PENSACOLA, FL, July 10, 2008 -- Tinbu, a leading provider of interactive content in the areas of lottery, weather, horoscope, U.S. fuel prices, recipes, flight tracking, stocks, and more, has been selected by AmericanTowns.com, the leader in collecting and organizing community information for local residents, to provide interactive content to their community Web sites. Web search capabilities, provided by Lycos, along with revenue generating contextual and display advertising will be integrated into the interactive data modules.
Last week, AmericanTowns launched Tinbu’s interactive U.S. gas pricing module and plans to add more content channels to its community-based sites in the near future. The interactive gas pricing module allows consumers from all over the nation to check the lowest gas prices available in their local area, at AmericanTowns.com (see an example at: http://www.americantowns.com/fl/pensacola-gas-prices).
"We are extremely pleased to begin working with AmericanTowns.com, one of the most exciting sites in the hyperlocal space, and are thrilled that they have selected Tinbu to provide their site with our best of breed interactive content and integrated revenue generating features," said Jim Schonewolf, Tinbu's VP of North American Media Sales.
“AmericanTowns is all about providing people with local information that benefits their daily lives,” said Jim Maglione, co-president of Community at AmericanTowns. “With gas prices at historic highs, we’re pleased to add Tinbu’s competitive gas prices to the unique and extensive community information that people can find and share at AmericanTowns.com.”
Tinbu's patent-pending technology is designed to enable seamless integration of interactive data modules and content into media Web sites -- thereby providing Web visitors with real-time information on a variety of topics of their choosing, from horoscopes and lottery results to local U.S. gas pump prices and weather forecasts anywhere globally. The interactive components of
Tinbu's technology are used to drive multiple millions of engaging page views every month, along with increased site visitor satisfaction and length of visits, as well as revenue generation for leading online media groups.
Tinbu develops and markets interactive data modules using their patent-pending technology. The interactive content modules allow online media web sites to generate additional site traffic, page views, and advertising revenues, while offering their online audience best of breed turn key content. Tinbu's interactive data modules are driving multiple millions of page views for their
media partners each and every month.
"Tinbu has formed strategic partnerships with leading search, display, and contextual advertising groups around the world. We believe that our relationship with Americantowns.com will provide their users with world-class local content and offer AmericanTowns additional immediate revenue generation," added Schonewolf.
“AmericanTowns is seeing strong growth in its traffic, ad revenue and engagement with community groups and organizations and this is in large part being driven by the richness and variety of our hyperlocal content, including our relationships with leading alliance partners, like Tinbu,” said Ted Buerger, chairman at AmericanTowns.
To learn more about the interactive data products offered by Tinbu visit their corporate web site at http://www.tinbu.com.
About Tinbu, LLC
Tinbu, LLC, and their wholly owned subsidiaries Gaming Solutions International, LLC, and CyberIntegrations, LLC, use patent pending technology to provide interactive data products to leading online and wireless companies worldwide. Tinbu's clients include AOL, AOL Latino, AOL Canada, Telemundo, MSN, MSN Espanol, MSNBC, USA TODAY, Bell South, ATT, Media General, Clear Channel Television, CBS Television, ABC Television, Fox Television, CBS Radio, Boston Herald, Tribune, Toronto Star, CBC New Media, Fox Interactive Media, My Red Fish, Local Solutions Networks, Motricity, uClick, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Hello
Metro, The Boston Globe, The New York Daily News, Terra Networks, Univsion, Ask.com, Yahoo!, Rogers Communications, and many others.
About Lycos, Inc.
Lycos, Inc. operates search and technology web sites that foster online communities, including the new Lycos Cinema community, bringing people together one flick at a time. Other Lycos products and sites include Lycos.com, Hotbot.com, Tripod.com, Angelfire.com, Gamesville.com, Lycos Mail, Webon, WhoWhere.com and The Lycos 50. Lycos, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Daum Communications Corp., a leading Internet portal and e-commerce destination in Korea with a growing presence throughout the Asian markets. Lycos was acquired by Korean Daum Communications Corp. in October 2004 and has its U.S. headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts. Daum Communications Corp. is traded on the KOSDAQ: 035720, http://tinbu.com/script/news_item/www.daum.net.
About AmericanTowns.com
AmericanTowns is the leader in collecting and organizing community information for local residents, empowering them to find and share the best local information for their town. For every town in America, AmericanTowns has created a “community webspace” that brings together the nation's most extensive online database of community events, community groups, news, maps, local insights, videos, local resources and special tools for organizations. Local residents can add to, comment on, or otherwise edit this content. Dedicated to connecting citizens, community organizations and locally-focused businesses, AmericanTowns has featured more than 10 million community events in the last 12 months, and offers powerful tools to help more than 120,000 listed community organizations interact more effectively with local citizens. The fastest growing site in the “hyper-local” space, AmericanTowns.com is headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut. Visit www.AmericanTowns.com.
