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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 | 2 Comments »
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 | 1 Comment »
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..Widgetbox Releases New In-Widget Promotional Unit
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | No Comments »
Over the last few days, you might have noticed changes to the widget in my blog's sidebar... those changes are Widgetbox's new in-widget promotional unit (now live in beta)! When the ... Read more..New SocialFeed Widget (…Your FriendFeed Widget-ized)
Thursday, May 1st, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | No Comments »
Yesterday Scoble unveiled his new blog theme and the resounding feedback among the 150+ comments was positive... and how'd he create that FriendFeed widget? For those web 2.0 users, Widgetbox has ... Read more..Widgetbox Widgetizes Your iPhone, Redesigns Widgetbox.com
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 Posted in Mobile, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment »
Two exciting new launches from Widgetbox: 1. If you have an iPhone (unlike my), you can now place widgets directly on your home-screen. There are currently 16 widgets available - ... Read more..Widgetbox Releases New Get Widget Menu
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | No Comments »
Press "Get Widget" to see the new menu. I'm obviously biased - but I love the new UI, functionality and menu interactions. Play around with it and give feedback! Read more..Techcrunch Surveys Widget Tracking and Who’s ‘King’ - Including Widgetbox, Clearspring, MySpace
Thursday, January 24th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | 3 Comments »
Interesting post by Techcrunch and Erik Schnofeld today about the widget world and how tracking within this space is difficult. The trouble is that: 1) there isn't a standard widget format ... Read more..
