Widgets Lab (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
After both Goowy Webtop and Yourminis Startpage walked into the sunset. it is clear that myAOL will be the place to go for those that enjoyed both serivices. as i said before. goowy is what is powering part of AOL whole Widget strategy and it should be a positive thing they have one to begin [...]
Widgets Lab (Free subscription) | 10/26/2008
The time finally has come and after a little more of Two weeks of advance notice. Youminis.com Startpage will be no more. This is not the only thing that ceased to exist this October. Goowy. Yourminis parent webtop also ceased to exist after being inoperative for a while. Dear yourminis user, We’re sorry to inform you [...]
Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
Time Warner's AOL ( NYSE: TWX ) is pulling the plug on yourminis customizable start-pages, less than a year after buying Goowy, the San Diego-based startup that creates them. The Flash-heavy, widget-populated pages helped yourminis stand out from a slew of other start-page creators, but the company is shuttering the service to focus on creating widgets . ReadWriteWeb says an AOL rep was quick to clarify...
Pulse2 (Free subscription) | 10/21/2008
In February 2008, AOL bought out Goowy Media Inc., the owner of YourMinis.com. This was AOL’s way of competing with Windows Vista Gadgets, Google Gadgets, Yahoo! Widgets, etc. And 8 months later AOL has decided to shut down the YourMinis.com homepage. “We’re sorry to inform you that as of October 27, 2008, we will no [...]
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 10/21/2008
Eight months after acquiring San Diego-based startup Goowy , AOL has decided to shutter its Yourminis personalized homepage. Notice that the two-year old Flash-based service would be shut down entirely on October 27th went out to users today in an email. It encourages them to export their OPML files and content for migration over to myAOL, iGoogle, or Netvibes:
The MObinoDE {MODE} 动点博客 (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
Yourminis, a well-known widget platform and Goowy, a desktop widget technology have been brought to China by AOL China. The team has been set up in Beijing, and they told me that their mission is to kick off the widget market in China. Netvibes first took its UWA widget technology to China, together with Sohu, AOL [...]
MiddleWay (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
To round out the day’s schedule at TechCrunch50, Jason Calacanis interviewed Mark Cuban, the founder Broadcast.com, HDNet, and several other companies. He has also been an angel investor for several startups including SlideShare, Goowy, RedSwoosh, Box.net, Calacanis’ own Weblogs, Inc and Mahalo.read more | digg story
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
To round out the day's schedule at TechCrunch50 , Jason Calacanis interviewed Mark Cuban , the founder Broadcast.com, HDNet, and several other companies. He has also been an angel investor for several startups including SlideShare, Goowy, RedSwoosh, Box.net, Calacanis' own Weblogs, Inc and Mahalo. Below are our notes, which try to capture a fast-paced exchange that included Cuban's entrepreneurial...
Net Business Blog (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Do you remember the post I wrote a couple of days back - titled “ Platform-A’s Goowy widget-based advertising tool, AdSense ads and User Interactivity “! If you are yet to read that post, I would request you to take a look. Anyways, we have another major shift in online advertising. A popular advertising magazine has just published a new story titled Facebook Tries New Ad Formats (Social network aims...
DealBook (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
IList, a start-up in stealth mode, has raised $1.5 million from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Dmitry Shapiro, the founder of Veoh, and Alex Bard the founder of Goowy, TechCrunch reported. According to the publication, the start-up aims to create a social application that allows users to sell their stuff, a la CraigsList. Go to Article from TechCrunch [...]
Cost Per News (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
AOL’s integration of its services into the Platform-A advertising operation continues as it is now combining the recently acquired Goowy widget application with its buy.at affiliate network (itself acquired last year). This is a big deal for a couple of reasons. First, this opens up affiliate marketing, in earnest, to the social web. [...]
Affiliate Marketing by WSO (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
AOL's Platform-A subsidiary is now bringing affiliate marketing to widget ads. If that sounds like a lot of media speak, that's because it is. To power widget ads, AOL acquired start-up Goowy in February, and it has already worked the acquisition into Platform-A... Read more here
Net Business Blog (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
Perhaps all of you got this news: AOL’s Platform-A announces Goowy widget-based advertising tool . That is undoubtedly a cool idea and perhaps a major shift in online advertising. Time will say if this concept will survive or not, but the idea is cool. You can find a widget here . If you take a closer look at the pattern or the core idea, you will see that to a high extent it is the next step to Goggle...
Cnet (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
Members of Buy.at, an affiliate service that's now part of the Time Warner unit's Platform-A, can now use widgets to spread their ads across the Web.
Webware.com (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
AOL's Platform-A subsidiary is now bringing affiliate marketing to widget ads. If that sounds like a lot of media speak, that's because it is. To power widget ads, AOL acquired start-up Goowy in February , and it has already worked the acquisition into Platform-A . As part of Tuesday's announcement, Goowy's technology has been officially incorporated into Buy.at , an affiliate network that AOL also...
