Widget-maker MadKast raises $300k
Madkast, the maker of a widget for sharing blog posts with only a single click, has raised $300,000.
The most interesting thing about the company is its ease of use — it lets you share posts via instant messages, email, MMS text messages and social bookmarking sites.
It joins the ranks of hundreds of other widget-makers trying to provide interesting widgets. The number of competitors will only grow as larger widget companies like Widgetbox and Dapper have recently launched features that allow anyone to create their own widgets (our coverage).
Numerous angel investors participated in the round — you can read more, here.
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Eric currently covers digital media technology and business news, especially what's happening on social networks and their platforms. He also writes and edits stories about venture capital, and lots of other stuff, too. He started at VentureBeat in the spring of 2007, half a year or so after Matt Marshall left his reporting job at the San Jose Mercury News to found the site. Eric previously cofounded a startup called Writewith, that was building editorial software for newspapers and other groups of writers. The startup didn't work out, but he learned a lot.