NYTimes.com Announces New Tool to Enable Users to Share Times Content via Select Sites.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- NYTimes.com today announced the addition of a new tool that gives readers the ability to post articles from The New York Times to other select sites, such as Digg(TM), Facebook[R] and Newsvine.com. Readers can also link to NYTimes.com content from blogs or their homepages via a url offered in a permalink window. In making the announcement, Vivian Schiller, senior vice president and general manager, NYTimes.com said, "We're very excited about offering our readers a new tool to share their favorite New York Times content. This new capability extends the Web-based conversation while encouraging new communities of readers to share and discuss a wide range of interests, whether by linking to an article about politics from their homepage or adding coverage of world news to their blogs." The tool is now featured on all free article pages across the site. It's labeled "share" and positioned with the e-mail and print tools. The New York Times Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : NYT NYT New York Times NYT National Youth Theatre (UK) NYT New York Transit (New York, USA) NYT New York Tribune ), a leading media company with 2005 revenues of $3.4 billion, includes The New York Times, the New York Times, The Morning daily newspaper, long the U.S. newspaper of record. From its establishment in 1851 it has aimed to avoid sensationalism and to appeal to cultured, intellectual readers. International Herald Tribune International Herald Tribune Daily newspaper published in Paris. It has long been the staple source of English-language news for American expatriates, tourists, and businesspeople in Europe. , The Boston Globe, 15 other daily newspapers, nine network-affiliated television stations, two New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. radio stations and 35 Web sites, including NYTimes.com, Boston.com and About.com. The Company's core purpose is to enhance society by creating, collecting and distributing high-quality news, information and entertainment. About Digg Digg is changing the way millions of people get their news and other Web content. Digg harnesses the collaborative filter of the world's Internet audience to prioritize the overwhelming amount of content available on the Web. With an estimated terabyte of new content added to the Internet every day, Digg is creating a form of "social content" that allows its community of users to serve as arbiters of what content is the most important, rather than traditional editors or other content gatekeepers. Founded in 2004, Digg is headquartered in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . About Facebook Founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur. As a Harvard College student he founded the online social networking website Facebook with the help of fellow Harvard student and computer science major Andrew McCollum as well as , Facebook helps people better understand the world around them by developing technologies that facilitate the spread of information through social networks. The site has more than 12 million registered users in over 40,000 geographic, work-related, collegiate, and high school networks, and according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. comScore's MediaMetrix report, ranks as the seventh-most trafficked site in the United States. Facebook is privately held and headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif. About Newsvine.com Seattle-based Newsvine is a fast-growing social platform for reading, writing, and interacting with the news. With articles from the Associated Press, major news organizations, and thousands of individual contributors around the world, Newsvine brings together the best of established media and citizen generated content. Updated continuously, but never edited, Newsvine.com is an instant reflection of what the world is talking about at any given moment. Trademarks Facebook is a registered trademark of Facebook Inc. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. This press release can be downloaded from www.nytco.com and www.nytco.com/community |
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