iTunes Gets Into the Widget Game


	iTunes Gets Into the Widget Game

Amanda Mooney

8-13-2007 8:50 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/502fd4e9-3e08-4d19-944a-8f2c1d718d63/F9CE7B0B-B50F-4579-BF4C-42312B87C2A1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.techcrunch.com/" href="http://www.techcrunch.com/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.techcrunch.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/"><P>Apple isn’t just sitting on the sidelines as startups like <A href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/ilike">iLike<IMG src="http://shots.snap.com/images/v2.15.5/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A> and <A href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/29/new-mog-is-like-the-old-mtv/">MOG</A> and <A href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/05/social-music-overview/">others</A> try to tackle the social music space. Many of these services gather user music preferences via an iTunes plugin. You are then able to tell the world what music you are listening to, get recommendations for new music you might like, etc. People love this stuff, as evidenced by <A href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/17/ilikes-wonderful-facebook-problem/">iLike’s ridiculous growth</A> and  <A href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/30/cbs-acquires-lastfm-for-280m/">Last.fm’s $280 million acquisition by CBS</A>.</p> <P>Apple has launched <A href="http://www.apple.com/itunes/myitunes/">My ITunes<IMG src="http://shots.snap.com/images/v2.15.5/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A>, a set of widgets that may be a first step in taking their fair share of the social music market.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/">There are currently three embeddable widgets to choose from. One shows recent iTunes purchases. Another shows music you’ve reviewed on iTunes. The last shows a sort of tag cloud of artists you’ve purchased on the iTunes store. The widgets can be customized by size and color.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F9CE7B0B-B50F-4579-BF4C-42312B87C2A1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>