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February 10, 2008	Email is becoming less reliable and new methods that are less intrusive and more user friendly are required. The newly developed eConsumersearch toolbar fosters community, while keeping users alerted of announcements from some of the larger retailers. with which the company is affiliated. Read the full story here.
February 8, 2008	If you’re like me, you spend much of your day surfing to the various domain news sites, marketplaces, and forums looking for good domain deals and heated discussions. It’s tedious. Now there’s a simple toolbar that makes accessing updates from these sites easier. Read the full story here.
January 31, 2008	A year ago people used to say that “content is king” when it comes to making it big on the internet. But does the old paradigm hold today when every web 2.0 startup seeks user-generated content and 156,046 social networks were created? Meet the new king - “syndication”. Ronen Shilo, CEO of US/Israel based Conduit, talks to VC Cafe about Conduit’s first financing round, the firm’s growth strategy, its vision and lessons learned along the way. Read the full story here.
January 18, 2008	A viral marketing tool that isn’t mentioned to often is a browser toolbar. You’ve likely seen several browser toolbars on the market, and likely use a few. These toolbars serve a useful purpose, particularly for the users of these various services. Why not create your own toolbar to the interests of your market? You can create your own toolbar using a service called Conduit. Conduit allows you to create your own community toolbar and include customized features that are appropriate to your target market. It also tracks usage of the tool so that you can see how your users are using the toolbar. You can communicate directly with your toolbar community through the toolbar and it includes some other great features as well... Read the full story here.
January 17, 2008	Conduit, that lets anyone customize a browser toolbar that they can offer to their friends or others, reports rapid user growth. Conduit targets publishers, including VentureBeat, letting them create toolbars with things like a search window, RSS feeds, podcasts and other things — all customizable from an online dashboard. It lets publishers drag and drop widgets onto that toolbar, and create things like alerts. Read the full story here.
January 17, 2008	Conduit, maker of white-label toolbars and syndication tools, has closed on an $8 million round from Benchmark Capital, the companies announced Thursday. The funding round will be used to expand marketing and research and development for the 3-year-old company, whose technology was spun off by Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science. Read the full story here.
January 16, 2008	Conduit, a service that enables web publishers to easily create their own toolbars for Internet Explorer and Firefox, has raised $8M in a Series B round with Benchmark Capital. Read the full story here.
January 16, 2008	Community toolbar creator Conduit has closed its series B round of funding with Benchmark Capital, giving the company another $8 million to play around with. The funds will go towards gaining new users for its toolbar service, and broaden its portfolio of web publisher syndication solutions. Read the full story here.

December 19, 2007	Conduit’s toolbars in French, English, German and Spanish will empower the Softonic website to bring an easier way for the millions of European customers to download software products. Read the full story here.
December 13, 2007	Worldtvradio announces today that its globally awarded software world TV and Radio Tuner version 5.6 Toolbar edition is now available as freeware. The Conduit-powered toolbar edition is an internet television and radio tuner that allows users to watch 1750 TV channels and listen to 8500 online radio stations. Read the full story here.
December 12, 2007	Absolutist today announced its partnership with Conduit, which will provide Absolutist customers with a new channel to connect and interact with each other and with the Absolutist website. The community toolbar solution provided by Conduit will help build an online community among casual gamers all around the world... Read the full story here.
December 11, 2007	The Toolbar for Marines has a wonderful Deployment section, under the USMC Life menu button. There are things like clocks that you can bookmark and set a countdown clock until your marine returns, a website that will convert Iraq time to your time... Read the full posting here.
December 11, 2007	Polymer Clay Notes now has its very own toolbar that you can download and use instantly! What? Another toolbar? Hang on - this one’s pretty cool and it offers you one-click access to what you want: PCNotes, Craftcast, Email, Special Offers and each other! Read the full posting here.
December 6, 2007	This holiday season, United States Marines and their families are being given an extra special gift. The Toolbar for Marines is helping them use the Internet to stay connected, and make periods of deployment less stressful. Additionally, half of all profits from the Conduit-powered community toolbar are donated to charities that support troops... Read the full story here.
November 28, 2007	The GSLIS Toolbar, powered by Conduit, is a browser add-on developed by LIS graduate students. They designed the community toolbar to provide one-click access to useful resources on the Dominican University Web site and World Wide Web and establish a persistent University presence on Web browsers both on and off campus. Read the full posting here.
November 19, 2007	The Akouse community toolbar, powered by Conduit, offers live radio and television broadcasting from Greece and around the world. Now, with Akouse as a toolbar, Greek eMedia will combine the company’s online metrics measurements with broadcasting... Read the full story here.
November 10, 2007	Apu’s blog about Orkut, Google’s social networking service, recommends two Conduit-powered toolbars in its list of ten cool tools for Orkut users, giving special attention to the Powerscrap community toolbar. Read the full story here.
November 8, 2007	The Conduit-powered Web-Radio Toolbar, with its wide variety of preinstalled stations and music genres, including holiday favorites, is a big part of Web-Radio’s holiday offering. Read the full story here.
November 06, 2007	ResearchBuzz picked right up on our new trends info: Conduit has announced a new Community Trends index, with trends based on searches done across communities. Read the full article here.
November 04, 2007	MP's Miscellanea blog checks out the Web2.0 Award winners on the SEOmoz website for new library tools, and the one she picks is Conduit, 2nd place winner in the Marketing category. Read the full posting here.
October 30, 2007	Bill Hartzer's search engine marketing and social media blog highlighted Conduit's new Community Trends index: "Community Trends, like StumbleUpon, is moving beyond automated Web discovery to offer a way to see what others find useful or interesting on the Internet." Read the full posting here.
October 29, 2007	The Social Marketing blog recommends Conduit-powered community toolbars for social marketing purposes: "Specifically the ability to tie all of your social communities together in one place. This makes it easy to communication with friends in ALL of your communities without signing into 5 different accounts. This is just one benefit of the community toolbar." Read the full posting here.
October 21, 2007	This blog, called Six Kids and a Full Time Job, covers topics from venture capital to kids. This posting finds a solution for old-fashioned election buttons online in a Conduit-powered community toolbar supporting US presidential hopeful Ron Paul. Read the full posting here.
October 12, 2007	USA Cycling and Conduit were named as finalists in the inaugural Forrester Groundswell Awards, the first awards program to recognize excellence in business uses of social technologies. Read the full posting here.
September 18, 2007	Conduit is the leading platform for building online communities via community toolbars. Online publishers can use Conduit's online wizard to quickly and easily create a free, customized and hosted community toolbar to persistently connect and engage their users 24/7 via the browser, even when users are not on their site. Read the full story here.
September 9, 2007	Conduit offers a communication channel in the form of a customizable dynamic toolbar. Using Conduit, publishers can create a customizable branded toolbar that takes the best of their site, their offers and community and puts it on the customers' browser. Read the full story here.
September 5, 2007	Conduit, a utility for making toolbars to go with your blog or site... The concept is interesting: It lets site publishers put their sites into toolbars... I didn't expect users to take up this idea, but the company's executives report strong growth and more than 12 million users. Read the full story here.
August 28, 2007	Two-year-old Conduit, which provides toolbars for large organizations, like Discovery Channel and Major League Baseball, down to blogs, like VentureBeat, just launched a new toolbar that combines some of the top bloggers in an all-in-one toolbar, called "allmyblogs." The bloggers include VentureBeat, GigaOm, TechCrunch, Mashable, and others, including Vator.tv, even though we're more than a blog, we're also a social network. Read the full story here.
August 28, 2007	Conduit is a company that lets Web site owners and bloggers build a customizable toolbar for their visitors, and it says it is growing quickly. Read the full story here.
August 28, 2007	Conduit makes a slick utility for creating browser toolbars. I covered the product back in April, and I had one main beef: Each toolbar you installed took up additional real estate in a browser. Conduit has just fixed that. The company has added some other new features as well. Read the full story here.
August 24, 2007	The Best of Web 2.0 Websites List Read the full article here.
August 15, 2007	USA Cycling Inc.wanted to galvanize interest in its annual bicycle race and find a way to broadcast the event live. Their new marketing campaign started with a Conduit-powered community toolbar that allowed users to hear a live audio stream. Read the full article here.
August 2, 2007	Conduit’s Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Reena Jadhav presented at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit in Stanford Palo Alto, August 2. Watch her 6 minute presentation introducing the Conduit Network. Watch the video here.
July 21, 2007	In this article, short-listing the top Web 2.0 tools, 'Psychedelic trash talk for New Super Bloggers' blogger Steven Edward Streight names Conduit among "the most revolutionary, important and helpful products" out there. Read the full story here.
July 19, 2007	Conduit CMO Reena Jadhav says the new rules of interactive marketing dictate that online marketers must now find ways to monetize the "my" generation of users who want control over their information flow. How? Widgets and toolbars are a great place to start. Read the full story here.
July 15, 2007	Information Systems Librarian at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, NS, Canada, Peter Webster hails toolbars as the online saving grace of libraries. "Library websites and catalogs are too often not the first place people go to look for information… The innovative use of toolbars could change this." Read the full story here.
July 10, 2007	Library Scientist John Fudrow, a self-proclaimed 'tech-junkie', praises Conduit toolbars for their functionality, brand-ability, out-of-the box features, and potential to bring all users onto the same page. "It's a tool that you will actually use every day." Read the full story here.
July 10, 2007	Georgia-based lawyer/blogger 'Mike' delineates all the benefits of Conduit-powered toolbars for both corporate communications and blogging. "My office now uses it on all computers, and others are kicking the tires on it as well." Read the full story here.
June 11, 2007	Conduit CEO Ronen Shilo reveals Conduit's growth curve, says the company may be acquired, and considers additional equity to accelerate the growth of the leading community toolbar-building company. He also says Conduit is "blessed". Read the full story here.
May 18, 2007	"By creating a genuinely useful toolbar that will help users as they surf all day - and unobtrusively shares your latest news or messages - you're basically becoming an integral part of your target's life." Read the full story here.
May 9, 2007	The Web 2.0 Awards Zeitgeist selects Conduit among the top 3 Web 2.0 Marketing tools of 2007. Read the full story here.
April 29, 2007	German magazine Internet Professionell gives Conduit a raving review. Read the full story here.
April 28, 2007	Meyshan World is excited to discover myConduit: "Conduit now lets users switch toolbars via a drop down menu!" Read the full story here.
April 25, 2007	Antoine Heftler calls Conduit "an excellent and user friendly service" and "a good alternative for companies to be present on their customers’ computers without being intrusive". Read the full story here.
April 23, 2007	WebWare author Rafe Needleman is impressed with Conduit’s community toolbar builder: "Since it takes very little time and costs nothing to create a toolbar, site owners really have nothing to lose by offering one." Read the full story here.
April 23, 2007	Earn-OnlineMoney Blogger, author of "money-making tips, ideas and opportunities" puts the benefits of Conduit into a simple equation: Entertainment + money = Conduit! Read the full story here.
April 15, 2007	ReviewSaurus releases the official ReviewSaurus community toolbar - built using Conduit’s platform - and encourages fellow blog and website authors to keep in touch with their readers by doing the same. Read the full story here.
April 15, 2007	Michael Arrington gives the myConduit concept big kudos. Read the full story here.
April 6, 2007	Conduit's Chief Marketing Officer Reena Jadhav is named an Honoree Women of Distinction in Marketing by San Jose Business Journal. Read the full story here.
April 1, 2007	Turkey-based Technology Library Director Gultekin Gurdal launches a community toolbar built using Conduit's platform, as part of a push to "Re-envision library users as customers". Read the full story here.
March 16, 2007	Conduit Community Toolbars get short-listed among this biz bloggers’ top 4 favorite community builders. Read the full story here.
March 14, 2007	The Computing Expert’s Simon North creates a Conduit to aggregate all his sites and blogs, and writes that Conduit is "perfect for you if you have a blog or website and want recurring visitors." Read the full story here.
March 13, 2007	"Having the ability to expose masses of people to my business 24/7 is a concept that boggles the mind and it's now possible with Conduit," writes blogger Sevy, "home-based entrepreneur and mommy". Read the full story here.
March 12, 2007	Mitchell Harper, author of HarpzOn.com, "The Only Blog Smart Entrepreneurs Read Every Day", builds his own HarpzOn.com Toolbar with Conduit, and comments, "It's incredible... Such a simple but useful idea." Read the full story here.
March 9, 2007	Highlands and Islands Enterprise walks local Web-based businesses through building a toolbar using Conduit’s platform to show just how easy (and fast!) it really is. "All in all, it only takes a good half hour’s work to build a toolbar". Read the full story here.
March 8, 2007	Go2Web2 blogger Orli Yakuel talks up the Techcrunch CRUNCHBar, built using Conduit’s platform. "It’s a cool new tool that connects me to my favorite blog!" Read the full story here.
March 2, 2007	WHIR says Easyspace customers will be able to improve their marketing initiatives, thanks to the company's new partnership with Conduit. Read the full story here.
March 1, 2007	Conduit CMO does a video demo on the Scoble Show on How to Build Your Own Toolbar. Read the full story here.
March 1, 2007	Conduit CMO talks about browser toolbars with Robert Scoble. Read the full story here.
Feb 28, 2007	HostSearch bills Conduit as Easyspace's hot, new "breakthrough marketing platform that enables users to create community toolbars that drive traffic and loyalty." Read the full story here.
Feb 14, 2007	In an interview with Conduit CEO Ronen Shilo, the Juxtaviews journalist says that "from a publisher's standpoint, the Conduit community toolbar is mint". He also gets Shilo to reveal what he dreams about at night... Read the full story here.
Feb 8, 2007	Tech columnist Mark Stachiew encourages all publishers to create their own Conduit. "Google offers a free browser toolbar and so does Yahoo, why shouldn't you?" Read the full story here.
Feb 1, 2007	Journalist Caroline McCarthy reports on Conduit from the AlwaysOn Media Conference in New York City: "With Conduit, you or your organization can make a custom toolbar that integrates, well, whatever you think a toolbar should have." Read the full story here.
January 31, 2007	A one-on-one interview with CEO of Conduit Ronen Shilo reveals precisely what makes Conduit stand out from its competitors, and uncovers what it is that makes the company's toolbar technology so cool. Read the full story here.
January 31, 2007	Tech writer Jason Drohn puts Conduit in the same league as EBay for the former's like-minded approach to giving web users the tools to build what they want: "At the end of the day, [Conduit] give(s) control to their users." Read the full story here.
January 31, 2007	Author Andrew D. Ive names the Conduit toolbar among the top 10 free tools for building traction: "There are a number of cool ways to tailor the toolbar… your branded search, create links to particular pages on your own site, add weather, a radio and so on to make sure it's a value download for your customers." Read the full story here.
January 30, 2007	Conduit's Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Reena Jadhav rocked the AlwaysOn Media (AO Media) conference at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York City on January 30, with her 43-minute presentation on Conduit's unique community toolbar technology. See her in action here.
January 25, 2007	Manage Smarter encourages readers to join Conduit's toolbar revolution: "Want your target audience to think of your company every time they surf the Web? Want to drive more strategic traffic to your site? Then try providing your Web visitors with a free community toolbar that sits on their browser for instant online branding and loyalty building." Read the full story here.
January 20, 2007	TechCrunch thanks Conduit for participating in the former's November 2006 event in New York, and extends us an early invitation to their upcoming 2007 tech party! Read the full story here.
January 9, 2007	Michael Arrington gives Conduit's toolbar technology a glowing review, as a great, free solution for companies that don't have the resources or knowledge to create their own toolbar, and are completely focused on their core business. He also announces the creation of TechCrunch's very own Conduit toolbar, ‘CRUNCHbar', which they used to update attendees on the details of their event in New York in November. "The Conduit service is really taking off!" writes Arrington . Read the full story here.

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