This week’s round up of interesting widget news, trends and analysis:

• Widgets Still Strong!
  Wall Street Journal’s “Still A Wonderful World Of Web Widgets For Some Start-Ups” concludes that widgets are still well and alive!
• Widget Maker Gydget get Acquired
  Gydget, once known for its attempts to go after the music bands, has been acquired by Adgregate, which plays to distribute its ShopAds on the 200,000 widgets that Gydget has created. Can you say, “I wish I owned my own widget”. Gydget was originally founded by Gerardo Capiel, who is now the VP of product management at MySpace.
• iWidgets Becomes Transpond
  Company changes focus to try and power native applications for Facebook, MySpace, and iGoogle.
• Quantcast/comScore Widget Traffic Numbers are Big!
  Widgets were all the rage last year and the trend seems to be growing. Widgetbox is reporting 500 million impressions in the past month (Quantcast).  RockYou, however, had 9.5 billion impressions and Clearspring had 520 million unique visitors according to comScore.