The New York Times Regional Media Group said it will roll out Caspio Inc.’s online database software across its 14 newspapers. The deployment follows testing at three Florida papers, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, the Gainesville Sun and the Star-Banner in Ocala.

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The Bismarck (N.D.) Tribune purchased Morris DigitalWorks’ online photo-sharing tool, Spotted, as an ASP-hosted addition to its Web site.  Spotted allows users to upload, edit and manipulate their own photos onto the newspaper’s Web site.

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Adicio Inc., provider of interactive classified advertising software for media companies, and AfterCollege Inc., a career network for college students and recent graduates, announced a partnership by which Adicio’s newspaper clients can upsell their job listings to the AfterCollege database.

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Online advertising software vendor Travidia Inc. said it picked up an additional 280 newspaper customers last year, more than doubling the number of papers it served at the end of 2006.

The supplier now has more than 420 newspaper clients and works with 12 of the 13 newspaper groups that joined forces with Yahoo to form the newspaper consortium, said James A. Green, chief marketing officer.

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ShopLocal rolled out SmartCircular 4.0, an upgrade to its online circular product. The app includes a redesigned interface and support for social and viral networking. ShopLocal is owned by Gannett Co. Inc., Tribune Co. and McClatchy Co.

USA Today purchased BNQT.com, a Web site that covers snowboarding, surfing, skating and motocross. The California-based site includes news, videos and social networking features. No financial figures were disclosed.

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Newsbank’s Readex unit said it will add two digital series to its America’s Historical Newspapers collection, covering papers printed in the 18th, 19th and early 20th century.

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The Wall Street Journal rolled out SeenThis?, a social networking service that lets wsj.com users see which Journal articles are most popular on Facebook and other social networking sites. The service is based on software from San Francisco-based Loomia Inc.

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The Irish Times and The Weekly Irish Times will be the first Irish titles to join ProQuest Historical Newspapers, making more than 147 years of coverage from the independent Irish newspapers searchable for the first time.

The archives from both papers, which include more than 17 million pages dating from 1764, will be cross- searchable, ProQuest said.

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