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Prospero Technologies' Online Community Solutions Gain Wide Acceptance Among Leading Destination Web Sites

Posted on: Tuesday, 28 November 2006, 09:00 CST

LITTLETON, Mass., Nov. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Prospero Technologies, LLC (http://www.prospero.com/), the leading provider of community content management solutions, today announced strong customer momentum across leading media sites. During the third quarter of 2006, Prospero significantly expanded its customer base and created innovative online community services for leading destination web sites including MSN, BabyCenter, LLC, Fox Movies, and Network Communications. These projects underscore Prospero's continued market leadership in developing online community solutions for organizations that require a scalable, branded platform and desire the ability to easily integrate and distribute this content anywhere on their web site.

"To accommodate the growing demand from the world's top media and entertainment sites, we've doubled our staff and made significant investments in the expansion of our hosting infrastructure. We're now serving more than 20 million pageviews a day," said Rusty Williams, Prospero's co-founder. "Our focus on customizable applications designed to leverage user generated content has fueled this growth. Our most popular applications continue to be message boards and chat, but we're seeing a dramatic increase in interest in social networking, blogs, personal journals, and services delivered through our Active Content API."

Organizations are turning to Prospero Technologies to efficiently create, customize and dynamically integrate User Generated Content from various community applications while maintaining editorial control over the content. New customer projects include:

* MSN: MSN became the first service ever to enable fans to manage a real- world baseball team. MSN's "Fan Club: Reality Baseball" Web site (http://fanclub.msn.com/), ushered fantasy baseball into the digital age with rich and compelling, always-accessible content and interactivity which put the MSN audience at the center of a unique entertainment experience tied to the fortunes of a real-life minor league team, the Schaumburg Flyers. Prospero provided an API that was able to create a unique polling platform to support the site's interactivity with users. * BabyCenter(R) - BabyCenter(R) (http://www.babycenter.com/), the leading online resource for new and expectant parents, turned to Prospero to power its online community infrastructure. Currently, Prospero provides the community applications for BabyCenter(R) in the United States, United Kingdom and Germany. * Fox Movies' XMen3 site: In order to help to create pre-release interest in the movie: XMen3: The Last Stand, Fox Movies turned to Prospero to power user generated content portions of its website, including polling and message boards. Specifically, Prospero provided the infrastructure and integrated with the Flash-based interface that allowed site visitors to select which of the movie characters would be cured of their mutant powers. * Network Communications: Network Communications, the leading publisher of targeted local media serving the real estate and home design markets, chose Prospero to build an online community for its national network of Home and Design and Home Improvement magazines, which includes the websites AtlantaHandL.com, MetroDCHomeImprovement.com, HomeImproveMag.com and HomeImprovementLongBeach.com

"Prospero's platform provides flexibility and strength to support BabyCenter's large and expanding community," said Jennifer Grasso, Senior Product Manager, BabyCenter(R). "Prospero also offers a range of features that will allow us to continue to grow while offering our members a unique, interactive, and personalized community experience."

About Prospero Technologies - Integrating Content and Community

Founded in 2000, Prospero Technologies is the leading provider of community content management solutions for the online publishing industry. Designed to support extreme peaks in traffic, Prospero's community solutions enable organizations to easily, quickly and cost effectively develop custom- branded applications such as blogs, chats, and message boards to online consumers and manage these using a single, intuitive platform. With its flagship CommunityCM(R) Platform and community applications, Prospero offers the industry's first complete solution for real-time, online community content delivery. Prospero's clients include Fortune 500 media, entertainment companies and internet publishers such as iVillage, About.com, BusinessWeek, Fox, CBS.com, Meredith Interactive, Delphi Forums, NASCAR, MLB.com, Amazon, and Tribune Interactive. For additional information, visit http://www.prospero.com/ or contact the company at 978.698.6542.

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Prospero Technologies, LLC

CONTACT: Dana Harris, Red Javelin Communications, +1-978-440-8392,dana@redjavelin.com

Web site: http://www.prospero.com/

Source: PRNewswire

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