Contact Information: Media Contact: Point-Blank Communications for MyItThings.com Maria Krinsky 415-509-0498
MyItThings.com Partners With Clearspring to Offer the Web 2.0 Version of the Holiday Wish Lists
| Source: MyItThings.com
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - October 29, 2007) - MyItThings.com, an online magazine featuring
user-generated content in a variety of pop culture subjects, including:
fashion, entertainment, technology, body and home, announced today it has
partnered with Clearspring Technology to offer a widget that allows users
to link their wish list and virtual closet to any online destination
supporting widgets. Just in time for the holiday shopping season, now users
have an easy way to share their gift choices with friends and family.
With today's announcement, contributors to the MyItThings.com site can link
their wish list and virtual closet to their social networks profiles, start
pages and blogs, providing them an easy way to share their gift choices
with friends and family.
"Not too long ago, holiday wish lists were scribbled on a piece of paper or
for the more tech savvy -- done in an email," said Yuli Ziv, Co-Founder &
Editor-In-Chief of My"It"Things. "Now, with the recent trend toward
widgets, the social shopping industry is making the traditional holiday
wish list more high tech and interactive."
The widgets are created using Clearspring technology, the leading provider
of cross-platform widget services and are part of a growing trend within
the social shopping industry.
"We are excited to see publishers and content providers utilize our
developer's platform in a way that is creative and entertaining, but also
has real value to the customer," said Hooman Radfar, Founder and CEO of
Clearspring. "With an uptake in the social shopping arena during the
Holiday season, the new widgets from My"It"Things Wish List really step up
the game, and Clearspring's distribution service allows their widgets to be
easily shared across the Web."
All content on MyItThings.com is written by users and published daily by a
seasoned editorial staff. For examples and more info on how to create a
holiday wish list visit
http://myitthings.com/widgets/holidays
About Clearspring
Clearspring provides tools to help developers, publishers, advertisers and
media companies meet the challenges of the distributed Web where users want
to make, find and share their own content and online experiences.
Clearspring's tools transform content and applications into widgets, small
contained applications that can be grabbed by users and personalized on
their own Web sites. Clearspring widgets can be syndicated easily across
multiple Web and social networking sites and Clearspring offers robust
analytics to track the spread of widgets in real-time. Headquartered
outside Washington, D.C., Clearspring leads the world in the global
delivery of widgets, having delivered in excess of 4 billion widgets (check
our homepage ticker!) to date. Clearspring customers include the NBA,
Universal Pictures, the Indianapolis Colts and RockYou. For more
information about Clearspring Technologies and how to use widgets in your
business or to join its developer community, please visit
www.clearspring.com.
About My"It"Things
My"It"Things is an online network for User Generated Trends. Its online
magazine features user-generated content in a variety of pop culture
subjects including fashion, entertainment, technology, body and home. All
content is written by users and published daily by magazine editors.
MyItThings.com was developed by 2BrainsMedia LLC, a New York-based,
privately funded Web 2.0 company.