For Immediate Release
eSnips Provides Even the Smallest Affinity Groups with a Centralized Social, Dynamic Portal;
Allows what Peers Think is the Latest & Greatest in their Community to Surface
San Francisco, Calif., AND Tel Aviv, ISRAEL – November 7, 2006 – eSnips, Ltd., the social sharing site, where like-minded members can share any digital content from one central location, today announced eSnips Micro-Portals, at the prestigious Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco.
Each community, regardless of size or type, can now have their own dedicated social portal called a Micro-Portal. The Micro-Portals provide a comprehensive, dynamic, centralized glimpse into everything that is happening within a particular community; the latest, most popular and favorite files and folders, access to new and favorite members, a forum to discuss community affairs, and community only areas that list unique tags, news and activities. The Micro-Portal can be formed around any group of people who use the same tags (categories) to describe the content they publish
For example, the new DJ Micro-Portal, will include the latest and most popular remixes, comments, new members, and favorite performers, and will serve as a showcase for emerging talent. Other interest-driven Micro-Portals to launch this week include karaoke, painting and photography. New Portals will be added based on user demand and interest.
Social sites revolutionized the way visitors to these sites with a constantly updated view to what their online peers find to be the most interesting and valuable content on the site or on the net. While this is available for very broad areas of interest such as news, photos, or videos, eSnips new Micro-Portals will be the first social site to extend this compelling sharing capability to even the smallest and most esoteric affinity groups, such as DJs, African poets, Persian cat lovers, video creators, karaokers, impressionist artists, and more.
As the eSnips user base continues to explode (nearly a million registered users in under eight months), unique communities have sprung up with a myriad of diverse interests and content. eSnips Micro-Portals provides these growing niche-communities with a social dynamic portal to share and sell their content. For a glimpse at some of the new eSnips Micro-Portals, you can visit the karaoke community at http://www.esnips.com/community/karaoke, the Remix community at http://www.esnips.com/community/remix, the Photography community at http://www.esnips.com/community/photography and the Painting community at http://www.esnips.com/community/painting
“We are thrilled to be the first player to extent the social web revolution to communities that are too small to ever be noticed by major commercial community builders,” said Yael Elish, CEO of eSnips. “In the future, eSnips will enable its end-users to create new Micro-Portals on the fly. This will further strengthen our vision to empower even smallest groups on the web -- groups of people around the world who share interests in areas most of us were not even aware existed.”
About eSnips, Ltd.
eSnips –http://www.esnips.com– is the social sharing site where like-minded members can share any digital content showcasing their talents, interests, and passions with whoever they choose from one place. eSnips has been gaining more recognition as a key player in the social sharing space, particularly for its uniqueness in their ability to allow users to share any media type on one site. Unlike so many social media sharing sites, eSnips allows users to share every file type, not just photos, videos, audio, PDFs, or links. Users can create their own web space with personalized content that they can either share or keep private. The team behind eSnips includes Yael Elish, a seasoned veteran of several Internet start-ups and Nahum Sharfman, founder of Shopping.com and Commtouch. eSnips has received investments from Gemini Israel Funds and Greylock Ventures.