Successful Syndicate Conference in San Francisco Completed; Several Companies Announce New Products and Reveal Strategies around RSS, Blogging and Related Syndication Technologies.FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- IDG IDG International Data Group IDG Integrated Drive Generator IDG Installation Design Guide IDG Internet Discussion Group IDG Inset Dielectric Guide IDG International Dangerous Goods (mail, shipping) World Expo, the leading producer of world-class tradeshows, conferences and events for technology markets announced the successful completion of Syndicate(TM), held December 12-14, 2005 at the Hilton 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 . Industry leaders Yahoo!, Microsoft, Google and many others discussed how syndication and social media tools such as 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. , blogs and podcasts are transforming the way businesses do business. Media coverage of the event was very high, and "Syndicate Conference" was in the top ten list of the most popular search term on Technorati.com each day of the event. The next Syndicate is scheduled to take place May 15-17, 2006 at the 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 Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge Brooklyn Bridge, vehicular suspension bridge, New York City, southernmost of the bridges across the East River, between lower Manhattan and Brooklyn; built 1869–83. The achievement of J. A. Roebling and his son W. A. Roebling, it has a span of 1,595. . Several new product introductions occurred during the conference, including: -- Scott Gatz, one of Yahoo!'s leaders on RSS usage throughout Yahoo!'s products, details how Yahoo! Mail is integrating RSS feeds directly into the mail system - the first major free email platform to do so at this level. www.scottgatz.com/blog/2005/11/29/yahoo-mails-full-post-rss-reader. Yahoo! also announced an upgrade to their popular Alerts product to include RSS feeds, which support SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. , instant message, and email. -- Microsoft focused its energy on the powerful new Windows Live suite, including Live.com. Live.com incorporates a breadth of gadgets, RSS feeds, and AJax rich content, among other things. The gadgets draw from a variety of RSS-driven feeds and other sources. -- Attensa introduced 1.0 Beta version of its first RSS reader client, Attensa for Outlook 1.0; Attensa announced it landed $9 million in Series B equity funding Equity funding An investment consisting of a life insurance policy and a mutual fund. The insurance policy is paid by the collateral value of fund shares, giving the investor the advantages of insurance protection with the growth potential of a mutual fund. led by RSS Investors, bringing the total investment to date to $12 million; -- Free Range Communications and Attensa announced a technology partnership to bring RSS AttentionStream synchronization to mobile devices. -- NewsGator announced that Newsweek and Macworld have selected NewsGator Hosted Solution (NGHS NGHS North Gwinnett High School (Georgia) NGHS NHLBI Growth and Health Study NGHS Nottingham Girls High School ) to integrate RSS aggregation into their online sites; NewsGator also announced that its Enterprise Server (NGES NGES Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems NGES New Generation Event Solutions ), an enterprise-class RSS solution, has been implemented at over 20 companies around the world. -- Pheedo, the RSS advertising and analytics experts, released its second in a series of "Pheed Read" reports (www.pheedo.info), providing RSS publishers, advertisers and users insight into RSS usage patterns. It found that standalone RSS ads are proving more compelling than inline ads; RSS ads outperforming Web ads; and more. -- Feedster and Biz360 partnered to help marketing communications executives measure buzz, surface threats and opportunities in the blogosphere The total universe of blogs. See blog. . The new service is called BlogView. -- KnowNow announced that KnowNow eLerts will add both Mozilla Firefox support and the addition of a Windows "Deskbar" for receiving instant notifications of important and relevant content even when your browser is closed; Also, Rentals.com, recent winner of BusinessWeek's Web Innovation Award, has added customer awareness and 'stickiness' by using notification services and RSS content delivery from KnowNow. -- LookSmart and Local.com announced that LookSmart's Furl.net ("Furl") will be the archiving technology powering the "Save" feature on Local.com. -- Technorati launched Technorati Events Feeds Services, and Technorati Contact Feeds Service, allowing users to lift HCard and HCalendar listings on websites and blogs, and import them directly to contact managers and calendars. -- Five Across announced the availability of the new Five Across Connect server product, with a built-in Community Engine. -- Gritwire launched Gritwire Version 1.0, unique among RSS aggregators in its easy-to-use "widget Pronounced "wih-jit," for decades, the term has been a popular word for a generic "thing" when there is no real name for it. It is often used to describe examples of made-up products along with other fictitious names; for example, "10 widgets, 5 frabbits and 2 dingits. " interface architecture. This architecture allows users to view their feeds, friends, wikis See wiki. , and more, all on one page without ever having to refresh the browser. Additionally, a consortium of blogging startups made an announcement at Syndicate with the goal of giving deeper meaning to the Internet by giving people tools to categorize web pages. 30 startups announced the Structured Blogging Initiative to ensure that all the emerging standards were interoperable. Official supporters of the Structured Blogging Initiative included: Attensa, Bloglines, Bloqx, Feedster, FreeRange, Newsgator, Pluck, PubSub Concepts and many others. PR guru Larry Weber, Chairman 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 W2 Group, and Jonathan Schwartz, President and COO of Sun Microsystems, delivered compelling keynote addresses. Other speakers at Syndicate included the who's who of the publishing and corporate marketing industries. Among the many speakers who participated in the keynotes, feature presentations and conference sessions, there were C-level's, president's, senior VP's and founders from organizations such as Feedster, CNET (body) CNET - Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion. Networks, Yahoo!, Washingtonpost.Com, Cymfony, Pluck, Blogads, Spearhead Innovations, Google, Marqui, E-Loan, PubSub, Technorati, WhatCounts, Knight Ridder Digital, Burson-Marsteller, Dow Jones Consumer Electronic Publishing, Ketchum, Microsoft, ZDNet, Pheedo, SimpleFeed, PRWeb and many more. Sponsors and exhibitors at the event included: Cornerstone sponsor Yahoo! Platinum sponsor Microsoft. Silver sponsors: Attensa; Feedster; KnowNow; NewsGator; Pheedo; Pluck; PubSub Concepts; and SimpleFeed. Bronze sponsors: Acquire Media; Cymfony; FreeRange Communications; inclue!; LookSmart; Marqui; PRWeb; Spearhead Innovations; and WhatCounts. Associate sponsors: Five Across; Google; Gritwire; I/PRO; Moreover Technologies; Silverpop; Technorati; and Top 10 Sources. Association sponsors: AdMonsters; American Business Media American Business Media is an association of business information providers that was founded in 1906. Currently, the association has more than 300 member companies and delivers business intelligence to industry, Madison Avenue, Wall Street and the Beltway, representing almost 5,000 ; Online Publishers Association; SF Advertising; and Word of Mouth Marketing Association. For more information about Syndicate, please visit www.syndicateconference.com. Syndicate's RSS Feed To subscribe to the event feed, visit http://subscriber.simplefeed.com/syndicateconference. Syndicator Blog To read the Syndicator blog, visit http://www.syndicatorblog.com. About Syndicate As the premier event for content syndication trends, Syndicate(TM) (www.syndicateconference.com) is a B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business Conference providing awareness, clarity, education, deal making and strategic business opportunities surrounding the emergence of online media syndication. This program will focus on emerging technologies such as RSS (Really Simple Syndication), for content owners and producers, new media executives, marketers, advertisers and public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. 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