The Search Monitor (“TSM”), an online monitoring service that tracks competitive advertising activity on paid and organic search, blogs, forums, news, and web sites, announces its release of a new affiliate tracking software that identifies affiliate marketers who are sponsoring paid search results pages.

This powerful new tool is the first and only way for internet marketers to gain insight into the scope, strength, and breadth of their competitor’s affiliate programs. The Search Monitor is able to identify affiliates who deploy direct linking tactics and affiliates who manage and operate individual web sites.

Uses for this new tool include:

Measurement of the reach and strength of competitors’ affiliate programs on paid search.
Policing affiliates for compliance with affiliate program terms of use.
Identification of competitor’s affiliates for potential recruitment opportunities.
“Affiliate programs are a smart way to gain maximum exposure on paid search,” says Troy Lerner of The Booyah Agency. “By using affiliate programs as a tactic in our arsenal, our clients can own more page real estate on SERPs. We like the new reports from The Search Monitor because it gives us incredible insight as to where our affiliate efforts are strong and where we need to focus more time. Our clients love it because it enables them to build strength in numbers, while at the same time protecting their brands from misuse by affiliate marketers.”

“We are excited to bring this information about the affiliate channel to internet advertisers and their agencies,” says Lori Weiman, CEO of The Search Monitor. “We are a strong supporter of affiliate marketing as a powerful way to optimize online advertising in a controlled and deliberate way”

The Search Monitor offers important information that can only be gained by careful 24×7 automated monitoring, and surfaces the information in 3 easy to use reporting sections:

Competitor Monitor gives insights into competitive bidding strategies, competitor market share and visibility, ranking on sponsored search, ad copy strategies, and promotions like free shipping, trials, or sales.
Trademark Monitor eases the tasks associated with reputation management by auto-detecting advertisers sponsoring branded keywords, use of trademarks and slogans in ad copy and display urls, and negative, positive, and neutral brand buzz on blogs, news, and web sites.
Affiliate Monitor simplifies oversight of affiliate programs by auto-identification of affiliates using sponsored search to detect violations of rank requirements, keyword restrictions, ad copy requirements or restrictions, and landing page copy requirements or restrictions.
Search engine marketing has become a critical component for advertisers. According to the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO), North American advertisers spent $12.2 billion on SEM in 2007 and that figure is estimated to more than double to reach $25.2 billion by 2011. The Search Monitor was developed to provide the tools necessary to optimize the sizable investments being made in this medium and to protect brands from competitive threats.

About The Search Monitor
The Search Monitor is comprised of a team of SEM enthusiasts who uncovered a need in the market for external automated monitoring of competitive activities on paid and organic search, shopping engines, web sites, blogs, social media, and press coverage. Automated monitoring is important for reputation management as it greatly reduces the number of hours and effort required to manage affiliates and competitors infringing on brands and misrepresenting products across the web. Further, automated monitoring reveals competitive marketing strategies that enable advertisers to benchmark their own performance, optimize ad budgets, detect successful ad copy combinations, and receive advance awareness of special offers like free shipping and sales dominating their verticals. The Search Monitor is offered as a web based subscription service. To learn more please visit www.thesearchmonitor.com.

About The Booyah Agency
Based in Colorado, The Booyah Agency is a full-service Online Marketing & Advertising team packaged in a boutique firm. Armed with a funny name, these former big-agency veterans drive strategy and deliver results more quickly and affordably than the big guys. We’re experts in fundamentals and best practices with a passion for discovering the newest techniques that keep our clients ahead. Clients include Mapquest, Vitamin Shoppe, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Gaiam, Tower Records and Little Tikes.

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Munich, 2008 — amiando, the leading tool for online event organization in Europe, today announced plans to implement Facebook Connect to boost the power of amiando ViralTickets, its recently released social promotion system for events.

“Events are the most important social happening. Therefore we will use Facebook Connect to let event organizers and their guests enjoy, recommend and promote events within the social context of their real identity and friendships on Facebook®. ”, said Felix Haas, CEO of amiando.

The key feature of amiando’s implementation of Facebook Connect will focus on boosting the power of amiando ViralTickets, the recently released social promotion system for events. ViralTickets enables event organizers to leverage the internet’s viral effects for their event marketing. Using word-of-mouth marketing they can sell significantly more tickets with less marketing effort.

Facebook users will be able to easily recommend their favorite events to friends and colleagues. Using ViralTickets, they can offer an exclusive discount to their contacts and will also be rewarded with a referral bonus themselves. This makes recommending and promoting events fun, easy and highly rewarding for all sides – guests, friends and event organizers. Facebook gives everyone the power to share with the people they care about making the world more open and transparent. When Facebook users log in to amiando with Facebook Connect, they are able to publish their actions back on Facebook, which enables them to share more information with their friends than ever before.

About amiando amiando is the leading tool for online event organization in Europe and makes professional event organization easy. It offers online-based tools for invitation management, ticketing and community building for every kind of event. All tools are easy-to-use and have a convenient pay-as-you-go pricing.

amiando’s award-winning tools are being used throughout Europe, US and Asia for organizing more than 50,000 events. Thousands of organizers worldwide are choosing amiando to manage their events online. amiando, a Red Herring 100 Europe 2008 Winner, is backed by renowned venture capital company Wellington Partners.  http://www.amiando.com 

amiando – the simplest way of organizing events.

With more than 50,000 events per year amiando is the leading tool for online event organization in Europe. Invitation management, online promotion, participant registration with integrated invoicing and entrance control – with amiando organizers are able to manage all processes comfortably and independently at any time. Additional services for networking as well as an individual event micro site round of the offer of amiando.  Product  Within minutes event organizers are creating a free website for their event. With the integrated ticket shop the participants are able to comfortably register online for the event. amiando is taking over the handling of payments, invoicing and shipment of the individually designed tickets. In July 2008 amiando was introducing ViralTicketing, a world premiere in the field of online event organization: ViralTicketing is the first event promotion system that is combining the powerful principle of word-of-mouth advertising and recommendation management in the internet for every event organizer.

The easy system is usable for every organizer without extra charge: after ticket purchase the participants receive a code which they can distribute to friends and colleagues. This incentive is the main attraction: for every canvassed customer the agent is getting a bonus and the newly recruited customer is receiving a discount.

Organizers are able to manage all processes comfortably and independently at any time, however a toll free telephone number is provided in the language of your country. By now amiando is available in four different languages (English, Spanish, German, French) and supporting organizers worldwide with the planning of their events.

Moreover, for a simple entrance management amiando is providing a free software called EasyEntry with which organizers are able to check the validity of the tickets with a standard webcam.

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The Search Monitor, an online monitoring service that tracks competitive advertising activity on paid search, blogs, forums, news, and web sites, announces its release of geo-targeted monitoring. TSM now monitors 17 countries, 6 languages, and most major regions, states, and cities in each market.

Pittsburgh, PA September 9, 2008 – The Search Monitor (www.thesearchmonitor.com) (“TSM”), an online monitoring service that tracks competitive advertising activity on paid search, blogs, forums, news, and web sites, announces its release of geo-targeted monitoring. TSM now monitors 17 countries, 6 languages, and most major regions, states, and cities in each market.

Geo-targeted monitoring enables companies to watch their competition and affiliates, and to manage their reputation and brand use locally. With this launch, interactive agencies, marketers, affiliate managers, and compliance teams are able to monitor paid search, blogs, forums, news, and web sites around the world from a local point of view in countries including: USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Argentina, Chile, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, Mexico, Spain, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and many others. Monitoring can be conducted in English or in the language native to each country.

By gaining visibility into global search markets, companies will be able to overcome a key challenge in analyzing activity in their extended markets. Prior to the geo-targeting capabilities of TSM, an agency with clients worldwide could not effectively monitor locally targeted ads because its visibility was limited to its home base. TSM’s new capabilities provide the insights needed at the local level to protect brands and optimize search campaigns on locally.

The Search Monitor offers important information that can only be gained by careful 24×7 automated monitoring, and surfaces the information in 3 easy to use reporting sections:

1.    Competitor Monitor gives insights into competitive bidding strategies, competitor market share and visibility, ranking on sponsored search, ad copy strategies, and promotions like free shipping, trials, or sales.

2.    Trademark Monitor eases the tasks associated with reputation management by auto-detecting advertisers sponsoring branded keywords, use of trademarks and slogans in ad copy and display urls, and negative, positive, and neutral brand buzz on blogs, news, and web sites.

3.    Affiliate Monitor simplifies oversight of affiliate programs by auto-identification of affiliates using sponsored search to detect violations of rank requirements, keyword restrictions, ad copy requirements or restrictions, and landing page copy requirements or restrictions.

Search engine marketing has become a critical component for advertisers. According to the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO), North American advertisers spent $12.2 billion on SEM in 2007 and that figure is estimated to more than double to reach $25.2 billion by 2011. The Search Monitor was developed to provide the tools necessary to optimize the sizable investments being made in this medium and to protect brands from competitive threats.

“Monitoring both globally and locally is critical in benchmarking competitor advertising strategies and for watching affiliate activities online,” says Shaun Martinec, a TSM founder. “Many affiliates will carefully craft their campaigns at the local level in order to take advantage of better priced keywords or to avoid merchant detection when they are not in compliance with affiliate program terms. We find that major brand marketers are often outbid by competitors and affiliates on top terms at the local level.”

About The Search Monitor

The Search Monitor is comprised of a team of SEM enthusiasts who uncovered a need in the market for external automated monitoring of competitive activities on paid search, web sites, blogs, social media, and press coverage. Automated monitoring greatly reduces the number of hours and effort required to manage affiliates and competitors infringing on brands and misrepresenting products across the web. Further, automated monitoring reveals competitive marketing strategies that enable advertisers to benchmark their own performance, optimize ad budgets, detect successful ad copy combinations, and receive advance awareness of special offers like free shipping and sales dominating their verticals. The Search Monitor is offered as a web based subscription service. To learn more please visit www.thesearchmonitor.com .

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iGiki, an established leader in iPhone applications, announces the launch of iGiki Apps, an all-new service offering a collection of tools transforming the way the world creates iPhone applications. Empowering non-technical people to plan, develop, and market iPhone applications on the Apple App Store while reducing costs and eliminating errors.

New York, NY — iGiki announces the launch of iGiki Apps, an all-new service offering a collection of tools transforming the way the world creates iPhone applications. iGiki Apps empowers non-technical people to plan, develop, and market iPhone applications on the Apple App Store while reducing costs and eliminating errors. At launch iGiki Apps will offer 3 core products; the Apps Maps System, an iPhone Professionals Marketplace, and an iPhone Knowledge database. More information is available on http://igikiapps.com.

The primary product offering is Apps Maps, a creative environment to envision iPhone applications and create concepts. Non-technical people can quickly and simply create concepts, share them with others, and have professionals bring the concepts to life. Technical people can use Apps Maps to their advantage as well, by planning out applications before designing and coding. Simple to understand knowledge on iPhone applications is built right into Apps Maps.

Apps Maps includes hundreds of iPhone user interface and programming elements to allow in-depth concepts of iPhone applications (http://igikiapps.com) to be created. In addition elements can be uploaded from a user’s computer or from a website allowing for endless possibilities.

Apps Maps includes dozens of iPhone Native App templates, which are for applications distributed through the Apple App Store and iPhone Web App templates, which are for applications made available on a website.

Application concepts can be edited in Apps Maps. Concepts can also be posted to someone’s personal and secure Apps Maps Gallery on the web for sharing and working with colleagues, developers, or others. Concepts can be exported to an interactive PDF for storing or emailing, or used on the iGiki Apps iPhone Marketplace.

The iPhone Marketplace is the only online professional services marketplace devoted to iPhone application development. Concepts can be created in Apps Maps (http://igikiapps.com) and shown to dedicated iPhone professionals around the world to receive accurate quotes and work with them. Finding a qualified professional is quick and easy since their portfolio of iPhone work can be quickly and visually evaluated via iGiki App’s Visual View technology.

iPhone applications represent a tremendous opportunity. Succeeding in this fast moving market requires understanding about planning an app, developing it, and marketing it. iGiki Apps provides a database of knowledge in a non-technical fashion to help people succeed.

iGiki Apps comes from iGiki, a leader in iPhone applications. A little more than a year ago, iGiki drew the attention of the iPhone community when it announced the first third party iPhone applications. iGiki realized non-technical people were interested in offering iPhone applications but lacked the ability to effectively do so; with this in mind, it set out to make available a comprehensive set of tools to allow them to make an iPhone application regardless of technical ability, budget, or experience.

“At iGiki Apps, we want to help the people that have innovative ideas for iPhone applications but do not have the resources, knowledge, or budget to bring these ideas to reality,” said E. Rose of iGiki Apps. “We expect that our comprehensive set of tools including Apps Maps will empower and inspire these people to participate in the iPhone market.”

iGiki Apps will be launching in the summer of 2008. Pricing and availability information will be announced shortly, in addition to other yet-to-be revealed features of Apps Maps. For additional information on iGiki Apps and to be notified when it launches please visit http://igikiapps.com.

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theprintspace has extended their groundbreaking ‘DIY’ photographic printing process to the web. theprintspace.com will be the first online service to incorporate an easy to use professional colour management process. The result – enabling accurate soft proofing of images by clients on their own systems using bespoke print profiles, meaning prints that are as accurate as possible – first time! The process is explained in easy-to-follow video tutorials filmed exclusively by theprintspace, making theprintspace.com the first specialist professional photographic printing lab to utilise the web 2.0 spirit of innovation to its full potential.

London, England — theprintspace has extended their groundbreaking ‘DIY’ photographic printing process to the web. theprintspace.com will be the first online service to incorporate an easy to use professional colour management process. The result – enabling accurate soft proofing of images by clients on their own systems using bespoke print profiles, meaning prints that are as accurate as possible – first time! The process is explained in easy-to-follow video tutorials filmed exclusively by theprintspace, making theprintspace.com the first specialist professional photographic printing lab to utilise the web 2.0 spirit of innovation to its full potential.

theprintspace originated as Europe’s first walk-in DIY professional photographic printing lab. Launched in October 2007 and based in Shoreditch, theprintspace occupies two floors of a 4000sq foot area comprising of exhibition space, for-hire retouching and scanning booths, and large format printers. Since its opening, theprintspace has enjoyed acclaim from both industry professionals and clients alike.

Theprintspace philosophy is to equip the customer with the knowledge and resources necessary to get creative with high-spec professional imaging equipment (www.theprintspace.com/help/Studio.aspx) – which would usually only be accessible by the staff of a pro-lab. Until now, it has been impossible for photographers to have such unbridled control over their images, with a full range of professional print types, from digital C-Type archival prints to Epson Giclees and CYMK proofs. No website has ever made color management so accurate, so professional and yet so accessible and easy to use. In presenting a web interface for its famous creative print process, theprintspace.com acts like a professional standard, fully colour-managed print studio on your desktop.

At theprintspace guidance is available at every stage; from online articles to face-to-face consultations from in-house colour management and print technicians. A key feature of the website is the colour management and profiling tutorials (www.theprintspace.com/Content/colourmanagement.aspx), which are available to stream (www.youtube.com/theprintspace) or download from the website. Offering step-by-step instructions on subjects ranging from monitor calibration to building colour profiles and soft-proofing at home, theprintspace.com will enable users at any level to learn more about colour management.

As well as Epson Giclee (inkjet) prints, theprintspace offer affordable digital C-Type prints (www.theprintspace.com/Content/printtypes.aspx), which are genuine wet lab prints exposed by a real photographic process. theprintspace’s digital C-type professional photographic prints are produced on a Chromira, which is a professional quality, colour-managed, high resolution print device producing exhibition quality archival prints suitable for the professional art market on Fuji Crystal Archive & Kodak Professional paper. The machine prints up to 30” wide, and up to 50 metres long. Alternatively, Epson (inkjet) prints are from the recently released 880 range using Epson’s new Vivid Magenta inkset, exclusive to the range. These ‘Giclee’ prints are printed on professional art papers, such as Hanhemuhle Photorag, Pearl, and Epson Gloss and Semi-gloss. The Epson prints up to 60” wide by 30 meters long.

A straightforward web ordering process allows clients to send disks to the lab or to upload digital files directly via a built-in secure file transfer system. Once received, print turnover is unparalleled. Instead of waiting days for digital prints, files can be transferred, printed, and returned within 72 hours. Theprintspace also offer an in-house mounting service, to exhibition standard on a choice of materials.

The team behind theprintspace.com are no strangers to the demands of the photographic industry, having run retouching and ‘prolab’ printing businesses in London for the past three years. In creating theprintspace, MD Stuart Waplington says, “We wanted to do something different, something that would empower photographers & creatives – really give them tools they need.”

As Dominic Apa, Public Relations Officer explains:

“theprintspace.com is very much a response for what we saw as a need for a democratisation of the top-level of digital printing. With more and more people becoming familiar with Photoshop and an increasing number of photographers even retouching their own work, people simply needed the ability to access the resources which until now had only been avaiable to a very select few. Just as we have made our colour profiles available for download, we have attempted with theprintspace.com to open up our systems to become platforms for user innovation. theprintspace is about enabling our clients to have full creative control over every aspect of their work, from start to finish, while providing guidance and assistance when it is appropriate.”

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Neutraubling, 06. Juni 2008 – Das neue Partnerprogramm für den Online-Backup-Service „SteadyBackup“ von NTT Europe Online, einem der führenden Anbieter von Hosting Services in Europa, vergütet sowohl einfache Klicks als auch Verkaufsabschlüsse. Interessierte Website-Betreiber können sich ab sofort für das Partnerprogramm über das Netzwerk Webgains anmelden: www.webgains.de/signup.html?programid=1333 . Es locken Provisionen von bis zu 200 Prozent des ersten Monatsbetrages.

Steadybackup – Online Backup der Extraklasse

SteadyBackup ist ein vollautomatischer Service, der Daten von PCs und Notebooks absolut sicher gegen Verlust schützt. Der SteadyBackup Manager überträgt die Dateien über eine sichere und verschlüsselte Internetverbindung in das NTT Europe Online Hochsicherheits-Rechenzentrum. Von dort aus können diese dann direkt online wieder hergestellt werden – zum Beispiel im Falle einer versehentlichen Löschung auf dem eigenen Rechner.

Clicks und Sales – ein gutes Geschäft für Affiliate Partner

„Online-Backup-Services gehört die Zukunft. Wir beteiligen unsere Affiliates an diesem Wachstumsmarkt durch hohe Provisionen für Klicks und Sales“, so Kai Morasch, SME Channel Marketing Manager bei NTT Europe Online. So löst jeder Besucher, der über die individuell codierten Links geführt wird, automatisch eine Gutschrift von 0,10 EUR auf dem Konto des Affiliates aus. Entscheidet sich der Besucher danach auch für ein SteadyBackup-Paket, verdient der Website-Betreiber zusätzlich 200 Prozent des jeweiligen ersten Monatsbetrags als Provision. Der Affiliate darf mit einer Provision auch dann rechnen, wenn sich der Besucher erst Wochen oder Monate später entscheidet: Erst nach 120 Tagen verfällt der Anspruch.

Anmeldung bei Webgains

Für höchste Professionalität und Sicherheit bei Umsetzung und Abwicklung sorgt NTT Europe Online durch die Partnerschaft mit Webgains, einem der führenden internationalen Affiliate-Netzwerke: Das Webgains-System bietet modernste Funktionalitäten, umfassende Transaktionsdatenverwaltung und ein ausgeklügeltes Reporting. Die Technologie verfolgt und protokolliert auf effiziente Weise kommerzielle Transaktionen zwischen Merchants und Affiliates und gibt beiden die Möglichkeit, ihre Werbekampagnen und Medieninhalte nahtlos und effizient zu managen. Zudem stellt Webgains eine automatische wöchentliche Zahlung der Provisionen an die Affiliates sicher.

Interessenten können sich online detailliert informieren und anmelden unter www.webgains.de/signup.html?programid=1333

Über NTT Europe Online

NTT Europe Online ist eines der größten weltweit agierenden Webhosting-Unternehmen und bietet Geschäftskunden die gesamte Bandbreite an Internet-Services, wie Managed Hosting, Sicherheitsmanagement, Applikationsmanagement sowie weltweite Netzwerkdienstleistungen für die Auslieferung von Media- bzw. Webinhalten (Content Delivery Network Services), an. Mit maßgeschneiderten Lösungen unterstützt NTT Europe Online die geschäftskritischen E-Business-Aktivitäten von Unternehmen jeder Größenordnung – vom Global Player bis hin zu kleinen und mittelständischen Firmen. NTT Europe Online operiert auf Basis einer extrem zuverlässigen, voll skalierbaren, globalen IT-Infrastruktur inklusive eigenem Tier-1 IP-Netzwerk, dem NTT Communications Global IP Network.
NTT Europe Online ist ein hundertprozentiges Tochterunternehmen von NTT Communications, dem internationalen Dienstleister der NTT Group (Nippon Telegraph & Telecom), dem größten Telekommunikationsunternehmen der Welt.

Weitere Informationen zu NTT Europe Online sind zu finden unter web-hosting.ntteuropeonline.de.

Über Webgains

Webgains ist eines der führenden internationalen Affiliate-Netzwerke.
Seinen mehr als 750 Merchants und 35.000 Websites in Großbritannien, Deutschland, Frankreich, Dänemark, Schweden und den Niederlanden bietet Webgains State-of-the-Art Funktionalitäten, einfache Handhabung und eine hohe Vertrauenswürdigkeit durch Technik und Support. Namhafte Unternehmen aus den unterschiedlichsten Branchen setzen auf Webgains. Kunden sind unter anderem Quelle, Nuon, Otto, Zooplus und GE Money Bank. Webgains wurde 2000 in Großbritannien von Robert Glasgow und Peter Dunham mit der Vision gegründet, alle Funktionalitäten entsprechend modernster Anforderungen und Methoden des Affiliate-Marketings auf Webgains zu vereinen.

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Revolutionjobs.co.uk is the latest initiative from the market-leading digital marketing title Revolution, providing hundreds of online marketing career opportunities for digital marketers at the click of a button.

London, UK May 23, 2008 — Revolutionjobs.co.uk is the latest initiative from the market-leading digital marketing title Revolution, providing hundreds of online marketing career opportunities for digital marketers at the click of a button. Featured online digital jobs (www.revolutionjobs.co.uk) include digital marketing managers (www.revolutionjobs.co.uk/jobs/?keyword=digital+marketing+manager), e-commerce business development directors, SEO specialists (www.revolutionjobs.co.uk/jobs/seo) and many more.

“Revolution has been the leading title in the digital sector since its launch in 1997. Now people who want to get ahead in their digital careers can use a dedicated job site which builds on that heritage,” said Matthew Gerry, Online Publisher, Haymarket Brand Media.

With Revolutionjobs.co.uk candidates are able to remain constantly updated with the latest online marketing job vacancies with:

•    Jobs by email.

•    Browse for jobs across a variety of industry disciplines and sectors.

•    Instantly submit applications online.

•    Upload and save CV’s and track applications.

Recruiters can manage their vacancies online and take advantage of the featured recruiter sections, which display their logo on the Revolutionjobs homepage giving candidates the opportunity to gain instant access to the recruiter and their vacancies. 24-hour job posting by credit card also allows recruiters to add a new job at anytime.

Visit the website at www.revolutionjobs.co.uk.

*According to ABCe audit – October 2007

Notes to editors

About Revolution

Publishing since 1997, Revolution is the UK’s leading title for digital marketers, with an 88% larger circulation than the nearest competitor.

Published monthly, Revolution reaches 12,024* senior digital marketers with a combined annual budget of over £12.6 billion.

About Haymarket Media Group

Haymarket Media Group is the largest privately owned magazine publisher, and one of the fastest growing media companies, in the UK. The principal business is centred around its consumer, business, professional and customer publications. These are complemented by digital platforms and live events, including extensive exhibitions, conferences and awards. The Group’s global expansion comes from wholly owned subsidiaries, joint ventures and extensive licensing of key magazines to other publishers.

Haymarket website: www.haymarketgroup.co.uk

For further information about Revolution or Haymarket Media, please contact Paula Fox, Publishing Manager on 020 8267 8038.

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eTech Parts, LLC has officially released their new website assisting end users with electronics repairs. eTech Parts supplies thousands of Do-It-Yourself repair kits at fantastic pricing. Product lines include repair parts for iPods, iPhones, Apple Laptop Computers (including MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, MacBook, PowerBook and iBook) with new programs coming online within the next several weeks. Among those are programs for Cell Phone and Blackberry support, PDA parts, and parts for most gaming system consoles including XBOX and popular Sony Consoles.

Olathe, Kansas May 10, 2008 — eTech Parts, LLC (www.eTechParts.com) has officially released their new website assisting end users with electronics repairs. eTech Parts supplies thousands of Do-It-Yourself repair kits at fantastic pricing.

http: www.etechparts.com

Product lines include repair parts for iPods, iPhones, Apple Laptop Computers (including MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, MacBook, PowerBook and iBook) with new programs coming online within the next several weeks. Among those are programs for Cell Phone and Blackberry support, PDA parts, and parts for most gaming system consoles including XBOX and popular Sony Consoles.

“We’ve been in business providing dealers with wholesale pricing and bulk orders. After assessing the market and looking at the competition, we’ve found that there are thousands of end users with the ability to perform repairs in their home on their own electronics.” Said Kyle Baccus, Co-Owner & Director of Operations. “We are helping the customers that are willing to take on a repair themselves while allowing them to get it done as inexpensively as possible. Our new website is a breeze to navigate and finding your repair part with our drill down menus is easy.”

eTech Parts is currently developing downloadable instruction packages for each repair part they sell. This will further assist each customer with the installation and use of the parts purchased.

eTech Parts doesn’t stop there. They also have a full line of Gold Series refurbished iPods available at excellent pricing. They run advanced diagnostics on each hard drive (when applicable) and suspect units are recycled. The iPods have little or no physical signs of use, and each comes with a new set of headphones, charging cable and a 90 day warranty. It’s a great way to join in the iPod craze without paying retail prices. In fact, they give each customer a 30 day return window with no restocking fees. You can’t even get that from Apple, Inc. Customers view their refurbished iPods at: http://www.etechparts.com/category_s/130.htm

In fact, it’s eTech Parts company policy to NEVER charge a restocking fee if an item is returned within their 30 day return period. This applies to their refurbished iPods and every part they sell. This is a great benefit and gives each customer the peace of mind that they are making the right decision.

About eTech Parts

Based on a gold standard for customer service, www.eTechParts.com is your one-stop repair parts shop with support for all makes and models of iPods, iPhones and Macintosh Portable Systems, Cell Phones & Gaming Consoles.

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PartnerServe Company Inc. announces the launch of www.ThingMatch.com to connect people who own the same thing or use the same service. ThingMatch delivers discussion groups for every product or service users specify, and includes social networking features, including private messaging between users. Users can discuss topics started by others, or start topics of their own. The site is available immediately.

Boxborough MA May 8, 2008 – PartnerServe Company Inc. announces the launch of

thingmatch.com (www.thingmatch.com) to connect people who own the same thing or use the same service. ThingMatch delivers discussion groups for every product or service users specify, and includes social networking features, including private messaging between users. Users can discuss topics started by others, or start topics of their own. The site is available immediately.

In an era when new medications may have unexpected side effects, children’s toys may have dangerous features, and products in many categories may exhibit troublesome problems, ThingMatch offers a new way for users to connect and collaborate around products and their use. If a problem for one user is also seen by others, the common good is served by bringing the issue to wider attention. There are often simple solutions to troublesome product problems, and ThingMatch provides the consumer forum in which important information can be shared.

Just as Ralph Nader publicized problems in the Corvair and other products, and later problems in Firestone tires affected a large number of American vehicles, more recent products remain subject to problems on a small or large scale. ThingMatch helps users uncover and resolve problems in an open information environment. Now users need not wait for problems to surface at review sites since they can proactively collaborate from the earliest days of use at ThingMatch.

ThingMatch enables everyday users easily to connect with other users of the same products and services so they can efficiently share information to work around smaller problems and manage large ones that might even impact the health of themselves or family members. We set out to offer a service for the common good.

Larry Smith, President and Founder of PartnerServe Company Inc. observed, “ThingMatch enables everyday users easily to connect with other users of the same products and services so they can efficiently share information to work around smaller problems and manage large ones that might even impact the health of themselves or family members. We set out to offer a service for the common good.”

Currently, ThingMatch supports nearly 400 categories of services and products. It is a self-organizing offering so that new categories, companies, and models are supported based on user demand. ThingMatch is free to users.

Site:

thingmatch.com (www.thingmatch.com)

Screenshot available online:

screenshot (www.thingmatch.com/prscreenshots/thingMatchHome.jpg)

About ThingMatch:

ThingMatch addresses situations all consumers will recognize:

* Your new car makes noise while turning and you wonder if it’s a problem

* You get a side effect from a new medication and want to know if others do

* You bought your child a new toy and wonder if the paint might contain lead

* You just bought a new HD television and want to know about the best setup

It offers the following benefits:

* Find Those Who’ve Already Solved a Problem

* Share Product Tips – Why Reinvent the Wheel?

* Find Out About Add-Ons

* Learn From Experienced Users

* Checks and Balances on Quality

* Uncover a Product Problem

Unlike product review sites, ThingMatch is discussion oriented and encourages free and open multi-way communication by users. Users may create discussions, post responses to others’ discussions, or request private messaging with other users.

ThingMatch leverages the natural language technology of PartnerServe and is able to provide a better user experience because of software awareness of language and language structures. It will use IssueFinder, a proprietary technology that discovers issues automatically from discussion text.

About PartnerServe

PartnerServe Company Inc., based in Boxborough, MA, pioneered the consumer review space in ConsumerDemocracy.com (www.ConsumerDemocracy.com), which has offered user opinion to users of commercial products since 1996. PartnerServe’s core competence includes web development and natural language technology, which it brings to bear on usability and data quality standards in both ConsumerDemocracy and ThingMatch.

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Teures Studienmaterial, hohe Mieten und Studiengebühren – Studieren kostet heutzutage viel Geld. Diese Tatsache hat das dänische Verlagshaus Studentensupport erkannt und bietet ein noch nie dagewesenes Konzept an: Studienliteratur zum kostenlosen Download im Internet!

Damit trifft Studentensupport genau den Puls der Zeit. Das beweisen auch die Downloadzahlen: Seit 1. Okt. 2007 wurden bereits 170.000 Bücher von Studenten heruntergeladen.

Um die 150 Titel sind mittlerweile auf der Internetseite verfügbar – die meisten davon sind in Deutsch, ein kleiner Teil ist in Englisch verfasst. Die Titelauswahl richtet sich vor allen an Studenten der Wirtschafts- und Ingenieurwissenschaften. Es stehen aber auch Bewerbungs- und Karriereratgeber zum Download zur Verfügung, so dass jede Fachrichtung und jedes Semester von dem Angebot profitieren kann.

Da die Publikationen ausschließlich von Professoren und Hochschuldozenten verfasst werden, können wir eine hohe Qualität und Relevanz der Publikationen sicherstellen. Zudem sind sie so übersichtlich wie möglich gestaltet und sollen vor allem als Ergänzung zur Pflichtliteratur oder als Nachschlagewerke genutzt werden. Zu einem Großteil der Bücher gibt es extra Übungshefte – somit eignen sie sich auch perfekt zur Klausurvorbereitung.

Ein Angebot, das überzeugt:

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schoeller, Universität Hamburg
„Das Niveau der Bücher ist hoch. Einen Akademischen Qualitätsvergleich brauchen die Bücher von Studentensupport keineswegs zu scheuen.“

Prof. Dr. Ulla Knapp, Universität Hamburg
„Ich bin von der Qualität der Bücher des Studentensupports positiv überrascht. Sie hebt sich qualitativ deutlich ab von vielen anderen online Medien für den akademischen Gebrauch.“

Finanziert werden die Bücher durch Anzeigen, die ähnlich wie bei Zeitschriften direkt in den Büchern plaziert werden. Dabei wird darauf geachtet, dass es sich nur um studienrelevante Annoncen handelt.

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