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<p>WEB CROSSING, INC. LAUNCHES WEBCROSSING NEIGHBORS,<br />
A PRIVATE-LABEL SOCIAL NETWORK PLATFORM</p>
<p>-- Now Any Business or Organization Can Have Total Control Over Its<br />
Own Branded Online Social Network --</p>
<p>SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., June 22, 2006 -- Web Crossing, Inc. today announced<br />
the immediate availability of WebCrossing Neighbors, its new private-label<br />
online social network solution.</p>
<p>Now, businesses and organizations can create, under their total control,<br />
customized, branded online social networks where members can link their<br />
personal spaces with friends and colleagues. WebCrossing Neighbors is a<br />
hosted solution complete with common areas for interest groups, personal<br />
user spaces, profiles, blogs, discussions, photo and file sharing, access<br />
controls, search and much more. WebCrossing Neighbors is available<br />
immediately as a server hosted solution, starting at $195/month.</p>
<p>"We're extremely thrilled to use the WebCrossing Neighbors platform for our<br />
newly introduced automotive lifestyle social networking site CarSpace,"<br />
said Sylvia Marino, senior director of CarSpace. "This platform allows our<br />
members to have a clean user interface and tools that are easy to use to<br />
bring automotive fans together."</p>
<p>"Web Crossing products have had a rich history of online community and<br />
collaboration that's customizable, extensible and scalable," said Tim<br />
Lundeen, president and CEO of Web Crossing, Inc. "As one might expect,<br />
WebCrossing Neighbors can be functionally and aesthically customized to<br />
meet any company or organization's goals. WebCrossing Neighbors empowers<br />
businesses and groups to build relationships with, and between, customers,<br />
audience, student body or constituency. Companies wishing to create a<br />
community, bring members of an existing community closer together, build<br />
greater brand loyalty or increase collaboration should consider Neighbors."</p>
<p>Linking Brings People Together<br />
Personal spaces link friends and colleagues together using the WebCrossing<br />
Neighbors dynamic tagging engine, with support for "degrees of friendship"<br />
that display friends-of-friends and third-degree friends. Access to other<br />
spaces is quick using links from the new activity list, the friend gallery<br />
or the interest group gallery. Each personal space includes an up-to-date<br />
list of new content in subscribed friends' journal space or discussions.<br />
Each personal space also provides two avatar galleries for quick links to<br />
friends or colleagues or to interest groups.</p>
<p>Members on a WebCrossing Neighbors site can create shared interest groups<br />
to participate in discussions, either via the web-based forum or email<br />
subscriptions. Companies and organizations can also offer "premium<br />
membership" benefits, providing options, such as extra photo albums, more<br />
file storage, and more. Demographic and statistical information metrics<br />
help companies measure success and growth.</p>
<p>Businesses Control Building Brand<br />
To help businesses and organizations build a bridge with customers and<br />
constituents, WebCrossing Neighbors is based on the WebCrossing Core engine<br />
to provide social networking functionality that is scalable, extensible and<br />
easily customized. System-wide search is fully indexed and lightening fast.<br />
WebCrossing Neighbors administrators control access permission rules for<br />
interest group and individual spaces. Administrators can also give members<br />
access control over their own personal space. System-wide announcements<br />
provide members with hot news or other updates from the online community<br />
director who represents the company or organization.</p>
<p>Each WebCrossing Neighbors site is customized both aesthetically and<br />
functionally. The design of the graphics can reinforce company branding,<br />
organization identity or establish its own aesthetic. If the default<br />
features comprise the desired set, WebCrossing Neighbors can be used<br />
out-of-the-box in minutes. Functional modules are administered through an<br />
easy-to-access control panel with switches. The underlying scripts and<br />
templates that control WebCrossing Neighbors operations can also be<br />
modified and extended.</p>
<p>Functional elements provide varying levels of interactivity. Available<br />
functional elements include: classic forum discussions; journal or blog<br />
capabilities with integrated comments; photo albums; personal files for<br />
sharing data or storing backups of files; footprints showing recently<br />
accessing members; instant messaging and chat rooms; and email services for<br />
POP3, SMTP and AJAX-based webmail.</p>
<p>Pricing, Compatibility and Availability<br />
WebCrossing Neighbors is available immediately as a server hosted package<br />
for maximum uptime, priced based on traffic and member storage capacity<br />
starting at $195/month.</p>
<p>Guided tours of WebCrossing Neighbors are available. Additional information<br />
can be found at: (<a href="http://webcrossing.com/Home/webcrossing_neighbors.htm" title="http://webcrossing.com/Home/webcrossing_neighbors.htm">http://webcrossing.com/Home/webcrossing_neighbors.htm</a>).</p>
<p>About Web Crossing, Inc.<br />
Web Crossing, Inc. is the virtual communities and collaboration tools<br />
powerhouse. The award-winning Web Crossing products help companies and<br />
organizations extend brands and build relationships. Further information<br />
can be found at (<a href="http://www.webcrossing.com/" title="http://www.webcrossing.com/">http://www.webcrossing.com/</a>).</p>
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