NewsGator Partners with Gigya

Today we made a public announcement of our partnership with Gigya.  Gigya offers Wildfire – the leading widget distribution and tracking technology.  We have integrated our content syndication platform with Wildfire.  The combined offer provides media companies with new content syndication and distribution capabilities.  Media companies can now distribute content to audiences on more than 50 platforms and track where that content is being consumed.  And the companies can simplify the syndication of content with NewsGator’s database of public RSS content.  This database is the industry’s largest with an archive of over 2.1 billion individual content items and more than 7 million posts added daily.

To learn more, read our press release.

NetNewsWire for iPhone – Available Now – For Free!

RSS and iPhone fans will celebrate today as NetNewsWire is now available for iPhone and it is FREE! 

Brent Simmons, creator of Eddy award-winning NetNewsWire for Mac, has done a great job of taking the core features of NetNewsWire and translating those into a simple, clean application that melds perfectly with the iPhone’s intuitive and easy-to-use interface.

For more information, check out some of the early coverage from Clint Ecker at ars technica and Paul Glazowski at Mashable.  Or, visit our website.

AFP & NewsGator Partner To Offer Free Olympics Widgets - Guaranteed CPM

I have always wanted to be an Olympian. Unfortunately I am not gifted with superior athletic abilities or a "Lance Armstrong level" of VO2 Max. So, instead I live vicariously through the lucky athletes that get to compete in The Games. I follow pre-Olympics trials, read Olympics news coverage, track metal counts by country, and of course watch as many events as possible.

Given my love of the Games, I am especially excited about NewsGator’s latest partnership. We are working with AFP to offer free Olympics widgets. The widgets contain AFP’s premium content and allow fans like me to take Olympics news to their favorite home page or social networking site.

But even more exciting than my ability to better track the Olympics is the fact that these widgets offer content owners and distributors a new syndication model. With this program, AFP is extending their brand and content to new online locations by allowing approved media companies to display the widgets on their sites. The result is exposure of AFP content to a wider online audience.

Not only does AFP benefit, but their media partners do as well. Media companies can co-brand the widget and with the widget they are providing their online audience with content that is in high demand. In addition, media companies receive a new stream of online revenue as NewsGator is guaranteeing a share of the widgets’ advertising revenue. Interested media companies can sign-up here.

If you would like to learn more, check out some of these resources:

• Widget Sign-Up Page
• Venture Chronicles Blog
• NewsGator Widgets Blog
• NewsGator/AFP Press Release

Let the Games begin!