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Minekey Extends its Discussion Community on Leading Social Networks to its Website to Reach Broader Audience

 

SUNNYVALE, CA – Sep 8, 2008 – Minekey, the Leading Discussion Community on Facebook, today launched its destination website to extend its reach to a broader audience. Minekey’s discussion network now spans across its own website and the five leading social networks – Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Hi5 and Orkut.

 

To date, over 1.8 million users have participated in discussions on the Minekey network and have expressed over one million opinions, cast 40 million votes and written over seven million comments. Minekey is rated as the most addictive application on Facebook by many users and is among the top 100 social applications in activity and engagement. Minekey ranks among the top five applications in Politics, top 10 in Chat and top three applications with a high percentage of women users.

 

“Social networks are not very effective at connecting people outside their immediate social circles”, says Delip Andra Minekey’s Founder & CEO. “Minekey expands the social universe by helping users connect with people from all over the world through conversations”.

 

One great example of how Minekey makes this kind of social connection possible is the story of Samantha Sten, an ardent user from Sweden, and Antonis Konstantoudakis, another passionate user from Greece, who met on Minekey, and will soon get married. Antonis says “Minekey encourages discussion about a wide variety of subjects, while remaining surprisingly fun. Minekey makes the whole world closer, and much smaller. The experience has changed my life.” Says Samantha, “I’ve made more friends and intellectual companions in a few weeks of using Minekey than I had all the time I used Facebook without it. On Minekey, I met the love of my life, and so have many others.”

 

About Minekey, Inc

 

Minekey is the leading discussion network that connects real people through real conversations. People from all over the world hang out on Minekey and discuss stuff that matters to them such as relationships, social and political issues, religion, pop culture and more. Minekey’s proprietary technology provides recommendations on relevant topics, conversations and people with similar interests. Founded by Delip Andra in 2005 and funded by NEA IndoUS Ventures, Minekey is headquartered in Silicon Valley and has R&D offices at Delhi and IIT Kharagpur in India. For more information visit: www.minekey.com.

Next week, Minekey will be participating at TechCrunch50, the premiere event for launching new technology start-ups, and networking with the industry’s most influential VCs, entrepreneurs and media.

 

If you are attending the event, be sure to visit us at booth #19 in the exhibit hall. We will be running some exciting contests focusing on TC50 and the forthcoming launch of the Minekey website.

 

Sign-up now as a Preview user of the Minekey website!

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Minekey users tell the story about the application better than anyone. Read the following testimonials from passionate users of the Minekey app on Facebook:

 

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In this context we would also like to share a couple of presentations made by our CEO in early June that you may find interesting. The first is a brief story, and the second a detailed one on what users have to say about Minekey. To view the presentations in full screen mode, click the “view presentation” link beneath each, which will take you to the presentations at Slideshare.net. Once there, click on the “Full” link on bottom right corner of the presentations.

 

Join the iThink Contests on Friendster, and win $225!

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To win the following contests, you must outnumber competitors with votes on opinions, opinions added, and comments added.

** Most Opinions added **
• PRIZE: $75

** Most Comments added **
• PRIZE: $75

** Most Votes added **
• PRIZE: $75

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The contests end on July 24 – get started now entering as many opinions, comments and votes as you can. We will post regular updates here on who’s leading the contest, and will announce the winners on June 25.

Don’t forget to invite your friends!

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iThink is one of the most popular meeting places on Friendster, Facebook, hi5, MySpace, and Orkut. Join an iThink conversation on diverse topics ranging from politics to pop culture, relationships to religion, fashion to food and many others. Whether you are interested in finding out what people think, flirting, bantering, or leading a discussion on a subject that you are passionate about, iThink is the place for you.

Thank you so much to everyone who participated in the iThink contests on hi5 and Myspace.

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