Social Network will launch developer program to stay ahead of Facebook.
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The Benchmark Capital-backed startup wants to help advertisers and widget publishers make money off the popularity of widgets.
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A new application from the startup allows Facebook users to keep tabs on their friends at MySpace without leaving the app heavy social site.
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The addition of MySpace gives Google's OpenSocial platform greater strength against fast-growing Facebook, which opened up its site to developers in May and has seen explosive growth.
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Developers testing Google's OpenSocial system, which provides tools to build applications and embed them in many sites, include key companies behind such Facebook applications as music recommendation service iLike.
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Microsoft's $240 million investment in Facebook was clearly an advertising move. Yet some pundits say popular social-networking sites that allow add-ons are the equivalent to Windows and Linux.
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Shopping site challenges Google’s cost-per-click model; Shopatron snags $6 million; Mpire rolls out WidgetBucks.
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Google announces a new form of graphical advertising
within widgets that allows advertisers to create interactive ads that can be spread virally across the Internet.
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A job posting seems to confirm the rumors.
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Facebook gets new features from Fox-owned photo site.
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Steve Case and Ted Leonsis contribute to $5.5-million investment in syndicator Clearspring.
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Conference Spy: SpringWidgets launched at Om Malik’s Widgets Live! conference.
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Norwegian underdog releases the test version of its upcoming browser.
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Yahoo buys the maker of customizable applications known as “widgets” to create a new content distribution channel.
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