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For Immediate Release:
Pluck Releases SiteLife Version 3.1 of Industry-Leading Social Media Platform
New Version Powering More Than 1 Billion Monthly Interactions for Hundreds of Leading Publishers, Brands and Retailers
AUSTIN, Texas – February 1, 2008 Pluck™ Corporation today announced the launch of SiteLife 3.1, the latest version of the company’s fully-hosted and managed technology platform for adding social media capabilities to any website. New features available in the latest version include support for multiple communities, multi-author blogs and groups as well as user-generated video. SiteLife offers a comprehensive set of user participation and social networking capabilities via hosted widgets and is broadly deployed by a large and growing number of online leaders, including The Washington Post, Circuit City, USA TODAY, Condé Nast, Reuters, and Better Homes and Gardens, and many more.
SiteLife enables online properties to engage site visitors with a complete range of social media capabilities including user comments, ratings, recommendations, reviews, photo and video sharing, forums and blogs. SiteLife’s easy-to-deploy widgets make it a simple integration effort and offer virtually limitless growth and customization options as customers’ social media needs evolve over time. SiteLife also includes a robust set of platform-level APIs that allow customers to easily tailor social media experiences to the needs of their distinct audiences. While simple to integrate and configure, SiteLife’s superior infrastructure is built to serve the needs of the most demanding online destinations and is already live on hundreds of sites, serving more than 1 billion interactions each month.
“With this latest version of our standard-bearing platform, we have made the integration of social media an even more powerful and practical undertaking” said Dave Panos, CEO of Pluck. “As social media has become a prerequisite for online growth and leadership, SiteLife 3.1 gives the world’s leading publishers, brands and retailers unequalled ability to develop and expand community on their sites.”
New capabilities available in SiteLife 3.1 include:
SiteLife 3.1 is generally available and can be deployed in as few as two weeks. The service comes complete with a Single Sign-On capability for integrating customers’ existing registration systems and a powerful Community Management Workbench for managing content and members in real time. In addition, Pluck’s Professional Services team is equipped to provide a range of capabilities for implementing SiteLife 3.1 as well as training, best practices and community moderation.
More information on Pluck SiteLife 3.1 can be found at
http://www.pluck.com/products/sitelife.html
About Pluck Corporation
Pluck Corporation social media solutions empower leading media companies, brand marketers, and retailers to integrate open content, community and social networking into their web properties driving audience traffic and revenue. Clients include CBC, Circuit City, Cox, The Economist, FOX News, Gannett, Scotts and The Washington Post. Awards include a Red Herring 100 and AlwaysOn Media 100. The privately held company is based in Austin, Texas with funding from Austin Ventures, Mayfield Fund and Reuters. More information on Pluck offerings can be found at www.pluck.com.
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