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VOIS, Inc., http://www.vois.com (pronounced “Voice”) (OTCBB: VOIS) (OTCBB: VOISW) today introduced Micro.VOIS (http://Micro.VOIS.com) for Twitter. Micro.VOIS, built on top of Twitter, is the easiest way for Twitter users to tell others that they want work or have work to offer. Using Micro.VOIS is as easy as adding #wantwork or #havework in a Twitter update (also known as a “Tweet”). As members Tweet jobs and opportunities, Micro.VOIS monitors the relevant data and helps Twitter members find what they are looking for.
Try It —

Actually, using Micro.VOIS is easier than explaining it. Try it right now: Using Twitter, find someone who has work or wants work. Then Tweet your project or idea with the hashtag #havework (ex. to tell people you have work) or #wantwork (for work wanted). The Micro.VOIS robot automatically adds all of those Tweets to the Micro.VOIS feed.

About VOIS, Inc.

VOIS.com (pronounced “Voice”) is a social commerce website that combines the power of social networking with an online marketplace for professional freelance and on-demand services. At VOIS, individuals and businesses have the tools to either Post Work, Find Work or Network as well as staff projects. VOIS’s social sourcing model connects a global network of talent, allowing individuals and business around the world to find and manage work cost-effectively. Vois also owns www.sCommerce.com and www.Rev2.org. VOIS is publicly traded under the symbols VOIS, VOISW. — www.vois.com

Bloggled.com, a blog backup & service company that is quickly becoming one of the most recognizable names in in blog backup security, has launched a new tool that expands its services to Twitter accounts.

The Twitter backup service saves and organizes tweets, follow lists, and other important aspects of the user’s Twitter account. In the event that the data is lost, users will be able to retrieve all of their backed up updates, lists of the users who they are following, and lists of all users following them.

The service also organizes tweets into daily caches, which allows users to quickly and easily find specific tweets and information later on.

Bloggled developed this innovative service as Twitter continues to grow and expand to new audiences. Largely regarded as the fastest growing social networking and micro blogging platform on the Internet, Twitter is becoming synonymous with how online users communicate and, in some cases, is even replacing some users traditional blogs.

The ability to save the work and effort involved in creating and maintaining a Twitter account is vital to both individuals and companies who support their marketing efforts with Twitter.

For additional information about Bloggled.com and its Twitter backup services, contact the company at (877) 216-9813.

With new innovations regularly occurring in online domains however, there is always room for a finished product. Socialepic.com should take you to a zone of complex perfection that none has dared till now.

At the base, it would just be a social networking site. It is only in execution that it stands out. Stylized flash applications like multi-user video chatting and music player would be more user-friendly. Your desktop would seem refurbished with new icons and unique items like Shoutbox and Whiteboard would be at the fingertips.

Just as an active cooperation of all sense organs makes communication more sharp, there would be focus on honing both the audio-visual and textual formats. Socialepic would have, in its different sections, genuine scope for blogs, forums, polls, and profile scanning. Different interfaces would be easily accessible to friends and strangers. There is an initiative against spammers and irritants. Abuses of any kind would obviously not be tolerated. You can easily share videos, photos, and other available articles with your group.

Each interface would be ably secured with cookies and different page-navigation would be easy. You may say that these features are available in almost every social networking site. Where it would have an edge will be in rapidity of visual functions, sending voice mails, smart web presence and brilliant coding at the back-end. It would have a 100 percent uptime.

Even as it is releasing, it is getting recommendations from avant garde people in the concerned sector. It may come as a direct assault to the sky-touching aspirations of Facebook. What makes Facebook special is its ability to isolate the professional from personal. Thus even business addicts cater to Facebook in the manner that they would never with say, Orkut.

Socialepic takes a step forward in that regard too with customized profiles and professional bookings. These people may have an official interactive collaboration among the people of their company at a slight cost. That would obviously be in a seal-in format involving only the groups and not apparent to others.

Socializing traffic gets an additional site for a welcome change. This one comes with stand-out features that make them feel valuable. Orkut is owned by Google and Facebook may be in very near future. This has made them some kind of an advertising extension. Socialepic.com looks to get people out of that mould.

Those who are introvert enough to make social beginnings with the world get an outlet to define themselves at socialepic.com. When they go through the site’s different facets, their perception of the world might change. Registration is welcome!

Social Epic is a revolutionary new social network, you can share photos, videos, music and more. Video messenger, phone and desktop client lets you keep in contact easier.

SupplyFrame, Inc. today announced the launch of a new service for technical professionals to quickly retrieve information on electronic components using Twitter. Datasheeter, the name of the new service, allows Twitter users to view component specifications through any Twitter application or web site.

The Datasheeter search tool, also known as a bot, is the evolution of several ideas for assisting engineers around the world to get quick access to accurate technical information. SupplyFrame Media previously has created purpose-built websites and widgets to assist users. The emergence of Twitter opened the door to a new and powerful channel for SupplyFrame to reach out and help engineers on the desktop. By giving engineers and purchasing professionals alternates to generic search engines and websites, Datasheeter not only makes getting job tasks done easier but also allows people to use their favorite tools for communicating and gathering information.

“It’s all about saving people time,” said Jeff Curie, VP of Marketing at SupplyFrame. “Twitter encourages tweeters to use any client software or website they chose. Today, we are leveraging the fact that there are many popular desktop Twitter applications sitting at the fingertips of engineers. Datasheeter allows people to pull technical specs on products in a couple of seconds using their Twitter client. Compared to hunting with browsers and Google, using Twitter can get the job done faster.”

Engineers should follow Datasheeter on Twitter here: www.twitter.com/datasheeter

About SupplyFrame Media
SupplyFrame Media (www.supplyframemedia.com) is the media division of SupplyFrame Inc. and dedicated to delivering high-performance, measurable marketing solutions for the electronics industry. SupplyFrame Media provides advertising solutions for electronics marketers looking to introduce new products, drive engineers to their websites, and generate sales leads. SupplyFrame Media is a business built around measurable media — high-performance advertising campaigns and marketing promotions that deliver measurable results with tools to maximize return on investment.

Vocus, Inc. (NASDAQ: VOCS) a leading provider of on-demand software for public relations management, is presenting the Vocus Virtual Social Media Conference: How to Effectively Leverage Social Media. The all-day virtual event will be held on July 23, 2009 from 10:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. (EST).

The keynote session titled “Putting the Public Back in Public Relations,” is presented by the authors of the book with the same title — Brian Solis and Deirdre K. Breakenridge. In addition, the agenda includes six other sessions related to public relations and social media including PR best-practices for Twitter, effective outreach to bloggers and how to build a social media release. The featured speakers will be live online for chat sessions during breaks and Q&A periods.

Other public relations and social media experts will include Christi Day, online spokesperson for Southwest Airlines (Twitter: @SouthwestAir), Aaron Brazell of Technosailor.com, Peter Corbett of iStrategy Labs and Richard Laermer, author of “Punk Marketing,”(newly revised in paperback) and the co-manager of Bad Pitch Blog. Visit our event page online to view a complete list of expert social media speakers at the Vocus Virtual Social Media Conference.

The cost for attending the Vocus Virtual Social Media Conference is $129. For additional information on the agenda, feature speakers and registration visit http://www.vocus.com/vc2009/.

About Vocus, Inc.
Vocus, Inc. (NASDAQ: VOCS) is a leading provider of on-demand software for public relations management. Our web-based software suite helps organizations of all sizes to fundamentally change the way they communicate with both the media and the public, optimizing their public relations and increasing their ability to measure its impact. Our on-demand software addresses the critical functions of public relations including media relations, news distribution and news monitoring. We deliver our solutions over the Internet using a secure, scalable application and system architecture, which allows our customers to eliminate expensive up-front hardware and software costs and to quickly deploy and adopt our on-demand software. Vocus is used by more than 3,500 organizations worldwide and is available in seven languages. Vocus is based in Lanham, MD with offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information please visit http://www.vocus.com or call 800.345.5572.

YellowPin’s new Buzz feature allows Facebook users to automatically send and receive text messages about their favorite places or friends, giving people real-time updates as to what’s going on around them and making sure they are never left wondering what to do. Instead of calling or texting all your friends to find out what’s going on, Buzz does all the work for you.
Here’s how it works:

— Sending Buzz: Send your Buzz news using a simple text to YellowPin and friends will receive a Buzz alert letting them know what you are up to. You can also text a comment to YellowPin about wherever you are, so your friends will know whether they should meet up with you. — Place Buzz: Use Place Buzz to receive texts whenever your friends update or comment from any specific places you choose, like your favorite bar, restaurant, store or stadium. You can also use Place Buzz to receive texts whenever a few of your friends update from any place around you, so you can be sure you never miss any fun! — People Buzz: Use People Buzz to receive texts whenever any friends that you choose update or make comments about where they are — including the mall, vacation in Florida, business trip to Seattle, or a fun bar. You can also use People Buzz to automatically get updates from any bars, restaurants, stores, or other places that you are friends with on Facebook, so you can always be the first to know about the latest sales, happy hours, or any other specials!
Buzz puts you in complete control of what information you share and receive with your friends, so you never have to worry about being tracked and you can finally put the social back into your networks.

“Facebook and Twitter give us unprecedented access to our friends and family, but now it’s time to let all that information work for you. Our YellowPin Buzz feature is the first to give you the ability to immediately act on all the information that’s being shared in real time,” says Sayles Braga, CEO of YellowPin. “While people can only follow friends on Twitter, people can use YellowPin’s Buzz to stay updated on not only their best friends, but also their favorite places.”

YellowPin debuted earlier this year on Facebook, and Buzz will continue to drive ABD3’s core concept of real-time, relevant social networking and interacting. To subscribe to YellowPin, visit www.yellowpin.com or simply add the application on Facebook. With the free first month, YellowPin costs less than a can of soda. You can connect your social network with your social life for only 99¢ month, which is conveniently charged right to your existing cell phone bill.

About ABD3

ABD3 LLC develops social applications that help people connect in the real world. YellowPin enables subscribers to draw on their existing social networks and engage in real world, social activity — with users in complete control of what information they choose to share. With universal accessibility in the United States, YellowPin easily integrates with users’ established social networks and their desired real time behaviors and interactions. Founded in 2008, ABD3 is headquartered in New York, NY. For more information, please visit www.yellowpin.com.

McGlinchey Stafford’s CAFA Law Blog (www.cafalawblog.com), the nation’s leading online resource for information, case analyses and insights regarding the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA), announced that it has opened a new channel for distributing its content, through Twitter. Twitter, the world’s leading micro-blogging service, enhances the Blog’s timely delivery of information to its existing readers, and to other new CAFA “followers” on Twitter www.twitter.com/cafalawblog.
The CAFA Law Blog now regularly “tweets” about its blog posts of class action-related case analyses. CAFA Law Blog has also recently posted live “tweets” from a conference produced by the American Conference Institute. Kyle Ferachi, a CAFA Law Blog analyst and an employment law specialist in the firm’s Baton Rouge office, attended the American Conference Institute’s 2009 National Advanced Forum on Employment Discrimination Claims and Class Actions, and for two straight days, posted up-to-the-minute information, “tweeting” timely news and insights from the conference via the Blog’s Twitter site www.twitter.com/cafalawblog.

The CAFA Law Blog, created in 2005 by McGlinchey Stafford class action defense lawyers Anthony Rollo (New Orleans and Baton Rouge, LA) and Hunter Twiford (Jackson, MS), operates with an editorial staff of several dozen McGlinchey lawyers. The Blog’s mission is to remain the leading on-line repository for information about CAFA. The CAFA Law Blog’s embrace of Web 2.0 communication tools, coupled with its entertaining, non-legalistic creative writing style, continues to distinguish it in the legal blog arena. The Blog has appeared on TechnoLawyer’s list of the nation’s 77 most influential legal blogs, and has been featured in the National Law Journal and other publications as a national leader in law firm blogging.

“The objective of the CAFA Law Blog is to provide perspectives on developments that continue to give shape and definition to the ground breaking Class Action Fairness Act. We think the Twitter channel will be helpful to many of the Blog’s followers by giving them timely notice of new case analyses and other CAFA information posted on the Blog,” commented Anthony Rollo, co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of the Blog.

The CAFA Law Blog is led by an editorial staff comprised of McGlinchey Stafford attorneys Anthony Rollo and Hunter Twiford, co-editors-in-chief; Michael Ferachi, senior editor; and Jay O’Brien, managing editor.

About CAFA Law Blog – www.cafalawblog.com

McGlinchey Stafford PLLC publishes the CAFA Law Blog, an interactive web site found at www.cafalawblog.com. The CAFA Law Blog is the leading online resource regarding the Class Action Fairness Act. Virtually every case involving CAFA issues decided anywhere in the country is available on the blog, with commentary and analyses of most of those decisions. In its efforts to provide “one-stop CAFA shopping,” the blog also highlights law review and other scholarly articles on CAFA topics, information about relevant seminars, “guest posts” by professors and other practitioners, vendors offering CAFA-related services, and other resources.

About McGlinchey Stafford PLLC

McGlinchey Stafford is a national full-service commercial and defense law firm with approximately 190 attorneys in eight locations in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio and New York. The firm is recognized nationwide for its extensive practice in the field of class action defense, and has represented Fortune 500 companies across the country in hundreds of consumer class actions in state, federal, and bankruptcy courts, arbitration proceedings, and Multi-District Litigation. McGlinchey Stafford’s class action defense attorneys have represented clients in class action matters across a wide array of fields, including class actions involving consumer financial services, banking, labor and employment, consumer fraud and deceptive trade practices, advertising, product liability, insurance, telecommunications, environmental, mass tort, healthcare, and public utilities claims and issues. The website address is www.mcglinchey.com.

Jobson Medical Information (JMI) announces the launch of PharmQD.com (www.PharmQD.com), a new professional and social networking website for the pharmacy industry. The site serves as an online network for pharmacy professionals to communicate, voice their opinions and share information about the pharmacy workplace. Other features of the site include industry news, job opportunities of all kinds, continuing education, blogging, rating articles and many Web 2.0 features. Members can also receive automatic notifications when their friends post on the site.
PharmQD.com is the first major social networking site dedicated exclusively to the entire pharmacy industry. Its goal is to bring together pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, pharmacy students and other pharmacy-related professionals who share like-minded goals and interests in an interactive place devoted specifically to the pharmacy professions. By registering for a free account, one can get a My PharmQD account, where members can create their own personalized profile, connect with friends, colleagues and other members to share ideas, tips, information, stay in touch, and learn from each other. Members can also read the latest industry news, voice opinions on a series of blogs, participate in discussion forums and post their own pharmacy stories.

PharmQD.com will also serve as a professional and educational resource. A jobs section will enable members to search and post employment opportunities. Members can also search and post valuable teaching aides and patient guides, and access links to industry associations, journals and other helpful resource sites. Continuing Pharmacy Education (CPE) is also offered on PharmQD.com for members to take accredited CE courses powered by U.S. Pharmacist® and Power-Pak C.E.® The site is also open for general membership for patients.

As a well-respected leader in providing healthcare information and communication services, JMI holds a strong position in the pharmacy arena. With flagship products such as U.S. Pharmacist, the leading clinically focused pharmacy publication, Power-PAK C.E. and Pharm/alert®, JMI has extensive experience in reaching the healthcare and pharmacy industry. The launch of PharmQD.com will further strengthen JMI’s ability to serve members of the pharmacy industry on a wider scale and to achieve its mission of uniting pharmacy professionals within one central community to share information, insight and education. PharmQD.com will also offer sponsorship opportunities, allowing companies to deliver their promotional messages in a unique and targeted environment.

“It’s imperative that we embrace new and innovative ways to reach our audiences in the most effective manner. We see great value and potential in our audiences generating and participating in dialogue and connecting in ways they have never been able to do before. The pharmacy community is the ideal environment for a major professional and social networking site, and JMI is excited to be the first information and service provider to offer this,” says Lou Greco, PharmD, Managing Director of PharmQD.com. “Our commitment to supporting pharmacy professionals remains a top priority, and we are confident that PharmQD.com will be enthusiastically embraced by the industry.”

“Our full-scale capabilities and expertise in digital media publishing played a significant role in the development and design of PharmQD.com. JMI is known for excellence in design and content of award-winning websites in all areas of healthcare,” says Tina Pang Mayer, Chief Marketing Officer, who leads the development and marketing strategy of the site. “PharmQD.com is designed to incorporate the highest standards and latest developments in the red-hot social networking arena. We designed the site with the end user in mind and how it applies to their online and offline needs. Our goal was to create a mutually interactive and engaging environment for our members and a place that they return to often. Since our beta launch, traffic has doubled weekly and our registration rate for membership had been over 85 percent.”

About JMI

JMI is a premier integrated healthcare information and communication services provider, with leading positions in a variety of rapidly growing healthcare markets such as pharmacy, clinician (nurse practitioners and physician assistants) and managed markets (managed care, eldercare, hospitals, government and employer groups), as well as select specialty physician sectors such as cardiology, ophthalmology and radiology. Through its diversified, multimedia portfolio of communication services, information databases, trade publications, medical education initiatives, websites and other digital and traditional media services, JMI is uniquely positioned to reach, educate and inform approximately one million healthcare professionals across more than 20 specialties. www.jmihealth.com

GroupExclusives.com launches as a new RFP service facilitating visibility of hoteliers to collegiate, youth, amateur and association sports travel planners. In addition to facilitating the teams hotel needs the site offers meal solutions in both hotels and restaurants. Combined with the Memory section of the site, athletes, fans, parents and friends can both create and share Memories as they happen and for years into the future.

GroupExlclusives.com allows hotel sales professionals that are interested in sports team group travel to get in front of their target audience when they are ready to buy and gain the competitive advantage. “The launch is just in time for the upcoming fall sports season,” says Jimmy Legg, Founder of GroupExclusives.com.

Jimmy Legg explains, “The concept has been in the works for over five years now, it remains important to me that the site be fun and heavily interactive via our Memories function of social networking, however, still offer value to both users and members. Creating a website that combines these elements is important to the entire community as well as growth and longevity.”
There are many social networking concepts that have arrived over the past few years, however, the model to generate revenue has remained elusive to their creators. I feel confident this model will quickly overcome this elusive concept by offering level of value to the members as well as users not found anywhere on the internet today. Combining a true business need with the excitement and visibility of our Memories, will create social and corporate network of buyers and more importantly, create buyers.”

The sites Memories feature presents a unique social networking function specifically for athletes and fans, hotels become associated with all the fun and exciting blogs, videos and pictures associated with the sports that they do business with. As more users create Memories, the ranking of that hotel in that city becomes more predominate in their listing based on number of Memories associated with their hotel. Interested sports travel planners can review hotels based on popularity as well as view specific Memories of previous teams.

“Introducing hotels nationwide to this exciting new technology is the first step in creating an endless and exclusive library to benefit your business. Near term future phase rollouts will bring GroupExclusives enhancements as well as World Memories associated with industries beyond hospitality. The value to members is very good now, however will become increasingly valuable as new phases are introduced,” remarks Legg.

GroupExclusives members can also enjoy another first for the internet, the restaurant RFP tool. Traveling sports teams can also plan meals for their athletes both in hotel restaurants as well as surrounding nearby eateries at their destination. Restaurants listed by hotels become recommended destinations to resolve the nutritional needs of the traveling athletes. The truly new approach of this function is that the restaurants that are added to the database range from small family owned establishments to large chains. Restaurants can create a comprehensive website to display their menu as well as participate in the RFP process for teams. Sports team nutritionists can upload a specialized, nutritional menu to receive the most competitive bid to feed their hunger team mates.

The Memory section brings all these elements together. From the team travel planners Personal Travel Dashboard, they can create an entire social networking site, in one click, associated and dedicated specifically with that trip or game.

The Memory section is simple to use and can accommodate a small team of seven or eight athletes to literally tens of thousands. Colleges, universities, high schools, amateur and association sports groups can now plan a hotel stay and meals in one serach as well as document the entire experience with the combined memories of all the participants.

About GroupExclusives.com:
Benefiting Team Sports Travel Planners
GroupExclusives.com is America’s first group travel planning tool designed specifically for Collegiate, Youth, Amateur, and Association team sports travel planners. Now anyone who handles team sports travel arrangements can research competitive rates for group travel to hotels and restaurants without being a meeting professional. Our database gives team sports travel planners a direct connection with potentially thousands of hotels and restaurants throughout the United States.

You can search for hotels or restaurants surrounding a specific college, theatre, convention center, museum, parks, fairgrounds, or simply by city or state. Once you have identified that perfect fit for a hotel or restaurant, you can send requests directly to the sales managers at those locations. Our unique and exciting website allows sports travel planners to negotiate the best cost savings deals for one or multiple occasions.

Benefiting Hotels and Restaurants
Having a hotel profile or restaurant profile in the Group Exclusives database is an easy way to instantly increase your opportunities for increased revenue from the college and youth team sports market.
Over 30,000 hotels and 130,000 restaurants surrounding the 2,200 colleges and universities across the nation are being invited to be part of Group Exclusives database. Hotels and restaurants will draw from an additional customer base of college and youth athletes, their friends, family, and school athletic directors. Restaurants can also offer customized meal services through Group Exclusives. Coaches can plan meals for their teams while on the road and upload custom menu requests for the athletes.

Social Networking with Memories Function
In addition to being able to receive bids from hotels and restaurants, Group Exclusives also offers a unique feature we call Memories. Create in one simple click, your personal Memories website for each trip, allowing all your guests to connect with each other, RSVP online, blog, upload pictures, and post videos of their special game or occasion. Everyone can participate in your personalized Memories page and your site is visible to the world.

Each Memories page is stored indefinitely, so you can come back and visit your specific Memory for years to come. Imagine visiting your personal Memory Page for that great high school football game years after college graduation. Create your own history of Memories over the years by adding links to your personal page, compiling years of pictures, videos and teammate comments.

Over 50 percent of marketers look to social media as a key way to build brand awareness, create conversation, and gain consumer insights. The Ritz London, a long-time leader and innovator in guest relations, is stepping into this dynamic terrain of communication and engagement. The legendary luxury hotel has selected TravelCLICK’s new Social Media Optimization (SMO) service to help grow awareness and community, increase web traffic and search rankings, and deliver more connections with guests worldwide.

TravelCLICK’s SMO service offering takes the mystery out of social networking by providing a personalized strategy that targets the most appropriate sites–based on the hotel’s target guest demographics. TravelCLICK’s award-winning digital marketing team will work with The Ritz London to build the right social network presence, leveraging user-generated content across all media, from blogs to guest review sites and rich digital viral content such as video and targeted promotions, to deliver fresh, relevant content. Facebook will be used for providing news about special events and promotions, offering London travel tips, and engaging fans and guests. Twitter will serve as a conduit for last-minute promotions, customer relations, and guest feedback.
Recent global news events, such as contested elections and celebrity passings, reflect more than ever the power of social sites as real-time virtual news bureaus. The ability for consumers–on a tremendous scale–to engage businesses directly in very public two-way conversations is rapidly redefining traditional customer relations and marketing communication models. Hotels that leverage this opportunity will benefit from the unfiltered feedback and insight from guests.

“Our partnership with TravelCLICK has already enabled us to increase our guest base and drive substantial revenue for our property,” said Ruth Jones, Director of Marketing for The Ritz London. “Their proven expertise in hotel Internet marketing has enabled us to focus on the heart of our business, our guests. And now, with SMO, we can begin our next evolution of customer engagement. Social sites are a perfect forum for feedback on our brand as well as ideas for improving the guest experience–and that is what The Ritz is all about.”

Currently, The Ritz London uses TravelCLICK’s distribution solution, including the iHotelier® Central Reservations System with the award-winning iStay® web booking engine, to increase online bookings. The hotel also uses TravelCLICK’s pay-per-click (PPC) advertising solution as part of a profitable Internet marketing strategy.

In May 2009, its PPC advertising campaign alone accounted for a sizeable portion of visitors to the Ritz London website and corresponding online bookings. Keywords achieved high click-through rates and helped bring a highly profitable return on advertising spend.

“In being at the forefront of online marketing, The Ritz London is reinforcing its position as an industry innovator,” said Jan Tissera, President of TravelCLICK International. “It is uniquely adapting its long- established legacy of glamour and sophistication to the new, hip world of Internet trends. With SMO, the hotel has a new venue for adding credibility to its brand promise, validating and personalizing the guest experience, and driving even greater awareness.”

About The Ritz London (www.theritzlondon.com):
Opened by renowned hotelier Cesar Ritz in 1906, The Ritz still today retains all the excitement and glamour synonymous with this legendary hotel. The 137 guestrooms combine Louis XV1 style interiors with modern-day technology, while fine dining facilities include the magnificent Ritz Restaurant, the opulent Palm Court for afternoon tea, and the stylish Rivoli Bar. William Kent House, the 18th century mansion house recently opened at The Ritz, features a spectacular choice of banquet rooms and suites.

About TravelCLICK, Inc. (www.travelclick.net)
TravelCLICK, the leader in hotel ecommerce solutions, provides a continuous flow of high-value online bookings to hotels worldwide. A uniquely comprehensive one-stop solution, TravelCLICK offers market intelligence, distribution, electronic marketing, and media solutions delivered with personal attention and local market expertise. With revenue optimization experts in every global market, we help our clients make better business decisions, generate greater demand from the right mix of channels, convert more shoppers to high-value guests, and increase revenue and profitability. Serving the hospitality industry since 1999, TravelCLICK has more than 14,000 customers in 140 countries with offices in Barcelona, Baltimore, Chicago, Dubai, Houston, Phoenix, Melbourne, Shanghai, and Tokyo.
Contact:

TravelCLICK, Inc
Katrina Pruitt-Andrews, Director of Marketing
Phone: +1 410 257 9154
Email: kpandrews(at)travelclick.net
300 North Martingale
Suite 500
Schaumburg, IL 60173
USA
http://www.travelclick.net/?utm_id=506

Reality Digital, the leading provider of web community software for enterprises, has predicted that social networks are set to become the primary hub of online activity, with other movement focused around it, as brands continue to push their marketing efforts into the digital world.

With social media having risen in popularity over the last few years, many brands are opting to utilise this for the purpose of marketing their products, using social networks as a great crowd sourcing mechanism. The internet population is a vast one, and it has become a vital factor in the marketing success of brands all over the world.

Rob Proctor, Head of EMEA for Reality Digital, commented: “The rise of the social network over the last few years is one that has been well documented, and Reality Digital has always been at the forefront of developments in the social media industry. Brands that show the initiative to adapt to the latest innovations in social media technology will undoubtedly be the ones to benefit as social media evolves, as it is constantly doing at present.

“Software as a service is of a huge benefit to businesses that are suffering in the recession, as they can implement a white label social network without the risk of unexpected costs. As social media continues to change, there will be an increasing number of avenues to success that open up in the future. One of these developments is that a social network will become the focal point of a brands marketing activity, a central point of interaction between the brand and its audiences.”

Reality Digital’s Opus social networking platform allows brands to implement a social network that is tailored to their brand, through the use of a fully customisable interface and management console. The community has the power to upload their own video, audio or images, further enhancing the consumer’s experience of the brand within its network.

For more information on Reality Digital, please visit RealityDigital.com, or call 0203 1785 883.

PlaySpan™, the leader in monetization solutions for online games, virtual worlds, and social networks, today announced a new marketplace storefront for Facebook, and coming soon to MySpace, which enables consumers to purchase online game items, virtual goods, and game currencies from many of today’s most popular online games and applications.

The news marks the first time that consumers will have the ability to participate in a universal virtual goods commerce marketplace that also enables them to buy, trade, and sell goods within social networks and use the items in their online game environments. The application provides game developers and publishers a massive new social networking based distribution channel to engage consumers within the context of their social graph.

“Our social network marketplace takes online game commerce experiences to the next level. We are bridging the gap between gaming on and off social networks through a common monetization platform,” said Karl Mehta, Founder & CEO of PlaySpan. “Providing our marketplace application to hundreds of millions of consumers on the social networks will significantly help them to conduct virtual goods transactions across multiple platforms, as well as engage their friends in the process through gifting, trading, and sharing.”

“Combining the PlaySpan marketplace with our existing monetization solutions within the social networks and online communities like Facebook and MySpace signals a giant step forward for publishers and developers who want to make virtual goods available to consumers wherever they are” said Lex Bayer, General Manager of Social Networks at PlaySpan and Co-Founder of SpareChange. “By uploading their items into the PlaySpan market place, publishers will tap into a syndicated distribution model that places their items in store fronts that span gaming sites, online portals, and social networking sites.”

Facebook users can go to the following page to start utilizing the marketplace:
http://apps.facebook.com/sparechange/landing.html

About PlaySpan, Inc.
PlaySpan™ is the leader in monetization solutions for over 1,000 online games, virtual worlds, and social networks. PlaySpan’s patent-pending in-game virtual goods commerce and micropayment platform enables game publishers and developers to generate new revenues, acquire new users, and extend the loyalty of existing users.

PlaySpan also offers global payment solutions through its subsidiary PayByCash® with 85 payment methods in 180 countries. The ULTIMATE GAME CARD® is used by consumers to pay for 300 multiplayer games and around 700 games on popular social networking sites. It is available in about 45,000 retail locations across North America and growing rapidly worldwide.

Social network payment solutions are available through Spare Change©. Acquired by PlaySpan in April 2009, Spare Change is the first and leading payments platform designed specifically for social networks. Featured on over 700 applications, across Facebook, MySpace and Bebo, Spare Change empowers developers to successfully monetize their applications through micro payments. The Spare Change platform enables users to make safe, convenient, and friendly 1-click purchases through a variety of funding sources.

PlaySpan is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Virginia, Ohio, and Mumbai. Investors include Easton Capital, Menlo Ventures, STIC and Novel TMT Ventures. The company has recently won the 2009 OnHollywood Category Award for Best Gaming Company.

For more information about PlaySpan, visit http://corp.playspan.com
For more information about Spare Change visit: www.sparechangepayments.com