OnlySimchas.com to Syndicate Local Announcements in the Jewish Planet

BERGENFIELD, NJ – June 20, 2007 - The Jewish Planet announced today that it will be joining the OnlySimchas.com press partner syndication. As the leading global clearinghouse for celebration announcements in the Jewish world, OnlySimchas.com's web platform provides content for many publications.

"We are particularly excited about adding the Jewish Planet to our press partnerships because both companies began as Teaneck grassroots efforts," explains Doron Katz, co-founder of OnlySimchas.com, "It's great to work with a new paper." Users who upload their announcement and photo galleries to OnlySimchas.com will have the option to syndicate their announcements to the Jewish Planet.

OnlySimchas.com, Inc was founded in 2000 and has become the pre-eminent site for announcing Jewish celebrations taking place around the world. Innovative web-based software enables users anywhere to upload picture galleries of their latest celebration within moments of the event. Friends and family around the globe are then able to enjoy the photos and post congratulatory wishes to the celebrants on their message board. Over the last seven years, the management of OnlySimchas.com has aggressively developed its web property to a position of high prestige in technology, performance and site content. Other functions of the OnlySimchas.com website include NameTags, which allows users of the site to browse the site and claim (or "tag") photos of themselves. Also popular is FutureSimchas.com, the founding team's matchmaking initiative.

Noteworthy as well, fans of OnlySimchas.com worldwide are anxiously awaiting the release of a new version of the site called V4. The new look will include enhanced features, better performance and easier navigation. In addition to its credo of "uniting the world in celebration," OnlySimchas.com has taken a lead role on behalf of many noteworthy causes. During 9/11, it posted the names of missing individuals in the hope of confirming their safety. The site has raised tens of thousands of dollars for organizations including Magen David Adom (Israel Red Cross), Zichron Menachem, and the One Family Fund.

OnlySimchas.com / Canadian Jewish News - Press Portal goes Live

May 17, 2007 - The Canadian Jewish News & OnlySimchas.com are pleased to announce a strategic partnership.

Beginning with this weekend's edition, the Lifecycles & Celebrations section of the Canadian Jewish News will be generated in collaboration with OnlySimchas.com, the leading publisher of Jewish celebratory news throughout the world.

Users who upload their celebration to OnlySimchas.com will now have the opportunity to select to have their celebration announcement and photos published in the print edition of the Canadian Jewish News.

Yossi Markovitz, co-founder of OnlySimchas.com, remarked "We are excited at the opportunity to bring our celebration announcement platform to the Canadian Jewish community. It is definitely a big step toward our ultimate goal of spreading simcha throughout the Jewish world."

Companies to Leverage JPost.com Global Jewish Market Penetration with OnlySimchas.com's Successful Celebration Technology Platform

BERGENFIELD, NJ - December 14, 2006 - OnlySimchas.com and The Jerusalem Post today agreed to jointly develop JPostSimchas.com, a print and online feature enabling users to announce and post pictures of happy occasions, reserve a date for upcoming events, see related simchas and post good wishes. ( You can visit the new website at http://simchas.jpost.com )

According to Doron Katz, co-founder of OnlySimchas.com, "By collaborating with The Jerusalem Post we are targeting many hundreds of thousands unique users a month who look to The Jerusalem Post and JPost.com as their primary source of information about Israel, Jewish affairs and developments in the Middle East." Tzvi Harow, Director of Interactive Media for Jpost.com, feels that, "Jpost Simchas provides our readers with an exciting web2.0 feature. The new partnership with OnlySimchas reflects Jpost.com's committment to continually engage our readers with new and interesting content".

The partnership will include other functions of the OnlySimchas.com website including NameTags, which allows users of the site to browse the site and claim (or "tag") photos of themselves. Also popular is FutureSimchas.com, the founding team's matchmaking initiative.

About OnlySimchas.com ® OnlySimchas.com was founded in 2000 and has become the pre-eminent site for announcing Jewish celebrations taking place around the world. Innovative web based software allows users anywhere to upload picture galleries of their latest celebration within moments of the event.

Friends and family around the globe are then able to enjoy and post congratulatory wishes to the celebrants on their message board. To date, OnlySimchas.com boasts over 200,000 photos of Jewish Simchas. Last month, 19 million pages were viewed and 1400 simchas were posted to the site.

About JPost.com JPost.com is the premier English language Israel news website. Over 1.5 million unique users visit the site every month. JPost.com serves a global audience which seeks to be informed about Israel, the Middle East, and the Jewish world from an Israeli based media company. JPost.com is the crown jewel of The Jerusalem Post Group which also includes The Jerusalem Post daily edition which has been delivering news in English since 1932 and The Jerusalem Report bi-monthly magazine, as well as many other periodicals.

BERGENFIELD, NJ - August 23, 2006 -The most popular Jewish networking site on the web, OnlySimchas.com, announced today the release of new technology to provide more recognition and social interaction among users.

The new function, called "NameTags", allows users of the site to browse the site and claim (or "tag") photos of themselves. When they find a photo among the site's 200,000 with their picture in it, they allocate the area over their face as a link to their profile.

"This technology allows users to determine the identity of other participants in a celebration - not just the celebrant," explains co-founder Dov Katz, the site's lead developer. "After a picture is tagged, users can search the entire site for other appearances of the same individual. This adds a new dimension of social networking, and we are excited to provide this level of sophisticated technology to our users."

"NameTags will allow us to leverage the power of OnlySimchas.com with FutureSimchas.com, our matchmaking utility, by identifying potential dating partners amidst their circle of friends," adds Yossi Markovitz. "Much emphasis in a shidduch is placed on one's social environment and linking from an image on OnlySimchas.com to their dating profile is a perfect way to capture others in a real-life setting."

Expanding on its model of user-generated content (UGC), the OnlySimchas.com partners expect the site to continue its growth pattern. Dr. Doron Katz says, "Today's technology is shrinking the global community to an overgrown neighborhood. There's no reason two wonderful people from other sides of the world should not be able to identify, locate, and network to learn about one another with the greatest of ease."

JM in the AM / NachumSegal.Com Nachum and the Only Simchas Crew Celebrate the Beginning of the Simchas Season.

Nachum had the Only Simchas crew on JM in the AM this morning to help kick-off the 2006 Simcha Season. Dov Katz and Yossi Markowitz were in the studio and Doron Katz called in to talk about www.onlysimchas.com and their on-going partnership with www.nachumsegal.com. People from all over the world are having their simchas and celebrations posted on Only Simchas, and now they are also having their events announced on the air by Nachum Segal. To listen to the first part of interview click the link ...

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