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Outbrain donates to Tmura

We are proud to announce that outbrain has joined Tmura (www.tmura.org) as a donor company. Tmura is an incredible initiative looking to share the upside of successful startups with charitable causes in Israel focused on youth and education.

More about the fund from the Tmura website:

Tmura – the Israeli Public Service Venture Fund is a nonprofit organization (“amuta”) which was founded in 2002 to increase the involvement of the high-tech community in non-profit activity in Israel, with a focus on education and other youth initiatives.

Tmura receives donations of equity from (mainly private) Israeli and Israel-related high-tech companies and, upon a liquidity event, allocates the proceeds to education- and youth-related charities in Israel.

“Tmura” is the Hebrew word for “change” or “metamorphosis” and also means “value for money”; it is also a play on the word “truma", which means “donation”.

We've donated roughly 1% of the company's founding shares to Tmura. Now we really have a good cause to make outbrain a huge success.... ;-)

Proper support for IE6 in the outbrain widget

Just as we were considering joining the SaveTheDevelopers.org effort to help eradicate the awful Internet Explorer 6 from the world, our engineers released an excellent workaround which makes our widget fully functional and compatible with IE6 browsers. The widget now properly blends to your blog's background color on all of the most common browsers out there.

We step on the shoulders of others... thanks to gedankenkonstrukt for pointing out the IEPNGFix solution.

Presenting @ b5 media's blog network camp @ SXSW

We are headed to Texas for SXSW.  On Monday night, we are proud to be sponsoring b5 media's Blog Network Camp at Cantina Laredo.  I will be giving a presentation to the group on how blog networks can leverage rating and content recommendation systems.  If you enjoy what looks to be fine Mexican food and libations rsvp here.   Also, if any outbrain bloggers or raters want to hook up please shoot me an email at john(at)outbrain(dot)com or ping me on Twitter.  see you in Texas!