Pensacola, FL 1/28/2010 8:00:00 PM
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TinBu Announces Enhancements To Their Interactive Global Weather Channel With Additional Features

Severe weather alerts, hurricane tracking, tide reports, and additional interactive features will be added to TinBu's interactive weather channel which is available in English, Spanish, French, and German.

TinBu, a leading provider of interactive content to 1000's of Web publishers around the world, is pleased to announce they are adding enhanced features to their global weather product.  TinBu uses their patent-pending technology, in partnership with Custom Weather, to produce an interactive global weather channel that is used by hundreds of Web publishers around the world.

 

TinBu's interactive Weather Channel is available in English, Spanish, German, and French and can be integrated into any Web site or network of Web sites easily. A preview of the current TinBu Weather Channel can be previewed at this link http://www.tinbu.com/tinbu_web/ctxt/weather.php .

 

Features included in the current TinBu Weather Channel include:

 

·  Global coverage searchable by city name or postal code.

·  Available in English, Spanish, German, French.

·  Available in Celsius or Fahrenheit on demand.

·  True 48-hour forecasts broken down by hour.

·  Daily commute forecast for morning and evening drive times.

·  EPA air quality index reports for 200 major cities in North America.

·  Moving maps, including Doppler radar, satellite images, temperature, wind, and precipitation.

·  Built in local time clock for any searched location globally.

·  Global highs and lows for temperature, wind, and precipitation updated hourly.

·  Historical climate reports for any location in the world.

·  Customizable icon sets for each site visitor.

·  Customizable weather locations stored for each site visitor ( up to 20 locations).

 

"Our current weather channel is in use on hundreds of Web sites around the world. We designed it, in partnership with Custom Weather, to provide reliable and customized global weather results that online consumers would find useful in their day-to-day lives. We feel the enhanced features we are adding to the Weather Channel will make it more useful to online audiences, and more valuable to our online publishing partners," said John Brier, TinBu's CEO.

 

In addition to creating a more dynamic and interactive appearance for the Weather Channel, TinBu is adding the additional features to the channel:

 

·  Severe weather alerts that can be delivered on demand for specified locations.

·  Global hurricane tracking.

·  Tide charts.

 

TinBu expects to launch the new version of their interactive Weather Channel near the end of February, 2010.  Publishers currently using TinBu's interactive Weather Channel will automatically receive the enhanced version once it is released. 

 

TinBu's interactive content channels are designed to drive measurable increases in page views, user satisfaction, repeat site traffic, and revenues for online publishers. TinBu currently drives tens of millions of monthly page views for their publishing partners, and makes their content channels available free of charge with built in revenue generation, or advertising free on a licensing fee basis. For more information regarding TinBu's interactive Weather Channel, or any of their 20+ additional content channels available to Web publishers, visit them online at www.TinBu.com .

 

About TinBu uses patent-pending technology to provide over 20 different interactive content channels to leading online and wireless companies worldwide. TinBu`s clients include AOL, AOL Latino, AOL Canada, AOL Mexico, A.P. Wire, Accuweather, Telemundo, MSN, MSN Espanol, MSNBC, USA TODAY, ATT, Gannett, Media General, Inergize Digital, Washington Post, Univision, CBS Television, ABC Television, Fox Television, CBS Radio, Boston Herald, Boston Globe, Tribune, Toronto Star, CBC New Media, My Red Fish, Local Solutions Networks, Motricity, uClick, St. Louis Post Dispatch, New York Daily News, New York Post, DirecTV, Univision, Terra Networks, Yahoo!, People PC, and many others.