In comparison, Dopplr, a service similar to Tripit's but with more of a social focus, has tried hard to become a one stop shop for travel planning, yet within the last few years, although backed by a prestigious round of angel investors and being acquired by Nokia, has largely failed.
Right now it's just for creating embedded grids, but it could become "a one stop shop where you can easily preview all of the different types of displays we offer in Twitter Kit and grab the embed code for any Twitter content you'd like to publish".
Mail Online's whole strategy is based on reproducing the work of every other media organisation in order to ensure that it becomes a one-stop shop for surfers.
Burgess says the acquisition is an attempt on Macromedias part to become a one-stop provider of the software tools necessary to develop electronic businesses on the web and to unify the patchwork of software necessary to create an e-business.
That would not only increase Hulu's reach (and potential subscriber revenue), it could lead Hulu to become a one-stop destination for video on demand and make it as easy to access as turning on your TV.
The gallery's showrooms on New Bond Street in London became a one-stop shopping destination by the mid-1950s, long before Christie's and Sotheby's began marketing themselves as such.
That continues today with the launch of performance tracking for employees, which has been built in-house as it looks to pick off niches on its effort to become a one-stop shop for HR in small businesses.
Over the past year or so, Plex has doubled down on its mission to become a one-stop shop for all your media, having added support for podcasts, streaming TV (by way of a digital antenna) and a DVR, personalized news, and, most recently, web shows.
Thomson Reuters will announce on Tuesday an ambitious new video-on-demand service for its financial services clients, with thousands of searchable videos and transcripts on a range of topics, hoping to become a one-stop source for business people.
Coupled with the option to display your Gmail (Google's popular webmail service) inbox and personal calendar on your homepage, iGoogle has the potential to become a one-stop shop for all the services users would normally have to visit a number of web sites to utilise.
The Trending stories update may be part of Facebook's new effort to become a one-stop news distributor for its users so they remain on the site for as long as possible.
