CrowdGather Invited to Present at Rodman & Renshaw Conference
CrowdGather is honored to announce that Chairman and CEO Sanjay Sabnani, will present to investors at the 2010 Rodman & Renshaw Annual Global Investment Conference in the Technology Track to be held September 12-15, 2010 at the New York Palace Hotel in New York City. The company’s presentation will be on September 13th at 4:05pm ET in the Rutherford Salon.
Additional information about the Rodman & Renshaw Annual Global Investment Conference can be found at: http://www.rodm.com/conferences.
Adding Lefora to the CrowdGather Network
The Technical
Today we announced signing a definitive agreement to acquire the technical assets from Lefora, to consolidate CrowdGather’s market leadership in the hosted forum market. The CrowdGather network combined with Lefora’s hosted forum properties will offer a search engine and social media-friendly network of forum communities that serves over 90 million monthly pageviews. The acquisition is an all-stock transaction, with key employees of Lefora working with CrowdGather’s team for the technical integration.
Why Lefora?
Lefora is to forums what WordPress or Blogger is to blogs. It allows users who are not tech savvy the opportunity to easily start their own customizable forum community. Lefora also supports new media capabilities not found in many free forum solutions, such as the ability to embed YouTube videos. In addition it has a feature where it will show the most actively discussed topics or the most recently posted topics on the font page.
By making the creation of forums more accessible and by integrating feature sets that make forums more relevant, Lefora has become a large and steadily growing company. As of today Lefora boasts over 100,000 communities.
About Lefora
Lefora was founded by a core team of Internet and games pioneers who got fed up with the lack of features available in online forums. Lefora’s mission is to transform one of the largest and most active parts of the Internet, forums, by letting anybody create their own forum in under a minute. Lefora is a privately-held company based in San Francisco, CA, founded in 2008.
PubCon Las Vegas 2010
Sanjay Sabnani, Chairman and CEO of Crowdgather was invited this year to speak at PubCon 2010 in Las Vegas.
About PubCon
When it comes to creating marketing buzz online, webmasters pretty much invented the concept. PubCon is four days of leading edge education and networking in over 90 sessions featuring 200 expert speakers in Social Media, Affiliate Programs, Search, and SEO/SEM. In its 8th year, PubCon was founded out of the rich and diverse base of WebmasterWorld forums. These aren’t people who just talk about this stuff - these are people who do this stuff.
The A-List alpha attendees to PubCon are among the most highly pursued demographic in the online marketing world. Highly educated and computer savvy, they’re early adopters of the latest Web technologies and trends. These are the folks that any forward thinking company wants to reach and network with.
It’s a Matter of Time
I recently read an article in SFWeekly describing how message and image boards have begun to gain traction as engines for marketers.
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And it’s a short matter of time before legitimate brands seeking to widen their audience and target the web savvy viewers of sites like Daily Booth, Chatroulette and 4Chan court these platforms as well. |
Memes are by their very nature mass market concepts. It stands to reason that targeting the sites where these memes are founded could have a profound influence on target demographics.
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Internet content is possible, namely because user-generated sites appeal to the ever-desirable youth market |
Message Board Owner On TED
The founder of 4chan, a controversial, uncensored online message board, describes its subculture, some of the Internet "memes" it has launched, and the incident in which its users managed a very public, precision hack of a mainstream media website. The talk raises questions about the power — and price — of anonymity.
About Christopher "moot" Poole
Christopher "moot" Poole is founder of 4chan, an online imageboard whose anonymous denizens have spawned the web’s most bewildering — and influential — subculture.
Celebrating Two Years!
CrowdGather’s two year anniversary is today, and we have a lot celebrate.
Forums were an unlikely candidate for a company’s focus. They are so often overlooked that we’ve dubbed them the "F" word of social networking. Even so, forums are the place where trends are set, where memes get rolling, where reviews and opinions are formed, where we find answers to the most esoteric questions that are bouncing around in our heads, and where we making lasting connections.
In the last two years, we have seen our numbers expand from 9 million page views monthly to over 80 million. We celebrate that growth. But mostly we want to celebrate the crowd. To celebrate all the unique personalities that make up the CrowdGather network. We want to celebrate the diversity of relationships that are formed in our forums.
Here’s to more connections, deeper relationships and to stimulating conversations. Salút!
Read about FreeForums.org on Cincinnati.com
We recently acquired, Freeforums.org a site started by Phil Santoro when he was only a junior in high school! The acquisition was highlighted today in the site Cincinnati.com. We invite you to read more at: http://news.cincinnati.com/article/2…/BIZ01/3280374
Mixergy Interviews Sanjay
CrowdGather’s CEO and founder, Sanjay Sabnani was recently featured on a leading technology blog - Mixergy. The coverage comes as part of the recent growing awareness of the Company’s social media business model focused exclusively on forum community sites.
Click here to watch the video interview.
"CrowdGather’s stock heats up" A profile at Trendslate.com
Crowdgather CEO, Sanjay Sabnani, was honored to be interviewed today at Trendslate.com. TrendSlate covers technology, business, and venture capital in Southern California.
The piece, CrowdGather’s stock heats up; CEO reveals VC is not the only way for startups to raise capital, focused on Crowdgather growth in the last year, our history and the strategy of going public.
Trendslate has displayed increasing interest in the forum space following the launch of Gravity.com into private beta by ex-Myspace executive Amit Kapur. There has been increasing buzz about forum-based companies and we were glad to share some the exciting news from Crowdgather.
An interesting highlight from article was the fact that Crowdgather’s stock "hit $2.00 today on over a million shares of volume. This is compared to $0.70 in May of last year when we raised our last financing. At that time our average volume was less than 10,000 shares per day."
Guest Post at Trendslate.com
Sanjay Sabnani, CEO of Crowdgather wrote a guest piece today for Trendslate.com. We invite you to check it out and to weigh in on your tablet opinions at PadComputerForums
The Emperor has no clothes: Will iPad’s non-technology woes delay launch?
Last week, Steve Jobs’ iPad launch highlighted perhaps the greatest manifestation of the company’s legendary reality-distortion field that we have seen to date. Apple and Steve went into the iPad launch with a negative trifecta of no domain name, no issued trademark, and no FCC approval. Despite these deficiencies we all saw the Emperor resplendent in a decadent outfit projected from the incandescent glow of a 10 inch tablet.
