Garfield, Doonesbury, Political Cartoons, Commentary & More Available through NewsGator; NewsGator Technologies & uclick Announce Premium Content Partnership

[September 14, 2004]

Garfield, Doonesbury, Political Cartoons, Commentary & More Available through NewsGator; NewsGator Technologies & uclick Announce Premium Content Partnership

DENVER --(Business Wire)-- Sept. 14, 2004 -- NewsGator Technologies, the leading RSS software platform company, announced today that it has started to distribute RSS feeds for some of America's best-known comic and commentary brands. NewsGator users will now have access to twenty exclusive feeds from uclick, LLC, the online arm of Universal Press Syndicate (UPS), the largest independent syndication company.

In addition to UPS's content, uclick also makes content available for syndication from Tribune Media and Creator's Syndicate. "We're thrilled to work with NewsGator, the leader in the exploding new medium of RSS technologies, to bring some of our best content to readers wherever, and whenever, they want it," said Chris Pizey, President and CEO of uclick.

Greg Reinacker, President and Founder of NewsGator, said, "This agreement marks another step in our effort to provide the best content available in the market to our customers. Subscribers to NewsGator Online Services can now add some of America's most beloved content to their premium subscriptions and keep up with it wherever and whenever they want. Imagine fresh political commentary in your Outlook folder, Doonesbury on your Media Center, and the latest advice from Motley Fool on your cell phone."

In addition to reading Garfield, Doonesbury, Cathy and Ziggy, users can tap into content from Dear Abby, Focus on the Family, Horoscopes, News of the Weird, The Boondocks, among many others.

The uclick feeds are among the more than 100 premium content feeds available to subscribers to NewsGator Online Services. The subscription service allows users to read their subscribed content any time, any place and on any device. NewsGator Online includes a web edition, a POP edition, which works with any popular email client and the mobile edition, which enables users to read their subscribed text feeds on any mobile device that supports HTML, including wireless phones and PDAs. NewsGator Online Services also features synchronization so users can ensure their feeds appear only where and when they want them, and an ever-increasing range of customization tools and features.

NewsGator Online Services is a subscription service and is available at http://services.newsgator.com. Pricing starts at $5.95/month.

About uclick

uclick is the largest packager and distributor of branded comics, word games and other content on the Web. uclick, based in Kansas City, syndicates the highly sought-after work of more than 140 nationally syndicated creators of comics, puzzles, games and text features -- on the Web and wireless devices. More than 200 newspaper Web sites feature uclick content, including NYTimes.com and WashingtonPost.com. uclick content is also found on major portals such as AOL, Yahoo.com, MSNBC.com, CBSNews.com and iWon.com. uclick's content catalog includes such brand names as "Bloom County," "Garfield," "Doonesbury," "Cathy," "FoxTrot," "Ziggy," "The Boondocks," "Pat Oliphant," "News of the Weird," "Universal Crossword," "Dear Abby" and more. In addition, uclick develops and hosts Web sites such as Garfield.com, Doonesbury.com, Ziggy.com and sites of other key creators. uclick has also developed two successful subscription-based services, My Comics Page and The Puzzle Society.

uclick is an Andrews McMeel Universal Company. Andrews McMeel Universal also includes Universal Press Syndicate and Andrews McMeel Publishing. Visit http://www.uclick.com for more information.

About NewsGator Technologies

NewsGator Technologies is the leading RSS software platform company. The desktop product NewsGator for Outlook is a news aggregator that runs in Microsoft Outlook, which allows users to subscribe to syndicated RSS news feeds to be delivered directly into their Microsoft Outlook and Exchange server folders. NewsGator Online Services provides premium content and content aggregation tools and services, which allows users to find the content they need, and read it wherever they are, on any device. For more information, visit us on the web at http://www.newsgator.com and http://services.newsgator.com.

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