Conduit toolbars to get more content
For those of you who love browser toolbars, expect more options soon. Conduit, a company that lets web sites make their own, customized toolbars is letting its clients add a couple more features now. Sites can both syndicate their content to other sites that have Conduit toolbars, or include content from those sites.
Google, Yahoo and many, many other companies have their own toolbars, but these options might keep more people using Conduit. (Note: this form of toolbar is not to be confused with the in-browser toolbars used by Facebook, Digg and other services). Conduit already has some 60 million active users and 200,000 toolbars. And, the company says it’s profitable, via a deal with Google. It gets paid by Google to displays Google’s search box in every toolbar.
Here’s our previous coverage of the company, and some links to Conduit sample sites.
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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.
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