Chris Young leaves DoubleClick for a new job, plus other interactive industry hires, partnerships, launches and announcements.

Active Athlete announced its new widget technology is now available to advertisers and publishers across a wide spectrum of sports-related websites. Active Athlete's widgets include course and event locators, score trackers, weather, messaging forums and other technologies for finding and sharing information online. Advertisers can now work with Active Athlete to build and deploy their own branded widgets.

Digital Broadcasting Group announced that Chris Young, EVP of rich media and emerging at DoubleClick, has left that post and joined Digital Broadcasting Group as chairman.

Glam Media announced that Dr. Kiumarse Zamanian joined the company as VP of Glam Evolution Advertising Platform.

Healthline, a provider of intelligent health information services, announced the appointment of Paul R. Rostkowski to VP of advertising sales.

Hitwise announced that veteran online analyst Heather Dougherty has joined the company as director of research.

Innovyx, an agency-focused email marketing services firm and unit of Omnicom's Star Marketing Group, has released Dialogue 1 to1 Version 6.0. Its offerings bolster the existing platform's email campaign applications and provide new features such as a bar code image generator, a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) web services API and a fully integrated wiki.

Pixsy Corporation, a media search platform that powers private label video and image search engines, announced a distribution deal with Lycos. Under the terms of the agreement, Lycos will utilize Pixsy's advanced media search platform to offer video and image search to its network of owned and operated properties and affiliates.

Reactrix Systems announced the appointments of Neal Bangerter as VP of product management and Chris Betts as VP of corporate development.

SocialMedia Networks announced it has appointed Yahoo behavioral targeting expert Richard Frankel as COO.

Undertone Networks announced that Peter Green, formerly SVP of ad sales with Weather.com, has joined Undertone Networks as its SVP of sales.

Upstream Group announced the opening of registration for the inaugural Upstream Habitat training programs. The company also identified the digital industry luminaries who comprise the Board of Regents for Upstream Habitat.

Vibrant Media announced that it has hired Denise Garcia, former AG Edwards VP and internet equity analyst, as SVP, corporate strategy and research.

Editor's note: We list the companies and people alphabetically according to what company hires what person or another company. Our weekly column is always looking for announcements, so please email them to mediamotions@imediaconnection.com.

Michael Estrin is an associate editor, iMediaConnection. Read full bio.