Comments on: Social Media Now: Widget World http://www.socialmediaclub.org/2007/03/21/social-media-now-widget-world/ A community for the champions of Social Media and those seeking to learn Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:56:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Jason Chervokas http://www.socialmediaclub.org/2007/03/21/social-media-now-widget-world/#comment-9059 Jason Chervokas Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:35:53 +0000 http://www.socialmediaclub.org/2007/03/21/social-media-now-widget-world/#comment-9059 You're absolutely right, Howard. Tho' what's also interesting is that user-generated widgets threaten to do to Internet businesses what user generated content did to traditional media businesses....not exactly make them obsolete but launch a million micro competitors and reduce the paid income stream to all but nil. You’re absolutely right, Howard. Tho’ what’s also interesting is that user-generated widgets threaten to do to Internet businesses what user generated content did to traditional media businesses….not exactly make them obsolete but launch a million micro competitors and reduce the paid income stream to all but nil.

]]> By: Howard Greenstein http://www.socialmediaclub.org/2007/03/21/social-media-now-widget-world/#comment-9048 Howard Greenstein Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:11:09 +0000 http://www.socialmediaclub.org/2007/03/21/social-media-now-widget-world/#comment-9048 Jason, A lot of this is the "information wants to be free" vs "but it belongs to Company X" debate, but enabled by widgets, which make information easily able to be free. If users can't put music on my My Space unless My Space has it in their container, they're going to start to lose people to services that will allow that freedom. Yes, they may have huge traffic now. So did theGlobe.com, Tripod, and others who made their business out of allowing user content to be easily created. More thoughts later. Jason,
A lot of this is the “information wants to be free” vs “but it belongs to Company X” debate, but enabled by widgets, which make information easily able to be free.

If users can’t put music on my My Space unless My Space has it in their container, they’re going to start to lose people to services that will allow that freedom. Yes, they may have huge traffic now. So did theGlobe.com, Tripod, and others who made their business out of allowing user content to be easily created.

More thoughts later.

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