Welcome to the Incubator!

September 7th, 2007 by Dave

Welcome to the Incubator, the official blog of WidgetNest, a widget development company. We will use this blog to talk about WidgetNest, widgets, and internet development.

So, why widgets? There are several reasons:

  1. Widgets are a fun distribution platform.
  2. Widgets provide a unique development environment, one must fit a functional and useful web app in to a small, compact space.
  3. Being able to provide website owners with easy to use, “plug and play” web solutions is satisfying.
  4. Creating something and watching it become viral, is rewarding.
  5. Widgets are portable. From the web to the desktop and to several mobile devices widgets are capable of reaching a very large audience.
  6. Widgets are fun to make.

We are striving to be the best widget development company on the internet. There are many great distribution platforms for widgets, like Widgetbox, Clearspring, SpringWidgets, etc. These services provide amazing tools to help with the distribution and tracking of widget but they rely on developers to add content to their sites. It has been our experience that with a good widget platform you need a good widget developer.

Who do web businesses turn to to create their widgets? They can rely on their own development staff, but the crack team of developers on their team might not understand compact formats or how to make something that can be spread virally on the web. By striving to be the best widget development company there is, we are able to take time to study multiple platforms, test out viral campaigns, and find ways to best help our clients.

What we are trying to say is that we like widgets. Are widgets the future of the web? Who knows, but they are something that we enjoy and for now that is all that matters.

-Team WidgetNest