WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Oct. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Quepasa Corporation
(Pink Sheets: QPSA), one of the world's fastest-growing Latino social
networks, today announced the launch of its Developer Interface and Open
Social Sandbox. The launch of the Developer Interface is part of Quepasa's
overall strategy to open the site to third party Open Social developers who
would like to develop applications for its global audience. The Company
believes that this new Developer Interface and Open Social Sandbox will become
an easy mechanism for developers to test and submit their applications for
inclusion in the site's Application and/or Games sections and thus enhance the
overall user experience and drive site traffic and monetization.
The Developer Interface consists of a toolbox that developers use when
submitting an Open Social application for inclusion on any social site. The
toolbox includes documentation of the interfaces available, a news area, a
community built for the developers where they can communicate and interact
with other application developers as well as with Quepasa's development team,
and the Open Social Sandbox where they can test completed applications with
valid test data. The Open Social Sandbox also includes details of how to
include Quepasa's new virtual currency, QDollars, as the payment mechanism for
premium applications and virtual goods.
"Having an open platform that allows access to Quepasa members through the
Open Social framework is imperative to the growth of rich functionality for
Quepasa.com and its growing user base," said Louis Bardov, CTO of Quepasa.
"The activity on Quepasa.com is based on user interaction and our users like
to play social games with other members on the site, especially when there are
possible rewards in the form of contests and virtual currency. While these
contests have been very popular on the site, we are now going to invite and
encourage Open Social application developers to build interesting and fun
applications for the Quepasa community and we hope and anticipate that these
developers will make the minimal modifications required to get adoption of
their applications from our rapidly growing user base on Quepasa.com."
Quepasa's release of the Developer Interface and the Open Social Sandbox is
the latest news in Quepasa's growing success story. Since its launch as a
social network focused on the growing Latino population just over 16 months
ago, Quepasa has seen its user base grow to over 5 million registered users.
This number continues to grow at an impressive pace because of Quepasa's
differentiated strategy of premium Latino content and entertainment. To date,
this growth has been achieved solely through the viral acquisition, powered by
Quepasa's user base.
About Quepasa Corporation
Quepasa Corporation (Pink Sheets: QPSA), headquartered in West Palm Beach, FL
with offices in Los Angeles, CA; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Scottsdale, AZ; Miami, FL;
and Hermosillo, MX, owns Quepasa.com (www.Quepasa.com), one of the world's
largest, trilingual, Latino social networks. Quepasa.com is an authentic
Latino community that provides fun, interactive, and easy to use social tools,
and rich multimedia content in English, Spanish and Portuguese to embrace
Latinos everywhere, and empower them to connect online, compete in contests
and games and share their interests, ideas, and activities.
Contact:
Mike Matte, Chief Financial Officer
Quepasa Corporation
(561) 491-4186
SOURCE Quepasa Corporation
Mike Matte, Chief Financial Officer of Quepasa Corporation, +1-561-491-4186
