Comparison shoppers can now find the best online deals with Conduit-powered Community Toolbars

Redwood Shores, CA - August 06, 2007 - Conduit, the leading platform for building online communities via community toolbars, today announced Conduit-powered community toolbars for shopping sites. Innovative online shopping websites such as Wishpot and Shopping-Bargains.com are offering Conduit-powered community toolbars as virtual shopping assistants for their users, giving deal hunters a persistent and immediate connection to price updates, sale alerts and more. Conduit powered toolbars provide users with one click access to the best deals.

According to a recent industry report, ScanAlert's Digital Window Shopping Report 2007 Edition, in order to "transform shoppers into buyers" sites must create a comfort zone for comparison shoppers and focus on the issue of site abandonment. With potent tools and compelling features that support the habits of today’s online bargain hunters, sites using Conduit-powered community toolbars provide this desired comfort zone and create a constant connection between shopper and shopping site - battling site abandonment.

Wishpot Community Toolbar: Wishpot, the popular and innovative social shopping service, recently launched their community toolbar powered by Conduit and joined the Conduit Network to gain exposure to over 12 million users. Wishpot makes it easy to save, share and discover interesting products from any store or website. The Wishpot toolbar allows users to add items to a personal wish list from any website or to search for the best deals on millions of products from thousands of trusted merchants. It also offers a direct links to Wishpot chat and other Wishpot services. You can download the Wishpot community toolbar at: http://wishpot.ourtoolbar.com .

"We launched the Wishpot social shopping toolbar because we wanted to expand the Wishpot experience for our users. We found that our users love it because they can interact with Wishpot and add items to their wish lists quickly and easily right through the toolbar," said Steven Ashby, Chief Marketing Officer of Wishpot. "Building the Wishpot social shopping toolbar with Conduit was fast and painless and allowed us to deliver a polished, professional, quality toolbar which helps us keep our community happy and more engaged."

Shopping-Bargains.com Community Toolbar: This toolbar brings shoppers even more up-to-minute bargains from the Shopping-Bargains.com site, a leading online shopping destination and source of coupon codes for consumers and businesses. The toolbar notifies shoppers immediately of new coupons and "free stuff" that can be found on the site. You can download the Shopping-Bargains Community Toolbar at: http://ct49851.ourtoolbar.com.

"The Conduit toolbar offers a high-degree of customization and branding capabilities, making it easy for our readers to remember us and to come back again and again," remarked Mike Allen, President & ‘Chief Executive Shopper’, Shopping-Bargains.com, LLC. "We also really love the ability to attach our RSS feed with our newest coupons and deals to the toolbar - now specific and relevant details are only a single click away for our users."

BiBirmer Community Toolbar: This popular site, powered by Shopping.com, allows consumers to comparison shop for products they want across several stores at the same time. The toolbar, with over 34,000 installations, links deal hunters to this site allowing them to search for deals and compare prices directly from their browser. You can download the BiBirmer Community Toolbar at: http://www.bibirmer.com/Extensions.

"Conduit’s community toolbars have clearly become vital in the online retail sector as they enable online shopping sites to deliver the ultimate real-time online shopping experience, straight from the browser," said Ronen Shilo, CEO of Conduit. "With Conduit’s platform, site publishers are free to brand and customize in ways that make their services and sites more memorable to power- shoppers. In turn, users are discovering the fastest and latest ways to find the bargains they want most."

To create a community toolbar for your website visit: http://www.conduit.com/Wizard.

About Conduit
Conduit is the leading platform for building online communities via community toolbars. Online publishers can use Conduit to quickly and easily create a free community toolbar to persistently connect and engage their users via the browser. Consumers can use the myConduit toolbar to search and subscribe with one click to the hottest web communities. Conduit delivers unprecedented community loyalty and site traffic for over 130,000 publishers, including major brands such as Major League Baseball, Fox Carolina TV, Greenpeace, RE/MAX, TechCrunch, Blogdigger and small and medium organizations in 112 countries around the globe. Conduit's innovative search monetization model allows the service to be completely free and without adware, malware and spyware. The company is privately-held with headquarters in Israel and Redwood Shores, CA. For more information about Conduit, visit www.conduit.com or email info@conduit.com.

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