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urSpin’s Spinlets Gallery Now Publicly Available to Revolutionize Content Portability

EL SEGUNDO, CA AND SHENZHEN, PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA - - June 19, 2007- - urSpin (www.urspin.com), a new entrant to the U.S. and China community-driven personal startpage market, today announced the public launch of its initial Spinlets gallery at www.spinlets.com/gallery.  Now, users can publish and share their favorite Twitter posts, Craigslist ads and Flickr photos on their blog, network profile or personal website with their own personalized look and feel.

Spinlets are part of the growing trend of web widgets, which is changing the look of blogs, profiles and webpages by making it easy to embed and personalize rich media content. The Company is launching the most comprehensive collection of Spinlets that make all video, pictures and music content portable for the ultimate “mashup” experience.  Spinlets work with TypePad, WordPress and Blogger, as well as most other blogs, sidebars and websites. 

Central to the power and simplicity of Spinlets are:

  • Cut and Paste – Spinlets are easy for anyone to use. Just cut and paste your Spinlet anywhere on the Web.
  • TestSpin – Spinlets allow you to preview how your Spinlet will look within your webpage or blog for the maximum level of personalization, control and simplicity.
  • Dynamic – Spinlets are always live and current within blogs and web pages which means that whenever the content changes, so will the Spinlet within your blog or webpage.
  • Portability – Spinlets mobilize the web the way you choose. They are flexible enough to use anywhere in your online world.
  • Customization – Spinlets let you express yourself. Customize colors, layout and text to match your online personality.
  • No Downloads.  No Spyware.  No Adware. – Spinlets are safe. Because you do not download Spinlets, you never risk installing spyware, adware or viruses.
  • Free – Spinlets are always free to create, use and customize.

“Our goal is to empower users to mobilize the web as they choose by providing a simple but powerful product that makes it simple, safe and fun for anyone to publish and share content,” said Kevin Cuxil, President of urSpin. “We will focus heavily on expanding our gallery and encourage beta users to submit requests for Spinlets they’d like to see in our next round of additions.”

About urSpin

urSpin (www.urspin.com) is a new player to join the rapidly growing community-driven personal startpage market.  The company is revolutionizing how we use the web by providing a one-stop access and distribution point to a user’s favorite news, information, Internet applications and content.  The company is one of the first to launch in both the United States of America and the People’s Republic of China, with operations in El Segundo, California (USA) and Shenzhen, Beijing and Shanghai (PRC). The urSpin community of users is passionate about personalizing and customizing the Internet by bringing their favorite Web 2.0 applications, news, search, photos, music and videos together as they see fit.  In addition, urSpin’s Spinlet (www.spinlets.com) initiative is an attempt to “bridge” content and technology by breaking down the barriers of the single destination model.

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