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Lithium’s online communities experiencing massive growth

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lithium.jpgDriven by the growing demand for enterprise communities and Web 2.0 technologies, Lithium Technologies, Inc. announced that it has exceeded the 1 billion mark in messages read per month and cited a nearly 50 percent increase in new clients since January 2007 alone.

Among Lithium’s new clients are industry powerhouses: Sprint, Symantec, Fair Isaac, and DoubleClick. In addition to the increase in new customers, Lithium has also seen a 65 percent increase in the number of new communities it has launched since the first of the year. This increase is primarily due to many of its current clients like Comcast and Symantec building additional online communities for new initiatives based on the success of their existing ones. In addition, activity within Lithium’s communities has grown dramatically as well with a 2x increase in messages read per month and a 2.5x increase in users.

Originally posted on July 27, 2007 @ 8:35 am

LogicBuy.com users vote on best tech deals

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logic-buy1.jpgLogic Media has launched what it is a calling a hybrid tech deal Web site for using community members to find and rate shopping deals online. LogicBuy.com is designed to help shoppers find the lowest prices on electronics, video games and computers.

LogicBuy.com uses its community and a team of editors to rate submitted deals offered by popular online merchants. Editors look for the latest deals to post on the Web site while community members also shares potential great deals they have found in their Web explorations.

Deals, once posted, are voted upon in a “Hot” or “Not” style format. Those deals which get more positive feedback appear higher in the listings, while deals considered to be “Not” get buried because they are not considered as compelling.

Originally posted on July 26, 2007 @ 5:22 pm

Chokti puts the nomad in your travel plans

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chokti.jpgA new travel Web site has popped up which is taking an interesting approach to providing travelers with information they need regarding destinations around the world. Extremely puff-piece style press release aside, Chokti looks to have a different spin on researching your next travel location.

Chokti pulls together information for a specific location from not just the official source itself but also a variety of other sources such as user opinions and guides. The information, often collected through RSS feeds from various Web sites, is geotagged and organized into a search engine. It makes use of a searchable map and accepts user generated content.

Chokti said it will pull “together as much content as possible that relates to a certain topic in an easy-to-use format. The site can be used to: access guides to cities, museums, historical sites, parks, zoos, restaurants, hotels and amusement parks; distribute supplemental information through pdf files containing maps, coupons and vouchers; and promote current and upcoming events such as gallery exhibits.” It fully launches this fall.

Originally posted on July 26, 2007 @ 5:40 pm

Movietickets.com offers phone ticketing service

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movieticket.jpg MovieTickets.com, the world’s most powerful Internet movie ticketing service, has extended its online services to the phone by offering domestic movie-goers the option to hear movie showtimes and easily purchase advance tickets by calling toll free at 1-877-789-MOVIE.

Powered by Apptera’s MobileAd Technology, the service also enables businesses — including local merchants — to customize advertisements that target this highly coveted movie-going audience during the call flow.

“MovieTickets.com is offering a terrific service to consumers that want movie information on-the-go,” said Marketta Silvera, CEO of Apptera. “Customers will benefit from the easy to use and efficient new service and welcome a relevant promotion from a merchant near their theater. Advertisers have the opportunity to reach out to movie-goers at the very moment when they are ready to take advantage of a targeted promotion.”

Originally posted on July 27, 2007 @ 12:24 am

Major media companies, global brands deploy online communities with Akamai and KickApps

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kickapps.jpgKickApps Corporation and Akamai Technologies, Inc. announced significant industry momentum and adoption by media & entertainment companies and global brands for the Akamai-powered KickApps solution that is designed to allow companies to create and cultivate social media communities.
Companies including BET Networks, Scripps, HBO-Cinemax, and VIBE Magazine adopted the social media offering. The KickApps platform enables customers to rapidly deploy community functionalities, such as, user-generated content, social networking, editorial video, syndication of content using Widgets, and media and community management capabilities, on their own websites. These companies add to the over 4,000 organizations that have deployed the Akamai-supported KickApps solution.

The advanced media moderation capabilities of the KickApps platform make it easy to manage the massive amount of content being contributed by communities. Akamai’s flexible and powerful social media capabilities are uniquely equipped to handle the needs of both site owners as well as technology providers through a blend of media management, content and rich media application acceleration capabilities, as well as the ability to optimize the ‘wide footprint’ of social media content. Community and site owners can now focus on what they do best: create highly engaged, active and rewarding communities.

Originally posted on July 27, 2007 @ 8:45 am