The first fruits of an alliance between NewsGator and Turner International Japan, Inc  (owner of CNN Japan) have arrived!  Turner launched NewsGator-powered widgets on CNN.co.jp on the first of this month. 

What's in it for CNN Japan?  The NewsGator widgets will help them to expand their brand and reach through the viral capabilities of the widgets.  With this widget, site visitors can get CNN news and videos in both English and Japanese, which is cool.  There are two versions of the widget: the wider version for iGoogle and other portals and a narrower version for blogs. In short, the CNN widgets are a one stop solution for worldwide online CNN content.         

A couple more cool things about the widget:

• through the widget on CNN.co.jp it is possible to get real-time news content and videos from various CNN group websites including CNN.com & international sites
• within the widget, users are able to personalize the news categories they'd like to see; they can select from business, US, World news and other categories
• the widget's viral functions include the ability to add it to start pages and other sites like blogs as well as the ability to send headlines and links through email as well as rate popular stories

While I would normally encourage you to check out or add new widgets, I don't blame you one bit if you don't in this case since it's in Japanese.  Though, I will add, serious bonus points for anyone who can read Japanese to translate some of the widget!  I'll send you some NewsGator swag.