Users Continue to Flock to NewsGator's RSS Readers for Daily News Fix

More Than 1.5 Billion Articles Being Accessed With NewsGator's Web, Email, Desktop and Mobile RSS Products


DENVER, CO -- (MARKET WIRE) -- May 8, 2007 -- NewsGator Technologies, Inc., the leading RSS platform company, today announced that more than 1.5 billion articles have been archived on NewsGator Online and a record number of users are taking advantage of the company's individual RSS solutions. The company's individual RSS solutions consist of FeedDemon, NetNewsWire, NewsGator Inbox, and NewsGator Go! for mobile devices including BlackBerry and Windows Mobile. This announcement follows the rapid adoption of NewsGator's business solutions -- NewsGator Enterprise Server and NewsGator Private Label Platform -- by a growing list of Fortune 1000 companies and leading publishers (see press release NewsGator Sees Continued RSS and Social Media Adoption from Businesses).

More than one million people use NewsGator's consumer RSS solutions, and its award-winning RSS platform is accessed over 10 million times per day by users of NewsGator's desktop client products, online products and online publisher customers using NewsGator Private Label. Additionally, NewsGator has now accumulated and archived more than 1.5 billion articles from RSS feeds in NewsGator Online, providing users with access to the latest information, blogs and news feeds about a wide array of topics.

NewsGator continues to demonstrate momentum and innovation with product releases that improve user experience including:

--  New AJAX online reader (beta) -- This new technology platform delivers
    faster and easier reading, inline video playing, and keyboard shortcuts --
    with many additional features ready for release in the next few weeks.
--  NewsGator Go! for BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and Java phones -- These
    products allow users to read their news from their favorite mobile device
    and synchronize with other NewsGator products.
--  NewsGator Voice (beta) -- Users simply call NewsGator and use voice
    commands to mark stories read or save them, and have it all synchronized
    with other NewsGator products.
--  Windows Live Writer posting plug-in for NewsGator Inbox -- Live Writer
    blogging platform users can create new posts from inside of NewsGator
    Inbox.
--  NewsGator Desktop (beta) -- Pops up your most important RSS articles
    in your system tray.  It also provides complete synchronization with
    Internet Explorer 7 (IE7), allowing users to subscribe to feeds in IE7 and
    view them with NewsGator Online (and other NewsGator applications).
--  NewsGator Screensaver -- News shows while the PC is idle.  Users can
    move through articles on the screen and access the full story with simple
    keyboard commands.
--  NetNewsWire 3.0 (beta) and FeedDemon 2.5 (beta) -- The leading RSS
    readers will soon include great new features and performance enhancements.
--  NewsGator Toolbars for IE7 and Firefox -- These toolbars allow users
    to search for and subscribe to feeds from directly within these browsers.
    
"Reaching these goals is a testament to RSS's wide adoption across both consumer and enterprise spheres, and evidence of NewsGator's strong leadership in social media and Web 2.0 technologies," said Brian Kellner, general manager of consumer products and director of product management for NewsGator Technologies. "NewsGator's solutions deliver RSS content everywhere -- your news, the way you like it -- to any platform or device with full synchronization. We are committed to providing the most innovative products that enable users to continue to take advantage of all the benefits that RSS provides."

About NewsGator Technologies, Inc.

NewsGator Technologies is the world's leading RSS platform company. Headquartered in Denver, Colo., NewsGator develops and markets RSS aggregation solutions for individual end users, enterprises and online content providers. Using NewsGator products and solutions, businesses and consumers can subscribe to news, information, podcasts and other relevant content more efficiently and effectively than with traditional channels. With NewsGator, users have access to RSS information via the Web, Microsoft Outlook, mobile devices and both Windows- and Mac-based desktop clients. All NewsGator products synchronize seamlessly, enabling users to read their RSS feeds anywhere, anytime, with any device. For more information, visit www.newsgator.com.

Contact Information: Contact Information: Gavin Skillman or Zoe Vandeveer LaunchSquad 212.861.2595 or 415.625.8555 newsgator(at)launchsquad.com