Comments on: Can Browser Plug-ins Be a Business?

By: With Augmented Search, Xmarks Sees New Service, Revenues

With Augmented Search, Xmarks Sees New Service, Revenues — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 06:01:00 +0000

[...] James Joaquin, the chief executive officer of Xmarks who in his past life started Ofoto and worked as a venture capitalist, believes that Xmarks can sell advertisements against these additional results, and leverage peoples’ habit of constantly checking Google. (Related: Can Browser Plug-ins Be a Business?) [...]

By: AOL Hires Ex-YouTube Exec as Makeover Continues

AOL Hires Ex-YouTube Exec as Makeover Continues — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:02:34 +0000

[...] from that perspective, this is a solid, smart move by AOL. His departure is bad news for Cooliris, one of my favorite startups (thanks to its awesome plug-in). While it’s unlikely that Seth’s exit is going to mortally wound Cooliris, which has [...]

By: MashLogic Raises $2.5M Series A Round [GigaOM]

MashLogic Raises $2.5M Series A Round [GigaOM] — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 06:20:17 +0000

[...] we’ve been skeptical about whether web browser plug-ins can be a business, MashLogic’s latest funding news shows that certain companies in the space can rise about the [...]

By: MashLogic Raises $2.5M Series A Round

MashLogic Raises $2.5M Series A Round — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:32:44 +0000

[...] we’ve been skeptical about whether web browser plug-ins can be a business, MashLogic’s latest funding news shows that certain companies in the space can rise about the [...]

By: Cooliris Keeps On Growing, Adds Desktop Support

Cooliris Keeps On Growing, Adds Desktop Support — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:43:10 +0000

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By: AdaptiveBlue Raises Second Round, Beefs Up Semantic Browsing - GigaOM

AdaptiveBlue Raises Second Round, Beefs Up Semantic Browsing - GigaOM — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:00:14 +0000

[...] eight and continue developing Glue, a new, contextual social networking layer it has added to its well-thought-out semantic browsing [...]

By: lavanya

lavanya — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:04:06 +0000

i started using piclens for over 6 months now and i find it absolutely amazing!!its so easy to use and lets me scan 100’s of videos in a jiffy!! Kudos to cooliris!!!

By: Shopping with CoolIris

Shopping with CoolIris — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:41:13 +0000

[...] On the other hand, the company’s new Shopping feature is a potential game changer. It’s even got Om Malik rethinking his position on plug-ins. [...]

By: Kevin Dwinnell

Kevin Dwinnell — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:00:06 +0000

Brand Thunder is doing this for brand marketers. We’re customizing Firefox with a single install for both themes and extensions, creating a branded experience for fans of sports teams, bands, news sites and more. (Samples can be seen at http://brandthunder.com/gallery)

So far, brands are liking it and user adoption is strong.

By: Q dub

Q dub — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:33:30 +0000

Given that the browser is becoming more OS like, plugins behave more or less like an app-install. So it’s not really much of a radical departure

By: Derek

Derek — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:52:22 +0000

We started our business with a plug-in (http://tynted.com/0LWdOTua33w) but have since evolved into what I would call a ‘hybrid’. You can use Tynt without the plug-in, and at this point, 20% of the people who use our service use the plug-in, and the rest use our gateweay.

By: Rafe

Rafe — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:35:43 +0000

Smart story, Om. I’m still very skeptical that a plug-in company can be a standalone business. Covered one today, for example, that leaves me scratching my head: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10053211-2.html.

But then there’s StumbleUpon, which did make the add-on business work.

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By: Irene Ng

Irene Ng — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:06:06 +0000

Om:

I have been using Cooliris for the past 6 months now, and I absolutely LOVE this product. I find myself using it more and more. I wish they would allow me to surf HTML pages in this interface too, then I would spend all my time in this interface.

Irene

BTW, I really like the Ads in their interface. They are the best Ads on the web.

By: Punit Pandey

Punit Pandey — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:28:14 +0000

I believe that browsers still lacks the tight integration requied to create a powerful applcation. Right now the most you can do to get some info, launch some application or at most stumple. We have some way to before we see browser as the centralized application of your desktop and that tiem it will give us a lot of integration opportunity.

By: Lucas

Lucas — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:48:38 +0000

We in the IE and Chrome browser world rely on Ad Muncher from Australia, which does a fine job in my browsers for years, and has great support. The perfect platform-independent plugin still missing is a bookmark manager supporting all browsers, incl. Opera. And of course ad-block for mobile.