After it conducted additional research into the Storm ‘AdPack’ exploit that it first blogged about last Thursday (May 15), Trend Micro has confirmed two important things to us in conversations over the last several days:

Last night, the 23rd Annual CODiE Award winners were announced. Zango.com was one of four finalists for the Best Video Content Aggregation Service.

Trend Micro and Zango are in contact and are working together to understand the situation raised in the Trend Micro blog entry originally posted last night -- a blog entry updated twice today.

A blog entry from Trend Micro implies that Zango is “possibly in cahoots” with Storm. To which we respond: Seriously?

This week Ernst & Young announced that Zango Founder and CEO Keith Smith, is a finalist for the 2008 Entrepreneur Of The Year Award in the Pacific Northwest.

Congratulations to Zango’s 225 employees in six offices in four countries around the world. For the fifth consecutive year, Washington CEO magazine has recognized Zango as one of Washington State’s Best Companies to Work For.

Today we launched the first-ever Zango widget, which provides quick and easy access to Ultimate Arcade Empire’s Extreme Racing 2 game.

Finalists for the 23rd Annual CODiE Awards were announced today and Zango.com is one of four Web sites up for the Best Video Content Aggregation Service CODiE.

Zango’s latest video for the iMediaConnection iMedia Spot was released today. Rip Warendorf, Zango’s senior vice president of sales, provides insights to advertisers trying to adapt to today’s media and reach target audiences through what we call Misfit Content.

In follow-up to Friday’s blog post entitled Fortinet’s ‘Facebook Widget’ Advisory False, Zango earlier today issued a formal press release confirming that the company had no involvement with the “Secret Crush” Facebook widget.