SpectrumDNA to Launch Game-Changing Location-Based Social Media Engine Called PlanetTagger
07 Mayo 2009 - 4:14PM
PR Newswire (US)
UCLA Anderson School's Entertainment and Media Management Institute
Will Be First To Premier Product as Knowledge Exchange Platform
PARK CITY, Utah, May 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SpectrumDNA (OTC
Bulletin Board: SPXA) has announced the creation of PlanetTagger,
the first rebrandable social media engine that marries online and
mobile location-based services with the context of a community to
create a highly relevant and rewarding experience for community
owners, users and advertisers. The product is a scalable, SaaS
(software-as-a-service) engine that can be white-labeled and
customized for any brand, website or media property. The purpose of
PlanetTagger is to combine the best of geo-positioning,
location-based services and mobile messaging and offer it to
organizations that are already spending the time and money to
engage a particular niche or "mega-niche" affinity group--from
Nascar enthusiasts, to business or adventure travelers, to college
communities or sports fans--in order to create a more powerful and
relevant community of people and events. UCLA's Anderson School of
Business Entertainment and Media Marketing Institute (EMMI) will
use PlanetTagger as a next-generation "knowledge exchange" for
stakeholders in the media and entertainment industries. The EMMI
community, yet to be named, will be structured around people,
places, events and media (including text, photos, graphics, videos,
etc.). The community, slated to launch in July of this year, will
also offer integrated third-party feeds like Twitter and Facebook.
"PlanetTagger is like a Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Google maps,
Meetup and the iPhone all rolled into one simplified application
that can be hyper-localized and branded," said Founder and CEO Jim
Banister, SpectrumDNA. "While the contexts of Facebook, Flickr and
Twitter are 'social networking', 'photo-sharing' and
'micro-blogging,' those are simply 'actions' without the context of
community. The context of PlanetTagger is provided by the hobby,
pastime or industry it partners with. For any affinity group,
PlanetTagger offers a platform that allows users to engage and
interact with each other in a deeply contextual fashion -- bringing
together all of the utility of traditional social media while
offering significantly less 'noise' and unwanted clutter for the
user-community." "With PlanetTagger, we're going to help media
professionals facilitate their first life instead of trying to get
them to build a second life online," said Nelson Gayton, Executive
Director of the Entertainment and Media Management Institute. "For
UCLA, PlanetTagger will create a vibrant, dynamic community of only
like-minded people who will be able to interact with each other in
a new and meaningful way. Essentially, we're going to map the
collective knowledge of the media and entertainment industries."
"EMMI is leap-frogging the classic 'web brochure' and contemporary
social networking approaches, by implementing
location-based-services technology as it applies specifically to
media and entertainment professionals," adds Mr. Banister.
PlanetTagger marks the second product release from SpectrumDNA, a
social media studio that creates Digital Network Applications and
engines of engagement (or "Enginets"). The company recently found
success with the wildly popular product, Addictionary, a SaaS
user-generated dictionary that lets people create their own words
and definitions. "The market opportunity for PlanetTagger is
endless," said Anthony Stonefield, CEO of eMotive Communications
and board member of SpectrumDNA. "PlanetTagger is such an agile
engine, allowing the content to be completely user generated, that
the branding, advertising and sponsorship opportunities will be
very attractive for someone to reach any enthusiast. If you are a
professor from UCLA, an organic gardener from upstate New York or
even an aspiring actor from London's West End, eventually there
will be a PlanetTagger community for you." About SpectrumDNA Based
in Park City, Utah, SpectrumDNA, Inc. is a digital studio that
creates social media applications that are engines of engagement
(or "enginets"), empowering users to take an active, measurable
role in their online communities. These private-label applications
can be easily configured and branded for media outlets and
advertisers to capture specific audience behaviors, and to develop
advertiser-safe user-generated and user-marketed content. Enginets
can be leveraged for both short-term promotions and for building
long-term assets, and employ both a centralized experience (online
or mobile web destination) and distributed experience (widgetry,
iPhone apps, feeds, etc). DATASOURCE: SpectrumDNA, Inc. CONTACT:
Lewis Goldberg, +1-212-896-1216, , or Anne Donohoe,
+1-212-896-1261, , both of KCSA Strategic Communications, for
SpectrumDNA, Inc. Web Site: http://www.spectrumdna.com/
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