The Social Aggregator
Justin Thorp of Clearspring came to speak about Widgets and how the web is moving away from the “webpage”. He was pretty entertaining… he definitely had the “hip/cool” vibe going and did a lot of namedropping of cool sites. His company has created a widget platform (built in java) called Launchpad that is basically a mashup creator similar to iGoogle. He gave a statistic that 81% of all web users have seen a widget, and that personalization will be more of a demand in the future.
He gave a few examples of sites that he thought were interesting:
