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RateItAll Exposes Read / Write Consumer Review API

2009-01-13T16:46:00.000+01:00

Consumer review site RateItAll exposes its millions of consumer opinions to third party developers via an API.

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) January 13, 2009 -- RateItAll, a leading consumer review network that allows people to find and share reviews on any topic, has today announced the public availability of an Application Programming Interface (API) that allows RateItAll partners to quickly and easily implement consumer reviews on their own websites.

RateItAll API users are able to draw from RateItAll's millions of consumer opinions for use on their own site, as well promote their own content on RateItAll.com.

Our API is fully read / write "Our API is fully read / write," said RateItAll CTO Mathew Spolin. "It's an easy and free way for any website to jump start consumer reviews for their own community."

In addition to displaying RateItAll reviews and ratings on their own sites, API partners are able to promote their own content to the more than one million people that visit RateItAll.com each month. For companies looking to increase traffic to their website, the RateItAll API is an opportunity to gain distribution by putting their content to work.

RateItAll's API launch partners include online video company LongTail Video and distributed shopping cart Cartfly.

"We chose RateItAll as a consumer review partner because of the flexibility of their API and their distribution might," said Kurt Collins, Vice President of Business Development of distributed shopping cart Cartfly. "We needed a reviews engine that could handle both products and merchants, and RateItAll's willingness to promote our merchants' storefronts to their large community made it an easy decision."

More than 1.1M people visited RateItAll in December according to third party analytics company Quantcast.

About RateItAll:
Based in San Francisco, RateItAll is a consumer review network where visitors can find and share reviews on virtually any topic. All of the site's content is available for syndication via widgets and an API, and RateItAll members share in the advertising revenue associated with their reviews. RateItAll's mission is to help people help others by sharing trusted reviews of whatever inspires them.

RateItAll Retools with a Social Take on Reviews

2009-01-13T16:44:00.002+01:00

Leading Consumer Review Network Brings Custom News Feeds, Compatibility Quizzes and Unlimited Topics to Consumer Reviews.

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) January 13, 2009 -- RateItAll , a consumer review network and web service that allows people to find and share reviews on any topic, today launched a new website designed to make the sharing of consumer reviews more fun, more personalized and more social.

The company is highlighting three aspects of its new site as particularly innovative for the consumer review space:

This release incorporates the best of these customization and discovery tools into a consumer review environment.

the ability to customize a news feed of reviews to your specific interests and network of friends
the opportunity to meet people who share your tastes via RateItAll's compatibility quizzes
the ability to quickly and easily add anything reviewable to RateItAll's database

Central to RateItAll's news feed is the ability for each member to create their own custom reviews feed, tuned to their friend networks and interests. For example, a movie buff might set up her news feed to display the movie recommendations of her friends, or might simply follow the keyword "movies," which would insert movie reviews from RateItAll's network into their news feed. Or a new parent might choose to follow top ranked reviewers in RateItAll's "baby" category, as well as subscribing to baby related keywords such as "stroller" or "diapers."

The new release is at the junction of two major trends, consumer reviews and social networking. Last week, Nielson Online published the results from a survey of 1,000 online shoppers in the U.S. in which 71 percent agreed that consumer reviews make them more comfortable that they are buying the right product. And social networking techniques have made it easier and popular for people to share their opinions with their network of friends.
"Over the last two years, the social web has taken giant strides forward in the way content is discovered and consumed," said RateItAll co-founder and CEO Lawrence Coburn. "This release incorporates the best of these customization and discovery tools into a consumer review environment."

RateItAll also offers hundreds of reviews-based compatibility quizzes designed to match like-minded reviewers in topics such as movies, music, food, beer, travel, politics and more. Participants rate 10 to 20 items within a particular topic and check their compatibility score with friends or others from the RateItAll network. The quizzes are available on the RateItAll site and as Facebook and MySpace applications.

"Between the range of things to rate on the site and the compatibility quizzes, there's always something fun to do," said Ed King, a top RateItAll reviewer and former political aide now living in British Columbia. "Where else can you rate Apple products, best Thanksgiving foods and baseball nicknames?"

Since its launch, RateItAll has offered the broadest choice of topics from which to write reviews. Not only can members review consumer products, they can also review politicians, travel destinations, characters from television programs and much more.

This RateItAll release brings the site closer to its goal of being a review service for anything that inspires its members. A prominent "Write a Review" link on every page allows members to write a review of anything, starting a conversation with RateItAll's 1 million-plus monthly unique visitors. (More than 1.1M people visited RateItAll in December, 2008 according to third-party analytics company Quantcast.)

Businesses can also add their products or services to RateItAll's database.

"The ability to add literally anything to RateItAll's database - a hostel in Bangkok, a flavor of Gatorade, a controversial blog, a new product - has big implications for marketers and businesses wishing to leverage social media to distribute their message," said Chris Winfield, CEO of social media marketing agency 10e20 in New York. "Creating a listing on RateItAll is an easy first step for online marketers when launching a new business or product."

About RateItAll:
Based in San Francisco, RateItAll (www.rateitall.com) is a consumer review network where visitors can find and share reviews on virtually any topic. All of the site's content is available for syndication via widgets and an API (api.rateitall.com), and RateItAll members share in the advertising revenue associated with their reviews. RateItAll's mission is to help people help others by sharing trusted reviews of whatever inspires them. Click through for a complete company FAQ

RateItAll Launches V3: Consumer Reviews And Beyond

2009-01-13T16:44:00.001+01:00

On the Web, reviews are the voices of the consumers. Despite a multi-million dollars advertising campaign, if a product is not well-acclaimed on consumer-opinions Websites, sales will never tear the roof off. It's the democratic aspect of the Web.

Consumer reviews' Websites have empowered the consumer in many ways: it catapulted businesses into an era of transparency and attention to customers' satisfaction. On the other hand, consumer reviews Websites have never truly empowered the reviewers that provide the juice to their Websites: reviews belong to the site's owners, no internal structure makes it easy for reviewers to meet one another, and no consumer reviews Website opens up its database to third-party developers.

RateItAll launches its V3 version of RateItAll today. RateItAll first launched its service in 1999, and after almost 10 years of community development, the startup got funds to power a fresh new start.

In a few words (in order not to repeat what the video already mentions), V3 has 5 main new components:
1. A fresh new design.
2. The site is now a hybrid between Facebook and Delicious, allowing you to follow people, new category items, and keywords. All the items appear on your user's homepage.
3. Creating a new review became even simpler and more accessible.
4. The social gaming dimension that matches users' tastes together is more prominent with the new design.
5. A full read/write API is now accessible for third-party developers. Developers can pull any item they wish from the RateItAll's database, and the rev share model can also transit through the RIA's programmable infrastructure. Developers can also use the API to power their own custom-built review widgets (even though it's a little heavy on the javascript so far).

By being innovative, RateItAll gets back in the competition of consumer reviews providers. Other service providers should find an obvious interest in powering their Websites with the RateItAll technology: fully-customizable content, two-way information infrastructure, revenue plan, widgets, and a vibrant community on RateItAll that's been crunching reviews for the past ten years.

What Do You Think? RateItAll Rolls Out Additional Social Features

2009-01-13T16:44:00.000+01:00

When we last spent time with RateItAll - roughly 18 months ago - the service had just released a Flash-based widget designed to help extend its reach to blogs. Today, we're checking back in with the company as it rolls out a new look-and-feel, accompanied by a number of new features designed to facilitate recommendations on practically any topic imaginable - while increasing the social aspects of the site for its growing user base.

As any aficionado of the social Web knows, one of the biggest benefits of social networking is the opportunity to access hundreds - if not thousands - of opinions with a couple of keystrokes.

Any number of sites have made a business of focusing on a singular topic - like movies, music, or restaurants - and helping users manage social recommendations within that niche. Some sites, like Yelp, have chosen to cover a broader range of topics, like retail outlets that cover anything from restaurants to shopping. But few have taken social recommendations to the extent of RateItAll, a site that eschews the niche focus in favor of giving its users the option of rating anything and everything.

Now, RateItAll has released a number of new features to increase the social interaction among its users, including a new feed format which allows users to follow streams of reviews based on keywords and compatibility quizzes - similar to the ever-prevalent Facebook quizzes - which allow RateItAll users to meet other users with similar interests. In short, the latest version of RateItAll is designed to help people find their peers - and to share their reviews with people who share similar interests.

Review site RateItAll gets more social

2009-01-13T16:43:00.000+01:00

RateItAll, the site that lets users review anything and everything (and shares its ad revenue with reviewers), unveiled its redesign today. The overhaul includes new social networking features that overlay its regular reviews.

The biggest addition in this area is the option to take a “compatibility quiz,” which means rating a bunch of items in a particular category, be it fruits or Web 2.0 companies. Then the site gives you a list of other users with similar responses, and you can “follow” their reviews or connect to them as a friend. (As a bonus, you’ve just added a bunch of ratings to RateItAll’s database.) The other big social feature is a news feed, which can show new ratings and reviews based on either specific categories or specific reviewers you’ve chosen to follow.

The redesign’s features also include the ability to add any item to the database, and an application programming interface (API) that allows other sites to access RateItAll’s ratings and reviews. That makes it easy to add consumer ratings to your site, while giving RateItAll half of the ad revenue and increasing its exposure around the web.

Co-founder Lawrence Coburn says he’s convinced that compared to more focused review sites like Yelp, “radically horizontal will win over time.” I’m not sure the San Francisco company will ever overtake Yelp, but that doesn’t mean it won’t find a healthy audience — in fact, it already has, with 1.3 million visits in December, up 44 percent from June.

RateItAll has raised $1.4 million in financing.

Review Community Site RateItAll Gets A Revamp, Releases API

2009-01-13T16:42:00.000+01:00

RateItAll, the consumer rating and review network that dubs itself the “distributed Yelp for everything”, is getting a make-over and a bunch of new social features today, including review feeds and product compatibility quizzes.

RateItAll, initially launched way back in 1999, shut down in 2001 after the dotcom bust, and subsequently relaunched in 2007. It allows users to rate topics that range anywhere from music to travel to food. The site currently boasts 350,000+ members, and both Quantcast and Competeshow a nice growth pattern in traffic (the company self-reports 1.3 million visits last month, growth of 44% since June 2008 and a total number of 11.3 million unique visitors overall last year).

The new look and fresh features have been in the works for the past 5 months, and development started after the San Francisco-based company raised an initial round of funding of up to $1.4 million in September last year. You can now create a review stream which is very similar to Facebook’s news feed but for reviews by category / keyword or by personal network. The service also added a social compatibility layer dubbed ‘Quizzes’ which lets you compare your ratings and review with those from your friends or other members of the RateItAll community.

The most welcome additions to the service are the read/write API (the company also features RSS feeds and widgets for social networks and blogs) and the ‘global add’ feature that lets users put up any product, business, brand, person and/or place to the RateItAll database for discussion by its user base.

RateItAll pays reviewers 50% as part of a revenue-sharing program based on Google AdSense.

iSteps Co-invensts in RATE IT ALL in SFO

2008-07-10T15:57:00.001+02:00

RateItAll, a site that describes itself as a “distributed Yelp for everything” has closed an $800k round of funding led by Accelerator Ventures, JAIC America, Pacific I&T Ventures, and Eric Di Benedetto. The site allows users to rate topics that range from travel to politics to athletes (it shies away from product and restaurant reviews that are seen on sites like Yelp and epinions). RateItAll initially launched in in 1999, but was effectively shut down in 2001, where it lay dormant until its relaunch in 2007.

Since then, the site has done quite well - In 2007 it managed to generate $190k in revenue with a single full-time employee (the team has now grown to four). The site is somewhat unique because of its revenue-sharing program, which gives users 50% of the advertising revenue generated by the reviews they’ve written.

Over the past year RateItAll has grown to a million monthly uniques and has been seeing explosive growth in user interaction, going from about 10,000 new ratings in February to 70,000 in May, much of which was driven by its MySpace application. Of course, it still has a long ways to go - there is no shortage of review sites on the web, and many of them have far more content than RateItAll.

Captain Ad schliesst neue Finanzierungsrunde ab

2008-05-14T17:39:00.002+02:00

“Captain Ad” bricht auf zu neuen Ufern

Investorenkreis beteiligt sich an Online-Video-Vermarkter

Berlin / St. Gallen, den 14. Mai 2008 – Der b-to-v Investorenkreis hat gemeinsam mit Daniel Klein, Gründer des Online-Payment-Anbieters moneybookers, als Lead Investor und den Altgesellschaftern in die Online Advertising Solutions Ltd. investiert. Der Berliner Spezialist für Video Werbung im Internet wurde im September 2007 gegründet und betreibt das erste Video Werbenetzwerk „Captain Ad“ (www.CaptainAd.com) in Deutschland.

Mit „Captain Ad“ können Webmaster einfach und schnell durch Videowerbung auf ihren Internetseiten Geld verdienen. So strahlt „Captain Ad“ zum Beispiel Werbung vor so genannten „Embedded Videos“ aus, also Videos der großen Portale wie YouTube oder MyVideo, die von den Webseiten-Betreibern eingebunden werden. Mehr als 1.300 Betreiber nutzen diese neue Umsatzquelle schon.

Online Advertising Solutions entwickelt kontinuierlich neue Werbeformate, die auf der eigenen Video-Adserving-Technologie aufsetzen. So befindet sich derzeit ein Werbeformat in Arbeit, das es erstmals ermöglicht, einen TV-Werbespot nahezu unverändert und sehr gezielt auch im Internet zu verbreiten. „Es gibt ein riesiges ungenutztes Potenzial für Bewegtbild-Werbung im Internet“, sagt Max Moldenhauer, Mitgründer und Director des Berliner Unternehmens. „Unser Ziel ist es, dass Werbespots im Internet so einfach platziert werden können, wie im Fernsehen. Durch die Vorteile des Webs können wir TV-Werbung ohne Streuverlust anbieten.“ Daniel Klein sieht darin eine große Chance: „Obwohl sich der Medienkonsum immer mehr vom Fernsehen ins Internet verlagert, wird ein Großteil des Geldes für das klassische Brand Advertising immer noch im Fernsehen ausgegeben. Grund dafür sind die fehlenden Werbeformen und das fehlende Inventar. Online Advertising Solutions ist in der Lage, beides im Internet bereit zu stellen.“

Über BrainsToVentures:

Die BrainsToVentures AG (b-to-v) mit Sitz in St. Gallen dient unternehmerischen Privatinvestoren, die ihr Kapital, Netzwerk und Expertise in schnell wachsende Unternehmen investieren. Durch gezieltes Vernetzen des Wissens seiner Mitglieder für die Beteiligungsunternehmen geht der b-to-v Investorenkreis einen neuen Weg in der Beteiligungsindustrie. Mit 50 erfolgreichen Unternehmern ist der b-to-v Investorenkreis der aktivste Club unternehmerischer Privatinvestoren im deutschsprachigen Raum. Diese bringen internationale Erfahrung aus über 30 verschiedenen Industrien ein. Es ist das Ziel des Investorenkreises, in den von ihm finanzierten Unternehmen Werte zu schaffen und erstklassige Renditen zu erwirtschaften. Der b-to-v Investorenkreis investiert pro Jahr über 20 Millionen Euro branchenübergreifend in Wachstumsunternehmen, von Frühphasen bis Buyouts. Derzeit befinden sich 40 Unternehmen im Portfolio. Schwerpunkt bilden Finanzierungen mit einem Investitionsvolumen zwischen einer halben und drei Millionen Euro.

iSteps Widget Ventures on barcamp Ruhr

2008-03-17T18:55:00.001+01:00

Sponsored by iSteps Widget Ventures the BarCamp Ruhr took place last weekend in Essen.

Here are a few impressions:

“Barcamp Ruhr" - galias Presentation

2008-03-17T17:52:00.001+01:00

Barcamp Ruhr in Essen 16.03.2008, presented by Stephan Kaluschke

MTV "a shot at love with Tila Tequila" @ Myspace

2008-03-17T13:45:00.003+01:00

This profile was designed by thanksforaddingme.com:

MTV "a shot at love with Tila Tequila"

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Cebit 2008 Trendforum

2008-03-06T00:30:00.000+01:00

Trendforum on the Cebit in Hannover 05.03.2008, presented by Mehrdad Piroozram

Captain Ad is International

2008-02-16T00:30:00.002+01:00

Previously, it was so that Captain Ad (up to our
Spanish publishers xalut.com) only
German advertising has driven - that has
Now changed: From now receive visitors from the
Germany, France, Spain, Italy,
Austria, Switzerland, England and USA respectively adapted
Advertising banners.

This means that e.g. Visitors from your blog
France and Italy will no longer with German
DSL offers annoyed, but for your country
Relevant offers.

In return, receive visitors who are not from one of the
Above-mentioned countries, not advertising
Captain Ad more to see. According deleted course
And the compensation for these visitors. However,
Captain Ad works on this, other countries
Add - should your website very many visitors
Up from a country not listed, then
Just write an e-mail to support@captainad.com and
Tell us to which country and how many visitors
It is about.

To our international publishers logging
And managing your pages easier, stands
CaptainAd.com now also in English
Online: through small flags at the top
The page can simply changed the language.

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thanksforaddingme.com: Promoting Celebrities Using Profiles on Social Networks

2008-02-12T15:18:00.002+01:00

Cologne, February 12, 2008 - thanksforaddingme.com, a new start-up service provider, is using popular social networks such as MySpace, Facebook and StudiVZ to raise the profiles of celebrities.

The young team behind thanksforaddingme.com creates and maintains public profiles for celebrities, including the full range of multimedia content, in a wide variety of Web 2.0 ecosystems. The core of their professional service lies in expanding the fan communities of their clients on a target group-specific basis while fostering the loyalty of these groups. For example, this can help pop stars to boost sales of their latest album substantially or to promote sales of their concert tickets.

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MySpace opens it doors

2008-02-06T13:38:00.003+01:00

we have been waiting long time for this step.
After announcing a few month ago that MySpace will implement google's OpenSocial API, MySpace just announced its new API services.
We are glad to hear that, and of course WidgetLabs will keep an eye on this and offer the best service for our partners.

This step will not only help MySpace to be even more attractive for users but it will also bring even more dynamics into the widget space.

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We support betterplace.org

2008-02-01T15:22:00.002+01:00

betterplace is a global internet platform that connects individuals, organisations and companies directly with one another.

betterplace connects.
People, in need of support, meet others, who want to help. One to one. Direct. Worldwide.

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Kazzong Facebook Application

2007-12-21T13:45:00.003+01:00

We would like to take music to where the audience is. Social Networks are gathering huge chunks of audience. As a natural consequence, our first Facebook Application is now in the bag.

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"Captian Ad" set sails

2007-12-03T15:28:00.003+01:00

The Berliner Online Advertising Solutions Ltd. Brings with "Captain Ad" a novel video advertising network on the market:
Berlin, 3 December 2007. The network of "Captain Ad" enables webmasters and bloggers, with videos on their websites quickly and easily to earn money. After a successful trial period, the network now in the framework of an open beta phase of the public. On www.Captain Ad.com can now register all Webmasters and "Captain Ad in your pages. The innovative technique of "Captain ad" is easily integrated into existing web site, where they own the place where embedded videos and advertising provides. It is the advertising appears only if the visitor to the site would like to see the video. Moreover, the campaign automatically on the content of the website or the video matched. The operator of the site deserves With each insertion of advertising money. Offers advertisers "Captain Ad" a unique range of banners and in particular moving image advertising in conjunction with video content on the Internet.

About "Captain Ad":
"Captain Ad" (www.CaptainAd.com) is a service of Online Advertising Solutions Ltd. Founder and CEO is Max Moldenhauer. Behind the Online Advertising Solutions Ltd. The two are also co-Jochen Witte and Daniel Nowak, as well as a network of high-profile business angels. These include, among others, Bernd M. Michael (Grey), Stefan Glänzer (last.fm), Lukasz Gadowski (Spreadshirt), Arend Iven Hill and Ron Mann (Iven & Hill Man), Mehrdad Piroozram (iSteps), Andre Alpar (Hitflip), Frerk - Malte Feller (PayPal) and Rainer Mattstedt. The company was in early October 2007 in Berlin and currently employs 5 people.

Social Network Confrence

2007-10-03T04:20:00.000+02:00

Social Network Conference in Barcelona

iSteps Ventures participates in widget Labs - seed and lead investor widget supports young blacksmiths

2007-09-20T15:33:00.001+02:00

After just a few meetings, young entrepreneur Ayham Gorani has succeeded in securing iSteps Widget Ventures as the seed investor for his internet start-up company WidgetLabs. He plans to use the additional capital to launch his pioneering business concept with a view to ensuring rapid growth. WidgetLabs is the first European company to focus on developing widgets. These are small applications that can be easily integrated in social networks such as MySpace or Facebook, and which therefore stand a good chance of being widely used within a short space of time.

The business model developed by the 24-year-old graduate in Business Administration & Computer Sciences is a perfect addition to the seed investor's company portfolio. iSteps Widget Ventures invests primarily in innovative business cases that are closely related to the widget market and based on social network markets. Ayham Gorani: "I am very pleased that the founder of iSteps, Mehrdad Piroozram, has invested at this early stage of my business idea".

About iSteps Widget Ventures Seed investment company iSteps Widget Ventures, founded by Mehrdad Piroozram, is a group of serial entrepreneurs who provide start-up assistance to promising young companies from the interactive web technologies market, both in the form of capital and sector and process know-how. The main focus of its investment activities is on widget-related business models that can be used in open ecosystems such as MySpace or Facebook. Portfolio companies - which include imageloop and galias - also benefit from the personal contacts of the business angels, for example through strategic alliances, sales partnerships and technology transfers.

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Shoppero Facebook App

2007-08-20T13:41:00.000+02:00

In the last couple of weeks we developed an application for Facebook - and we are happy to launch it today! Please check it out at http://apps.facebook.com/shoppero
What does it do? I’ll try to sum up most of the features:

1. Invite Friends to the Shoppero App on Facebook. This is an obvious first point since social shopping makes more sense (and fun) if you don’t do it alone.
2. Write new reviews. We developed a cute little tool that queries the Amazon.com product database as you type, hopefully suggesting the right products to you. After choosing a suggested product, the image and the URL automagically get inserted into the review. Of course, you can always write about anything you like regardless where to buy it online. Actually, you can even write about products only available offline.
3. Mark each and every product as “want it” or “got it” - thereby populating a wishlist and a list of stuff you already have.
4. See what your friends have or want. Convenient, especially with christmas coming up real soon now.
5. Create as many lists as you want or need.
6. Look at some of your Shoppero account details. For instance, how much money you have earned so far.

All reviews get pushed to Shoppero.com as soon as they are written, even from within Facebook. If you already have a Shoppero.com account and you would like to have it merged with your facebook shoppero account, drop us a line and we will be happy to do this manually until this feature is ready to publish. Also, as soon as you write a review, we update your personal newsfeed and thereby let other people know what you are writing about.

Please try it out and join our group on Facebook for further discussions regarding our facebook app.

Lulu.com Partners With imageloop

2007-07-19T13:23:00.002+02:00

Lulu.com, the online marketplace for digital content, is pleased to announce a new partnership agreement with imageloop, an organisation that provides ‘Web 2.0’ users the ability to create and design their own animated slideshows for displaying digital photography.

Imageloop will feature on Lulu’s services marketplace, giving Lulu creators the ability to run slideshows promoting their content by very simply embedding a code into their Lulu storefront, their personal websites or blogs.

“We are very pleased to be partnering with imageloop – we are very focused on empowering creators and we believe this is another service that will help them to attract customers and build a client following of their own.” commented Daniel Stifft from Lulu’s European headquarters in London.

Imageloop is easy to use and no technical expertise is required, making it accessible to all Lulu creators who will be able to choose from a full range of slideshow styles and effects to suit their requirements.

Imageloop operate in the UK, Germany, Spain, France and Italy where they will be promoting Lulu’s services to their users.

Guido West, Head of Marketing Partnerships at imageloop, said: “Lulu is unique in what it offers and we recognise the synergies between our communities.”

He added: “We can foresee many opportunities of working successfully with Lulu and are looking forward to a very effective partnership”.

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Blauarbeit.de Integrates imageloop Slideshow Service

2007-06-13T13:27:00.003+02:00

blauarbeit.de, Germany´s leading reverse service auction market and imageloop.com are mashing up their technologies in order to offer enhanced features for their users.

It is the first time that imageloop users can directly create slideshows on a partner´s portal without the need to switch to the imageloop platform.

Together with imageloop, the auction portal for services can offer a powerful tool for service providers to easily present references of jobs they have done for former customers. On the other hand the bidder gets a decent insight into the service providers´ qualities.

Ramin Ziai, Co-CEO of blauarbeit.de says: “(…) The cooperation with imageloop represents the first step in our strategic opening towards other Web 2.0 services.”

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imageloop: Europe´s Biggest Slideshow Service Expands Operations

2007-05-22T13:29:00.002+02:00

The Web 2.0 start up company imageloop lays down the basis for stronger growth as well as further international operations: From now on the slideshow service will be found under the domain www.imageloop.com. The new Website offers a completely refreshed design, a better ease-of-use in the process of creating slideshows as well as many new features.

Thus, imageloop makes it surprisingly easy to integrate moving pictures into Social Networks such as MySpace. The photo hosting service is brand new: users can upload their pics without any limit and reach them via the so-called permalink.

The imageloop service does not require the user´s registration and is available at no costs at all.

The most important changes are as follows:
• imageloop is the new name which comes with one „o“ less than the previous name „imagelooop“
• completely new Website, now accessible on www.imageloop.com
• stronger focus on Social Networks
• after German and English also Spanish, French and Italian language versions are available
• Photo Hosting as new service
• new Auto-Embed functionality for an easy integration into community profiles or blogs, e.g. for portals such as typepad, blogger.com, Knuddels and netvibes
• various new effects for slideshows.

„With more than 10 million played slideshows per month imageloop is the market leader in Europe for this type of online service. Our goal is to become the number one European platform for photo Hosting“, as Stefan Riehl, the COO of imageloop, comments. „There is no easier way to create and embed slideshows in the Web – not even with competitors such as the US services Slide, Rockyou or Photobucket.“

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Web 2.0 services need administrators - galias GmbH wins Mehrdad Piroozram as business angel:

2007-03-23T14:37:00.003+01:00

Cologne, 23 March 2007 - The galias GmbH is your job performance reinforces the operator of Web 2.0 services. These can all administration tasks to outsource and need not own resources. As a result, they are in a position to a faster and cheaper new Web 2.0 service building that is flexible with users grows.