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Adobe Chooses Famster As #1 Website of the Day; Famster Rises to Top of Industry within Two Weeks of Launching.


LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850.  -- Famster, a subsidiary of Ivenue.com and the industry's leading private social networking site A Web site that provides a virtual community for people interested in a particular subject or just to "hang out" together. Members create their own online "profile" with biographical data, pictures, likes, dislikes and any other information they choose to post. , today announced, Adobe has chosen Famster as the Adobe site of the day within the first 48 hrs of its public launch. Adobe recognizes projects based on strong visual design, technical execution, usability, interesting and/or timely content, as well as overall innovative use of Adobe products. In addition, since launching, over 20,000 users have built individual sites on Famster and 100,000 unique users have visited the famster.com website.

Famster, which is built completely in flash is fully functional in almost any browser. The Flash Platform delivers the most effective experiences for rich content applications, and communications across browsers, operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , and devices. These content rich experiences and features include 1GB of filing cabinet storage, 1GB of encoded video storage, Famstermail email accounts email account email ncompte m (e-)mail  with 1GB of storage, unlimited photo uploads, an online scrapbook A Macintosh disk file that holds frequently used text and graphics objects, such as a company letterhead. Contrast with "clipboard," which is reserved memory that holds data only for the current session.  , a blog, a simple RSS (Really Simple Syndication) A syndication format that was developed by Netscape in 1999 and became very popular for aggregating updates to blogs and the news sites. RSS has also stood for "Rich Site Summary" and "RDF Site Summary.  reader, calendars, to-do lists, an address book with Yahoo! Maps Yahoo! Maps is a free online mapping portal provided by Yahoo!. News
  • On May 16, 2007, Yahoo! released a new map style designed by the cartography company Cartifact.
 integration, a recipe section with 23,000 pre-loaded recipes and places to store other family oriented content. Famster also includes a "Character Studio", an animated visual component where you can create and customize characters for your family and choose a background setting.

"We are excited that the online community has embraced Famster as the only safe private social networking site. We have seen the number visitors and new Websites built grow at an unprecedented rate every day since we launched," said Kristin Criss, President of Famster. "Famster is looking forward to growing and offering more value-rich features and tools for users in the upcoming months."

While Famster is quickly populating the internet as a safer and more secure alternative to MySpace, other popular ranking sites have picked them up and listed their notoriety and popularity. Most recently, Famster has been noted as coolpick.com's site of the day, featured on the front page of Digg.com twice in the first 48 hours of launch, posted on Yahoo.com's "New and Notable" sites list, and blogged by some of the more popular and respected Tech blogs like Techcrunch, Mashable, CNN CNN
 or Cable News Network

Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world.
 and many others.

About Famster:

Famster is the industry's leading private social network. Famster is exclusively committed to providing the safest and most secure internet environment for friends and families by allowing them to build their own private websites. Our integrated and multidimensional mul·ti·di·men·sion·al  
adj.
Of, relating to, or having several dimensions.



multi·di·men
 platform is built around dual layered password protection and read/write privacy for reach component of the site. Famster offers the only fun, secure family-oriented online community that lets you organize lists and calendars, share photos and videos and stay in touch with other family members in an unprecedented secure environment. Famster is headquartered in Nevada with offices in Los Angeles and can be reached at http://www.famster.com or 1-877-326-7837.
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