Wowzio - A widget platform from Citipals

Citipals had launched BlogsJam, a feed reader with widget support in early 2008. Now, they are extending the widget suite and launching  Wowzio, a widget platform, which includes a content widget, a photo slideshow widget and a tagcloud widget. The widgets are javascript and CSS based and can be customized to your own environment.

While the content and the tag cloud widgets might make sense, the photo slideshow widget might not be of much help to content-heavy blogs like StartupDunia.

None the less, Wowzio is a pretty neat product and has the ability to spread virally.  Pending additional details, I’m not sure how Wowzio fits into the overall strategy of Citipals. Widget monetization, as a whole, also remains an unsolved problem.

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2 Responses to “Wowzio - A widget platform from Citipals”

1. Anonymous Coward on June 23rd, 2008 2:27 pm

   Does the Wowzio guy take us for fools? Go check out his site for a eye popping - ” 3,254,596 widgets served! “. 3+ million widgets is the claim. Eye popping stuff.

   Now refresh the page and notice how the count increases by 2 or 3 on every refresh. I am sure the counter was seeded at 2.75 million or so.

   Sorry, but I haven’t even tried out the product. Got discouraged by the cheating happening on the homepage of Wowzio. Yeah, I take these things to heart.

2. Nimit Maru on June 23rd, 2008 3:00 pm

   Dear Anonymous,
   The widgets served numbers represents how many impressions our existing widgets have gotten (including the same widgets previously under BlogsJam), and is indeed a live and accurate number!

   I encourage you to check our new and dynamic widget builder. If you have a blog of your own, try it out and let us know your feedback!