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Widget Realm, a company that offers content publishing services for desktop apps, mobile devices and connected TV sets, on Tuesday launched its "Broadcast-It-Yourself" service for Internet-connected devices running the Yahoo! Widget Engine. According to the company, the new service will enable any developer to easily create and distribute TV widgets to millions of connected TV's and other connected devices. "Yahoo! and Widget Realm are going to enable an explosion of interactive television content," Widget Realm CEO, Brian Powell, said in a prepared statement. "We're excited to be working with the Yahoo!

--Comcast Announces Plans to Integrate Widget Channel with its EPG

At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco last week, Yahoo! and Intel announced plans to launch the Widget Channel, an application framework which they say will allow operators, content providers, advertisers and others to develop Internet-based mini-applications, dubbed "TV Widgets," for broadband-connected TV's and other consumer electronics devices, using Web standards and tools such as JavaScript, XML, HTML and Adobe Flash.

Herb Scannell is resigning as CEO of broadband video company, Next
New Networks (note: the latter describes itself as "a new kind of media
company, creating micro-television networks over the Internet for
targeted communities, bringing together elements of TV programming
and Internet philosophy to allow viewers to contribute, share and
distribute content"). He will, however, retain his role as executive
chairman of the company, which has raised around $23 million in
venture capital to date. "Thus far, we've been videocentric, built our
network model, and got distribution and advertising up and running,"
Scannell wrote in a posting on his blog. "Now, I want to see us go