inc.), Walker Fenton (NewsGator), Pam Webber (Widgetbox), Ben Pashman (Gigya) discussed widgets strategies. I asked each of them to suggest an image or icon that best represents their company [...]
Beth's Blog (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
Photo by Jeremiah Owyang Widgets Panel Jeremiah Owyang (Forrester Research) Hooman Radfar (Clearspring Technologies, Inc.) Walker Fenton (NewsGator) Pam Webber (Widgetbox) Ben Pashman (Gigya) Jeremiah Owyang moderated a panel on widgets but started off with an observation about the geek...
Digital Podcast (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
Jeremiah Owyang (Forrester Research), Hooman Radfar (Clearspring Technologies, Inc.), Walker Fenton (NewsGator), Pam Webber (Widgetbox), Ben Pashman (Gigya) discussed widgets strategies. Jeremiah walked through the challenges facing developers as it relates to monetizing apps and walked the panel through how they view these challenges.
Mashable (Free subscription) | 06/06/2007
Widget management company Clearspring has just struck a deal to provide all of NBC-Universal's widgets for a year, founder Hooman Radfar told us today. Clearspring, you'll remember, provides Flash widgets that can be flipped over to reveal options like embed codes. The company also offers tracking to these companies, making it a kind [...]
