Small World Labs Partners with Limelight Networks to Offer Complete Video Delivery Solution for Online Communities
14 Agosto 2007 - 1:00PM
PR Newswire (US)
Leading Provider of Social Networking Software Leverages
Limelight's Global Content Delivery Network to Optimize Customer
Experience TEMPE, Ariz., Aug. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Limelight Networks (NASDAQ:LLNW), a leading content delivery
network (CDN) for digital media, today announced that it has
partnered with Small World Labs Inc., a leading provider of online
social networking software for corporations, organizations and
associations. By employing Limelight's global CDN solution, Small
World Labs' clients can take advantage of high-end video
capabilities within their social and professional networks to
create more compelling and reliable online communities. "With
Limelight's CDN on board at Small World Labs, our customers now
have access to an extensive infrastructure for the rapid delivery
of user-generated video," said Michael Wilson, co-founder and CEO
of Small World Labs, based in Austin, Texas. "We're excited to
partner with Limelight on a rich media solution that's sure to
enhance the end-user experience on our customers' social and
professional networks." A recognized leader in the social
networking space, Small World Labs has developed a robust and
customizable software platform targeted to businesses and other
organizations that seek to establish or expand an online community.
The company's offerings are designed to help customers connect
people and resources through features such as contacts, forums,
e-mail, profile-based participation, ratings and reviews, knowledge
sharing, user generated video, broadcast video, podcasting and
photo galleries. A rapidly growing and diverse portfolio of
customers worldwide such as Oracle, The American Cancer Society,
Special Olympics and The Dallas Morning news have employed Small
World Labs' solutions to bring the benefits of social networking in
a number of applications, such as internal company networks,
customer communities, alumni networks and association member
networks. At The Dallas Morning News, the Small World Labs platform
is the foundation for a cutting edge, citizen journalism site,
NeighborsGo.com, an online community focused on the various Dallas
metropolitan area neighborhoods. Small World Labs enables users to
post material to the site, such as photos, and video, as well as
keep blogs, contribute to news stories, and communicate with other
users who have similar interests. "Small World Labs has been more
than just a vendor to us on our project, they've been a partner.
Video is an integral part of our users' experience on
NeighborsGo.com and this upgrade is just what we were looking for,"
said Fran Wills, senior vice president of The Dallas Morning News
Interactive. "As social networks become pervasive and an integral
part of the online community, Small World Labs is staying at the
forefront of this trend by leveraging a global, massively scalable
CDN platform that is uniquely optimized to deliver user generated
content and rich media," said David Hatfield, senior vice president
of worldwide sales and marketing at Limelight Networks. "The
combination of Small World Labs' capabilities with Limelight's
services enables customers to have an end to end solution that can
quickly and easily capture the value social media can add to their
business or organization." About Small World Labs Small World Labs
provides social networking software and professional networking
software to organizations looking to create online communities that
are pertinent and targeted to their specific needs. Using best
practices and a secure architecture, Small World Labs has developed
a web-based software platform that enables corporations,
publishers, associations, non-profits and other organizations to
provide their own branded online communities. The company is
headquartered in Austin, Texas, and currently counts more than 75
organizations and companies from across the U.S. and abroad as
customers, including Oracle, CMP Information, The Dallas Morning
News, Save the Children, Special Olympics, and the American Cancer
Society. For more information, call (512) 474-6400 or visit
http://www.smallworldlabs.com/. About Limelight Networks Limelight
Networks is a high-performance content delivery network for digital
media, providing massively scalable, global delivery solutions for
on- demand and live Internet distribution of video, music, games
and social media. Limelight Networks' infrastructure is optimized
for the large object sizes, large content libraries, and large
audiences associated with compelling rich media content. Limelight
is the content delivery network of choice for more than 850 of the
world's top media companies, including Akimbo, Amazon Unbox(TM),
Belo Interactive, Brightcove, "BuyMusic" @ Buy.com, DreamWorks,
LLC, Facebook, FOXNews.com, IFILM, ITV Play, Metacafe, MSNBC.com,
MySpace, NC Interactive, Valve Software, Radio Free Virgin and Xbox
Live. For more information, visit http://www.llnw.com/. DATASOURCE:
Limelight Networks CONTACT: Melanie Sanders, +1-415-547-7037, , for
Limelight Networks; or Miles Sims of Small World Labs,
+1-512-474-6400, ext. 23, Web site: http://www.llnw.com/
http://www.smallworldlabs.com/
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