Take Back the Web: MashLogic Links Every Web Page to your Favorite Sites

MashLogic announces v1.0 of their popular extension with multi-browser support. Dozens of New Sources like Twitter, iTunes and The New York Times, and a brand-new User Experience.

Menlo Park, CA (PRWEB) June 8, 2009 -- Silicon Valley startup MashLogic (http://mashlogic.com) has just launched Version 1.0 of their popular browser extension for Firefox, Flock and Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 browsers. The MashLogic extension brings new information and links to every web page, making it easy to discover related content without having to search. The new features included in this release let users play music, watch YouTube, and post to Twitter from inside any web page. The extension is free, secure, respects your privacy and contains no advertising.

MashLogic has also announced that it has raised venture capital from several prominent Silicon Valley entrepreneurs -- including Reid Hoffman (founder of LinkedIn and co-founder of PayPal) and Scott Kurnit (founder of About.com) -- as well as from Bessemer Venture Partners, the global investment group behind Skype.

"MashLogic is a fabulous innovation for using the Internet" said Scott Kurnit, who has joined the company's board of directors. He added, "Web sites are now trying too hard to hold me on their sites and force-feed advertising. MashLogic puts me back in control of what I want, where I go and what I discover. It enhances every site I visit with related content, context and links from my favorite news, information, reference and communication sites. Users find it impossible to go back to the old way of using the web once MashLogic puts them in control." MashLogic automatically shows related pages from Wikipedia, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, The New York Times, Perez Hilton, People, TV Guide, MTV, Amazon, LinkedIn, Digg, ESPN, MLB, Yelp, SimplyHired, and hundreds more.

The new MashLogic release sports a fresh new look, and lots of new mashes. Users can join the conversation on Twitter, instantly look up dictionary definitions and Wikipedia summaries, watch movie trailers, search for keywords and find shopping deals. And the Music mash now enables both streaming and downloading from either Amazon or iTunes without leaving your current web page.

MashLogic can also help publishers extend their reach. Leading sites such as TechCrunch (http://mashlogic.com/brands/tc) and Docstoc (http://mashlogic.com/brands/docstoc) have been distributing branded versions of MashLogic and receiving increased traffic. With the addition of Internet Explorer support, publishers and even bloggers can now stay connected to their users through links all over the web pointing back to their sites.

About MashLogic

MashLogic is a startup in Menlo Park, CA that helps you Take Back the Web™. At a time when hyperlinks have been commercialized and only search engines offer useful links, MashLogic restores discovery and easy navigation to the web. MashLogic is an open platform, where the user has full visibility and control of the mashes that run, and the benefit of personalized links. MashLogic provides web sites with free custom mashes to increase the engagement of their visitors. The company is privately held, and funded by Bessemer Venture Partners (http://www.bvp.com) and angel investors. More information is available at MashLogic (http://mashlogic.com).

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