eSnips MicroPortals Enables Even the Smallest Affinity Groups Around the World to Share & Sell Their Creations Online
eSnips, Ltd., the social sharing site, where like-minded members can share digital content, showcase their talents and interests, and sell their creations, today announced eSnips MicroPortals at CES in Las Vegas, social dynamic sites for affinity groups and online niche communities to share and sell their content.
eSnips MicroPortals provide a comprehensive, ever-changing, centralized view into all aspects of a community regardless of size or type. This includes the latest, most popular and favorite files and folders, access to new and favorite members, a forum to discuss community affairs, and community-only areas that list unique tags, news and activities. Any MicroPortal can be formed around a group of people who use the same tags (categories) to describe the content they publish.
Social sites revolutionized the way visitors would see what their online peers found to be the most interesting and valuable content on the site or on the net. While this is available for very broad areas of interest such as news, photos, or videos, eSnips new MicroPortals is unique in that it extends the compelling online social sharing capability to even the smallest and most esoteric affinity groups, such as DJs, ballet dancers, African poets, paranormal enthusiasts, spiritual communities, Persian cat lovers, video creators, karaokers, landscape artists, and more.
For example, the new DJ MicroPortal, includes the latest and most popular remixes, comments, new members, and favorite performers, and serves as a showcase for emerging talent. Some of the new eSnips MicroPortals include remix, paranormal, spirituality, poetry, photography, painting, gifts, crafts, and karaoke to name a few. The smallest of affinity groups can now have a voice and a community, including those who comprise only a couple of hundred of users, such as those who may share a passion for scrapbooking or country western singing. Also, the spirituality community showcases sermons and interpretations from faiths around the world.
You can visit http://www.esnips.com/community/remix to get a glimpse into the remix community, the Photography community can be found at http://www.esnips.com/community/photography, the Painting community at http://www.esnips.com/community/painting, spirituality at http://www.esnips.com/community/spirituality, poetry is at http://www.esnips.com/community/poetry, paranormal at http://www.esnips.com/community/paranormal and karaokers can be discovered at http://www.esnips.com/community/karaoke.
As the eSnips user base continues to explode (over a million registered users in eight months), more and more unique affinity groups with a myriad of diverse interests continue to rise to the surface. This growth demonstrates a need for a social sharing environment that leverages “specialty and niche” over more mainstream sites, such as MySpace, FaceBook, blogs and one file type sites such as flickr and YouTube.
“eSnips MicroPortals offer tens of thousands of small niche communities a place to not only share but sell their creations from one central location,” said Yael Elish, CEO of eSnips. “What is special and untapped about what MicroPortals provides, is the emphasis on even the smallest and most esoteric communities, who do not have a dedicated place to share and sell their content online. More and more niche communities are cropping up and being organically created as interests arise. eSnips allows users to create new MicroPortals (online micro-communities) on the fly, which will continue to amplify the voices of the smallest interest groups on the web.”
About eSnips, Ltd.
eSnips — http://www.esnips.com — is the social sharing site where like-minded members can share any digital content showcasing their talents, interests, and passions with whoever they choose from one centralized place. eSnips unique MicroPortals extends the compelling online social sharing capability to even the smallest and most esoteric niche communities, who have not had an online voice or presence on the web. Within these niche communities, users can share and sell their creations in the eSnips Marketplace. eSnips has been gaining more recognition as a key player in the social sharing space, particularly for its uniqueness in their ability to allow users to share any media type on one site. Unlike so many social media sharing sites, eSnips allows users to share every file type, not just photos, videos, audio, PDFs, or links. Users can create their own web space with personalized content that they can either share or keep private. The team behind eSnips includes Yael Elish, a seasoned veteran of several Internet start-ups and Nahum Sharfman, founder of Shopping.com and Commtouch. eSnips has received investments from Gemini Israel Funds and Greylock Ventures.