Garfield, Doonesbury, Political Cartoons, Commentary & More Available through NewsGator; NewsGator Technologies & uclick Announce Premium Content Partnership.DENVER -- NewsGator Technologies NewsGator Technologies is a company founded in 2003 and placed in Denver, providing commercial products primarily for Web syndication. This company is not associated with the adware Gator e-Wallet. , the leading RSS (Really Simple Syndication) A syndication format that was developed by Netscape in 1999 and became very popular for aggregating updates to blogs and the news sites. RSS has also stood for "Rich Site Summary" and "RDF Site Summary. software platform company, announced today that it has started to distribute RSS feeds for some of America's best-known comic and commentary brands. NewsGator users will now have access to twenty exclusive feeds from uclick, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , the online arm of Universal Press Syndicate Universal Press Syndicate, an Andrews McMeel Universal company, is the world's largest independent syndicate and provides syndication for a number of lifestyle and opinion columns, comics, and various other content. (UPS), the largest independent syndication company. In addition to UPS's content, uclick also makes content available for syndication from Tribune Media and Creator's Syndicate. "We're thrilled to work with NewsGator, the leader in the exploding new medium of RSS technologies, to bring some of our best content to readers wherever, and whenever, they want it," said Chris Pizey, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of uclick. Greg Reinacker, President and Founder of NewsGator, said, "This agreement marks another step in our effort to provide the best content available in the market to our customers. Subscribers to NewsGator Online Services can now add some of America's most beloved content to their premium subscriptions and keep up with it wherever and whenever they want. Imagine fresh political commentary in your Outlook folder, Doonesbury on your Media Center, and the latest advice from Motley Fool on your cell phone." In addition to reading Garfield, Doonesbury, Cathy and Ziggy, users can tap into content from Dear Abby Dear Abby column of moral or psychological advice; syndicated since 1956. [Pop. Culture: Payton, 185] See : Guidance , Focus on the Family, Horoscopes, News of the Weird News of the Weird is a syndicated newspaper column edited by Chuck Shepherd that collects bizarre news stories. It was created in 1988. As of 2006, it is syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate and published in more than 250 newspapers in the United States and Canada. , The Boondocks, among many others. The uclick feeds are among the more than 100 premium content feeds available to subscribers to NewsGator Online Services. The subscription service allows users to read their subscribed content any time, any place and on any device. NewsGator Online includes a web edition, a POP edition, which works with any popular email client and the mobile edition, which enables users to read their subscribed text feeds on any mobile device that supports HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. , including wireless phones and PDAs. NewsGator Online Services also features synchronization so users can ensure their feeds appear only where and when they want them, and an ever-increasing range of customization tools and features. NewsGator Online Services is a subscription service and is available at http://services.newsgator.com. Pricing starts at $5.95/month. About uclick uclick is the largest packager and distributor of branded comics, word games and other content on the Web. uclick, based in Kansas City, syndicates the highly sought-after work of more than 140 nationally syndicated creators of comics, puzzles, games and text features -- on the Web and wireless devices. More than 200 newspaper Web sites feature uclick content, including NYTimes.com and WashingtonPost.com. uclick content is also found on major portals such as AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , Yahoo.com, MSNBC.com, CBSNews.com and iWon.com. uclick's content catalog includes such brand names as "Bloom County," "Garfield," "Doonesbury," "Cathy," "FoxTrot foxtrot one of the two artificial gaits of the five-gaited horse. A four-beat gait midway in speed between a walk and a trot. There is a great deal of similarity with several other gaits such as amble, fadge, slow pace, stepping pace, running walk, jog, hound jog. ," "Ziggy," "The Boondocks," "Pat Oliphant," "News of the Weird," "Universal Crossword," "Dear Abby" and more. In addition, uclick develops and hosts Web sites such as Garfield.com, Doonesbury.com, Ziggy.com and sites of other key creators. uclick has also developed two successful subscription-based services, My Comics Page and The Puzzle Society. uclick is an Andrews McMeel Universal The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. Please help [ improve the introduction] to meet Wikipedia's layout standards. You can discuss the issue on the talk page. Company. Andrews McMeel Universal also includes Universal Press Syndicate and Andrews McMeel Publishing. Visit http://www.uclick.com for more information. About NewsGator Technologies NewsGator Technologies is the leading RSS software platform company. The desktop product NewsGator for Outlook is a news aggregator that runs in Microsoft Outlook, which allows users to subscribe to syndicated RSS news feeds to be delivered directly into their Microsoft Outlook and Exchange server folders. NewsGator Online Services provides premium content and content aggregation tools and services, which allows users to find the content they need, and read it wherever they are, on any device. For more information, visit us on the web at http://www.newsgator.com and http://services.newsgator.com. |
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