{"id":1493,"date":"2007-06-28T00:02:43","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T04:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/06\/28\/google-funding-widget-incubator\/"},"modified":"2007-06-28T00:02:43","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T04:02:43","slug":"google-funding-widget-incubator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/06\/28\/google-funding-widget-incubator\/","title":{"rendered":"Google funding widget incubator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google appears to be setting up a kind of widget incubator program &#8212; like a Y Combinator\/Startup Camp for widgets &#8212; according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/google_opens_pockets_to_gadget_developers.php\">a post over at<\/a> Read\/WriteWeb tonight. Marissa Mayer apparently announced the windfall&#8230; er, program at the Searchonomics Conference in Santa Clara. There&#8217;s a brief description of it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/gadgetventures\/\">here<\/a>, and a FAQ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/gadgetventures\/faq.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/snipshot_e4iie0mvp6j.jpg?w=525\" alt='snipshot_e4iie0mvp6j.jpg' \/>The program (Danny Sullivan has <a href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/070627-210000.php\">a good overview<\/a>) is aimed at &#8220;bootstrapping an economic ecosystem around gadgets,&#8221; and involves two kinds of monetary offers to developers: the first gives <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/ig\/directory\">Google Gadget<\/a> developers a chance at a grant of $5,000 to develop their gadgets further (those with gadgets that have at least 250,000 page views a week are eligible), and the second is a &#8220;seed investment&#8221; of $100,000 to developers who want to build a business based on the Google platform. This second stage &#8212; which sounds a little like an angel round &#8212; is open only to those who have already had a grant.<\/p>\n<p>The upshot? As Richard puts it: &#8220;It&#8217;s Christmas for third-party developers.&#8221; I would expect to see companies like Slide.com, the Max Levchin-owned developer that has several popular Facebook widgets and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/06\/27\/a-market-develops-in-facebook-apps\/\">has been buying others<\/a>, jump on board this gravy train. It will be interesting to see whether Google Gadgets spread farther than just the Google ig page. There&#8217;s a post about it on <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/ga-ga-for-gadgets.html\">the Google blog<\/a>, and one at the Google <a href=\"http:\/\/google-code-updates.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/google-gadget-ventures.html\">code blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google appears to be setting up a kind of widget incubator program &#8212; like a Y Combinator\/Startup Camp for widgets &#8212; according to a post over at Read\/WriteWeb tonight. Marissa Mayer apparently announced the windfall&#8230; er, program at the Searchonomics Conference in Santa Clara. There&#8217;s a brief description of it here, and a FAQ here. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/06\/28\/google-funding-widget-incubator\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google funding widget incubator&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}