Freewebs Integrates API With YouTube, RockYou, Photobucket and More
Freewebs Shares API so Its Users Can Add Content Directly to Their Freewebs Accounts from Many Popular Online Destinations
SILVER SPRING, Md., June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Freewebs, the company that offers the web's most open personal publishing platform and helps people unleash their creativity online (www.freewebs.com), today announced it will share its API through agreements with YouTube, Widgetbox, RockYou!, Picnik, Photobucket and Gizmoz. Now, Freewebs' members can easily and seamlessly add videos, photos, widgets, avatars and more from any of these partner sites directly to their Freewebs accounts.
"At Freewebs, we believe in an open web where people should be able to freely express themselves using the best available tools," said Shervin Pishevar, President of Freewebs. "No technology is one-size-fits-all, and it would be folly to contend that one company could possibly have the best technology in each category. What we are bringing to the Freewebs community today is freedom of choice, the freedom to express itself in any way and with a growing number of great companies."
"RockYou is committed to providing our members with a simple and uncomplicated user experience," said Lance Tokuda, CEO of RockYou. "The Freewebs API makes it easy for RockYou visitors to publish and share their slideshows and widgets on their personal Freewebs webpage, rather than having to cut and paste code, giving them another way to distribute and create content on the fly."
"Where some portals and social networks see the internet as a series of walled gardens, Freewebs sees an ever-expanding universe of collaborative companies," continued Pishevar. "Freewebs will continue to share its API with leading companies to bring further flexibility and functionality to the open Freewebs personal publishing platform. This is yet another step in our mission of breaking down the barriers to free expression and communication online."
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About Freewebs.com
Freewebs is the company that offers the web's most open personal publishing platform, dedicated to ensuring everyone in the world can create a quality multimedia website. For anyone with an Internet connection and something to share, Freewebs provides the toolkit to express their voice on the Web through its versatile publishing platform. To date, Freewebs members have created more than 17 million comprehensive websites including blogs, photos, videos, music, e-commerce and more. Founded in 2001, Freewebs is privately held and based in Silver Spring, MD.
About Widgetbox
Widgetbox is the leading managed syndication network for web widgets. Widgetbox's mission is to create a thriving web widget economy by becoming the trusted resource for creating, distributing, promoting, tracking and monetizing widgets. The Widgetbox gallery is the world's largest marketplace for widgets and the Widgetbox Syndication Platform(TM) is Widgetbox's exclusive backend infrastructure that provides the most comprehensive set of tools for the management of your web widget strategy. Widgetbox serves both the producers of widgets, including the largest, online distributors as well as individual developers, and the consumers of widgets. For more information, please see www.widgetbox.com.
About RockYou!
RockYou! is the leading provider of widgets on the web. RockYou! widgets include photo slideshows, glitter text and voicemail accessories that are simple to use and enable people to frequently refresh their online style. Founded in 2006, RockYou! serves over 150 million widgets viewed per day to over 200 countries on social networks such as MySpace, Facebook, Bebo and Wordpress. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, RockYou! is funded by Sequoia Capital, Partech International and Lightspeed Venture Partners. For more information and to access RockYou! widgets please visit http://www.rockyou.com
About Picnik
Picnik is the easiest way for real people to edit or fix bad photos, turn them into fine art, or apply a host of special effects to make them great.. It's fast, easy, fun, and entirely online. Picnik is accessible to simply everyone with Internet access because it lives in the browser and not on your hard drive. That means everyone has access to photo-editing super-powers through any browser. Picnik also integrates seamlessly with Web sites like Flickr, Facebook, Photobucket, and now Freewebs, where your photos are already stored. It offers the rich experience of a desktop application, with the convenience and connectivity of the Web. Picnik is a 'weightless' solution for Great pictures, Anywhere, by Anyone.
For more information please visit: www.picnik.com
About Photobucket
Photobucket is the Web's most popular creative hub, with more than 44 million users linking billions of personal photos, graphics, slideshows and videos daily to hundreds of thousands of web sites, including: MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Friendster, eBay, Craigslist, Blogger and Xanga. In addition to linking content, Photobucket users share their personal digital media by email, instant messaging, and mobile devices. Every day, over 7.5 million personal photos, graphics and videos are uploaded to Photobucket for sharing with family, friends and the online world. The company actively moderates content to create a safe environment for its users, partners and advertisers. Photobucket has offices in Palo Alto, California and Denver, Colorado and is located online at http://www.photobucket.com. For the latest feature announcements and news, please visit the Photobucket blog at http://blog.photobucket.com.
About Gizmoz
Founded in 2003, Gizmoz offers consumers a new generation of character- based visual expression for use across their digital lives. The Gizmoz service makes it easy to create, customize, animate and share photo realistic 3D talking characters and videos that allow consumers to communicate and express themselves in more realistic and imaginative ways. Gizmoz is funded by Benchmark Capital, Columbia Capital and Jagen, with offices in Menlo Park, CA and Israel. For more information, visit www.gizmoz.com .
