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Email provider MailChimp today announced the integration of an RSS-to-email feature into its leading self-service email marketing platform, that includes automatic translation and social media links for sharing posts, enabling bloggers to expand their readership worldwide. Over the last few years, RSS has established itself as a great delivery tool for distributing information, but for many, email is still the preferred way to receive important updates. While blog traffic continues to grow,...

LONDON, Oct. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Channels.com launched a series of enhancements that will provide dramatic improvements in the availability of Web video podcasts & video RSS feeds to non-English speaking Web users. The new Channels(TM) features include non-English language search and the addition of over 2500 new video podcast feeds in Spanish, Italian, German and French. Channels.com is a free Web service that's like a DVR for Web video. Just as millions of consumers use a home DVR to...

By Cromity, Jamal THERE ARE SOME GREAT COMBINATIONS OF WEB 2.0 TOOLS THAT CAN ENHANCE STANDARD WEB PAGES, ALERTS, NEWSLETTERS AND LIST-SERVES AND THEY CAN BE INCORPORATED INTO YOUR WORKFLOWS RIGHT NOW Are you looking for better ways to share much needed information? There are some great combinations of Web 2.0 tools that can enhance standard Web pages, alerts, newsletters and list-serves and they can be incorporated into your workflows right now! The Web 2.0 technologies I am referring to...

DENVER, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Are you thinking of deploying something like Facebook as a business tool in your enterprise? Many companies are: Enterprise spending on Web 2.0 technologies will surge over the next five years to reach $4.6 billion globally, predicts Forrester Research. The following strategies will help ensure your initiative flourishes, says social computing company NewsGator in a white paper authored earlier this year. 1. Define acceptable use. Although the purpose of...

Avant Force, creators of the critically acclaimed Avant Browser, today announced the launch of the new Orca web browser. The Orca Browser is an extremely fast and user-friendly web browser designed to add key functionality out of the box (and not requiring additional extensions) based on the Gecko 1.9 (Firefox 3) platform. The Orca Browser is dedicated to supporting socially responsible causes such as improving the environment which will be part of future initiatives. With the recently...

DENVER, Aug. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As bloggers and video bloggers gain influence over presidential politics, the electorate has a fresh way of tracking their portrayal of this week's Democratic National Convention in real time. Denver-based NewsGator Technologies is aggregating new media feeds in content syndication widgets especially for the convention, enabling any individual, media company, webmaster or social network to freely grab and plug the widget into their own site. These...

DENVER, Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- NewsGator Technologies, Inc. today announced that it has partnered with National Geographic to create, host and track a series of dynamic widgets, including an interactive puzzle widget that transforms photographs into a digital jigsaw puzzle that users spend, on average, several minutes assembling. The campaign redefines and transcends the traditional widget syndication model (download to start pages and social networking sites such as Facebook, iGoogle, or...

NewsGator Technologies and Gigya, the largest widget distribution network, today announced a partnership to bring new capabilities to media companies looking to grow both the audience and revenue for their content. With this partnership, NewsGator will integrate Gigya's Wildfire distribution and tracking technology into its industry leading syndication network. The combined offer will provide media clients with a streamlined process for content syndication, the ability to distribute content...

Mobispine AB (STO:MOBS) an aggregator of news and content for the Mobile Internet has acquired NewsAlloy one of the first rich featured Web based feed reader. Mobispine and NewsAlloy are both leading innovators in the Really Simple Syndication (RSS) space and the companies combined technologies and expertise will shake up the market and offer users a seamless product to view personalized news feeds on both mobile phones and PCs. Mobispine now has 300,000+ active mobile users per month and the...

NewsGator Technologies Inc. today announced a partnership with Agence France-Presse (AFP) to provide widgets featuring Olympics news and event coverage to media sites at no charge. With this program, media companies receive complimentary access to premium AFP content prepackaged in branded and engaging widgets that they can add to their Web site. The Olympics widgets are supported by advertising and approved distribution partners are eligible to receive a portion of the advertising revenue...