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In October 2007, more than 4,000 new users registered and built content-specificvideo channels with Magnify.net s technology.
Twice a month, Magnify.net chooses four sites to feature on its home page providing new visitors and potential publishers a glimpse at the diverse communityof users that have adopted the platform.
Among the sites launched in the past two weeks, Magnify.net is featuring a fastgrowing ethnic social network, the world s third largest community of studentcommunity service members, a progressive and locally engaged newspaper chain, and aunique e-commerce site for very expensive toys.
The Spanish language site, Que Pasa, added a community news feature, invitingmembers of its one million-strong registered member base to discover, submit, andshare video on the new Que Passa News Network (www.QPNN.com).
QPNN is a carefully curated mix of Hispanic focused news content, user submittedvideo footage, and targeted feature videos. With the success of QPNN,com, QuePasais now considering adding a number of other themed video channels to the service, also to be built on the Magnify.net platform.
Executive producer, Patrico Espinoza, chose Magnify.net to build the service afteran extensive investigation into the tools and services available in the video spaceobserving, I thought that Magnify.net was the leader in this space and theycontinue to provide extraordinary support for the service.
AIESEC is the world s largest network of active students and the third largestnon-profit organization in the world. The organization realized that there werethousands of videos out there on various posting sites of AIESEC, but there wasn t achannel for the organization.
Site creator, Andras Bodrog, found Magnify.net easy to implement stating, It isvery user friendly and even more editor friendly. The site is fully customized andextends our brand cosmetically even though the content is mainly user generated.
Shifting from global to local, the TimeLeader in Wilkes-Barre, PA is using itsMagnify.net channel to gather video created about the region from the Web and alsofrom members of its community. The TimesLeader is one of a number of newspaperpartners both local and newspaper chains that are building video offerings onthe Magnify.net platform in order to enhance video around its social networkstrategy.
AeroHunter, an extreme e-commerce site, added video of private pilots and aircraftowners. AeroHunter is a community for people looking to buy or sell theirfixed-wing aircraft. Using Magnify.net, the team at AeroHunter was able to allowvisitors to post high-quality video recordings of the aircraft they have for sale.
Magnify.net supports every site with its market-leading free video curation andupload tools and provides free bandwidth and storage to support every customer.
LINKS:1. http://videos.qpnn.tv/2. http://aiesec.magnify.net/3. http://timesleader.magnify.net /4. http://video.aerohunter.com/
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About Magnify.netMagnify.net is founded by a team of experienced media, technology and Webdevelopment entrepreneurs with a strong track record of best-of-breed innovations.The Magnify.net team is led by Steve Rosenbaum -- one of the early innovators in theuse of small format video, and user-created video. Rosenbaum created MTV Unfiltered-- the first series produced entirely by viewers, and directed the multi-perspectivefeature Documentary "7 Days in September". Magnify has been financed by itsfounders, Venture Capital firm Next Stage Capital, New York Angels, and ActiveAngels Investors, and a group of private individuals. More information can be foundat www.magnify.net
Contact:Alison McNeillFutureWorks PRalison@future-works.com 408-428-0895 Ext. 112
