Our increase in membership and usage required additional resources and tweaking of our server configurations. We apologize for the experienced services interruptions, but we are confident with the changes made that we can ensure 100% uptime for our widgets.

Thank you for your patience.

The Widget Master

Great news!

We have secured new funding and during the first semester of 2008 we will be developing 6 new widgets and adding a new information section with topics related to Blogging, generating revenue online, and the internet in general. This is a great time to send those new widget ideas. Best Wishes for 2008.

MySpace and Six Apart (among others) announced today that it will joining Google's OpenSocial initiative. This is great news for the future of MajikWidget and our ability to grow and scale.

Stay tuned for more announcements as we follow the OpenSocial initiative closely.

It's been a while since we've updated everyone and for obvious reasons. If you recall our last post we discussed the fact that we have been keeping our service stable and building clients. This has been a successful and conservative course.

To that end we are ready to start looking at some major upgrades and changes over the next few months. We'd like to get some of your feedback.

Please take our survey and let us know your thoughts...

Click Here to take survey

We'll update everyone on the results in the next few weeks. Thanks!

We are about to undergo a major hardware infrastructure change and upgrade.

Over the past several months we have been aware of intermittent connectivity issues related to various accounts and widget performance. We have invested considerable money and time to insure that the MajikWidget infrastructure performs well under the strain that our user base generates.

To this end we are pro-actively addressing these recent issues. In order to achieve this we need to make everyone aware of our transition process.

• We will temporarily disable new account registrations starting Sunday, May 6, 2007.


• Complete user account access will be suspended for 24 hours on Monday May 7, 2007.


• Changes and upgrades to service will be performed on Monday, May 7, 2007.


• Complete registration and account access will be re-instated on Tuesday, May 8, 2007.

Interruption of existing widget service (if any) would be considered extremely unlikely. During the transition, you may find that a few of your voting or star ranking widgets will allow individual users to vote more than once. This is typically prevented in our normal operation. This will be an issue because of the migration of our security database and expected domain propagation issues. This issue will correct itself very quickly.

If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to contact us a support@majikwidget.com.

I'd like to take a moment to address some recent concerns about MajikWidget.

It has been pointed out that there have been no major upgrades or apparent movement in the last six months. In fact, some have suggested that we should be added to the TechCrunch Deadpool. That suggestion would actually be funny except for the fact that TechCrunch has never acknowledged that we exist in the first place. I'm sure this is a slight oversight on Mr. Arrington's part.

Our future and fate is dependent upon the loyalty and happiness of our customers. We have made a conscious effort to grow MajikWidget from the stand point of quality product and service. This strategy has worked as we've experienced a remarkable growth in our user base due to word of mouth and our virtually non-existent marketing efforts (using the powered by link on all widgets). All of our customers are typically extremely happy with the operation of our product and the timeliness of our support team.

But alas we are not without growing pains. MajikWidget is privately funded and considers itself a bootstrap operation. We have invested a considerable amount of dollars into hardware infrastructure and support capabilities. This was to insure the execution of our quality product and service strategy. We have had tremendous support from our user base as well as our great friend Guy Kawasaki. Who incidentally is not an investor in MajikWidget but a happy customer and friend.

We admit that we could be more active with the MajikWidget blog. It is necessary to communicate with everyone about what is happening. We are making every attempt to do this when we feel there is relevant news and information to publish. The fact of the matter is there really has not been much relevant news or information about MajikWidget in the last six months.

It is not our plan to close MajikWidget or enter anyones dead pool any time soon. We are not hurting financially nor or we failing to progress forward. In fact, as stated before, the user base is growing at a very steady rate each day and our plan (for the moment) is to keep up with the demands that this growth puts on our service.

To accomplish this we need to create a positive revenue stream from our current products and services because of our bootstrap operation. If there are any investors out there that may wish to change this particular strategy, we are all ears.

That said, we thank each and everyone of our users for their continued support and patronage. We are not going anywhere and look forward to providing quality products and services for years to come.

P.S., If you know Michael Arrington perhaps you can let him know that we do exist.

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Wow, what a great quarter! Thought we'd share the world map overlay from Google Analytics with everyone. MajikWidget is headed for global widget domination. Thank you everyone!