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Thanks to Peter Cooper

One of our companies, FeedDigest, just gave ImageKind a nice plug on his increasingly popular blog over at PeterCooper.co.uk FeedDigest has 24,000 users but with a new version forthcoming I expect those numbers to increase substantially over the next year. I use it on my personal site at KellySmith.com to post my del.icio.ous bookmarks at the bottom of the front page. Use it yourself to add any RSS content to your web page. Pretty cool stuff.

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• Pressplane

  Pressplane is our latest internally developed concept. We raised our $1.7 million seed round on September 22 and are backed by Second Avenue Partners and a variety of tremendous angel investors. We aren't saying too much right now because we still have a lot of work to do but we thank Techcrunch, VentureBeat, Seattle Times and others for mentioning our latest effort!

• CafePress

  Cafepress acquired Imagekind in July 2008. CafePress.com is an online marketplace that offers sellers complete e-commerce services to independently create and sell a wide variety of products, and offers buyers unique merchandise across virtually every topic.

• Imagekind

  Curious Office started Imagekind in 2006 and it is the world's fastest-growing art site offering over 750,000 high-quality fine art images for sale. Imagekind gives consumers limitless options to purchase museum-quality framed and poster art from over 50,000 domestic and international emerging and established artists.

• Shelfari

  Amazon.com acquired Shelfari in September 2008. Based in Seattle, Shelfari introduces readers to our global community of book lovers and encourages them to share their literary inclinations and passions with peers, friends, and total strangers

• Fanzter

  Fanzter was founded in 2007 by veterans of leading media, technology, and consumer products companies and is headquartered in Collinsville, Connecticut. Their first product, Coolspotters.com, launched in May 2008.

• Wishpot

  Wishpot is a free social shopping service that makes it easy to save and share interesting things you find in stores and online. Items are easily collected online or from stores and organized using simple online lists. Lists and items can be kept private or shared with others. You can collect and discover products you like, recommend your favorite stuff, share and explore gift suggestions or ask for opinions and advice.

• FeedDigest

  FeedDigest is a parser, regenerator, and syndicator for, and of, RSS and Atom feeds originally built by Peter Cooper. In August 2007, Feed Digest was sold to its new owners, Informer Technologies, Inc., and in 2008 rebranded to Feed Informer.