) November 3, 2008 -- Gigya, Inc., the largest widget and content sharing platform for the social web, today announced that it has created a widget for the Interactive Advertising Bureau The IAB widget was designed to provides easy access to the latest IAB news, upcoming events, standards and guidelines, and a feed of the IABlog, a recognized industry news blog featuring commentary from IAB President and CEO Randall Rothenberg

IAB Widget by Gigya

) December 17, 2008 -- Gigya, Inc., the leading widget and content sharing technology for the social web, announced today that it has incorporated the Yahoo! Application Platform (YAP) into its technology and user interface, offering Yahoo! as one of the platforms on which Gigya's millions of users can collect their favorite widgets. Gigya installs widgets to a container "Widget Wall" application it has developed for YAP, making hundreds of thousands of popular web widgets from thousands of publishers like RockYou and Jib-Jab immediately available to My Yahoo! users.

) October 1, 2008 -- Gigya today announced that it closed an $11MM series C funding round led by DAG Ventures. Gigya's technologies enable publishers and advertisers to distribute their content across the web to the places their target audiences are spending time, and empowers people to share that content with each other. Gigya has gained considerable momentum since its Series B round, led by Mayfield Fund with participation from Benchmark Capital and First Round Capital in March of this year, nearly doubling the size of its network and surpassing revenue goals. According to comScore, Gigya is the largest content sharing platform, reaching more than 158 million unique persons monthly.

) October 27, 2008 -- Gigya, Inc., the largest widget and content sharing platform for the social web, announced today that David Yovanno is joining as Chief Executive Officer. Gigya is ranked by comScore as the largest widget company worldwide with global reach of over 174 million unique users. Yovanno, who was also appointed to the board of directors, joins to take Gigya into the next phase of its growth and will be responsible for day-to-day operations and business strategy. Co-founder and former CEO Eyal Magen will take on the role of Chief Strategy Officer and continue overseeing Israeli operations as General Manager.

David A. Yovanno

) March 13, 2009 -- Gigya, Inc., the leading widget platform, today announced that together with Widgets.com it has relaunched the Widgets.com site as a resource for anyone looking to learn more about widgets. The Widgets.com site provides a widget gallery for end-users looking for great widgets for their social network profile page, personal web page or blog. It also provides widget definitions, articles, research and other resources on widgets for web publishers and advertisers looking to use widgets to further their businesses. Gigya and Widgets.com will continue to enrich the site over time.

) June 22, 2009 -- Gigya, Inc., for the standard for connecting content and users with the social web, today announced growth figures that show Gigya's network now reaches nearly one-third of all web users worldwide. According to comScore's Extended Measures Report, Gigya now reaches 258.3 million unique users worldwide and 85.8 million unique users in the U.S. This represents a 27 percent increase since Q1 2009, and an 82 percent increase since June 2008.

) September 23, 2008 -- Gigya, the leading widget distribution network, and The Weather Channel Interactive, Inc. (TWCi) today announced they have partnered to create a news/breaking weather widget. This small application can be easily grabbed, shared and installed on social network profile pages, personalized home pages, and blogs to monitor news and breaking weather conditions including tropical storms, tornado outbreaks, flooding, and winter weather.

) September 8, 2008 -- Gigya, the leading social technologies company, today announced its Levis® widget campaign, co-created with Avenue A|Razorfish, has been named by the Interactive Advertising Bureau as a finalist for the 2008 MIXX Awards in the category "Widget Marketing Campaign." Avenue A| Razorfish and Gigya partnered to conceptualize, design, and execute this widget advertising campaign for Levi Strauss & Co®. The final Gold, Silver and Bronze winners will be announced at the MIXX Awards Gala on the evening of September 23, 2008 at the Crowne Plaza Times Square Hotel in New York City.

) March 20, 2009 -- Gigya, Inc., the standard for connecting content with the social web, today released the results of a study comparing campaign performance data for the two primary types of brand advertiser widgets: "Social" and "Utility." The study found that as a group, Social widgets outperformed Utility widgets, when installed by users on Social Network pages, in the categories of User Interaction, Widget Longevity, and Widget Virality

) April 17, 2009 -- Gigya, Inc., the leading widget and content sharing platform for the social web, today announced that its executives will appear on stage at four key conferences in the next three weeks. From sharing effective advertising strategies for social applications to addressing new ways to monetize entertainment content on social networks, the information shared at these events is a "must-see" this quarter for marketers interested in using social technologies to achieve their goals.

) June 29, 2009 -- Gigya, Inc., the leading technology for connecting content and consumers with the social web, today announced that its Socialize technology is now available as a plug-in for WordPress. WordPress, the largest self-hosted blogging and OpenSource toolset in the world, has quickly become a favorite among developers seeking rich functionality and ease of use.

) September 16, 2009 -- Gigya, Inc., the leading technology for connecting content and consumers with the social web, today announced it is speaking at three major conferences in September 2009. On the heels of a host of successful implementations of Gigya's social technologies including Turner Sports for recent NBA, PGA and NASCAR events, and CBS for Electronic Arts' Madden 2010 interactive ad campaign, Gigya executives will be at IAB MIXX, OMMA Global, and Shop.org's Annual conference in Las Vegas to talk about how social technologies are helping both publishers and advertisers improve performance.

) January 27, 2009 -- Gigya, Inc., the leading widget and content sharing platform for the social web, today announced that it is taking part in four key conferences in the next three weeks. Touching on themes such as effective use of social media in tough economic times, using widgets to improve consumer daily life and the future of social media and experience, this series of events are a "must-see" for marketers interested in social technologies.

) April 17, 2009 -- Gigya today announced that it has been selected to the 2009 OnHollywood 100 List. The OnHollywood 100 Award is given to private, emerging technology companies in the media and entertainment industries. Gigya was selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team based on demonstration of growth, market opportunity, quality of innovation and customer traction.

) July 16, 2009 -- Gigya today announced that it has been selected to the 2009 AlwaysOn Global 250 List. The AlwaysOn Global 250 Award is given to private, emerging technology companies creating new business opportunities in high-growth markets. Gigya was selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team based on demonstration of growth, market opportunity, quality of innovation and customer traction.

) January 30, 2009 -- Gigya, Inc. today announced that it has been selected for the second year in a row to the 2009 OnMedia 100 List. The OnMedia 100 Award is given to private, emerging technology companies in the advertising, publishing, marketing, branding and public relations spaces. Gigya was selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team based on demonstration of growth, market opportunity, quality of innovation and customer traction.

"We are very pleased to be named to the 2009 OnMedia100," said Dave Yovanno, Gigya's CEO. "This second consecutive win is a testament to our continued focus on innovation, and our team's ability to deliver measurable value to our clients."

) June 23, 2009 -- Netvibes (www.netvibes.com), the leading personalization platform for the Web, today announced a new service to help users discover the exact content they crave and publishers deliver widgets to the right user at the right time. Netvibes Talk to Me is the first widget recommendation and distribution engine that performs on-going, intelligent analyses of users' widget behavior and the context in which widgets are used to deliver individually personalized and perfectly relevant widget recommendations. The service will be progressively rolled out to Netvibes' millions of users through the end of the week.

) October 9, 2008 -- Netvibes (www.netvibes.com), the leading widget and personalized startpage platform, announced today at the Facebook Developer Garage in Paris that it will soon offer full integration with Facebook Connect, enabling its users to: login using their Facebook ID; integrate their Netvibes activity feeds into Facebook; and share and comment on the rich media content, articles, widgets and news in Netvibes with friends on Facebook.com. Later this month, Netvibes will become the first personalized startpage and one of the largest Web properties to officially complete full integration with Facebook Connect.

) December 8, 2008 -- Netvibes (www.netvibes.com), the leading widget and personalized startpage platform, today announced at Le Web '08 in Paris that it has added OpenSocial compatibility to Netvibes Universal Widget API (UWA), the leading universal widget standard. Now developers can rapidly create a new generation of smart, social widgets that can easily and securely tap into users' social networks and run on virtually all widget platforms and desktops.

) November 11, 2008 -- BlogCatalog.com, a fast-growing social network for bloggers and blog search engine, has launched BC 360, an embeddable tool that allows blog readers to perform custom searches on their favorite blogs.    

"With the BC 360 widget, bloggers can now help their readers search across all of their posts and social networks," says Antony Berkman, president of BlogCatalog.com. "It not only searches for content across on their blog, but also relevant links in their Delicious accounts, the photos they've posted on Flickr, or any number of the social networking sites."

) October 20, 2008 -- Widgets have arrived for MyWebGrocer’s 90+ retail customers. This money saving widget is designed to highlight items on sale for customers of our retail grocery partners. Users can download it for their Blogger, TypePad, Pageflakes, Netvibes, Freewebs and iGoogle pages using Widgetbox. Shoprite is the first retail grocer to launch this widget.

) October 2, 2008 -- START MOBILE, the mobile art company, today announced the launch of START MOBILE ART WIDGETS, powered by XLR8 MOBILE'S DIJIT technology.

SHEPARD FAIREY MOBILE ART WIDGET

) December 16, 2008 -- Dailymotion continues to be the most popular independent web video site globally, with over 38 million unique visitors worldwide, according to global Internet information provider comScore Media Metrix Data (October 2008). In addition, Dailymotion’s year to date monthly average of over 36 million unique visitors leads all independent online video web sites.

) December 9, 2008 -- Friendster, Inc., a top 20 global website based on traffic and the #1 social network in Asia, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded the social networking pioneer a new U.S. Patent, titled "Compatibility Scoring of Users in a Social Network" (U.S. Patent No. 7,451,161). Friendster has been granted four patents since July 2006, validating the company's early and continuous innovation in online social networking.

Friendster

) October 20, 2008 -- TxtVox continues its leadership in the burgeoning mobile messaging space with the rollout of AddToAny widget extensions. This seamless integration allows any user of the AddToAny subscription widget to instantly sign up for TxtVox blog alerts directly from within the tool.

"We are delighted to include TxtVox in our widget," commented Pat Diven II, Founder and President of AddToAny. "Our users are passionate about staying connected with their favorite blogs. The ability to easily sign up for mobile alerts should prove to be a very popular addition."

) May 6, 2009 -- Pangea Media, a leader in online quizzes and quiz technology, and Ypulse, the leading media platform for youth media and marketing professionals, have released the results of a jointly developed survey which tracked television consumption and viewing preferences of almost 2,000 of Pangea Media's tween/teen users.

) December 12, 2008 -- Grouptivity, the company that made sharing news fun and easy, is back to reveal the launch of the first free Content Monetization Platform (CMP) for web publishers. By embedding advertising units from Google Adsense into the sharing process initiated by their readers, publishers' ads now become part of a viral communication channel. While most sharing tools allow readers to syndicate content to various destinations like Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Digg and Google; Grouptivity's Share+ goes beyond this action and creates interactive discussions around shared content.

) May 12, 2009 -- Plusmo, Inc., the leader in mobile widgets, applications and application store solutions, was named the global winner of Nokia's "Calling All Innovators" Hackathon for mobile application developers, held last week at the inaugural Nokia Developer Summit in Monaco. The developer contest was held to celebrate the much anticipated launch of the Nokia N97. Plusmo's Rocket mobile app, a social location widget which displays a user's nearest friends on a map, was built on-site by Plusmo developers during the 24-hour Hackathon coding competition.

) April 13, 2009 -- For marketers looking to incorporate social media into their marketing mix in 2009, the challenge of how to get started still remains for most. With Sway's Shoutlet - a comprehensive social media marketing tool - combined with a customized training package, marketers can execute their own Web 2.0 campaigns and take advantage of the impact social media marketing provides, quickly and easily.

) September 4, 2009 -- WhereverTV today announced development of The Cowboys Network widget by Retro Films.HD for the Yahoo! Widget Engine.

) December 10, 2008 -- Netvibes (www.netvibes.com), the leading widget and personalized startpage platform, today announced that it has launched the Web's first flexible, magazine style startpages and multi-view widgets. Now widgets can be resized across different columns and display rich RSS feeds in a variety of exciting new layouts. Netvibes also introduced instant widget creation tools that make it easier than ever to rapidly design and deploy fully customized and branded widgets that are compatible across all major startpage and desktop platforms.

Netvibes offers industry's first magazine style layouts for widgets

) December 18, 2008 -- Today, Sprout (www.sproutinc.com), the premier platform for developing and managing creative engagement marketing campaigns, announced that Wasserman Media Group is using Sprout Mixer to launch an online engagement campaign targeted at Tracy McGrady fans. The campaign encourages fans to create their own personalized widget to determine who is "the Ultimate T-Mac Fan." The fan with the best widget, as selected by T-Mac himself, and the contestant with the most views on their widget, will win exclusive game-worn autographed memorabilia from Tracy.

) December 18, 2008 -- Friendster, Inc., a top 20 global website based on traffic and the #1 social network in Asia, today announced that the all-new Friendster Blogs and Forums are available to Friendster's over 90 million members worldwide. Both products have been enhanced with new features and redesigned.

Friendster

) December 18, 2008 -- Pangea Media, the leader in online quizzes and quiz technology, has released the results of its latest "Pangea Pulse," which tracked the attitudes and preferences of its tween and teen users towards their holiday spending habits.

In a recent Christmas Shopping survey conducted on Quibblo.com, tween and teen users were asked where they will shop for gifts this holiday. Fifty-nine percent responded that they plan to shop in-store rather than online, while 31 percent plan to buy gifts both online and in-stores. When asked how much they will spend on gifts, most (51 percent) said that they will spend under $100, while 30 percent plan to spend between $100 and $500.

) July 16, 2009 -- With the rapid growth of real-time content and activity feeds from sources like Facebook and Twitter, many people are struggling to keep track of multiple friends and interests that change day-to-day. Netvibes (www.netvibes.com), the leading personalization platform for the Web, today launched a novel solution and industry first: drag-and-follow widgets. New Facebook, MySpace and Twitter widgets now enable users to instantly create new widgets to follow new interests simply by dragging and dropping any feed item to their personalized page.

) February 26, 2009 -- Tweetfeed.com, a customizable presentation Web application that captures Twitter activity in real time, added three new features: real time topic trends, personal profiles, and topic widgets. The widget which can easily be added to any Web site or blog was created by BlogCatalog after it purchased Tweetfeed in February.

Tweetfeed is one of several tools developed around Twitter, the real-time short messaging service that works over multiple networks and devices. Currently, Twitter is used by more than 4.5 million people.

) June 29, 2009 -- Commuto has officially released their new community bartering widget, targeting social networking, gaming and blog type websites, based on the ever growing Commuto.com social bartering site.

"We're very excited to release our Community Widget, a first of its kind, which allows users to take their bartering communities and place them on their sites. Now users can create or join hobby specific communities like book clubs or more obscure ones like plant trading and place it on other sites.

) June 12, 2009 -- Imagini, the inventor of VisualDNA and parent company of social discovery network Youniverse, has developed VisualDNA Shops to allow bloggers and online publishers to stay one step ahead of the online shopping trend during the recession.

) October 12, 2008 -- In a market where 20- and 30-somethings pay ever decreasing heed to the broadcast and print media, a revolutionary new model allows the bar and restaurant industry to reach this important consumer demographic through cell phones and social networking sites "Right Now.''YourAreaCode.com (YAC) has invented a new model to grab the attention of young adults through the two fastest growing media channels; the ones that are most personal to these consumers, their cell phones and laptops.

The targeted ads reach a network of more than 800,000 -- and growing -- on sites like Facebook.com, and an unlimited number of cell phone users who read 94% of their text messages.

) July 27, 2009 -- Performance marketing industry leader LinkShare today announced a new partnership with Widgetbox, the leading self-service web widget platform, demonstrating the company's commitment to driving innovation and value for its expansive network of affiliates and merchants. As a result, LinkShare affiliates will be able to create custom, distributable money-making widgets that display products from their merchant partners - and can be virally shared on Facebook. This will help them easily and quickly connect with and inform online consumers in an engaging manner, in their effort to drive revenue on advertisers' sites.