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PassAlong Networks Launches OnTour Website and Free Mac™ Widget To Connect Fans and Artists Partnership with Nettwerk Music Group Provides Fans with Unique Connection to Barenaked Ladies, Jars of Clay and Leigh Nash Franklin, Tenn. — Sept. 27, 2006 — PassAlong Networks, developer of digital media innovations, today announced the launch of OnTour 3.0™, a free service so music fans "Never Miss a Concert Again™." The OnTour service is comprised of a website at www.OnTour.net and a free downloadable OnTour Widget for Mac™. Visitors to OnTour.net can find and personalize up—to—the—minute concert details including venue, artist, ticket and location information. The site leverages PassAlong Web Services to provide artist discography and album artwork, and allows users to select their preferred online music store at which to buy music. Mac users can download the free OnTour Widget, which is also available at www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard, to automatically check their iTunes™ library and conveniently highlight relevant concerts coming to any specified location. It provides an elegant way for fans to stay connected to their favorite artists using a simple and clean desktop interface. "With the OnTour Widget, another piece of the digital media ecosystem falls in place for Mac users," said Ben Bajarin of Creative Strategies. "This is a creative application of technology to solve a real problem for users—missing concerts by their favorite artists." Today the Company also announced a partnership with Nettwerk Music Group to produce special versions of the OnTour Widget for their artists. The special versions are now available at the websites of Barenaked Ladies, Jars of Clay, Leigh Nash, Guster, Anathallo and The Format. "Nettwerk is always looking for creative and easy ways to provide timely concert information to fans," said Nettwerk CEO Terry McBride. "The OnTour Widget is a great way to provide just that." Future releases of the OnTour service will include a Gadget for Windows Vista, an OnTour 3.0 for Windows application, an OnTour 3.0 for Mac application, an OnTour mobile application, a Google Gadget, a Yahoo Widget and a concert alert system through email, SMS and VOIP. "OnTour is an example of PassAlong Networks' technology innovations designed to better connect artists and fans," said CEO Dave Jaworski. "We invite the digital media industry to stay tuned as we are poised to announce additional tools and services in the coming months."
OnTour, StoreBlocks, FreedomMP3 and Speakerheart are registered trademarks of PassAlong Networks. Mac and iTunes are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. ### PR Contacts: Kim Hughes |