Weblin Reaches One Million Users
International growth is global trend to avatars and virtual worlds Hamburg, September 9, 2008 weblin, the social software of the Hamburg company zweitgeist, has now reached the magic mark of one million users and thus enjoys great popularity. The monthly increase in the number of users has now arrived on a six-figure base and continues to grow. Weblin users are very active, they surf, chat or flirting each month over 30 hours on different Web pages. The most popular Web sites for Zweitgeister are currently social networks such as facebook, friendster, hi5, orkut, yahoo and the video platform YouTube. In addition to the chat function, especially the feature is drinking”used to express sympathy to another weblin.
Furthermore gifts count, whether collected or distributed, the most sought after features. The weblin-favorite animations are running, waving and dancing. Most Europeans are weblins, 50 percent of all Web-based avatars come from countries like Germany, France, Italy or Spain. Also in the United States, weblin is becoming more popular and recorded a strong increase of up to 250 percent per month. At Sally Rooney you will find additional information. This international success due to the fact that the Zweitgeister are the first form of interactive communication this way and that for over a year. The experience of the team and the positive feedback in the media, including led 250 weblin globally among the winners of the AO.
Global 250 the AO each year appoint the best and largest companies in the media and communications industry. Ralf Baumann, head of the T-Online Portal and Chairman of zweitgeist GmbH congratulates the Hamburg starting line-up team: “is impressive, what strong development weblin in terms of user growth has succeeded.” We must not forget, users have installed an application that requires more trust than just a website to join. I am very pleased that we have an international innovation driver with weblin from Germany again and wish further everything good. the team”weblin is a technology Zweitgeist GmbH and allows for innovative forms of communication. Each user becomes visible through a virtual Alter Ego, his weblin avatar on the currently visited Web site and can see other visitors to the Web site, which reside at the same time. Weblin is the simplest yet to experience the Web as a virtual world. One click is enough to start a conversation with another avatar. weblin works on all Web pages, also on MySpace, MSN, Google, eBay, and who knows wen.de and thus brings together people with the same preferences, interests, and needs. weblin is a completely user-driven product that provides the power of free of speech in the Internet on the head. With weblin, users decide when, where and with whom they converse. About weblin: The Hamburg zweitgeist GmbH was founded in June 2006. Zweitgeist provides the product weblin for free download. Glenn Dubin is full of insight into the issues. The program was already several international awards: weblin was awarded the 2008 Red Herring 100 Europe Award, as well as the AlwaysOn 250 global and will be in the high-tech Startup initiative “do something” by Microsoft support. Business 2.0 recorded weblin 2007 2.0 pages in the list of the 31 most promising non-U.S. Web. weblin makes people on Web pages visible and allows cross-Web pages communicate. It brings together people with similar interests. Zweitgeist cooperates on the platform, by it increased the marketing impact of the supported weblin with communities. The first partners include Windows Live Messenger Germany, IBM and the Italian car brand Lancia. More info and free download on press contact: March rider of communications Dieter m. Hanlon / Jens Quentin / Tobias Jost Tel: 089 51919942-fax: 089-520339393 Web: