Al Gore Is an Online Hit: New Community Trends Index Powered by Conduit Rates Him Most Popular Search among Green Earth Communities.Conduit Launches Community Trends Including More Top "Green" Search Terms -- Nuclear, Climate and Dolphins REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. -- Conduit, the leading platform for building online communities via community toolbars, today announced the first monthly results of its ground-breaking Community Trends index. Community Trends is available in full on Conduit's website at www.conduit.com/community/communitytrends/. Community Trends, like Google's Hot Trends, identifies what the public is thinking about. The main difference, however, is that Community Trends is based on communities--the largest and most active ones in the Conduit Network, grouped into categories called community verticals exclusively by Conduit. The Conduit Network consists of more than 12 million users who connect real-time with over 140,000 publishers via the Conduit community toolbar A row or column of on-screen buttons used to activate functions in the application. Many toolbars are customizable, letting you add and delete buttons as required. Toolbars may be fixed in position or may float, which means they can be dragged to a more convenient location in the solution, which comes equipped with a set of community functionalities (such as chat, 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. , radio and messages) as well as community search and Web search powered by Google. October Highlights the Green Earth Communities Each month, Conduit's Community Trends will highlight one of these energetic community verticals, such as this month's Green Earth communities. In September/October, news of Al Gore's 2007 Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. for his crusade to raise awareness about climate change drove Green Earth community searches for "Al Gore Noun 1. Al Gore - Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948) Albert Gore Jr., Gore " and "climate," among others. Additional top searches in this community vertical included "nuclear," "dolphins" and "globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation ." The chart below, a sampling of the full Community Trends index, shows the top five popular searches in several of the index's community verticals. Additional community verticals include Sports, Education, Web Games, Online Radio, Jobs and Shopping. If you would like to view the complete Community Trends results, with the top 10 searches in every category, please visit www.conduit.com/community/communitytrends/. Conduit has the unique ability to identify community trends, regardless of community size. In order to highlight small communities with interests that may be more off the beaten track, Community Trends will include a niche vertical each month. This month features the Club Penguin Club Penguin is an online game developed by New Horizon Interactive and later bought by Disney. The game is designed for children ages six to fourteen, though available to anyone. communities, built around the popular children's game. [TABLE OMITTED] "We're proud to have thousands of publishers who chose Conduit to extend their offering beyond their website and are now providing community toolbars to millions of users," said Ronen Shilo, chief executive officer of Conduit. "This valuable asset of a vast network of communities enabled us to launch the Community Trends index. We hope that people find it to be interesting and enjoyable, and a beneficial addition to the current knowledge base about online communities and their interests." Conduit's community toolbars are completely free and easy to build. Any site publisher or community organization can create a customized toolbar A toolbar that can be custom configured by the user. Buttons can be added and deleted as required. that helps increase user numbers, user engagement and revenue potential by fostering community loyalty and interaction. The branded community toolbar can be loaded with many of the most popular tools and gadgets on the Web today including instant news updates, RSS, widgets, games, multimedia, podcasts and more. All of this keeps users engaged with the website and with each other, creating an invaluable nexus of activity in which user numbers, user engagement and community interaction are amplified. To create a community toolbar for your website, visit: www.conduit.com. About the Conduit Network The Conduit Network consists of more than 12 million users who connect real-time with over 140,000 publishers via a community toolbar. Users surfing the Web are alerted of publishers in the Conduit Network, which facilitates brand awareness. Users can subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; publisher communities of choice with a single click, with no download and without sacrificing browser real estate. With the Conduit Network, publishers experience free exposure, achieving user acquisition in an unprecedented way. About Conduit Conduit is the leading platform for building online communities via community toolbars. Online publishers can use Conduit to quickly and easily create a free community toolbar to persistently connect with and engage their users via the browser. Consumers can use the myConduit toolbar to search and subscribe with one click to the hottest Web communities. Conduit delivers unprecedented community loyalty and site traffic for over 140,000 publishers, including major brands such as Major League Baseball "MLB" and "Major Leagues" redirect here. For other uses, see MLB (disambiguation) and Major Leagues (disambiguation). Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in North American professional baseball. , Fox Carolina TV, Greenpeace, RE/MAX RE/MAX Real Estate Maximums (Canada) , TechCrunch, Blogdigger and small and medium organizations in 220 countries around the globe. Conduit's innovative search monetization Monetization The securitization of the gross revenues of a contract. model allows the service to be completely free and without adware, malware (MALicious softWARE) Software designed to destroy, aggravate and otherwise make life unhappy. See crimeware, virus, worm, logic bomb, macro virus and Trojan. and spyware Software that sends information about your Web surfing habits to its Web site. Often quickly installed in your computer in combination with a free download you selected from the Web, spyware transmits information in the background as you move around the Web. . The company is privately-held with headquarters in Israel and Redwood Shores, CA. For more information about Conduit, visit www.conduit.com or email info@conduit.com. |
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