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YouGetIt.com Offers Mobile Carriers Big Bite of Internet's $800B Advertising Market
Highly Anticipated Technology Platform seeks Share of $39 Billion local advertising market
5/2/2007
Orlando, FL (May 2, 2007) As of 2.00 pm EDT, on May 1, 2007, Web2Corp (OTCBB : WBTO) and YouGetIt announced the successful launch of its
new local social media website, aggregator, and local e-conomy builder, YouGetIt.com. In development for over a year, YouGetIt aggregates the functionality
of some of today's top social media websites, with features of social networks, video and photo sharing, online auctions, classifieds, online storefronts, and more.
"YouGetIt.com is a new level of social networking that encompasses everything that's currently offered by other social media
sites. It's all in one place, all local, and all tied to our robust e-commerce system," said William Mobley, CEO of Web2Corp.
"YouGetIt.com is about opportunity--the endless opportunity that the Internet offers. You want to be a writer or a publisher?
A musician or a producer? An actor, a filmmaker, a consumer or a business owner? Whatever you want to do, you can do it with
YouGetIt.com."
While still in a beta state, YouGetIt.com's powerful set of features has already netted it a fair share of positive
comments from visitors across America. User suggestions and feedback are already being implemented, as Web2Corp uses its
experience in fast web development to respond to its user bases' needs. New features are currently under development and
are expected to roll out shortly.
"Because we have aggregated all of the most popular features on the web, this is likely among the largest applications ever
built. It is bound to have unresolved issues at launch, and out Beta and Founding Members are proving crucial in identifying
these and shaping YouGetIt's growth. To all of our Beta Members, Founding Members, and Pre-Registrants: 'The Next Big Thing
on the Net' is now ready for your review and recommendations. We thank all of our users for the assistance that they have
already given us, and welcome everyone to www.YouGetIt.com!"
About Web2Corp:
Web2Corp [OTCBB: WBTO] is one of the world's fastest growing new media Internet conglomerates with properties
ChamberEcommerce.com, ByIndia.com, Web1000.com and YouGetIt.com. As a Web 2.0 internet technology development firm it
is dedicated to rapid creation and adaptation of technologies. Web2Corp addresses new markets of users by creating and
simplifying useful products, reducing the level of user technical skills required, and lowering prices for consumers.
Web 2.0 technologies have become increasingly popular, with the use of Web 2.0 applications such as e-commerce or blogs
up more than 25% over the last year, according to comScore networks. The Web 2.0 market generates more than 20 billion
dollars of revenue a year, with well-known companies like Google.com, Flickr.com, MySpace.com, eBay.com, and Blogger.com
making up the majority of the income.
For more information on Web2Corp or to see Web2Corp's Safe Harbor Act Disclaimer Notice, go to www.Web2Corp.com .
Contact:
Trevor Longino
Communications Director, Web2Corp
407.540.0452 (Office)
321.256.2939 (Direct)
› YouGetIt.com Offers Mobile Carriers Big Bite of Internet's $800B Advertising Market
Web2Corp's (WBTO) "Next Big Thing on the Net" could also be next big thing in mobile search advertising revenue
4/25/2007 Orlando, FL (Date) Web2Corp (OTCBB: WBTO) announced today that the highly anticipated beta launch of YouGetIt.com, which is aggressively being touted as "The Next Big Thing on the Net", will reveal something very special today. While YouGetIt is driving the social media buzz because of the unique feature-rich way it streamlines communication, networking, search and collaboration of the most popular technologies today, it also passes on those online experiences to the consumers cell phone. Personal, Family, Business/Ecommerce, Events, Sales Notification, Deals or Specials Offered, Traffic Alerts, all to your cell phone from settings the consumer creates in their main YouGetIt.com local homepage. This creates a massive mobile advertising marketplace that the powerful gatekeepers like Cingular, Verizon and Sprint will need to fill the gap between search engines and their cell phone customers. "Ask anybody in the Internet business where the money's going to be and you'll get the same answer from Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! It's mobile,” said William Mobley, CEO of Web2Corp.
Currently, though, surfing on the net with a cell phone is often a less than satisfying experience. Web pages don't load or format correctly, navigating through menus is a hassle, and the screen size forces users to stare and squint to make out the text on web pages. Trying to brand RSS feeds and other content in the mobile space continues to remain a problem for content providers. But the attractiveness of a portable system that lets users perform utilitarian search functions, get quick answers, and move on with their life makes the prospect of a robust cellular search engine attractive to consumers, and the context- and place-sensitive possibilities of cellular advertising make the possibility for a company to snag a portion of a potentially huge local cellular advertising market too attractive to pass up.
The giants of search, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft, are all contemplating their own strategies for getting leverage in the cellular phone market, but William Mobley says that the telecommunications carriers have a "very rare" second chance here. The telecommunications companies missed getting a direct share of the revenue from the traditional Internet's $800 billion dollar a year advertising market, worldwide. They didn't predict how big the Internet would be and popular search engines like Yahoo!, Google, and MSN monetized search for themselves, leaving the telecommunications companies behind.
"According to some estimates, the cell phone Internet search market will eventually eclipse the PC search market. More people have cell phones than have PC's, after all. The telecommunications companies know how big the local search market is going to be on cell phones, and they're being much pickier about their partners now. Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are potential threats just as much as they are potential partners, and getting an equitable revenue-sharing model established with one of the giants of search will be difficult, indeed.
"That's the exciting part of this whole frontier, though. No one's earned a solid lead in the local cell phone search market yet, which is what makes YouGetIt.com attractive to the telcos: we already have a local search function, an opt-in local coupon distribution method, and a transparent way for users to push content from their computers and from the Internet on to their cell phone. YouGetIt.com's self aggregation concept makes all of the content that users want available pushed to their phone or e-mail address when they want it. It's a blend of PC and cell phone Internet searching and browsing that no one's done before, and the fact that YouGetIt.com is based upon a revenue sharing model that pays the wireless carriers for their bandwidth, their customer base, and their marketing reach means that we're not only offering customers an incredible suite of functionality, but we're giving telecommunications providers another chance at cashing in on the Internet's incredible revenue."
About Web2Corp:
Web2Corp is a Web 2.0 Internet technology development firm dedicated to rapid creation and adaptation of technologies. Web2Corp addresses new markets of users by creating and simplifying useful products, reducing the level of user technical skills required, and lowering prices for consumers. Web 2.0 technologies have become increasingly popular, with the use of Web 2.0 applications such as e-commerce or blogs up more than 25% over the last year, according to comScore networks. The Web 2.0 market generates more than 20 billion dollars of revenue a year, with well-known companies like Google.com, Flickr.com, MySpace.com, eBay.com, and Blogger.com making up the majority of the income.
For more information on Web2Corp or to see Web2Corp's Safe Harbor Act Disclaimer Notice, go to www.Web2Corp.com .
Contact:
Trevor Longino
Communications Director, Web2Corp
407.540.0452 (Office)
321.256.2939 (Direct)
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Web2Corp's WBTO YouGetIt.com Offers Special Invites to 100,000 Pre-Beta Registrants
4/17/2007
ORLANDO, FL--(MARKET WIRE)--Apr 17, 2007 -- Web2Corp, (OTC BB:WBTO.OB - News) is launching the pre-beta of www.YouGetIt.com, the next level in social networking. YouGetIt.com is a 'non-denominational' content distributor that will allow users to aggregate the Internet to receive just the information that they need, and letting them ignore what they don't. Whether YouTube, Flickr, MySpace or Google is your thing, YouGetIt.com lets you put it all together in one place, with convenience and power greater than any other website out there.
The pre-beta testers, called YouGetIt "Founding Members," will receive free credits for upgrading their listings on the site each month, a special badge on their profile indicating that they were part of the Web 2.1 revolution from the very start, and more exclusive rewards as the site matures. The pre-beta period will run from April 25 to April 30, and these users will help discover and determine flow issues in the social network's code before the full public beta launches on May 1.
"These 'Founding Members' are extremely valuable to us," says Andre Forde, President of Web2Corp. "They will shape consumer opinion on YouGetIt.com. These "Founding Members" will also shape the product by giving us suggestions for new features. They will help us by finding improvements that we have not been able to find ourselves. Any project of this scope is going to have some un-addressed items, and 100,000 people will find things that 30 people simply can't.
"YouGetIt.com's 'Founding Members' will remain valuable as the site matures. As early adopters, they will guide the site's growth process, acting as an elite force of advisors for our development team. YouGetIt.com is a social media site. We're built by our user base, and we will take their suggestions and comments very seriously indeed."
YouGetIt.com is over two years in development, partnered with the same company that developed both the Chamber of E-Commerce and popular Indian search engine ByIndia.com. It allows you to manage all your online news, broadcast, and content media with one revolutionary new Internet application. Pre-Beta YouGetIt.com registrants get gift credits for upgrading their listings on the site, a special badge on their profile indicating that they were part of the Web 2.1 revolution from the very start, and more exclusive rewards as the site matures.
YouGetIt.com is hyper-local, local and national -- allowing you to search based on zip-code and see what's happening in your community. It changes the expectations of social media, keeping people connected throughout the site, whether it's a video, photo album, blog, personal page, auction or more, for a new kind of social network. Everything is WAP enabled to allow you to get alerts on your mobile device or cell phone. Search for people businesses, events, news, sales, video, pictures, blogs, classifieds, and more, all taggable, commentable, and organized by zip code into local, regional and national distribution.
About Web2Corp:
Web2Corp (OTC BB:WBTO.OB - News) is one of the world's fastest growing new media Internet conglomerates with properties such as the Chamber of Commerce and YouGetIt.com. As a Web 2.0 Internet technology development firm it is dedicated to rapid creation and adaptation of technologies. Web2Corp addresses new markets of users by creating and simplifying useful products, reducing the level of user technical skills required, and lowering prices for consumers. Web 2.0 technologies have become increasingly popular, with the use of Web 2.0 applications such as e-commerce or blogs up more than 25% over the last year, according to comScore networks. The Web 2.0 market generates more than $20 billion dollars of revenue a year, with well-known companies like Google .com, Flickr.com, MySpace.com, eBay.com, and Blogger.com making up the majority of the income.
Contact:
Trevor Longino
Communications Director
Web2Corp
407.540.0452 (Office)
321.256.2939 (Direct)
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YouGetIt.com sets sights on underserved $39 Billion Advertising Market
The Next Big Thing on the Net to specialize in local Internet advertising, anticipates $125 million yearly revenue by end of 2008.
4/12/2007 Orlando, FL (April 12, 2007) It's a huge advertising market that is literally sitting in our backyards, underserved by industry giants like Google and Yahoo: the local advertising market. Local search results and Internet yellow pages are the predominant forms of local online advertising, and they are clearly underserving that market, which is projected to be $39 billion dollars in 2011 according to the Kelsey Group.
"Online yellow pages and local search results are the major players in local online advertising," says Andre Forde, President of Web2Corp (OTCBB: WBTO). "They provide consumers with a valuable service, but we're looking to change the status quo with YouGetIt.com. YouGetIt.com is the first product to create a complete local social media site for over 10,000 communities across America. We're creating a national network of local and hyperlocal "E"-conomies. This local network presents opportunities to the consumer that no other media outlet can.
"For example, imagine electronically publishing a coupon on a slow day to drive up business. It is pushed to thousands or tens of thousands of local YouGetIt users who have opted to receive alerts from your establishment. With YouGetIt.com, there is no waiting time between creating a coupon and your customers receiving it, so you can react quickly and inexpensively to events. This may not sound like much, but it represents a complete inversion in how marketers will function online. The base of the advertising pyramid is local. It's the starting point, now, and as advertisers learn more about their markets and consumers they can expand to the regional and national markets. Due to YouGetIt's local focus, though, they will still be able to target audiences just as effectively on a national level as they will at the local. It's not spamming people with ads, but rather serving them targeted ones. This is great for the consumer, who has a less intrusive advertising experience, and the advertiser who receives a higher ROI."
This is only one example of the innovation that YouGetIt is bringing to the local advertising market. With over 12 million businesses already in its databases, and a sales force of thousands of reps being recruited to hand-deliver the YouGetIt.com message nationwide, they expect to be able to capture a significant share of this $39 billion dollar market quickly as YouGetIt.com catches on with businesses and users alike. The Kelsey Group's study also mentions that local small and medium businesses are turning increasingly to targeted and innovative electronic media to deliver their message in a cost-effective manner, and YouGetIt certainly delivers on that front.
"If we only manage to capture a half of a percent of the online local advertising market," Forde continues, "by the end of 2008, we'll still be generating almost $25 million dollars in yearly revenue. As we are creating several new, disruptive market opportunities for local advertising, we expect to have at least five times that much revenue."
YouGetIt.com is unveiling at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, California, and will open to a limited public pre-beta shortly before the full launch on May 1, 2007.
For more information on YouGetIt.com, go to www.YouGetIt.com.
For more information on Web2Corp or for Web2Corp's Safe Harbor Act Disclaimer Notice, go to www.Web2Corp.com.
About Web2Corp Web2Corp [NASDAQ OTCBB: WBTO] is one of the world's fastest growing new media Internet conglomerates with properties such as the Chamber of Commerce and YouGetIt.com. As a Web 2.0 Internet technology development firm it is dedicated to rapid creation and adaptation of technologies. Web2Corp addresses new markets of users by creating and simplifying useful products, reducing the level of user technical skills required, and lowering prices for consumers. Web 2.0 technologies have become increasingly popular, with the use of Web 2.0 applications such as e-commerce or blogs up more than 25% over the last year, according to comScore networks. The Web 2.0 market generates more than $20 billion dollars of revenue a year, with well-known companies like Google .com, Flickr.com, MySpace.com, eBay.com, and Blogger.com making up the majority of the income.
Contact:
Trevor Longino
Communications Director, Web2Corp
407.540.0452 (Office)
321.256.2939 (Direct)
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Web2Corp WBTO Unveils YouGetIt.com Today at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco
4/12/2007
ORLANDO, FL--(MARKET WIRE)--Apr 16, 2007 -- William Mobley, CEO of Web2Corp (OTC BB:WBTO.OB - News), will be holding a press conference today at the Web 2.0 Expo in the Moscone Center in San Francisco to talk about his company's latest project, www.YouGetIt.com.
"YouGetIt.com is a new idea in social networking and local online business, one that is aimed at getting a portion of the $39 billion dollar local online advertising market," says Mobley. "We've created a new technology that makes in much easier for businesses to reach out to their local consumer base and engage them in a way that has previously been unthinkable. By generating a new online space for businesses and consumers to interact and network, we are looking to create a new 'E'-conomy. No one has created an extraordinarily successful local social media website -- this is why there's no one site that everyone associates with local social media like consumers associate eBay with auctions or Amazon with online book shopping. We think that YouGetIt is the local solution, and that people will soon think of us when talking about finding out community information online."
For more information or to see Web2Corp's Safe Harbor Act Disclaimer Notice, visit www.Web2Corp.com
About Web2Corp
Web2Corp (OTC BB:WBTO.OB - News) is one of the world's fastest growing new media Internet conglomerates with properties such as the Chamber of Commerce and YouGetIt.com. As a Web 2.0 Internet technology development firm, it is dedicated to rapid creation and adaptation of technologies. Web2Corp addresses new markets of users by creating and simplifying useful products, reducing the level of user technical skills required, and lowering prices for consumers. Web 2.0 technologies have become increasingly popular, with the use of Web 2.0 applications such as e-commerce or blogs up more than 25% over the last year, according to comScore networks. The Web 2.0 market generates more than $20 billion dollars of revenue a year, with well-known companies like Google.com, Flickr.com, MySpace.com, eBay.com, and Blogger.com making up the majority of the income.
Contact:
Trevor Longino
Communications Director
Web2Corp
407.540.0452 (Office)
321.256.2939 (Direct)
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YouGetIt.com - a Revolution in Social Media
Web2Corp WBTO and Nextelligence to launch Web 2.1 site YouGetIt.com
4/3/2007
Orlando, FL (April 3, 2007) – In 1991, Tim Berners-Lee implemented hypertext over a network for the first time, creating the Internet's first web page and starting the era that is now referred to as “Web 1.0”, the web as information. Those first web pages took years to develop into what we consider the real Web 1.0 pages, sites that presented users with a wealth of information, but no way to interact with it.
So, too, the web companies that created the concept of Web 2.0 and participated in the first web 2.0 conference in 2004 have represented the beginning steps in creating the Social Web. Users are looking for a more comprehensive Internet experience, now, and Web2Corp (OTCBB : WBTO) and Nextelligence have teamed up to create it. The next step in social media has finally arrived, and it is YouGetIt.com.
“Websites like flickr.com, YouTube.com, craigslist.com, Joost.com, and any other hot Web 2.0 property are all very limited,” says William Mobley, CEO of Web2Corp. “They're social media, yes, but they only deal with one aspect of media. flickr.com is a photo site, YouTube does video, and eBay is auctions and sales. You don't have convergence, you don't have synergy of content. Sites like Yahoo! Pipes are trying to provide users with that kind of seamless experience across the whole offering of social applications, but they haven't really been able to make it click yet. YouGetIt.com compiles every social application out there and more into one site that is media-rich and easily tagged, commented upon, linked, and cross-linked. It's all aggregated in one spot, with delivery and content determined by the user. It's a new type of aggregation: self-aggregation. We've moved beyond Web 2.0 and are launching Web 2.1. We're finally beginning to approach what Tim O'Reilly calls the “Semantic Web”. The Internet's about to be revolutionized, and we're starting by inviting media, major tech writers, and bloggers to come see what the next big things is.”
Web2Corp and Nextelligence, Inc. worked together to develop this ambitious project, over a year in development, and are preparing to invite media outlets to visit it starting on April 16, 2007.These selected outlets will be given a tour of the site while it is in final stages of beta and getting ready to launch, giving them a taste of what YouGetIt is going to be and how it is going to change the expectations of everyone on the ‘net.
YouGetIt.com offers Internet users a rich, dynamic experience that can be infinitely customized and is closely tied to mobile devices. Users are able to place any Internet RSS feed on their home page, just like Google's home page, but the site's functionality extends far beyond that. The ability to browse and search through people, businesses, events, news, sales, video, pictures, blogs, classifieds, and more, all taggable, commentable, and organized by zip code into local, regional and national distribution.
“YouGetIt.com is the social media supersite,” says Andre Forde, President of Web2Corp, “but it's more than just social media. It's local, hyperlocal, as local as the user wants. At any time, with any search or dialogue, the user can expand or restrict the area that YouGetIt uses to return results. This is the first website to tie such an aggressive local presence across the whole nation, and then also implement such rich support for mobile devices.
“Virtually every person, place or thing on the site can be used to create alerts that are sent to your phone through e-mail or SMS. If a user wants to get traffic alerts on her phone so that she knows what roads are least congested when she's going to and from work, or school, or the store, it's a simple process to do so. If a guy wants to follow a news story closely, he can get alerts to his phone when news breaks. YouGetIt.com has something for every Internet user, all of the time.”
About Web 2.0:
Coined by Tim O'Reilly to describe websites that were applications that involved the user's input and allowed anyone to publish content to the web instead of static informational pages, Web 2.0 sites such as YouTube.com, Last.fm, and eBay.com were instrumental in the renaissance that has brought Internet yearly revenues up to greater than 30 billion dollars. Its core principals of ease of use, clean design, user-centered approach, and accessibility make Web 2.0 sites very mobile device friendly and have helped usher in that new Internet market as well
About Nextelligence:
Nextelligence, Inc. is a US-based development, interim management and buyout firm specializing in the acquisition and operation of global mission-critical technology companies. Nextelligence expects to rank among the world's leading acquisition firms by becoming a complete, one-stop source for value added "revenue improvement" solutions.
About Web2Corp:
Web2Corp is a Web 2.0 Internet technology development firm dedicated to rapid creation and adaptation of technologies. Web2Corp addresses new markets of users by creating and simplifying useful products, reducing the level of user technical skills required, and lowering prices for consumers.
Web 2.0 technologies have become increasingly popular, with the use of Web 2.0 applications such as e-commerce or blogs up more than 25% over the last year, according to comScore networks. The Web 2.0 market generates more than 20 billion dollars of revenue a year, with well-known companies like Google.com, Flickr.com, MySpace.com, eBay.com, and Blogger.com making up the majority of the income.
For more information on Web2Corp or to see Web2Corp's Safe Harbor Act Disclaimer Notice, go to www.Web2Corp.com
Contact:
Trevor Longino
Communications Director, Web2Corp
407.540.0452 (Office)
321.256.2939 (Direct)
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YouGetIt.com Solves the YouTube Problem for Media Producers
Revolutionary New Social Network to Have Better Content Control, Easy Accessibility
3/23/2007 ORLANDO, FL -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 03/23/07 -- News Corp and NBC Universal have announced they are making their own YouTube-like site, stocked with only their own videos and movies. The content creators want to control the distribution and this is their latest attempt to make the consumer conform to their idea of how the business model should work. In the era of Web 2.0, Social Media, and Internet users who are used to getting their media how they want it and where they want it, getting this site to succeed is an uphill battle.
"They're going about it in an intelligent fashion," says William Mobley, CEO of Web2Corp (OTCBB: WBTO). "They're partnering with media distribution companies, Yahoo! AOL, and Microsoft, to drive traffic to their own media distribution channels. This is supposed to ensure that they'll get their audience. There's one problem, though: They're still going to fail. And YouTube will likely fail with them.
"There's one simple reason why: convenience. When you go home and watch your TV, you don't need a television for your home videos, a separate one for Disney and ABC programs, yet another one for NBC, and so on. You turn on the TV and it works. YouTube is currently king because it has the same simple functionality. You don't have to remember which media company produces the show that you want to see. You don't have to go to another site. You turn it on and it works.
"If you make it harder to find and view video clips, you're going to lose a sizable percentage of your watching audience. People won't bother going to YouTube or elsewhere. Everyone will lose out."
NBC, CBS Viacom and other video media production companies have tried to work with YouTube for their content distribution needs, but this latest announcement from NBC Universal and News Corp indicates that they've finally given up after months of effort. Their need to control content and advertising is clearly too strong.
"Someone needs to develop a content delivery platform that's provider-agnostic," Mobley continues, "but one that allows for better content and advertising control. A new YouTube that's designed with the consumer in mind but that also is more willing to work with media producers. YouGetIt.com is all that and more. We've improved on the video distribution model. In addition to all of the features that users expect, we've also added the ability to geotag videos, focus on local communities, a robust social network, and a payment system. We're true aggregation of media. Having sites like YouTube and NBC's future site aggregating media in different locations isn't aggregation; it's segregation. Media providers need to give users a place where they can pick all of their own content from wherever and get it whenever they want it. We call this self-aggregation, and it's the next step for the Internet. It's Web 2.1, and www.YouGetIt.com is already there, ahead of the pack."
About YouGetIt.com:
Using today's greatest web technology to bring tomorrow's Internet to you, YouGetIt.com is hyper-local, local, and national media like no one's ever seen it before. Take command of online news, broadcast, and content media with one revolutionary new Internet application. You want it. YouGetIt!
About Web2Corp:
Web2Corp is a Web 2.0 Internet technology development firm dedicated to rapid creation and adaptation of technologies. Web2Corp addresses new markets of users by creating and simplifying useful products, reducing the level of user technical skills required, and lowering prices for consumers.
Web 2.0 technologies have become increasingly popular, with the use of Web 2.0 applications such as e-commerce or blogs up more than 25% over the last year, according to comScore networks. The Web 2.0 market generates more than 20 billion dollars of revenue a year, with well-known companies like Google.com, Flickr.com, MySpace.com, eBay.com, and Blogger.com making up the majority of the income.
For more information on Web2Corp or to see Web2Corp's Safe Harbor Act Disclaimer Notice, go to www.Web2Corp.com
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Any press inquiries should be directed to:
Trevor Longino,
Communications Director
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