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Palo Alto, California - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - November 29, 2006 - On-demand manufacturing firm, Zazzle, has released a new program, designed to enable product creation with its customization tools and technologies, for third party websites.

The Zazzle Product Engine (”ZPE”) is being offered through Zazzle’s ”Create-a-Product API,” which, according to the company, is the first-ever API that allows third party websites to offer users a ”one click” solution to turn digital content — such as images, designs, photos and text — into custom products such as t-shirts, mugs, posters, cards, real U.S. postage, among other items.

By offering a referral fee on all sales generated through the Zazzle Create-a-Product API, Zazzle is providing an entirely new monetization opportunity for websites with digital content. This means that any website owner, blogger, or Web 2.0 company with photos, designs, artwork, and/or text can generate revenue by turning this digital content into physical merchandise.

Robert Beaver, Chairman and CEO of Zazzle remarked, ”We are extremely proud of Zazzle.com as a destination site and wanted to bring our technology to an even larger audience. The Zazzle Product Engine now offers an unlimited variety of websites to provide their users with all of the unique and powerful Zazzle tools that were only previously available on our site.”

Tuoc Luong, Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering at Zazzle added, ”As part of the Web 2.0 ecosystem, we felt the time was right to let consumers mash up content from anywhere onto t-shirts, postage, cards, mugs and posters. We’re excited about our first offering under the Zazzle Product Engine, the Zazzle Create-a-Product API, which scales infinitely, and allows individual sites to easily offer their users the opportunity to create unique custom products directly from their site.”

Zazzle has already secured partnerships with websites employing the Zazzle Create-a-Product API, including Dogster.com/Catster.com, TheFreeDictionary.com, and TheFamilyPost.com, in addition to other entities. In particular, Dogster.com/Catster.com and TheFreeDistionary.com have recently deployed the Zazzle Create-a-Product API and their customers can now create and order branded mugs, t-shirts, and real U.S. postage directly from their sites.

Ted Rheingold, CEO, Dogster, Inc. added, ”Dogster had been searching for two years for a partner that could help us easily deliver customized products to the Dogster community. The Zazzle Create-a-Product API not only offered a one click solution for our customers and a seamless integration process, it also provided Dogster with a whole new revenue channel and the ability to offer our members something they will love.”

Michael Sawtell, President and CEO of The Family Post commented, ”The Family Post has a passion for product excellence and the highest dedication to customer satisfaction. Our families have come to expect the very best from our offerings. The Zazzle Create-a-Product API and Zazzle products are unmatched in quality and the 24-hour turnaround time is a key value add for our customers.”

Zazzle provides a URL linkover-based API where websites simply specify the source of images and text within special links to Zazzle.com, and customized products — such as apparel, posters, mugs, and real U.S. postage — are automatically generated. Users can then further customize these products with fonts and colors using Zazzle’s design tools, and proceed to order or share with friends. Upon ordering, Zazzle’s proprietary manufacturing systems take over and the products are created on-demand within 24 hours, and then shipped to the customer. In addition, websites have the ability to create product templates allowing them to incorporate their logo or additional default designs on the products. Lastly, Zazzle provides monetization for these websites with a referral fee on all sales of products created through the API.

Integrating with the Zazzle Create-a-Product API is dones this way: 1) Go to http://www.zazzle.com/api 2) Set up Zazzle API account and create a product template 3) Add the links provided anywhere on a website.

Zazzle contributors make their unique creations available to the public by setting up a Zazzle gallery where anyone can browse, comment and connect with others who share their interests. Contributors earn royalties every time their creations are purchased by others. In addition to the fast growing marketplace of contributed products, Zazzle has one of the largest collections of images from the world’s most well-known brands. Zazzle’s special collections include over 3,500 authentic images from the Walt Disney Company, as well as historically significant images from The Library of Congress, he California State Library, the Boston Public Library, and the Hoover Institution. One-of-a-kind characters and images are also available on Zazzle from such leading collections as Warner Brothers’ Looney Tunes, Lucasfilm’s Star Wars, Marvel Comics, Twentieth Century Fox’s Family Guy(TM), Neopets, Build-A-Bear Workshop and MGM’s Pink Panther.

Zazzle provides on-demand manufacturing solutions, designed to enable consumers to create, share and celebrate their interests and passions by providing high quality customization of apparel, posters, mugs, cards, U.S. postage and more. Zazzle combines manufacturing, an online community, customizable digital images and personalization tools to empower consumers to create products. Additionally, the Zazzle Product Engine is used by partners including the Walt Disney Company, Lucasfilm’s Star Wars, The Family Post and many more to integrate Zazzle’s customization tools and on-demand manufacturing technologies within their own websites.

To learn more about the Zazzle Create-a-Product API, please visit: www.zazzle.com/api.

For more information about Zazzle, please visit: http://www.zazzle.com.

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