Monthly Archives: July 2009

DeviceAnywhere™, the industry leader in end-to-end mobile application testing and development, today announced that Facebook® is using DeviceAnywhere Test Center™, a SaaS platform, to improve mobile testing efficiency and ensure a quality experience for its global user base in 50 countries. DeviceAnywhere’s solution provides Facebook with the ability to test their mobile applications using real devices, allowing them to recreate a true-to-life testing environment and develop consumer-friendly products for their international user-base without high costs and complex geographical logistics.

With over 200 million active users and more than 30 million mobile users, Facebook is one of the most heavily-trafficked sites on the internet. The DeviceAnywhere Test Center platform allows Facebook developers access to the industry’s widest range of devices and the broadest global reach to more than 30 carriers worldwide. These two criteria allowed Facebook developers to solve critical problems associated with their mobile messaging features. Facebook has supported SMS notifications since 2006, and through its work with DeviceAnywhere, now has the ability to cater to their entire mobile user-base regardless of their device or location.

DeviceAnywhere has continued to support Facebook’s mobile development by providing access to a range of devices, both commercial and pre-commercial, giving Facebook the opportunity to offer products like Facebook Mobile to the entire mobile community.

“Although many companies offer mobile sites or applications for their consumers on-the-go, Facebook is taking it a step further by developing multiple applications that are customized to a user’s device. Not only does this require testing on an enormous amount of handsets, but also on carriers and networks on a global scale,” said Faraz Syed, CEO and Co-Founder of DeviceAnywhere. “DeviceAnywhere’s SaaS solution solves the problem of fragmentation by providing live testing on real devices in all possible groupings of device brands, networks, and software platforms. This powerful, comprehensive testing environment enables companies like Facebook to create a flawless user experience and extend the boundaries of business and consumer mobilization.”

Sales Progress, a leading innovator in sales training and development, has announced an upcoming webinar to teach organizations the benefits of creating an online presence using the social networking site LinkedIn.

This webinar will introduce different features and applications of the LinkedIn site and how they can improve the sales process. Webinar is to be held July 24th, 2009 from 11:00am to 12:00pm. Webinar will cover topics such as:

– Why LinkedIn is here to stay (41 million members and counting)

– How the system can automate the lead generation process

– How to make every 1st appointment a success

– How profiles can generate traffic and leads and how to add multimedia presentations to generate interest to profiles and companies.

This is a free event offered via webinar, presented by President of Sales Progress, Tim Hagen. Tim is a leader in using social networking to improve the sales process, and has taught his methods to companies large and small. This event is essential to those currently in or looking to enter the sales environment.

To sign up participants should visit https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/507263641 . Sales Progress also offers private webinar services so contact a team member for more details.

About Sales Progress:
Sales Progress is the leader in performance coaching techniques and web-based software solutions to people and businesses forward to increase revenue, reduce costs and increase the bottom-line. Their web-based solutions, customized workshops and one on one coaching programs have been utilized by companies from the Fortune 50 to medium and small businesses.

Sales Progress is a privately held company with a presence throughout North America. The Sales Progress product line is available through its corporate headquarters in Wisconsin and its alliance of value-added resellers and distributors. Clients utilizing the technology and service solutions of Sales Progress include General Electric, Gehl Company, Oshkosh Corporation, Milwaukee Brewers, and Evinrude-Johnson.

Additional Sales Progress information is located on the Internet at www.salesprogress.com or via phone at 262-240-1077.

On-demand email and one-to-one marketing solutions provider ExactTarget launched its social network-based BackOffice today, allowing customers to submit and track help cases via the company’s social network.

Located in ExactTarget’s customer-only social networking site 3sixty, BackOffice allows customers to request technical support, monitor real-time help status and view a 90-day history of submitted help requests. The online support is in addition to ExactTarget’s global 24-hour-a-day phone-based customer support services.

“3sixty has become the location of choice for email marketers to engage with their peers to discuss current issues in marketing or pose questions to us about the software, its functionality or any issues they are currently experiencing in the application,” said Stephanie Zircher, ExactTarget’s director of 3sixty. “The introduction of BackOffice to 3sixty provides the industry’s only one-stop social networking site that provides exclusive client only education, support requests and online collaboration.”

Named 3sixty for the role the site plays in connecting emarketers to one another and to ExactTarget, the social network has grown to more than 13,000 members in less than nine months. Since launching in October, nearly 100 product enhancements and additions recommended by 3sixty users have already been incorporated into the company’s one-to-one marketing platform, including improved tracking tools, expanded email testing and simplified triggered email sending capability among others.

“The site gives our team a chance to network with colleagues around the country in a forum that is dedicated solely to e-marketing,” said Cara Olson, manager of e-marketing at Overland Park, Kans.-based Digital Evolution Group. “It gives our team the opportunity to quickly learn about enhancements and to respond to and advise other ExactTarget users who have posted questions in the community.”

Through the site’s training section, known as the University, users can participate in nearly 100 interactive on-demand video tutorials on ExactTarget’s technologies including SMS text messaging, triggered messages, international emails and dynamic content.

In addition to delivering online training and providing a forum for ExactTarget users, 3sixty gives marketers access to the company’s new products before they are commercially available. Earlier this year, global pizza giant Papa John’s field tested ExactTarget’s Social ForwardTM technology through the Innovations Lab on 3sixty.

ExactTarget clients access 3sixty directly from the software application online at www.exacttarget.com.

Cc:Betty, (http://www.ccbetty.com) the company that organizes your group communications, today announced integration of Twitter. Users of the service can tweet in and out of a collaboration mailspace, as well as see each other’s latest tweets.

“Our goal is to organize your communications,” said Michael Cerda, CEO and co-founder of Cc:Betty. “We’ve already started doing this with email, and this now marks our first foray into crossing into other modes, namely the real-time mode of Twitter.”

Cc:Betty, launched at DEMO ’09, is a free, personal virtual “assistant” who makes email better, saving people time and offering a more engaging and efficient solution to group communications. By adding [email protected] to any email, users automatically create a mailspace, establishing a collaboration hub that automatically routes, parses, and organizes email conversations into a simple at-a-glance view.

The Cc:Betty mailspace serves as a clean, organized and dynamic “home” for everything shared in any email discussion. It illustrates email conversations in a single view and automatically:

Interprets addresses into interactive maps
Pulls multimedia files (pictures, video and audio) from messages and organizes them in their appropriate category
Displays photo attachments in a gallery
Queues video and audio file attachments in the appropriate video or audio player
Takes note of written dates and times and allows downloading to a calendar

About Cc:Betty
Cc:Betty, the company that makes email smarter, offers a personal email assistant to everyone worldwide. Cc:Betty is available to anyone by simply copying betty (at) ccbetty.com. Cc:Betty was founded in 2008 by Michael Cerda and Ben Dean. Cc:Betty is available at http://www.ccbetty.com, with Tweets at ccbetty.

Voice for teens recently created a world wide social networking site for teens only. This site is meant for teens to have a voice in today’s world. Teens have been looked over during this whole social networking craze. What’s unfair is that teens have been a huge part in making the social networking phenomenon as big as it is today. It’s really scary to know that our youth is being pulled into adult forums when they should have a forum of their own.

Voice for teens realizes that teenagers need their voices be heard. They have been begging to have a social networking site of their own. They need a place where they can be themselves and not be surrounded by adult influences. A place where they can chat with people their own age who are just like them.

The social networking boom has become such a huge phenomenon in today’s world. Social networking sites such as MySpace, FaceBook, YouTube, and Twitter have taken the industry by storm. The sad truth is that some of these sites would not be where they are at today without the support of teens. A lot of the advertising on these social networking sites is geared towards teenagers. So where is the credit that teens deserve for these companies success?

Voice for teens recently created a social networking forum for teens only. In this forum teens will able to freely talk about any topic and subject of their choice. They will be able to be themselves and discuss what matters to them with their peers around the world. This forum is geared to be a safe place where teens can be themselves and not be influenced by adults. There is a strict policy in place to make sure this forum is protected. Even though teenagers can freely discuss issues of their choosing, any misconduct will not be tolerated. Forum members must be between the ages of 13-18 years old to participate.

Teens now have a place to go and have their voices be heard. They now have a forum where they can call home and a chance to take the social networking scene by storm. They have the power to make Voice for Teens the number one social networking site on the Internet.

www.voiceforteens.com

Twitter, can generate sales leads for your business faster than other social network, even with a slashed budget. So says David White, Founder and Chief Executive of Weboptimiser (http://www.weboptimiser.com) and he’ll tell you how your company can benefit from it when he presents his webinar during July.
He’ll explain how Twitter is generating up to half the hits on his company’s website, building their contact list and their reputation fast and effectively. With a successful background in SEO he is one of the best people in digital marketing to see the massive potential Twitter has for business and, what’s more, he’s investing his own time and money in spreading the message. His team of engineers and directors has been working on social media projects for two years and the work on Twitter has come from the last six months of development. David already has a strong following for his online services on Twitter, some of which are free, as are the webinars running on 14th and 21st July at 6pm UK time and 6pm US CDT. Each will last for 60 minutes including 20 minutes for Q&A. Join the webinar at http://bit.ly/Cxzmb
Most people now know that Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch with people through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: what are you doing? Once Barack Obama started using it the world sat up and took notice. It’s a phenomenal success with growth in one year calculated at 22-fold. It’s also said to have played a key role in the recent anti-government demonstrations in Iran.
But it’s the business application that David will be talking about in his webinar and you can join if you hurry, numbers are limited and going fast. He will share his experience in developing business applications for Twitter where there is a fast, measurable return. He’ll discuss the do’s and don’ts of Twittering that he’s learned the hard way or, as he puts it, ‘don’t try to work from scratch, you’ll be spending more time on technology than on your clients’.
He’ll emphasise the importance of getting your planning right, with clearly set objectives. He’ll demonstrate how you can turn followers into prospects and then into increased sales – and all in very short time and at a fraction of the cost of mounting a full marketing campaign. You’ll hear details of the surveys he’s conducted himself that show the effectiveness of Twitter and the competitively-priced packages Weboptimiser offers to get you Twittering and Tweeting with the best of them.
Join the webinar at http:bit.ly.CxZmb For an advanced view of the presentation click http://www.tweetmaxi.com/Twitterfollower.html About David White
David White, CEO of Weboptimiser Group Ltd is a pioneer in the application of IT in business and a passionate evangelist of its benefits. He set up his first search engine marketing company, weboptimiser.com, in 1996.

Cascadia Investments announced today that the company will launch twelve properties over the next six-to-twelve months. And, to keep investors abreast of all these latest developments, the company has set up www.cascadiainteractive.com as the home page for all of its current and future Internet properties.

Cascadia’s newest product is phace.mobi, a mobile social networking site that allows people to set up online profiles; add pictures, links, and music; and share common interests. Social mobile networking sites are gaining popularity with people all over the world as they allow large groups of people to stay connected while on the go.
While Cascadia’s first two websites, ticktweet.com and tinytwirp.com, were purchased as acquisitions, phace.mobi was built entirely in-house.

About Cascadia Investments, Inc.
Cascadia Investments, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: CDIV) is a publicly traded development company operating in the Pacific Northwest. The company’s principal objective is to create equity and long-term earnings growth through the acquisition and development of undervalued real estate and cutting edge internet properties.

Open Salon, Salon’s social content site, today announced that it will provide a new source of revenue for its growing number of participants by offering Google AdSense to its members. Now, Open Salon’s members can profit directly off the number of visitors they receive to their blogs. Open Salon, which was launched last year by Salon Media Group (OTCBB: SLNM), will also now feature its own integrated ads throughout the site.
Using Google AdSense, members of Open Salon will be able to sign up for an account directly within the Open Salon interface. Users will receive 100 percent of the revenue derived from the maximum-allowable three ad placements on their pages, affording them the ability to benefit from the steadily growing traffic that the site enjoys.

Salon Media Group’s flagship web site, www.Salon.com, frequently highlights strong posts from Open Salon bloggers on its cover, sending high rates of traffic to individual users. Until now, Open Salon users — like many reader-bloggers on other media sites — have been largely unable to profit off of the traffic they receive. “Our philosophy from the get-go here has always been that we are publishing partners with our members,” says Kerry Lauerman, Open Salon’s Director. “They are wildly generous with their talents and energy as we try to help them find the smartest, largest audience possible. And we have always understood that if we profit, they need to profit, as well.”

Open Salon also offers a growth area for Salon’s advertising efforts, both through expanded display advertising on quality, editorially curated content, as well as through custom marketing opportunities, allowing brands to create and join conversations around topics and themes central to their brand positioning, engaging the audience in new ways.

The user-generated content site now boasts thousands of members, and continues to grow rapidly. Challenging its participants to “make the headlines,” the resulting content frequently makes the top placements in various social bookmarking sites. “The quality of content produced on Open Salon, and the enormous growth over the past year, have proven that the platform is a great success,” adds Richard Gingras, the CEO of Salon Media Group. “We see this as a great opportunity for our members, as well as for the advertisers who choose to work with us.”

About Salon Media Group

Salon (OTCBB: SLNM), an award-winning online news and entertainment Web site, combines original investigative stories, breaking news, provocative personal essays and highly respected criticism along with popular staff-written blogs about politics, technology and culture, as well as video and audio podcasts. The winner of multiple Webby and Online News Association awards, Salon is an Internet pioneer that made the transition to Web 2.0, with vibrant audience participation through its automated letters to the editor, along with its long-time Table Talk and Well communities. Open Salon, the newest member of Salon Media Group, was nominated for a 2008 National Magazine Award in its first year.

Markit is a social bookmarking script that enables you to build a successful social bookmarking site in any niche or broad market, for users with bookmark sharing and private options. Now it comes with two new modules namely Ning Integration and Twitter API to facilitate its users to integrate their Markit site with Ning and Twitter.

The MarkIt team has given a new structure to their product by adding two essential modules namely Ning and Twitter integrations. Give a new life to your Markit site by integrating these two new modules and let your users sign up to your application using their Ning or Twitter accounts.

Another good thing about the Twitter integration module is that your users can update their status on what’s happening in their lives. Also, make your users know when tweets comment on their actions on Twitter. The tasks carried out on Markit can be taken to Twitter on need basis.

“We aim to offer innovative features to our products and make our customers happy at all times.Once again our Markit team has proved it by developing two modules: Ning integration and Twitter API. We are confident that these modules will attract our customers” said Ms. Sheerin, the Vice President of Agriya infoway.

MarkIt helps you develop social bookmarking sites focusing on any community; for example – shipping community, religious community, sports and fitness community, catering community, fashion community, adult community, poker community, author community, etc. As sites are bookmarked under specific keywords, people who are interested in a specific community will get access to bookmarks of related sites easily through the subscription feature. Reaching a global audience is so easy.

Agriya Infoway is a Chennai based web Development Company that sells scripts that can be bought by webmasters to build sites under various categories. Agriya has come up with two new modules for its hot running product Markit. Visit For more details http://www.agriya.com/products-markit

Elysium Internet, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: EYSM), a next generation Local Internet advertising and new media Company, today announced that it has launched its first Global Niche social networking site for podiatrists, www.DPMWire.com. In a recent report Nielsen stated that total minutes spent on social networking sites in the U.S has nearly doubled, increasing 83% year-over-year.
Elysium CEO Scott Gallagher commented, “www.DPMWire.com is a natural fit for us to launch our first of many Niche Social Networking sites to our vertical channel of professional communities over the coming months. Niche Social media, like true local search is an area we feel is greatly needed and substantially underserved, especially now with the pending changes to our health care system and the massive number of baby boomers heading for retirement. Connecting large niche communities of likeminded professionals like Podiatrists, Psychiatrists, Pediatricians, Dietitians and others provides a targeted venue to discuss emerging, relevant industry issues utilizing cutting edge technologies. In addition Social Media provides an added revenue channel for Elysium while delivering substantial value to our existing member base.”

Gallagher continued, “Initially we’ll offer members of our page one ranked online local search destination www.Podiatrists.com a free membership and charge non members a monthly fee. We’ll be launching our next social networking location shortly to the 70,000 US dietitians.”

About Elysium Internet, Inc.

Elysium Internet is an emerging leader in the direct navigation/Internet advertising space. The Company is building a direct navigation based Internet advertising network. Elysium builds targeted professional directories over category killer Dot Com and Dot Net domain names such as www.Podiatrists.com, www.Psychiatrists.com, www.Dietitians.net, www.Auditors.com and others. For more information visit the Company web site www.ElysiumInternet.com. Review the Company’s quarterly, annual and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission at http://www.SEC.gov.

Attentio SA/NV (www.attentio.com), the European leader in social media intelligence, is pleased to announce the appointment of Ms. Amaia Lasa as CEO.

Ms. Lasa is a marketing professional with a M.Sc. and over twelve years of increasing responsibilities within marketing and IT for the European headquarters of FedEx Corp. (NYSE:FDX) and Toyota Motor Corporation (NYSE:TM). Her extensive experience within market research, e-commerce marketing, IT development and people & process management has given her the necessary expertise to successfully lead an entrepreneurial organization such as Attentio. Ms. Lasa joined Attentio as COO in July 2007 and was appointed CMO in March 2009 with the objective of expanding Attentio’s sales and marketing organization in Europe.

Mr. Simon McDermott, Attentio’s co-founder and CEO for the past 3 years, will be assuming the role of United Kingdom Country Manager reflecting the recognition of the UK as Europe’s most important market for social media analytics. He will also become Attentio’s Chief Communication Officer. His background and unique experience in the industry will provide support to Ms. Lasa and the senior management team as they continue to expand the capabilities of Attentio’s innovative suite of social media analytics software.

“This is a natural next step in Attentio’s development and I am confident that Amaia will guide this exciting company to new levels of profitability, activity and growth. I am looking forward to working with her through this transition”, said Simon McDermott, Attentio’s CEO. “She brings a wealth of management and IT experience that is crucial for the current stage of Attentio with our aggressive market expansion strategy.”

In a move to strengthen the management team, Attentio’s principal founder and internet serial entrepreneur, Mr. Per Siljubergsåsen, has been appointed Chief Product Officer and will work closely with Attentio’s newly appointed CTO, Mr. Frizo Janssens on Attentio’s patent-pending analytics technology.

Mr. William Klippgen, technology entrepreneur and investor, will join Attentio’s Board of Directors, bringing relevant start-up and investment experience. Mr. Klippgen is executive director of Singapore seed investment fund BAF Spectrum Pte Ltd and is co-founder of European internet success Kelkoo.com.

About Attentio SA/NV

Attentio SA is an emerging market intelligence company operating from Brussels tracking multi-national brands throughout Europe and rest of the world. Attentio’s Brand Dashboard™ is used to monitor and analyze social media such as blogs, twitter and news articles to provide comprehensive real-time insights into consumer behaviour and attitudes. For more information or to schedule a demonstration, please contact the Attentio sales team at +32 2219 8666 or visit our web site at www.attentio.com.

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