SodaHead Expands Social Newspaper Reach By Adding Key Networking Integrations

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Tue Jul 7, 2009 12:00pm EDT

LOS ANGELES, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- SodaHead.com, a leading opinion community
and social newspaper focused on discussing today's hottest news and events,
announced a new broadcast feature which allows users to ask a question and
immediately distribute it to their Twitter followers, Facebook friends and
Yahoo contact lists.
 
The SodaHead Twitter, Facebook and Yahoo Interface will provide users the
ability to simultaneously distribute questions and news articles to all their
online friends and followers.  Users simply login to their existing social
networking accounts through the SodaHead site and distribute their content via
selected networks.  SodaHead will aggregate the votes and comments from user's
networks and display them on SodaHead.  

"Since people are part of many networks on the Internet, we wanted to provide
an interface where our users can ask questions and share news articles
simultaneously to their Twitter followers, Facebook friends and Yahoo
contacts," said Michael Glazer, co-founder, SodaHead.  "By aggregating
people's opinions from multiple platforms, SodaHead continues as the leading
opinion site for questions, current news and events."

Since its launch in September 2007, SodaHead has attracted more than 1,300,000
members, 12 million comments, 8 million votes and was named one of the fastest
growing communities in 2008 according to a comScore study.  Through recent
media partnerships and site feature updates they have grown to become a social
newspaper where users interact by discussing hot news stories.   

About SodaHead.com:
SodaHead is the leading social newspaper with a community focused on
discussing today's hottest stories.  SodaHead is the place to discuss the news
and current events and see what people are saying about issues important to
you. People ask questions, answer questions and meet new people who share
similar views or passions.  Traditional news media sites lack any meaningful
communal activities, SodaHead fills that void by providing the features, tools
and measures to facilitate and moderate discussions to create a place where
everyone's opinion is welcome.  SodaHead has leveraged its question and answer
technology to create polls that individuals and businesses can utilize on
their sites.  Businesses use SodaHead's polls to add quality content to their
pages, gain participation from its users and augment stories to solicit
readers' opinions. Some of the leading news publishers in the world have
adopted the SodaHead polling technology. Everyone with something to say should
use SodaHead. 

    Contact:
    Debby Chen/Stacy Schlicht
    Rogers & Cowan
    310-854-8168 / 310-854-8226
    dchen@rogersandcowan.com
    sschlicht@rogersandcowan.com





SOURCE  SodaHead.com

Debby Chen, +1-310-854-8168, dchen@rogersandcowan.com, or Stacy Schlicht,
+1-310-854-8226, sschlicht@rogersandcowan.com, both of Rogers & Cowan, for
SodaHead.com
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