Widgets are fast becoming a prerequisite for most startups to achieve viral growth. Yourminins.com is a platform to distribute your widget creations while being able to easily monitor statistics like number of views, which domains they are coming from and where in the world your viewers are. Essentially a bit like Google Analytics for widgets.

In addition to this, becoming a featured widget and getting on the front page of yourminis.com can in itself generate significant uptake of your embeddable offering. Yourminis.com has tried to create a community around widgets, offering the ability to rate and review each widget and providing dynamic rankings based on popularity. In order to distribute your widgets on the site you have to prepare your widget using their developers’ kit. Essentially the SDK is a Flash container in which the widget is embedded which then makes it easy for yourminis.com to distribute to their users.

It’s a great idea which will certainly make the distribution of widgets a lot easier for startups. The community aspect will also mean that users only need bother with the coolest offerings.

Yourminis.com has been created by the Goowy.com team and is funded by billionaire Mark Cuban famed for selling broadcast.com to Yahoo for over $5bn (in Yahoo stock).

Back in November 2006, Huw and Peter actually interviewed Alex Bard, CEO of Goowy for the Gizbuzz Podcast. The podcast talks a little bit about the Yourminis service (which at that time had just been launched), so if you’re curious for more information, you might want to check that out.