Yub.com Rewards Best Yubbers with iPods; Innovative Social E-Commerce Site Rewards People for Sharing Product Advice.ALISO VIEJO, Calif. -- Yub.com, the pioneering online network that merges social networking See social networking site. social networking - social network and e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. , today announced the winner of Yub's first Meet-Hang-Shop weekly contest, a contest designed to reward Yub's most active users with a sample of the rewards they can earn by using Yub.com to meet people, hang out, and save money when they shop. "The Meet-Hang-Shop contest was a great incentive for me to take expanded action in what I already thought was an innovative site," said Tommaso, 32 years old, winner of the HP iPod A family of extremely popular digital media players from Apple, introduced in 2001 for the Mac and 2002 for Windows. iPods are noted for their well-designed, simple user interfaces that employ either a click wheel or touch screen (see click wheel and iPod touch). 40GB inaugural contest. "Yub.com is highly addictive ad·dic·tive adj. 1. Causing or tending to cause addiction. 2. Characterized by or susceptible to addiction. addictive ( . Once you get started, you realize its potential for networking both in a social and/or and/or conj. Used to indicate that either or both of the items connected by it are involved. Usage Note: And/or is widely used in legal and business writing. professional context. I've I've Contraction of I have. I've I have I've have given business advice to fellow Yubbers and even made some friendly introductions within my network. Not only is the site fun socially, you have an opportunity to save and make money, too!" Tommaso won the contest by earning the most Yub points during the first contest period, which ran from February 28th to March 7th. The program offers an HP iPod as a challenge to registered users to do three things related to meeting, hanging out, and shopping. First, users can earn contest points for greeting Greeting is a way for humans[1] to intentionally communicate awareness of each other's presence, to show attention to, and/or to affirm or suggest a type of relationship or social status between individuals or groups of people coming in contact with and befriending members who are new to the service. Secondly, users can earn contest points for hanging out on the site and writing product reviews. Thirdly, they can earn contest points for using the site to shop and save money. In the coming weeks, there will be more winners and a variety of exciting contest prizes from partners within the YubMall. About Yub Yub.com is an online mall and social network that connects peers with similar tastes. It offers a meeting place for members to interact with friends, discuss trends and product passions, and provides a virtual mall experience where friends can shop for more than 2.7 million products from leading online retailers. Yub.com offers an innovative approach to sharing insights that enables members to discover the latest trends from the best source -- their trusted friends -- while collecting rewards and discounts for their opinions. Yub.com was launched in February 2005, and is owned by Buy.com, based in Aliso Viejo, CA. For more information, please visit www.yub.com. |
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