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NewsGator Announces Widget Partnership with DAC, Japan's Leading Online Advertising Solutions Provider

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:52:31 GMT

Denver, Colo. — June 26, 2008 — NewsGator Technologies Inc. today announced a partnership with Digital Advertising Consortium (DAC), one of Japan's largest online advertising solutions providers, for exclusive rights to offer NewsGator Widget Services to Japanese media companies and brands. Under this partnership, DAC will market NewsGator Widgets for content syndication.

Major media companies around the world are turning to NewsGator Widget Services to create widgets that syndicate content to Web sites, blogs, social networks, and start pages and in the process create additional advertising revenue and reach new audiences. Widgets are currently being used by companies like National Geographic, which has a series of viral and interactive puzzle widgets featuring their photography, and Tribune Media Services, which is using NewsGator for ad sponsored mini-applications that provide readers with easy access to their favorite baseball team’s television and radio schedules.

"This is a terrific market opportunity for NewsGator – Japan is the second largest online advertising market in the world, and this partnership will enable NewsGator and DAC to work together in partnership to power widget strategies for Japanese advertisers and marketers," said Jeff Nolan, vice president, NewsGator Consumer and Media Services. "We are honored and privileged to work with DAC, a highly respected and premier company, as we enter the market in Japan."

"Partnering with NewsGator will allow us to offer powerful, viral and trackable widgets to our large customer base of media companies and brands," said Akihiko Tokuhisa, the Chief Technology Officer of DAC. "Japanese companies are using widgets to introduce new types of content to their Web pages and add viral functionality – they’re already having great success in reaching and engaging broad audiences."

About NewsGator Software-as-a-Service

NewsGator’s syndication and data services offerings help media companies, content publishers and advertisers engage audiences through the use of social media and Web 2.0 technologies. NewsGator's Web 2.0 syndication products, including personalized RSS readers, Widget Framework, Community Publisher and Widget Ads, give companies the tools they need to enable their audiences to create, subscribe and interact with the most relevant content while staying within the company's brand. NewsGator‘s widget and data services are in use by some of the world's largest media companies and brands, including CNN, Media General, National Geographic, Newsweek, CBS News, Reuters, USA Today and Discovery Communications. For more information, visit www.NewsGatorWidgets.com.

About NewsGator Technologies, Inc.

NewsGator Technologies helps enterprises and media companies leverage social computing solutions to deliver real business value. The company’s enterprise social networking and widget services are in use by hundreds of the world’s most recognized brands, including Bank of America, Biogen Idec, CBS, CNN, Discovery, National Geographic, Procter & Gamble and USA Today. NewsGator Social Sites and Enterprise Server give enterprises better ways to collaborate, share content, expand employee knowledge and improve productivity. NewsGator Widget Services enable media and brand companies to better engage their audiences and extend the value of their brands through viral syndication of content. NewsGator also offers free, award-winning RSS aggregators for the Web, desktop, mobile devices and e-mail clients. For more information, visit www.newsgator.com

About DAC

Digital Advertising Consortium (DAC) is a company integrating advertising business, founded by the several biggest advertising agencies in Japan, such as Hakuhodo DY Media Partners Inc., ASATSU-DK Inc. Based on three main services: Media, Operations and Technology, DAC provides high quality service for both buying and selling online advertising through the large network of websites. For internet media buying and selling, DAC plays a role of media rep to bring together publishers and agencies. DAC represents Japan's major websites: Yahoo! Japan, MSN Japan, Infoseek and many more. For more information, visit en.dac.co.jp.

Contact Information

Laura Farrelly

NewsGator

303-552-2046

lauraf(at)newsgator(dot)com

Jennifer Gazin or Zoe Vandeveer

LaunchSquad

415.625.8555

newsgator(at)launchsquad(dot)com

NewsGator Releases Editor’s Desk 2.1

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:28:13 GMT

NewsGator Releases Editor’s Desk 2.1

New Version Of NewsGator’s Widget Platform Makes It Even Easier for Brand & Media Companies to Build, Deploy, & Track Widgets

Denver, Colo. — June 19, 2008 — NewsGator Technologies Inc. today announced the general availability of Editor’s Desk 2.1, a new version of the company’s widget platform that makes it even easier for brand and media companies to build, deploy, and track widgets.

Updates to NewsGator’s widget platform include a dramatically redesigned user interface, sophisticated new templates, and an easier, more streamlined workflow for widget creation. Editor’s Desk 2.1 boasts exciting new features including a widget search tool for simple creation of subject-specific content widgets, a duplicating “clone” capability that allows users to easily create similar widgets, and feed monitoring that provides instant feedback on widget performance and feed errors.

“Media and brand companies are embracing widget strategies at a breakneck pace because syndicating content with widgets works,” said Jeff Nolan, vice president, NewsGator Software-as-a-Service. “By simplifying the creation, deployment, and management of widgets, Editor’s Desk 2.1 enables companies to quickly and easily realize positive business results from extended brand reach to increased website monetization.”

NewsGator’s widget platform is part of NewsGator Software-as-a-Service, which encompasses the company’s syndication and data services offerings and helps media companies, content publishers and advertisers engage audiences through the use of social media and Web 2.0 technologies. NewsGator's Web 2.0 syndication products, including personalized RSS readers, Widget Framework, Community Publisher and Widget Ads, give companies the tools they need to enable their audiences to create, subscribe and interact with the most relevant content while staying within the company's brand. NewsGator‘s widget and data services are in use by some of the world's largest media companies and brands, including CNN, Media General, National Geographic, Newsweek, CBS News, Reuters, USA Today and Discovery Communications. For more information, visit www.NewsGatorWidgets.com.

About NewsGator Technologies, Inc.
NewsGator Technologies helps enterprises and media companies leverage social computing solutions to deliver real business value. The company’s enterprise social networking and widget services are in use by hundreds of the world’s most recognized brands, including Bank of America, Biogen Idec, CBS, CNN, Discovery, National Geographic, Procter & Gamble and USA Today. NewsGator Social Sites and Enterprise Server give enterprises better ways to collaborate, share content, expand employee knowledge and improve productivity. NewsGator Widget Services enable media and brand companies to better engage their audiences and extend the value of their brands through viral syndication of content. NewsGator also offers free, award-winning RSS aggregators for the Web, desktop, mobile devices and e-mail clients. For more information, visit www.newsgator.com

Contact Information
Laura Farrelly
NewsGator
303-552-2046
lauraf(at)newsgator(dot)com

Jennifer Gazin or Zoe Vandeveer
LaunchSquad
415.625.8555
newsgator(at)launchsquad(dot)com

NewsGator Adds Value to Enterprise Social Computing Features for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:22:19 GMT

Social Sites 2.0 Helps Businesses Improve Productivity with Behind-The-Firewall Social Networks & Communities

BOSTON, Enterprise 2.0 Conference — June 9, 2008 — NewsGator Technologies, Inc. today announced the general availability of Social Sites 2.0, a major upgrade for NewsGator’s social computing solution for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Social Sites 2.0 offers new social capabilities to Office SharePoint Server 2007, allowing users to more easily interact, collaborate and find the people and content they need to do their work better and more efficiently.

“The combined Social Sites and SharePoint Server 2007 solution has evolved our intranet into a social network,” said Joe Toth, assistant vice president for CME Federal Credit Union. “It allows for users to add colleagues into their profile and exchange information across departmental boundaries. These features, along with the other social computing capabilities provided by the solution, have led to improved productivity by saving our employees an average of 30 minutes per day.”

"Social networking trends in the consumer market have triggered enormous interest by business and IT strategists who believe that similar solutions can be leveraged internally to improve information sharing, collaboration and community-building efforts," said Mike Gotta, principal analyst for Burton Group. "The challenge confronting many decision makers is how to best balance the need to leverage existing infrastructure while not missing out on solutions delivered by many best-of-breed vendors."

Social Sites and Office SharePoint Server 2007 deliver enterprise-class social computing capabilities that enable businesses to build communities and internal social networks while leveraging existing IT investments and maintaining appropriate security. Social Sites integrates seamlessly with Office SharePoint Server 2007 to add value to its social computing features with collaboration tools, enhanced tagging, RSS feed subscriptions and management, colleague tracking features and content mash-up capabilities.

“SharePoint Server 2007 provides businesses with a social computing solution that delivers positive business results today while establishing a platform that can be easily extended to meet future Enterprise 2.0 needs,” said Deb Bannon, senior product manager for Microsoft’s SharePoint Server Partner Group. “Social Sites and SharePoint Server 2007 facilitate collaboration and simplify information discovery by turning intranets and portals into social hubs. This not only makes it easier for workers to do their jobs, but gives businesses a huge competitive advantage by enabling them to become leaner, smarter and more efficient through collaboration.”

The 2.0 release of Social Sites will provide enterprises with the following advanced community and social network capabilities (please visit http://www.newsgator.com/Business/SocialSites/Default.aspx for more information):

Communities
• Allows employees to easily share ideas, information and documents by enabling them to create ad hoc communities around common interests, areas of research, projects, etc.
• Provides for easy discovery of groups via customized recommendations, tag clouds, search, and lists of recently created and popular communities.
• Offers a discussion component that includes rich e-mail integration, which allows users to participate in a community without ever logging in to the site.
• Simplifies content additions by allowing content to be tagged into the community, added via social bookmarks and RSS feeds, or uploaded to a community document store.
• Offers chronological views of community activity from both a single community and consolidated from all communities a user belongs to.

Social Networks
• Provides employees with social network graphs based on both explicit and implied connections, making discovery of content and colleagues easier.
• Shows each user their strongest connections based on common content, interests, and intranet activity.
• Recommends colleagues to a user based on common community membership, tags, and RSS subscriptions.

About NewsGator Social Sites

NewsGator Social Sites provides behind-the-firewall social computing and enterprise RSS capabilities that lower IT support costs, improve productivity, and increase knowledge sharing. Social Sites integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to enable enterprises to build communities and internal social networks while leveraging existing investments and maintaining appropriate security. Social Sites drives portal adoption by keeping content fresh and relevant, enhancing usability, simplifying content and expertise discovery and bringing users back through precision notifications. Social Sites features include tacitly built profiles; social network graphs; communities; advanced tagging and tag clouds; RSS feeds, subscriptions and management; notifications; and colleague tracking capabilities. For more information, please visit: http://www.newsgator.com/Business/SocialSites/Default.aspx.

About NewsGator Technologies, Inc.

All products and company names herein may be trademarks of their registered owners.

Contact Information
Laura Farrelly
NewsGator
303-552-2046
lauraf(at)newsgator(dot)com

Corey Lewis or Jennifer Gazin
LaunchSquad
415.625.8555
newsgator(at)launchsquad(dot)com

NewsGator Delivers Corporate Social Computing Platform for Universal McCann

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:52:17 GMT

Global Media Agency Deploying NewsGator Social Sites and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to Facilitate Collaboration, Improve Productivity & Lower IT Support Costs

BOSTON, Enterprise 2.0 Conference — June 9, 2008 — NewsGator Technologies, Inc. announced today that Universal McCann, a global media communications agency, is deploying a full-service internal social computing platform based on NewsGator Social Sites and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The project’s mission is to take advantage of innovative Enterprise 2.0 technologies to greatly improve communication and the flow of information across Universal McCann’s 90 offices in 66 countries. Working jointly with Microsoft and NewsGator, Universal McCann has implemented a secure social networking solution that improves productivity by allowing employees to better communicate and collaborate.

“The fast-changing media environment in which Universal McCann works demands that our employees have a finger on the pulse of what’s going on, not just in their respective markets and account groups, but globally across the industry,” said Quentin George, worldwide officer for digital strategy & market innovation for Universal McCann. “In order to deliver our clients the ‘Next Thing Now’ we must share and learn from our collective knowledge and experience. We found NewsGator and Microsoft’s social networking tools to be the ideal way to facilitate communication and knowledge sharing across geographic and division boundaries – leading to improved productivity and increased innovation.”

“We considered a variety of social computing solutions, including consumer-based social networking products, but they fell short on business-specific features, internal systems integration, and security capabilities,” said Jason Harrison, worldwide chief information officer for Universal McCann. “Microsoft and NewsGator offered us an enterprise-class social computing solution that delivers the social networking features we need today while providing us with a platform that can easily evolve as our needs grow and change. In addition, their solution integrates seamlessly with our technology infrastructure and security protocols, helping to lower our support costs.”

The combined Social Sites and Office SharePoint Server 2007 solution provides Universal McCann with an online destination that facilitates collaboration and content sharing across the global Universal McCann network. The social computing platform integrates Web 2.0 concepts such as social networking, communities, RSS, and blogging in an intuitive, easy-to-use interface. With the interface, Universal McCann employees can now quickly browse through the company’s intranet and find the latest content headlines, view the most relevant/popular portal content and easily learn about other employees at any office in the world. The social computing platform also enables employees to discover colleagues and subject matter experts, form social networks, and build communities based on areas of interest, rather than geography or project teams. Universal McCann’s social computing platform enhances each person’s effectiveness with the collective wisdom of the worldwide organization – driving innovation and improved client service.

“Businesses are experiencing firsthand the value of social computing in the enterprise,” said Deb Bannon, senior product manager for Microsoft’s SharePoint Server Partner Group. “As Universal McCann shows, SharePoint Server 2007 lets companies turn their portal into a customizable social computing hub that can change the way the company works. The combination of Social Sites and SharePoint is an example of what enterprise social networking is all about – delivering positive business results with a behind-the-firewall, flexible, and extensible platform.”

“More and more companies are looking for ways to connect their employees, using Web 2.0, social networking and information as a bridge,” said J.B. Holston, NewsGator CEO. “Social Sites and SharePoint Server 2007 give companies a way to introduce global social networking strategies that offer the ease-of-use of tools like Facebook or MySpace, but with enterprise-strength security and business-specific features. Social Sites allows companies to roll out a dynamic platform that makes information and knowledge a common currency among its employees and collaboration a common companywide practice.”

About Social Sites

NewsGator Social Sites provides behind-the-firewall social computing and enterprise RSS capabilities that lower IT support costs, improve productivity, and increase knowledge sharing. Social Sites integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to enable enterprises to build communities and internal social networks while leveraging existing investments and maintaining appropriate security. Social Sites drives portal adoption by keeping content fresh and relevant, enhancing usability, simplifying content and expertise discovery and bringing users back through precision notifications. Social Sites features include tacitly built profiles; social network graphs; communities; advanced tagging and tag clouds; RSS feeds, subscriptions and management; notifications; and colleague tracking capabilities. For more information, please visit: www.newsgator.com/Business/SocialSites/Default.aspx.

About NewsGator Technologies, Inc.

About Universal McCann

Universal McCann (UM) is a global media communications agency providing Next Thing Now solutions for the world’s leading marketers and strategic thinkers including Coca-Cola, ExxonMobil, Johnson & Johnson, Mastercard, Microsoft, Sony, Bacardi, L’oreal and UPS. Part of the Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG), UM has 90 offices in 66 countries and over 2,800 employees with headquarters in New York. UM provides a full spectrum of media services including media and communications planning, digital strategy consultation, analytics and economic modeling and research and consumer insight. The company’s mission is to deliver marketing innovation through media excellence. For more information, visit www.universalmccann.com.

All products and company names herein may be trademarks of their registered owners.

Contact Information
Laura Farrelly
NewsGator
303-552-2046
lauraf(at)newsgator(dot)com

Kris Sharbaugh
Universal McCann
646-865-5000
Kris.Sharbaugh(at)umww(dot)com

Corey Lewis or Jennifer Gazin
LaunchSquad
415.625.8555
newsgator(at)launchsquad(dot)com

RivalSoft Announces RivalMap™ 2.0 and Partnership with NewsGator

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:41:36 GMT

New Web-Based Service Dramatically Improves how Companies Maintain Market Awareness

Palo Alto, CA, June 4, 2008 – RivalSoft Inc. today unveiled a major new release of RivalMap, the first web-based application that combines a unique set of features specifically designed to help companies of all sizes track and share information about their competitors and market. The new version of the application makes it easier for businesses to organize and address breaking news and important industry-related information.

“RivalMap now offers key tools to help companies stay on top of important market changes and take advantage of emerging developments in their industry”, said Andrew Holt, Co-founder of RivalSoft. “Before RivalMap, information that companies had on competitors and market events was scattered through files, e-mails, and in the minds of colleagues. With RivalMap, companies have a single hub for industry information, providing a better way to discover important information and leverage it internally with less work. News, information, and discussions are easily centralized, organized, and made available to everyone inside a company. Competitor and market insights are crucial to a company's ability to make informed business decisions – RivalMap delivers a total solution for that need.”

“The addition of an automated news service, which makes use of NewsGator technologies, adds a new level of functionality to RivalMap,” said Kris Rasmussen, fellow Co-founder of RivalSoft. “RivalMap now brings together relevant news and feeds in one place where they can be harnessed collaboratively. RivalMap is tremendously valuable for companies that need to monitor their market and identify important updates and trends.”

“We are very excited about the integration of a news engine into RivalMap. In addition to providing the APIs, we use RivalMap internally and have seen the leap in value that integrated content provides,” said Jeff Nolan, VP of the SaaS group at NewsGator. “Our Smart Feeds are pulling in not only traditional content via RSS but also aggregating Twitter updates, LinkedIn messages, and many more sources all based on keywords.”

RivalMap is a web-based hosted application, with no set-up time or up-front fees. To get started, companies only have to create an account at http://www.rivalmap.com (it takes less than a minute). After adding profiles for competitors and adding feeds or news keywords to track, any user with access can start clipping important news and posting updates, concerns, files, and other content. From that point forward, the company has one place for workers to access and discuss information on competitors, industry updates, collateral the company has (like sales assets), and more.

Pricing & Information

RivalMap is free for up to 3 users, with access to the news feature for the first 30 days. For only $24/month companies get 3 users, unlimited news management, and file sharing. For $49/month companies get 5 users, $99/month allows 10 users, and $199/month allows 25 users, all with the addition of SSL encryption. Enterprise plans for accounts larger than 25 users are available. All paying plans include a 30-day free trial. Companies can start using RivalMap immediately at http://www.rivalmap.com.

About RivalSoft

Palo Alto-based RivalSoft provides innovative web-based applications to companies of all sizes, helping them stay more informed, make better decisions, and improve communication. RivalSoft's mission is to make easy-to-use software that empowers companies and their employees, improving the work-flow of individuals while providing collective results for the entire company. Their products have been featured in TechCrunch, InformationWeek, InfoWorld, Financial Times, and numerous other publications.

Contact Information

Andrew Holt
RivalSoft Inc.
(650) 488-8286
andrew(at)rivalsoftinc(dot)com

About NewsGator Software-As-A-Service

Contact Information

Laura Farrelly
NewsGator
303-552-2046
lauraf(at)newsgator(dot)com
Jennifer Gazin or Corey Lewis
LaunchSquad
415.625.8555
newsgator(at)launchsquad(dot)com

washingtonpost.com, Newsweek Partner with NewsGator and Microsoft to Create Free Windows Mobile Application for 2008 Elections

Wed, 28 May 2008 20:07:28 GMT

Campaign Tracker Provides Individuals With Convenient, Mobile Access To Breaking News Featuring Their Favorite Presidential Candidates

Denver, Colo. — May 28, 2008 — NewsGator Technologies, Inc., along with washingtonpost.com and Newsweek, today unveiled Campaign Tracker, a free application for Microsoft Windows Mobile phones. The Microsoft-sponsored mobile application will enhance washingtonpost.com’s and Newsweek’s up-to-the-minute, portable coverage on the 2008 candidates and elections.

Harnessing the breadth of syndication solutions of NewsGator’s Mobile Reader, washingtonpost.com and Newsweek will aggregate political content from across their media properties, extending the reach of their brands and letting their readers access the most recent and popular news on any given candidate, right from their mobile phones. Campaign Tracker will also utilize NewsGator’s Editor’s Desk for full editorial control, enabling washingtonpost.com and Newsweek to create an optimal RSS feed reading experience and present the news in ways that will provide the most value to their readers.

Campaign Tracker was developed in conjunction with Microsoft through Mobile2Market and runs on Microsoft Windows Mobile phones. Since the mobile application is not built on a Web site, readers can access the latest candidate news from wherever they are, even when they’re out of wireless range or on an airplane. Campaign Tracker makes for an enjoyable and fast mobile reading experience, as each post contains the entire article so there’s no need to click through to the source.

“Developing innovative ways to distribute our content off our sites has been a top priority for us this year,” said Jennifer Moyer, COO, Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive. “We’re excited to utilize NewsGator’s aggregation service to more effectively provide mobile users with Microsoft Windows access to washingtonpost.com’s and Newsweek.com’s campaign and political news in real time.”

“Working with washingtonpost.com, Newsweek and Microsoft is terrific validation for NewsGator’s leadership in syndicating content and developing unique widgets and readers catered to today’s consumer tastes,” said Jeff Nolan, vice president, NewsGator’s Software-as-a-Service group. “NewsGator’s Mobile Reader gives media companies cutting-edge capabilities to deliver a wide range of content directly to a user, whether they’re commuting on a bus or flying across the country.”

NewsGator’s mobile reader is part of NewsGator Software-as-a-Service, which encompasses the company’s syndication and data services offerings and helps media companies, content publishers and advertisers engage audiences through the use of social media and Web 2.0 technologies. NewsGator's Web 2.0 syndication products, including personalized RSS readers, Widget Framework, Community Publisher and Widget Ads, give companies the tools they need to enable their audiences to create, subscribe and interact with the most relevant content while staying within the company's brand. NewsGator Software-as-a-Service is in use by some of the world's largest media companies and brands, including CNN, Media General, National Geographic, Newsweek, CBS News, the San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today and Discovery Communications. For more information, visit http://www.NewsgatorWidgets.com.

About NewsGator Technologies, Inc.

NewsGator Technologies is a pioneer in RSS and Enterprise 2.0 technologies. Headquartered in Denver, Colo., NewsGator develops and markets RSS aggregation solutions for individual end users, enterprises and online content providers. Using NewsGator products and solutions, businesses and consumers can subscribe to news, information, podcasts and other relevant content more efficiently and effectively than with traditional channels. With NewsGator, users have access to RSS information via the Web, Microsoft Outlook, mobile devices and both Windows- and Mac-based desktop clients. All NewsGator products synchronize seamlessly, enabling users to read their RSS feeds anywhere, anytime, with any device. For more information, visit www.newsgator.com.

Contact Information
Laura Farrelly
NewsGator
303-552-2046
lauraf(at)newsgator(dot)com

Jennifer Gazin or Zoe Vandeveer
LaunchSquad
415.625.8555
newsgator(at)launchsquad(dot)com

NewsGator Delivers Recommended RSS Articles via Collaborative Filtering

Thu, 22 May 2008 18:55:28 GMT

Addition of Recommendations from SenseArray™ in NewsGator Online Reader Provides Users With the Best Stories From More Than 2.7 Million Feeds

Denver, Colo. — May 22, 2008 — NewsGator Technologies, Inc. announced today that it has integrated Uprizer Labs’ SenseArray collaborative filtering capabilities into its NewsGator Online RSS Reader to provide recommended stories to users. The unique combination of relevance data gathered from NewsGator’s users and SenseArray’s powerful filtering delivers an innovative recommendation system giving users great stories from feeds they’ve never seen.

The recommended stories feature works by sending to SenseArray the relevance data collected when users click links, tag, save or forward articles. Users can also give direct feedback on the recommended articles with simple “thumbs up” and “thumbs down” controls. All users get a set of recommended recent stories chosen from the seven million new daily articles NewsGator retrieves. Users can also display recommendations within Top News, Entertainment, Sports, Fun Stuff, Science and Technology categories.

“Added to NewsGator Online, SenseArray will recommend stories to a person based on their normal interactions with their favorite NewsGator RSS Reader,” said Ian Clarke, CEO of Uprizer Labs. “In early tests, the system is proving to be extremely accurate in its ability to predict users’ tastes and interests.”

“Collaborative filtering has been extremely successful in helping users find products on services like Amazon.com and Netflix,” said Brian Kellner, vice president of products for NewsGator. “NewsGator is using our huge stream of relevance actions in a truly innovative way with the SenseArray collaborative filter to provide the same kind of recommendation capabilities with RSS articles.”

NewsGator’s award-winning RSS products for PC (FeedDemon), Mac (NetNewsWire), Microsoft Outlook (Inbox), mobile (NewsGator Go!) and online (NewsGator Online) deliver a best-of-breed RSS reading experience that synchronizes through NewsGator’s online platform. All of NewsGator’s client RSS reader products are available free of charge and include free synchronization along with other services. Users can enjoy the great features and performance of all of NewsGator’s Web, desktop and mobile readers for iPhone, Windows Mobile, and BlackBerry (powered by FreeRange), all synchronized to provide the same view of their RSS content no matter when or where they read it.

About NewsGator Technologies, Inc.

About Uprizer Labs, LLC

Uprizer Labs is a software development company, specializing in machine learning and peer-to-peer technologies. SenseArray, the company’s flagship product, provides extremely accurate predictions through the combination of proprietary algorithms and optional tag-based filtering. For more information, visit www.sensearray.com.

Contact Information
Laura Farrelly
NewsGator
303-552-2046
lauraf(at)newsgator(dot)com

Ian Clarke
Uprizer Labs, LLC
512.422.3588
ian(at)sensearray(dot)com

Jennifer Gazin or Corey Lewis
LaunchSquad
415.625.8555
newsgator(at)launchsquad(dot)com

NewsGator Enhances Best-Of-Breed RSS Reader Via Partnership With AideRSS

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:59:14 GMT

Addition of PostRank™ to NewsGator Online Reader Provides Users With More Relevant News and Information

Denver, Colo. — April 18, 2008 — NewsGator Technologies, Inc. announced today that it has integrated AideRSS’s PostRank™ filtering capabilities into its NewsGator Online RSS reader to offer more relevant news and social search features to users. The partnership will enhance NewsGator’s ability to provide users with an easy way to sort posts based on the attention those stories are getting across the Internet.

AideRSS’s PostRank™ is a scoring system developed to rank each article based on how people interact with stories through social tagging, rating and commenting.

“Added to NewsGator Online, PostRank™ will suggest relevant articles and feeds to a person based on the social engagement, article ranking and other interactions with the RSS Reader,” said Ilya Grigorik, CTO for AideRSS. “Combining PostRank™ with NewsGator’s industry leading relevancy features ensures that NewsGator Online users Read What Matters and have easy access to relevant, filtered news that is more targeted to their individual needs.”

“PostRank™ adds a whole new level of functionality and usefulness to NewsGator Online and creates an enhanced experience for our users,” said Brian Kellner, vice president of products for NewsGator. “NewsGator already provides customers with the most relevant and targeted RSS reading experience in the industry. We use the anonymous content consumption patterns of our over one million customers to drive the relevance of each user’s experience. With AideRSS, it is now even easier for our customers to see the articles that are getting the most attention across the internet.”

About NewsGator Technologies, Inc.

About AideRSS, Inc.

AideRSS is a rapidly growing Web 2.0 company located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Founded in January 2007, AideRSS focuses on delivering productivity and information management tools
that deal with information overload and help users find and “Read What Matters™”. Like a newspaper editor who picks the relevant stories off the newswire services, AideRSS analyzes all of the stories in an RSS stream, assigns a score based on social engagement, and delivers only the most relevant stories to a reader’s inbox based on their chosen filtering level. For more information, visit www.aiderss.com.

Contact Information
Laura Farrelly
NewsGator
303-552-2046
lauraf(at)newsgator(dot)com

Ilya Grigorik
AideRSS, Inc.
519.888.3322
Ilya(at)aiderss(dot)com

Jennifer Gazin or Corey Lewis
LaunchSquad
415.625.8555
newsgator(at)launchsquad(dot)com

NewsGator Unveils Inbox 3.0, the Premier RSS Reader for Microsoft Outlook

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:20:40 GMT

Inbox 3.0 Provides RSS Users With More Relevant News and Content Delivered Directly to Their Outlook Folders

Denver, Colo. — April 17, 2008 — NewsGator Technologies, Inc., today announced the release of Inbox 3.0, a free reader for Microsoft Outlook that boasts several new features including enhanced relevancy, attention reporting, easy subscription adding, flag synchronization and a completely updated user interface. Ideally suited for people who spend a large part of their day interacting with Outlook, Inbox 3.0 allows users to take advantage of the ability to track and manage all of their RSS content within their email application.

Attention Reporting and APML

With Inbox 3.0, people can read the information and news that matters most to them from within Outlook, whether they are online or offline. Since NewsGator’s January 2008 announcement that it would offer free readers, it has seen dramatically accelerated growth of its community of RSS users. NewsGator is using the anonymous content consumption patterns from this community to drive the relevance of each person’s reading experience. Inbox 3.0 takes advantage of this relevance metadata to provide users with more relevant news and information, and also keeps track of what subscriptions users care most about and enables users to export this information to APML (Attention Profiling Mark-up Language) so that it can be easily shared with other services.

Additional Features

Additional new features of Inbox 3.0 include:

• Updated User Interface (UI) – Inbox 3.0’s redesigned UI inherits the look and feel of Outlook 2007, making the reading experience familiar and easy-to-use;

• Easy Subscription Adding – Users can now effortlessly find and add new subscriptions by typing what they’re interested in and letting Inbox 3.0 search the Internet to automatically add the subscriptions they want;

• Flag Synchronization – Users can utilize Outlook’s built-in flagging feature and synchronize their flagged items with other copies of Outlook and with NewsGator’s Mac and PC RSS readers –NetNewsWire and FeedDemon.

"At NewsGator, we know that many people spend a bulk of their day in Microsoft Outlook, and we are committed to bringing best-of-breed reading experiences to wherever people want them," said Brian Kellner, vice president of products for NewsGator. "This latest version of Inbox 3.0 is a powerful update, and having attention data around what feeds are most relevant to you is a great added benefit. With the new user interface and easy-to-add subscriptions, users can streamline the way they access and consume a wide range of content from across the Internet, from blogs to news sites to internal corporate content."

About NewsGator Technologies, Inc.

Contact Information
Laura Farrelly
NewsGator
303-552-2046
lauraf(at)newsgator(dot)com

Jennifer Gazin or Zoe Vandeveer
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TMS Debuts Baseball Mini-Application Powered by NewsGator

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:36:50 GMT

Find Out Quickly "What Channel is Tonight’s Ballgame On?"

Chicago, Ill., April 5, 2008 - Online newspapers are now able to easily give baseball fans a quick answer to "What channel is tonight’s game on?" with the new baseball telecast tracking application from Tribune Media Services powered by NewsGator.

"With the explosion of sports programming on television, consumers are challenged with finding the right channel where their team will play," says Cameron Yung, Executive Director of Sales for TMS. "This fills the need for a quick, visual way of providing that information in a format that naturally lends itself to an advertising sponsorship."

TMS selected NewsGator Technologies Inc. to power this service as well as other TV and movie listings "mini-apps" now under development for TMS's new suite of specialized content applications specifically geared for online newspapers.

"This innovative service from TMS enables online newspapers to engage readers with highly dynamic and relevant content that increases page views and site visit times," says Jeff Nolan, vice president, NewsGator Software-as-a-Service. "The result is higher ad views and click-through-rates, which translate to additional monetization opportunities for online newspapers."

Designed to fit on a newspaper web site page, the application automatically tracks and updates home team schedules and includes all baseball games on local and national channels in their area.

TMS is the leader in providing updated listings data to online and on-screen services. Long a provider of complete hosted Zap2it Movies and Zap2it TV pages to hundreds of newspapers, TMS now demonstrates how smaller slices of listings data can help newspapers add reader and advertiser appeal throughout their online sites.

About NewsGator Software-As-A-Service

NewsGator Software-as-a-Service encompasses NewsGator Technologies’ syndication and data services offerings and helps media companies, content publishers and advertisers engage audiences through the use of social media and Web 2.0 technologies. NewsGator's Web 2.0 syndication products, including personalized RSS readers, Widget Framework, Community Publisher and Widget Ads give companies the tools they need to enable their audiences to create, subscribe and interact with the most relevant content while staying within the company's brand. NewsGator Software-as-a-Service is in use by some of the world's largest media companies and brands, including CNN, Media General, National Geographic, Newsweek, CBS News, the San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today and Discovery Communications. For more information, please visit: www.newsgatorwidgets.com.

About Tribune Media Services Entertainment Products Division

Tribune Media Services' Entertainment Products division is an international leader in entertainment navigation. It provides industry-leading databases of TV, movie and celebrity information; guides in print, online and on-screen formats; and advertising and marketing services to build audiences. For more information about TMS Entertainment Products visit TribuneMediaEntertainment.com.

Contact:

Cameron Yung
Executive Director, Newspaper Sales
312.527.8111
cyung@tribune.com