Yotify.com, the leading personal web scout service that enables you to track anything on the Internet, today opens the public beta of its Twitter application YoTwits at www.YoTwits.com.
YoTwits enables users to boost their Twitter personality and in turn add followers by integrating automated content feeds that reflect their interests, directly into their Twitter stream.

Users follow three simple steps to use YoTwits:

Step 1. Users select and filter the feed they want to broadcast — YoTwits has over 1000+ feeds available for broadcast, organized into the following categories:

*Auctions: the latest eBay auctions of electronics, computers, cameras, jewelry/watches, and collectibles

*Sports News: complete news coverage of sports teams in the NBA, NFL, NHL and MLB

*Stocks: breaking news for companies in the Dow 30 and Nasdaq 100

*Deals: up to the minute deals on computers, electronics, video games, clothing, travel

*Blogs: posts from the best bloggers on the web in tech, entertainment, business, shopping, cooking

*YouTube: latest videos in all of the major categories including entertainment, comedy, autos, sports

*Jobs: most recent postings for full-time, part-time, freelance, seasonal and internship positions

*News: local and global breaking headlines, sports news, entertainment news, technology news

*Classifieds: Craigslist postings for kid’s stuff, autos, computers, furniture and sporting goods

*Tickets: latest eBay ticket auctions for your favorite concerts, sporting events and theater shows

*Music Videos: all the latest videos in rock, pop, rap, R&B, punk, hiphop, country

*Housing: Craigslist postings for apartment rentals, real estate sales, rooms/shares, sublets

*Crime: most recent crime in your area — keep your followers abreast of the latest.

*Horoscope: daily horoscope readings for all the signs of the zodiac

*Twitterers: auto-retweet your favorite Twitter personalities in entertainment, news, politics, technology

Users also create custom feeds with two unique categories:

*Add Your Own Feed: users can bring any RSS feed to YoTwits, broadcasted reliably to their followers

*ReTweet Anyone: users can auto-retweet any other Twitterers’ tweets

Step 2. Users select the number and frequency of tweets to be added to their Twitter stream.

Users select the number (1-5 tweets) and frequency (every hour — 24 hours) of tweets to broadcast in their Twitter streams. This feature provides the user with maximum control of their Twitter personality.

Step 3. Users enter their Twitter username and password.

Registration at YoTwits is simple, employing the user’s existing Twitter username and password.

“We are proud to offer the first ever automated content feeds solution for Twitter streams,” said Ron Bouganim, Co-Founder and CEO, Yotify.com which powers YoTwits.com. “YoTwits came together as a result of our users asking us to create a Yotify.com experience in the Twitter context. We are proud of the resulting YoTwits.com product and thrilled to enable users to enrich what they are already tweeting about with our 1000+ feed library of content that reflects their interests. Our initial YoTwits users have also seen their follower bases increase significantly, which is an added benefit of YoTwits and a reflection that our product was something the Twittersphere was looking for.”

YoTwits is committed to maintaining the account integrity and true personality of its users’ original Twitter streams; users are always in control. As such, YoTwits offers a robust filtering tool that enables users to parse feeds by keyword(s) to ensure broadcasts to their followers are truly a reflection of their Twitter personality. Moreover, YoTwits has a simple-to-use account management tool that enables users to turn their automated feeds on and off as well as modify the number and frequency of tweets at anytime.

About the company

branchnext, inc. (www.branchnext.com) is developing the next paradigm for how users will acquire relevant information on the Internet. branchnext’s portfolio of products includes Yotify.com — a consumer-facing website at www.yotify.com that offers consumers a user-defined, contextual and social way to track anything that matters to them on the Internet. Yotify.com powers an automated content feeds solution for Twitter streams at www.YoTwits.com. For web publishers, branchnext has made its core tracking platform — LetMeKnow — available as the first ever alerts-as-a-service API offering thus bridging the divide between the real-time web and post-visit user engagement.

The company has secured venture funding from experienced investors Naval Ravikant, General Partner, The HitForge, LP and co-founder of Epinions (Shopping.com); Novel TMT Ventures Limited; Richard Chen, Former Founder and CEO of OptoMail and Former Senior Business Product Manager of Google; and Auren Hoffman, CEO, Rapleaf. Among its distinguished advisors are Kevin Hartz, Co-founder, Xoom, Eventbrite and ConnectGroup; and Peter Read, who has worked with various corporate investors and top tier VC funds including Accel, Benchmark, TAG and Walden and advised/invested in companies including 4Info, Nielsen, Skype, Slingshot and TipMobile.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the first two in a new initiative to develop software widgets for a wide variety of business needs. New Lotus Notes software widgets for travel management and professional social networking are now available. TripIt and LinkedIn applications can each now be opened via single sign-on right from the familiar Lotus Notes desktop screen, enabling and simplifying the management of travel and business networking for millions of workers worldwide.

“Notes is the first open collaboration software to be able to provide users with desktop direct access by both LinkedIn and TripIt. This demonstrates the versatility of Lotus Notes in Web collaboration,” said Kevin Cavanaugh, vice president, Messaging and Collaboration, IBM Software. “Whatever Lotus customers need, there’s a widget for that.”

With today’s myriad travel Web sites, even the most experienced business traveler may find managing trip details a daunting task. TripIt organizes trip details into one master online itinerary, even if arrangements are booked at multiple travel sites. It automatically includes maps, directions and weather into a master itinerary and gives travelers the option to add restaurants, theater tickets and other activities for the trip.

Travelers can safely access travel plans online, share them, check-in for flights or print an itinerary. The service makes it easy for travelers to share and collaborate on travel plans and to see when their plans overlap so they can meet-up with people from their professional network.

“I travel all the time and have found TripIt to be a fantastic tool for staying organized with hotel and airline bookings. With Lotus Notes 8.5 the new iCalendar feature made it very simple to add TripIt calendar entries. All I do when I make a booking is email TripIt and everything is added automatically to my Notes calendar. I can’t wait to get my hands on the new TripIt widget to see how much better it can get,” said Adam Brown, Director at ISW, an IBM business partner based in Australia.

“TripIt is used by business travelers around the world to manage travel information and increase productivity while on the road,” said Scott Hintz, vice president, Business Development, and co-founder, TripIt. “Bringing TripIt directly to the Lotus Notes desktop now makes it easier than ever for millions of business travelers to keep their travel in synch with the rest of their professional lives.”

LinkedIn is an online network of more than 43 million business professionals in more than 200 countries. With the new LinkedIn micromashup software capability for Lotus Notes, users can access the world’s most popular professional network directly from their desktops. Features include a stream of LinkedIn network updates, people search with one-click, and access to view LinkedIn Professional profiles right within Notes.

“LinkedIn was created so that professionals could more effectively stay in touch with their trusted contacts, and learn more about new people they work with,” said Ellen Levy, vice president, Corporate Development and Strategy, LinkedIn. “Now that LinkedIn is an integral part of the professional’s daily work flow in Lotus Notes, we anticipate that our users will get even more value from frequent, useful interactions with their professional networks.”

Lotus Notes and Domino are supported by over 10,000 IBM Business Partners worldwide, with thousands of offerings built on the platform. Lotus Notes 8.5 transforms the traditional “in-box” into an integrated workspace with Web 2.0 customization, assembling email, calendar, instant messaging, office productivity tools and custom applications in a single-screen view. Lotus Notes Traveler software extends Lotus Notes mail to a variety of mobile devices.

To obtain the LinkedIn plug-in for Lotus Notes, visit www.linkedin.com/lotus. For the TripIt widget for Lotus Notes, visit www.tripit.com/lotus.

Social network firm, Embarkons, Inc., today announced the launch of Embarkons, a social utility for ideas, projects and innovation ventures.

“We created the Embarkons social network to allow entrepreneurs to connect ideas with people so that new ventures can be created with the speed and efficiency that social networks allow,” says Embarkons, Inc., Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Trevor Cornwell. “We call this ‘project-ing,’ or working on a project and socializing it online. These tools have been available for fun — and now with Embarkons people can take their ideas and make them into ventures using the same concepts. Embarkons is about connecting people through ideas. Embarkons is a new way for small business innovation to go from idea to venture with the power of social networking.”

A user starts by posting their idea. They are then able to invite people to join the idea or project. Collaborators can contribute to the discussion of the project. The more activity the project generates, the more momentum the project earns. Once a project has generated interest, it can be entered into Embarkons Marketplace where people can sell, buy or partner their ventures. Marketplace users can also create challenges where they can state a need for a service or a product and entrepreneurs can respond with their venture.

Through Corporate Challenges, organizations and brands may leverage the Embarkons social network to engage with their markets through pay-per-use project challenges.

Most of these social network features are available without charge to anyone who visits Embarkons. The Innovation Marketplace, which allows users to communicate privately with interested parties and to respond to Marketplace Challenges, costs $15 per month.

Embarkons will also offer a fee-based, enterprise-only version of its service for private, secure information exchange and collaboration within an organization to provide the benefits of social networking to small business innovation.

For more information: http://www.embarkons.com/

About Embarkons

Embarkons is a social network to discuss, share and build ideas. Developed, owned and operated by Embarkons, Inc., a privately-held social networking company headquartered in Silicon Valley, the Embarkons platform was officially launched July 15, 2009.

Red 5 Games, an Austin-based casual games developer, today announced the launch of Tweet2Play for Twitter(TM). Tweet2Play, a free text-based slot machine, is the first casino game to launch on the popular social networking site. Tweet2Play has all of the excitement of a casino slot machine, including the chance to win big prizes. To celebrate the launch of the Twitter game, Tweet2Play is giving away $10,000 in cash and many other valuable prizes. Among the prizes are several unique items, including Michael Jackson’s autographed Malibu Grand Prix driver’s license from 1982 and a replica of Captain Kirk’s command chair from Star Trek.

“We love bringing great games to emerging markets,” stated Monty Kerr, CEO of Red 5 Games. “Our new Tweet2Play prize game is a huge step toward bringing fun and irresistibly addictive games to Twitter.”

Tweet2Play is a classic three-reel slot machine that plays in the 140 character, text-based world of Twitter. Twitter users earn free spins by mentioning Tweet2Play in their updates. The more followers they have, the more free spins they get. Every win in the game gives players a chance to win valuable prizes.

About Red 5 Games
Red 5 Games is a leading developer in the casual and skill game industries, making fun, quick-to-learn and irresistible computer games that appeal to all ages. Based in Austin, Texas, Red 5 Games was founded in 2007. Its casual games, including TriviaMania.com, have been enjoyed by millions of players worldwide.

Tweet2Play is the trademark of Red 5 Games, Inc. and may be registered in some countries. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners and are used for the benefit of those owners. If you’d like more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview with Mr. Kerr, please contact him via e-mail at [email protected] or at [email protected].

eWorld Companies, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: EWRC) announced today that it has officially launched its eWorldMix Online Social Network. eWorldMix, which has been in prelaunch since March, is a free Social Network catering to anyone involved in or interested in the entertainment industry, including both industry insiders as well as casual and avid entertainment fans. eWorldMix will provide private and open forums for musicians, actors, producers, writers, film makers, distributors and other insiders, plus additional forums for movie fans, music lovers, fan clubs, and entertainment & celebrity news. There is no cost of any kind to join eWorldMix, which also provides easy access to eWorld’s Boomerang Media Station®, which is also free and which includes a large and growing number of features including the PlayTV Online Television Network and the ability for each user to post his or her own personal profile, messages, photos, video, etc. to their personal Boomerang downloads and social networks. Users may also post their own professional quality videos and list them for pending approval for system-wide viewing in PlayTV’s main library. And unlike other social network programs, eWorld automatically pays users a 10% referral fees on all advertising revenues generated by all direct referrals in their social networks.
ABOUT EWORLD COMPANIES, INC.

eWorld Companies, Inc. markets and distributes cutting edge Internet technologies through its International network of Affiliates, users and strategic partners. eWorld’s patent-pending Boomerang Media Station® features exclusive and third-party movies, music videos, webcasts and other streaming video content delivered via its unique state-of-the-art high-definition quality video player. Boomerang is a free software program that streams rich media within the actual application and remains ever-present as the user browses the Internet, offering the user one-click access to limitless entertainment experiences and convenience benefits. For more information visit www.eworldcompanies.com.

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.