Widget World: Musestorm surges ahead

By Vivek | January 18th, 2007 at 04:20 pm ET         

Musestorm, the widget syndication and analytics startup, today launched bunch of great new features. Among other thing, Musestorm now automatically generates widgets for Web, Yahoo Widget Engine, and Google Gadget. More cool things to come include automatic widgets for your Mac Dashboard, Vista, Mobiles, and instant messengers. I had written previously about the launch of Musestorm’s Widget Analytics solution.

Now with Musestorm you can widgetize any feed automatically by just providing the URL. Any widget you give out using Musestorm, users get option to modify the size and background. Also with the launch of the new features, Musestorm has introduced its monetization plan. You can get Musestorm’s Track and Analyze service free for 60 days and will have to pay $4/month per feed for web widgets and same price for Desktop widgets. The analytics engine will track impressions and clickthroughs for widgets located on web as well as user desktop. Personally I think the pricing plans need a bit of rethinking and be more in the direction of what FeedBurner charges. Again I am not sure how the service compares to FeedBurner in terms of computing and developers resources required.

Overall, a great-great piece of work.

Links:
StartupSquad.com Web widget
StartupSquad.com Google Gadget
StartupSquad.com Yahoo Widget
MuseStorm