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About Me
I'm Ryan Spoon. I live in San Francisco and have spent my career on the web. I founded beRecruited.com (acquired in 2007) and spent 2003-2007 at eBay (internet marketing, social media & leading Kijiji.com). I am now at Widgetbox.com and running InGameNow on the side with a collection of friends.
Email: rspoon @ gmail.com
Twitter: @berecruited
Designing a Compelling Widget: Three Keys to Widget Engagement
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 |
This week the Widget World Expo took place in New York and Fred Wilson gave a supposedly terrific speech titled "Why Widgets Is The Wrong Word For What We're Doing". ... Read more..Techmeme Leaderboard - Top 100 Techmeme Sources in Widgets!
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 |
Want to stay atop of Techmeme's top 100 blogs? Using Widgetbox's Blidget tool, I've turned each of the Techmeme Leaderboard blogs (the top 100 headline sources) into widgets and broken ... Read more..Why iGoogle is About to Be Game Changing - For Google and for Us
Thursday, May 29th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 |
A couple months ago, I had the following email exchange with one of the sharpest, big internet-thinkers I know. I thought very little of the discussion until the past few ... Read more..Battling for the Homepage: What is your Start Page?
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | 1 Comment »
I've had a few interesting email exchanges in the past week about start pages. One friend of mine recently converted to Netvibes - the other switched to iGoogle... and ... Read more..
