PassAlong Networks Launches OnTour Website and Free Mac Widget to Connect Fans and Ar

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PassAlong Networks Launches OnTour Website and Free Mac Widget to Connect Fans and Artists
Wednesday September 27, 4:07 pm ET
Partnership with Nettwerk Music Group Provides Fans with Unique Connection to Barenaked Ladies, Jars of Clay and Leigh Nash
FRANKLIN, Tenn., Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- PassAlong Networks, developer of digital media innovations, today announced the launch of OnTour 3.0(TM), a free service so music fans "Never Miss a Concert Again(TM)." OnTour service is comprised of a website at www.OnTour.net and a free downloadable OnTour Widget for Mac(TM). 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(TM) 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."
About Nettwerk Music Group
Nettwerk Music Group is Canada's leading privately owned record label and artist management company, responsible for managing some of North America's biggest artists such as Sarah McLachlan, Avril Lavigne and many others. Nettwerk has several offices located around the world including New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Nashville and London. Its home office is in Vancouver, B.C.
About PassAlong Networks
PassAlong Networks is an innovative developer of digital media services designed to enhance the Connected Consumer Ecosystem. PassAlong's B2B2C technology engine provides four key services for the digital media marketplace: StoreBlocks(TM) offers a variety of store-building tools to enable clients to provide their end-consumers with a library of more than 2 million licensed songs and the powerful music referral system, Passing-and-Points; FreedomMP3(TM) provides interoperability for digital media files across multiple platforms and devices while promoting a balance of artist rights and media empowerment for both content creators and consumers; OnTour(TM) connects fans to detailed, accurate and relevant concert notifications; and Speakerheart(TM) enables artists to seamlessly upload, promote and sell their digital music. Founded in 2002, PassAlong Networks is privately held and based in Franklin, Tenn. For more information, visit http://www.passalongnetworks.com.
OnTour, StoreBlocks, FreedomMP3 and Speakerheart are registered trademarks
of PassAlong Networks. Mac and iTunes are registered trademarks of Apple
Computer, Inc.

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PassAlong Networks
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press@passalongnetworks.com

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