Wanobe.Com Launches New Video Sharing Web Service

May 27, 2008 - Press Dispensary - Wanobe.com, the lifestyle site for mature audiences tiring of Facebook and Myspace, is launching a new video-sharing web-service enhancement allowing visitors and members to add video content to the site.

MD and founder David Noble comments: “Users can now upload, view and share video clips with one another. While most of the videos on the Wanobe site can be watched by unregistered users, those who are registered can choose to restrict access to family, friends and specific groups.”

Since its launch nine months ago, Wanobe is rapidly developing as a prominent social network and community across the UK and elsewhere, for people aged over 35 who are seeking alternatives to Facebook and Myspace.

Noble adds: “We believe that this will prove a big hit among our older members who want to share video content, especially those aged 50 and over. For example, many people today live long distances from other members of their family or friends. Sharing video clips is a simple, easy way to stay in touch.”

Noble stresses that Wanobe does not accept videos of potentially offensive content, including pornography, defamation, harassment and material encouraging criminal or dangerous conduct. He states: “All such material will be removed from the site as quickly as possible after we are made aware of its presence.”

In order to speed development of the new service, Wanobe used an external supplier, www.FLVio.com (pronounced “Flavio”), to provide the video web-service technical infrastructure. The FLVio web service handles the uploading, transcoding and storage of almost any video file format for Wanobe.com. Videos are re-encoded into flash video and then served from the FLVio infrastructure.

Andre Brown, CEO of FLVio’s parent company Locayta Limited, says: “Wanobe.com is one of our first clients and we have already had a lot of positive feedback from our initial testing.”

For further information on FLVio, please visit http://www.flvio.com . To try out an online demo, please visit http://www.flvio.com/demo .

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About Wanobe
Wanobe.com is rapidly emerging as a substantial lifestyle community and social network for mature people aged 35 and over in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. Launched in September 2007, wanobe.com saw a 52% growth increase in the number of visits from March through May despite no traditional advertising. Wanobe.com also saw a 20% increase in the number of page views from Feb to beginning May and the number of people choosing to register has grown steadily since January 2008

About Locayta
Locayta limited is a leading Software as a Service (SaaS) provider. Locayta builds large-scale, customer facing, mission-critical web applications for clients; using proprietary software technologies which it has specially developed, including:
* A Natural Language search engine.
* A bespoke Content Management System.
* An exceptional Social Network Platform.
* A powerful MIS system
* A flexible ad-server platform
* The FLVio media farm

Locayta’s clients range from large organisations such as BT Directories and Nectar (LMG) to Web 2.0 start-ups such as Osoyou (http://www.osoyou.com ) and The Horses Mouth Foundation (http://www.horsesmouth.co.uk ).

For further information, please contact:
David Noble, founder and MD, Wanobe Limited
Tel: 07785302694
Email:
Site: www.wanobe.com