clearspring - the widget network.

2007 is almost over, but here at Clearspring the fun never stops!

Today we released the Clearspring Desktop Support Pack. This is the next step in our “write once, run everywhere” goal for widget distribution. With this new offering, your favorite web widgets can now be downloaded directly to the desktop. Specifically, they can be added to Mac OSX, Microsoft Vista, and other desktops with Yahoo! Widgets 4.5. Wanna try one out? Check out the Cloverfield widget featured on our homepage. Just use the viral sharing menu to place it on your favorite desktop, or social network. As an aside, this campaign is absolutely wicked cool – they are using our tracking APIs to have a contest that awards a prize to the person that can get the most people to grab the widget from their site.

Anyhoo, for those of you that have already created a Clearspring Widget, you will be happy to know that your existing widgets are now auto-magically desktop compatible. For those of you that want to create a cross-platform widget for the first time, no extra downloads, libraries, or development skills are required. Feel free to use your favorite tools like Flash AS2, AS3, HTML and JavaScript to create, distribute and track your widget across the Web AND the desktop! (crowd cheers)

We are jazzed that we have this feature in for 2007 and are excited for all the cool stuff we are going to build in the coming year. Happy Holidays!

This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 19th, 2007 at 6:38 pm by Hooman and is filed under clearspring. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.