Press Releases Archive

Waterloo, Ont. – July 10, 2008 – AideRSS, Inc. today announced the launch of the www.postrank.com website, further establishing PostRank as the industry standard for filtering and ranking online articles, news and blog posts. With the launch of postrank.com also comes the addition of Thematic PostRankTM, which provides an enhanced level of personalization to the RSS experience by offering a deeper level of customized context and social relevancy.

AideRSS released PostRank one year ago to provide RSS subscribers with an easy way to reduce information overload and find and read what matters by ranking stories based on the level of social engagement. A PostRank score of 1 to 10 is applied to each article and instantly indicates a relative measure of engagement with that item across the internet. It allows the reader to infer attributes of social relevancy and influence to what they are reading. In April, AideRSS was excited to announce a partnership with NewsGator, further validating the value of the service through the integration of PostRank with NewsGator’s best of breed NewsGator Online reader.

Now, with the addition of Thematic PostRank, publishers, individuals and developers will get a significantly enhanced user experience through further customization based on themes or topics of personal interest.

"The need for thematic ranking was something we heard consistently from our user base," said Ilya Grigorik, founder and CTO of AideRSS. "We are rapidly executing on our mission to increase the relevance of what users find in their RSS inbox. The launch of Thematic PostRank is the next in a series of many exciting new information management solutions we’re working on."

Thematic ranking allows the user to group posts or stories from different sources based on topics or themes, then ranks those posts against each other based on social engagement using the PostRank algorithm. Now, in addition to being able to filter and rank a group of feeds or news sources against their own individual historical levels of engagement, users can rank posts or stories from different sources, providing a more powerful and targeted indication of social relevance.

Jeff Nolan, Vice President, NewsGator Consumer & Media Services said, "Thematic Ranking in PostRank gives users a more focused and personalized experience. Grouping and ranking posts based on themes of interest allows the kind of customization that takes RSS reading to a new level."

The launch of postrank.com also makes it easier for publishers, individuals and developers to access the benefits being offered to each target audience. "The excellent feedback we received with respect to the AideRSS website in the last 12 months was instrumental in our decision to launch postrank.com," said Ilya Grigorik. "With the service established and the incredible market acceptance we’ve received, we are now looking to turn PostRank into the name brand for RSS filtering and engagement ranking across the internet".

About AideRSS, Inc.
Founded in January 2007 in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 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:
Ilya Grigorik
AideRSS, Inc.
519.514-0064
Ilya@aiderss.com

Carol Leaman
AideRSS, Inc.
519-514-0064
carol@aiderss.com

Editor’s note: The views expressed in this post may not necessarily represent the views of CenterNetworks. This press release was paid for and provided in its entirety by AideRSS.

Charlotte,N.C, June 26 2008 – Givemebeats.com has just revamped its site, and it’s the top destination for artists to buy beats (music instrumentals) online, and producers to sell beats. Givemebeats.com categorizes itself as a niche social network for those who are interested in beats, and offers the same features as other social networks, such as: create profile, make friends, add photos, send messages, send comments, friends update etc. But Givemebeats.com unique features are focused on the buying and the selling beats online.

Givemebeats.com allows artists to browse, listen and purchase beats produced by some of the most talented producers in the world. It hosts a variety of studio-ready, high-quality, professional beats in multiple genres: Hip-Hop, Rap, R&B, Reggae, Electronica, Dirty South, Freestyle, and more. All the beats are reviewed before they become available for sale, and can be download instantly after purchase, which is convenient for artists who want to run to the studio and record a song real quick, or for other purposes.

Givemebeats.com gives producers a unique platform to sell their beats online. There are no limitations on how many beats a producer can upload, this allow producers to create a huge library of beats, while keeping track on their sales with tools like Sales History, Store Statistics, and more. Also Givemebeats.com has a promotion program for producers willing to attract more people to their beats, to eventually increase their sales potential.

Some other unique Givemebeats.com’s features:

• Design: The site is cleanly designed to allow a better navigation, and ease of use.
• History: The site temporarily records all the beats that you played in case you want to go back to beats that were played recently. It’s really useful, because you may lose track after hearing over 100 beats.
• Favorite: Save beats that you like in your favorites for a later visit or purchase.
• Tags: Help find beats under a certain category, famous artists name or anything set by the producers.
• Producer’s Activities: Automatically get notified when a producer has posted a new beat.
• Producer’s Directory: Display all producers by location.
• Beat Box Store: Allow producers to setup their store to sell beats, and upload an unlimited quantity of beats.
• Re-Arrange Beats: Producers can re-arrange beats in their store to allow a greater exposure to their hottest beats.
• Analytics: Show complete statistics of a Beat Box Store, with visitors, sales tracking, highest and lowest day, new vs returning customers and more.
• Beat Box Player: A widget to add on any sites, or social networks to play the beats that producers have for sale. Also, visitors can purchase beats from the player.
• And a lot more features.

More Info: http://www.Givemebeats.com/

About Givemebeats.com:

Givemebeats.com was founded by Mardix. The idea began as a hobby and has blossomed into a robust, singular network to buy and sell beats online. Mardix currently holds the CEO title, and the website is based and being operated in Charlotte,NC by Givemebeats.com,LLC. Givemebeats.com is self-funded, and is actually seeking funding from investors to broaden its reach and to further develop appealing features on the site.

Press Relations:
Mardix – CEO
Tel.: 1.877.992.3287 ext. 5
Email: press@givemebeats.com
Site: http://www.givemebeats.com

Editor’s note: The views expressed in this post may not necessarily represent the views of CenterNetworks. This press release was paid for and provided in its entirety by GiveMeBeats.

Allows members to create gift registries, wishlists, buyer’s guides and polls.

San Francisco, June 19th, 2008 – Kazowie.com has created a unique social shopping experience. Users can connect with friends, family, and like-minded people by creating and sharing gift registries, wishlists, buyer’s guides, and polls with products found on the site and anywhere on the internet. Industry trend data estimates that an average of 45% of consumers, ages 18 to 51 often share the products that interest them with their peers. 31% of consumers rely on recommendations from their friends and family for purchasing products. Based on this data, Kazowie gives users a unique platform to have the ability to share their impeccable taste with others while discovering online shops and products they never knew existed.

Kazowie’s unique features allow users to:

• Create a one-stop gift registry for weddings, events, or showers. Instead of choosing registries from a select few department stores, a user can compile products from any shop. The purchaser can navigate to an online store through the registry, or find the store locally. Kazowie can manage quantities and fulfilled items.
• Create lists by grabbing items from other people’s lists or let Kazowie do the work for you by adding products with the Kazowie browser tools or submitting the product’s URL.
• Explore products in multiple ways: recently listed items, most popular, what friends have added to their lists, or search through the entire network.
• Create discussions and recommend products.
• Support local shops without online presence by adding products with the name and address to buy it offline.
• Be an expert by creating a buyer’s guide for products.
• Create groups and invite friends to share products of interest with group members.
• Browse through and rate online shops; see what other products each has to offer.
• Create an opinion poll to get the best recommendations from friends, family and other users on the site.
• Subscribe to an RSS feed to be in touch with friends’ activities.
• Login or create an account with existing accounts from Yahoo, Google, OpenID, AOL/AIM.

Blog: http://blog.kazowie.com

About kazowie.com:

Kazowie.com was conceptualized by David Thomson, a thirty-something who felt constrained by the traditional registry process when getting married. He didn’t like being obligated to only pick from a few department stores—not to mention spending an entire Saturday at the mall. With a baby on the way, he wanted to create a personalized gift registry at a single online address that he could actively share with his friends and family. After surveying similar user-generated shopping websites, David realized there was a niche to be filled. As the principal of a user experience design company, Momentum Design Lab, David turned to his company to create this unique experience. "More and more people’s purchasing decisions are influenced by online product research and by friends and family members. Kazowie can offer simple online tools to keep people connected." What began as an online registry has blossomed into a robust, singular online social shopping experience.

Media Relations:

David Thomson
Direct: (415) 977-0814 ext 8102
Main: (415) 977-0814
Fax: (415) 977-0862
Email: press@kazowie.com

Editor’s note: The views expressed in this post may not necessarily represent the views of CenterNetworks. This press release was paid for and provided in its entirety by Kazowie.

Brings On-Demand Content Integration Capabilities to Customers to Deploy and Syndicate Marketing Information across Partner Websites Instantaneously

New York, NY – May 27, 2008 – WebCollage, a leading content exchange for manufacturers and their business partners, today announced the WebCollage Management Center, a self-service platform that brings on-demand content integration capabilities to customers. The WebCollage Management Center empowers manufacturers to deploy and instantaneously syndicate their product marketing information across all of their business partner websites.

To effectively keep pace with increasingly shorter product cycles, manufacturers must be able to proactively replace outdated product information with new content in real-time. Through the WebCollage Management Center, manufacturers can make changes to short-cycle content across all business partner websites and seamlessly add the latest product information. WebCollage customers will have the flexibility to choose the best content update option to suit their individual business needs including scheduled, automated and instant update options.

Manufacturers using the WebCollage Management Center can also preview, approve and send content automatically to their network of retailers. Customers can effectively manage the way their marketing content is maintained on their business partners’ websites, and how often automatic updates are made to their content located within product mini-sites and brand showcases on the WebCollage network. Manufacturers’ marketing content can come in any format including HTML, PDFs, flash and video.

"In today’s competitive shopping environment, manufacturers run the risk of losing business if their online retail shelves feature outdated product information that is not reflective of their latest and greatest offerings,” said Jed Alpert, vice president of marketing for WebCollage. “The WebCollage Management Center addresses this need for speed by giving manufacturers a single point of control to seamlessly align their marketing objectives with real-time content deployment on partner sites, assuring them that their most compelling and up-to-date product marketing content is available to consumers with a purchasing agenda."

About WebCollage

WebCollage is the leading content exchange for manufacturers and their business partners — retailers, VARs and distributors. Using WebCollage’s patented, turnkey solution, manufacturers can extend their Web product marketing content to all of their business partners and address the challenge of how to optimize the selling and marketing of products via the Web. WebCollage benefits manufacturers and business partners alike with measurable bottom-line results including higher conversion rates and larger overall order sizes. Founded in 2000, WebCollage is a privately-held company headquartered in New York, NY and backed by Sierra Ventures, Cedar Fund, Greylock Partners, GSI Commerce, Inc., and Gilde IT Fund. For more information, please visit:www.webcollage.com or call 1.212.563.2112.

Press Contact:
Jed Alpert
WebCollage
+1 (212) 563-2112
press@webcollage.com

Editor’s note: The views expressed in this post may not necessarily represent the views of CenterNetworks. This press release was paid for and provided in its entirety by WebCollage.

Easy-to-Use PlugIn Empowers WordPress Bloggers to Reach More Readers

The SemTech 2008 Conference – San Jose, CA – May 19, 2008 – To meet the needs of WordPress bloggers everywhere, Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI; TSX: TRI; LSE: TRIL: NASDAQ: TRIN), the world’s leading provider of intelligent information, has debuted the new Calais Tagaroo plugin for the open source WordPress publishing platform from WordPress.org.

The Calais Tagaroo plugin makes it easy for WordPress bloggers to tag the people, places, facts and events in their blog posts – and add relevant photos from Flickr – to increase their visual appeal and search accessibility on the Web.

The Calais Tagaroo plug in works in the background while bloggers write to automatically generate tags and find related photos for selection, sizing and insertion via an easy-to-use interface. Bloggers are in control, and can add their own metatags along the way. They can also easily prioritize Tagaroo’s image search on Flickr to find the pictures that best illustrate their story.

"Calais Tagaroo brings automated metatagging and real-time photo search to the Web’s most popular blogging platform," said Thomas Tague, Calais evangelist and project lead, Thomson Reuters. "We are extremely pleased to provide this free utility to WordPress bloggers, enabling them to increase their blogs’ search relevance and to benefit from new and emerging semantic services."

The Calais Tagaroo plugin is easy to use. Here’s how it works:

1. Bloggers on WordPress 2.3 or above go to Tagaroo.OpenCalais.com to download the plugin and get simple instructions.
2. They then go to OpenCalais.com to register for the Calais community and to get a Calais API key.
3. Finally, they use the WordPress settings page to paste a copy into their key space, and start drafting their next blog post.

Calais Tagaroo will start working immediately, suggesting tags for more than 100 types of things (people, companies, geographies, and organizations) and events (natural disasters, management changes, stock offerings, etc.). This vocabulary of facts and events will continue to grow every month to cover additional knowledge domains, such as sports and entertainment.

Calais Tagaroo is another component in the growing Calais toolkit. Calais delivers the power of the world’s leading semantic metadata generation service as a free and open Web service with a growing portfolio of plugins, modules and applications. To learn more about Calais Tagaroo, go to Tagaroo.OpenCalais.com.

About Calais

The Calais initiative supports the interoperability of content and advances Thomson Reuters’ mission to deliver pervasive intelligent information. It leverages the company’s substantial investment in semantic technologies and Natural Language Processing to offer free metadata generation services, developer tools and an open standard for the generation of semantic content. For more information or to get started with the Calais API, go to OpenCalais.com.

About Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. The company combines industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, scientific, healthcare and media markets, powered by the world’s most trusted news organization. With headquarters in New York and major operations in London and Eagan, Minnesota, Thomson Reuters employs more than 50,000 people in 93 countries. Thomson Reuters shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: TRI); Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: TRI); London Stock Exchange (LSE: TRIL); and Nasdaq (NASDAQ: TRIN). For more information, go to www.thomsonreuters.com

Media Contact:
Krista Thomas
Thomson Reuters
+1 415 202 3523
Krista.Thomas@ThomsonReuters.com

Editor’s note: The views expressed in this post may not necessarily represent the views of CenterNetworks. This press release was paid for and provided in its entirety by Thomson Reuters.

Brings the Calais Web Service Together with Yahoo! Search’s New Developer Platform, SearchMonkey to:

• Give Site Owners Access to Semantic Information on Any Web Page
• Participate in Evolving Open Vocabularies with SearchMonkey
• Deliver the Calais Marmoset Toolkit to Publishers and Sites of All Kinds

The SemTech 2008 Conference – San Jose, CA – May 19, 2008 – Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI; TSX: TRI; LSE: TRIL: NASDAQ: TRIN) today announced that it has teamed up with Yahoo! Search to speed the development of semantic search services.

The effort brings Thomson Reuters’ new Calais Web Service, and its developer community at OpenCalais.com, together with Yahoo! Search’s new open developer platform, SearchMonkey, which lets site owners use semantic Web standards to enhance Yahoo! Search results, making them more useful, relevant and visually appealing.

"Our automated semantic metadata generation capabilities help site owners increase the search accessibility of their content while SearchMonkey empowers them to enhance their Yahoo! Search results with images, deep links and more," said Thomas Tague, Calais evangelist and project lead, Thomson Reuters. "Together, we are giving bloggers, publishers and sites owners of all kinds a new level of flexibility as well as the tools they need to enter the era of semantic search."

Thomson Reuters will work closely with Yahoo! Search to include the Calais Web Service for SearchMonkey developers to use in their applications. This will allow them to drill down and retrieve detailed semantic information on the unstructured content of any Web page, including news stories, blog postings and more.

In addition, Thomson Reuters will make the Calais vocabulary for business, including business- and finance-relevant semantic ontologies and entities available for use in SearchMonkey. The parties will work together to extend SearchMonkey’s business-relevant vocabulary over time.

Finally, Thomson Reuters will debut the Calais Marmoset toolkit. This extension to the Calais Web service allows content publishers to automatically generate rich semantic metadata for use by Yahoo! SearchMonkey as well as other metacrawlers and semantic applications. Calais Marmoset is another component in the growing Calais toolkit. Calais delivers the power of the world’s leading semantic metadata generation service as a free and open Web service with a growing portfolio of tools, plugins, modules and applications. Learn more about Calais Marmoset at http://opencalais.com/Tools.

About Calais

The Calais initiative supports the interoperability of content and advances Thomson Reuters’ mission to deliver pervasive intelligent information. It leverages the company’s substantial investment in semantic technologies and Natural Language Processing to offer free metadata generation services, developer tools and an open standard for the generation of seman-tic content. For more information or to get started with the Calais API, please visit OpenCalais.com.

About Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. The company combines industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the fi-nancial, legal, tax and accounting, scientific, healthcare and media markets, powered by the world’s most trusted news organization. With headquarters in New York and major operations in London and Eagan, Minnesota, Thomson Reuters employs more than 50,000 people in 93 countries. Thomson Reuters shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: TRI); Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: TRI); London Stock Exchange (LSE: TRIL); and Nasdaq (NASDAQ: TRIN). For more information, go to www.thomsonreuters.com.

Media Contact:
Krista Thomas
Thomson Reuters
+1 415 202 3523
Krista.Thomas@ThomsonReuters.com

Editor’s note: The views expressed in this post may not necessarily represent the views of CenterNetworks. This press release was paid for and provided in its entirety by Thomson Reuters.

New Modules Make it Easy for Drupal Users to Metatag their Content, Increasing Search Relevance and Accessibility on the Web

The SemTech 2008 Conference – San Jose, CA – May 19, 2008 – Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI; TSX: TRI; LSE: TRIL: NASDAQ: TRIN) and Phase2 Technology have debuted three Calais modules for integration with Drupal, the open source content management platform that supports a variety of Web sites ranging from blogs and online publishers to large interactive communities.

Calais is Thomson Reuters’ Semantic Web Service that enables publishers to automatically metatag the people, places, facts and events in their content to increase its search accessibility on the Web.

The Calais modules for Drupal are feature-rich, highly intuitive and designed to make it easy for Drupal users to automatically metatag their content, generating rich semantic metadata that can be shared via a simple key and integrated into the larger content universe.

"Calais is a natural fit for our experience implementing Drupal on media and publishing sites," said Jeff Walpole, Managing Partner, Phase2 Technology. "We’ll continue our work on Calais and are excited about the functionality these modules will provide to the news and information business."

"Enabling the Semantic Web is an exciting frontier for the future of the Web and a key opportunity for Drupal," said Dries Buytaert, creator of the Drupal open source project and co-founder of Acquia. "We welcome Calais to our community and encourage its future development."

The modules use the power of Calais to suggest terms for association within a piece of content, similar to how del.icio.us recommends relevant tags. They also enable Drupal users to integrate their own publisher- and user-generated metadata as they go forward, to truly customize their installation.

"We’re extremely pleased to be working with Phase2 Technology to provide Drupal users with everything they need to tap Calais’s rich metatagging capabilities," said Thomas Tague, Calais evangelist and project lead, Thomson Reuters. "The new modules make it easy for Drupal users large and small to launch automated metatagging and take advantage of the Semantic Web."

Availability: The Calais modules for Drupal are available now. To learn more, please visit the Calais section of the Phase2 Technology site. Demos can be found here: http://calais.phase2technology.com/content/calais-demo-screencast.

About Drupal

Drupal is open source social publishing software that empowers individuals, teams, and communities to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a Web site. Tens of thousands of people and organizations have used Drupal to power scores of different Web sites, including community Web portals, corporate Web sites, social networking sites and much more. For more information on Drupal, go to www.drupal.org.

About Calais

The Calais initiative supports the interoperability of content and advances Thomson Reuters’ mission to deliver pervasive intelligent information. It leverages the company’s substantial investment in semantic technologies and Natural Language Processing to offer free metadata generation services, developer tools and an open standard for the generation of semantic content. For more information or to get started with the Calais API, go to OpenCalais.com.

About Phase2 Technology

Phase2 Technology is a leading provider of adaptable web software solutions, application development and consulting services. The company specializes in content management systems, content exchange, CRM and online publishing and community tools. We apply our unique Agile Approach methodology to every project and have particular expertise in Drupal, CiviCRM and custom Java applications. The Phase2 Technology development team has been highly active in the Drupal community for several years. For more information, go to www.phase2technology.com.

About Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. The company combines industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, scientific, healthcare and media markets, powered by the world’s most trusted news organization. With headquarters in New York and major operations in London and Eagan, Minnesota, Thomson Reuters employs more than 50,000 people in 93 countries. Thomson Reuters shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: TRI); Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: TRI); London Stock Exchange (LSE: TRIL); and Nasdaq (NASDAQ: TRIN). For more information, go to www.thomsonreuters.com.

Media Contacts:
Tiffany Shackelford
Phase2 Technology
703 548 6050 x 100
Tiffany@Phase2technology.com

Krista Thomas
Thomson Reuters
415 202 3523
Krista.Thomas@ThomsonReuters.com

Editor’s note: The views expressed in this post may not necessarily represent the views of CenterNetworks. This press release was paid for and provided in its entirety by Thomson Reuters.