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Wyndstorm Implements First Social Network with Click-to-Call Feature With this feature, international student organization will be able to provide its 1.7 million members worldwide a free online buddy calling service between members of the organization. Delivered on July 1st, this implementation will be the first hosted online social network to showcase click-to-call for members. This is an important feature for online communities with international members who collaborate online. Calling is the natural next step in collaboration beyond instant messaging. “Wyndstorm continues to lead the industry in providing social networks that are tailored for specific requirements of a private member community—and free buddy calling is a high value feature”, said Marian Sabety, President and CEO of Wyndstorm. Developed through the company’s partnership with CounterPath Solutions, the leading provider of VoIP (Voice over IP) and Video over IP softphones, the click-to-call feature enables wyndstorm to seamlessly synchronize the community member directory with CounterPath’s softphone application, allowing members to communicate quickly and easily. Whenever a community member adds a favorite friend to their personal space in the community, that friend automatically appears in the click-to-call / IM (Instant Message) contact list in the application. The friend can then “see” his buddy’s availability for a call, and the two buddies can then call each other—whether they are Windows PC or Mac users. “Our collaboration with Wyndstorm on this click-to-call feature demonstrates an important step toward offering social network members and end-users in general a complete and intuitive multimedia communications experience”, said Donovan Jones, President of CounterPath Solutions. “We are pleased to continue working with Wyndstorm toward enabling users to enjoy voice and video calling with multi-line and conference options, and Instant Messaging, all in one easy-to-use application.”
“The click-to-call feature that Wyndstorm offers supports both Mac and Windows OS users, which meets the needs of community members, who frequently go online for playing, meeting others, sharing, and communicating. With the feature-rich Wyndstorm product tailored to community needs for security, privacy, search, and collaboration, we are pleased to know that click-to-call features meet the needs of online users in terms of Mac and PC platforms”, said Sabety. W Wyndstorm social network with the integrated “click-to-call” feature, enables community members to call each other, for free, while online from any computer, from anywhere around the world. That same functionality will also allow students to benefit from very low-priced phone calling for community members using the VoIP-based MyGK Voice calling service to call home, or friends on cell phones—a real bottom-line value to our students,” explained Sabety
About CounterPath About Wyndstorm, Corporation Wyndstorm Corporation, a Washington D.C.-based company, provides turnkey social networking solutions that include social media, interactive gaming, and click-to-call applications, so that affinity marketing companies can meet time-to-market pressure in delivering online entertainment that leverages viral marketing. Using the wyndstorm™ hosted application, clients can rapidly tailor and privately brand custom social media programs by selecting from over 50 pre-built modules. wyndstorm provides search, security, click-to-call, location-based advertising management, consumer-posted content, payment processing, and other value-add features that provide high value collaboration and interactive programming for private branded, viral marketing. For more information about Wyndstorm Corporation, (formerly Wyndstorm, LLC), visit www.wyndstorm.com.
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