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Widget's : Great reporting from Yourminis

People who create widgets need to know how well they are doing.  This essentially means reporting - how do you know how many people have used the widget? Or embedded it onto another site?  How many visitors come from the US or other parts of the world?

This is one part of the yourminis acquisition that came as part of Goowy Media Inc (AOL announced this yesterday). They have an awesome reporting solution for widget developers.

Yourmini's has a very nice reporting suite, that allows the widget creator to report on adoption of the widget (and them make changes based on this reporting).

Reporting is critical - if I create a widget I need to know if it's being used, where it's being used, and how.   And if I am an advertiser using widgets to distribute my product, it's even more critical.

Check out the reporting - goto yourmini's and create a login. You can then remix any existing widget and make it your own. 



Example

When I was working with the yourmini's team in January, I created a "remixed" widget, that essentially showed photos of cats.   This was then posted on AOL's Pet blog, among other places.

Now I can get reports on where the widget has gone - what sites it is on.  The second most domain is hyves.nl . I can go in and see how much interaction the widget gets (is anyone interacting with it or not?).

This is very good for the widget developer.


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domain views i
1aol.com229
2hyves.nl199
3animalhubbub.com125
483
5ning.com50
6unknown28
7spaces.start.com14
8nvmodules.netvibes.com6
9hyves.net3
10gmodules.com2





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