NBC Jumped on the Widget Wagon

I recently submitted a post about CBS, and as predicted NBC has jumped on the Widget Wagon with this annoucement that will allow bloggers to post television shows on their site.

Now think B2B marketing. We deliver rich content in a similar medium with webcasts and video-on-demand's. How hard would it be to create a widget to do the same thing? I don't know the answer to that but I'm going to start working on a pitch to my marketing team now...

Where should we meet?

A previous colleague of mine who is now at SocialText saw that I mentioned them in my last post and thought it was good time for us to catch up over lunch. Trying to find a good place in the middle is always a challenge - SocialText is in Palo Alto and Cisco is in San Jose. Rather than looking at a map on one browser and a restaurnat guide in other I though to myself, there's got to be a mashup site for this. And of course there is - a.placebetween.us - in a matter of seconds I was able to find a number of restaurants (by type) that are located halfway between our locations. What a great tool for the sales reps in the field - I sent it to a few of my field reps already...