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API Widget Economy: Social Media Business Podcast

Laurel Papworth

Episode 3 focusses on monetizing APIs and looking at revenue streams from widgets. Companies that open their business databases and stream that data out, can have an army of hundreds of thousands (mostly) unpaid developers creating Facebook apps, iPhone apps and blog widgets to help sell their products and services. Amazon API.

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3 Free Online Tools for Customer Insights + Win a Copy of Youtility [GIVEAWAY]

Kikolani

For example, imagine you were Sterling Ball from Big Poppa Smokers , an e-commerce site and online community for BBQ smoker enthusiasts (like me). An analysis of “pellet smokers” on Google Trends shows a sharp spike in searches for that term in the United States from 2008 onward. Interested in Youtility? Good luck!

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10 Ways to Support Charity Through Social Media

Justin Levy

Embed a Widget on Your Site Many charities offer embeddable widgets or badges that you can use on your social networking profiles or blogs to show your support. Mashable’s Summer of Social Good campaign, for example, has a widget that does both. These badges generally serve one of two purposes (or both).

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Popup Opt-in Forms: Case Studies, WordPress Plugins, and Alternatives

Kikolani

How to Get 1000% Increase in Opt-ins Test Results (2008) – The test demonstrated that the time-delay hover box works, and it works best at 60 seconds. You can see it in the above examples for Convince & Convert, Content Marketing Institute, Duct Tape Marketing, and The Sales Lion. Popup Opt-In Form Case Studies.

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Are Blog Comments Dead? | Justin Levy

Justin Levy

Putting a widget on your site stating the number of visitors or subscribers doesn't either but that's a discussion for another time. Chris Brogan's blog is a perfect example of this. For example, did they used to comment often? You have to decide why you have comments open. Paul Duplantis Great analysis Justin.

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Twitter: @Anywhere announcement

Laurel Papworth

I’m not a hundred percent sure what @anywhere offers that current widgets don’t already offer – a Twitter created widget rather than a 3rd party developer widget created from the Twitter API. For example click on Get Widget below. Still the widgets do this already don’t they?

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Official Google Docs Blog: Live blogging with Docs

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Wednesday, July 09, 2008 6:51 AM. Create a new document in Google Docs and give it some descriptive name (like “Launch of Blue Widgets Version 2&# ) - this will later become the title of our blog post. To embed this in your blog, copy the URL from the browser bar and use an IFRAME tag (find an example tag linked here ).

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