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Cheat and Smack Talk Your Way to a Gold ‘Medal’

Aug.07, 2008 in Market Outlook

Cheat and Smack Talk Your Way to a Gold ‘Medal’

- Summer Games Trivia at Yahoo! Sports Tests Your Olympic Mettle -

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 07, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Summer Games Trivia, a
newly minted online application from Newzwag, a subsidiary of Agence
France-Presse (AFP), is available on Yahoo! Sports throughout the month of
August. The new game synthesizes news stories and photos from the AFP’s media
machine into a challenging, entertaining and addictive game focused on Olympic
sports and athletes, both past and present.

Newzwag’s Summer Games Trivia on Yahoo! Sports makes the news engagement
application about the Olympics available to the Internet’s largest audience of
sports fans. The game resides on Yahoo! Sports’ newly launched website dedicated
to covering the Summer Games at http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing.

Summer Games Trivia has many appealing features that enhance community and social
interaction. You earn cheats to get ahead on the leader board and you can smack
talk your friends about your ranking. The game is free to anyone who wants to
play, with no strings attached (you don’t have to buy anything or get spammed
after playing). The content is updated in real time, so no trivia stone goes
unturned throughout the run of the Games. You can invite your friends to play or
compete with complete strangers, all the while gaining critical Olympic knowledge
you can insert into any conversation or bring up at family gatherings.

As Newzwag’s first large-scale foray into the social media space, Summer Games
Trivia is just a taste of what is to come, with more applications being
introduced over the next year related to relevant cultural events and themes.

About Newzwag

Newzwag is a subsidiary of Agence France-Presse (AFP). The company develops
technologies and ideas that bring one of the world’s richest news resources to
the rapidly evolving world of social media. For more information, check out
http://www.newzwag.com.

About Agence France-Presse (AFP)

Agence France-Presse is a global media company providing real-time news coverage
24/7 with a worldwide network of more than 3,000 journalists and stringers
spanning 165 countries. AFP covers the full spectrum of world events, from
politics and general news to sports, business, entertainment, health and science.
For more information, visit http://www.afp.com.

Olympic, Olympiad, the Olympic rings, Beijing 2008 and related marks are owned by
the International Olympics Committee, the Chinese Olympic Committee, the Beijing
Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, or their related
entities. AFP, Newzwag, Yahoo! and Summer Games Trivia are neither endorsed by
nor affiliated with any of the Olympic entities.

Contact:
Bronagh Hanley
Bronagh@bignoisepr.com
415-314-7262

SOURCE Newzwag
http://www.newzwag.com

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