All the News That Matters to You in One Place: Comunitee.com™ Launches in Beta Creating New Breed of News Network for the Average User

NEW YORK, Dec.13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The first truly social news network Comunitee.com™ launched in beta today providing a one-stop news delivery service that makes it easier for people to find, read, share and discuss the news that matters most to them and their circle of friends. 

Comunitee—a mashup of the words "community" and "committee"—uniquely provides personalized news delivery and promotes the unobstructed free-flow of news among Comunitee members. By combining a customized newsfeed that learns your interests based on what you read with a seamless way to share and discuss news of common interest with your friends, Comunitee makes consuming traditional news content in the social sphere easy and frictionless. Comunitee aggregates thousands of the most popular newsfeeds in 10 categories—everything from CNN to Popular Photography Magazine.

Some 77 percent of Americans now get their news online or on mobile devices. But for many, the experience is fragmented, work-intensive, and tedious. "People don't realize how many different places they go to find relevant news stories they actually care about," said Don Daszkowski, Co-Founder and CEO of Comunitee, "or how much time it takes to sift through the news items on each site, let alone try to share them with friends. The average news article now has four or five different 'sharing' options. We have created a universal platform that not only provides the news content but also organically shares it with your friends and followers."

Comunitee aims to allow users to just read the news with sharing experience all done automatically. Comunitee users can create different news "comunitees"—groups of friends, family, co-workers, or those with common interests—with whom they'd like to share and discuss the news. For example, a comunitee may be comprised of family members seeking information on important common health issues, friends sharing a passion for marathon running, or colleagues trying to stay abreast of the latest high-tech innovation.

The Comunitee model is unique in that it is:

• Both a social network and a customized news viewing destination.  Readers are able to discover, share, and explore specific topics of interest together based upon their actual joint reading preferences.
• Organic.  Comunitee brings you only the news you care about and continues to cultivate and refine your personal feed based on your actual reading habits and those of fellow comunitee members. The more you read and the more people you add, the better the Comunitee can fine-tune the news according to your individual tastes and interests. 
• Purposefully non-intrusive.  Comunitee does not interfere with the reading experience by asking you to pause in order to vote on an article or click five or six different social media buttons to share it. Comunitee lets you see in real time what others are reading so you don't have to be dependent on friends to "share" or "tweet" articles in order for them to come on to your radar.
  

Comunitee uses the Facebook and LinkedIn APIs to allow users to quickly tap into their social networks and invite others into their news comunitees. The company plans to release an HTML5 mobile web app early next year, ushering in a new era of socially-minded news consumption. The model is breathing new life into traditional newspaper and print media, helping to bring them into the social age in a way they've struggled with before.

"Some people may want to immediately compare us to the tablet news readers like Flipboard or Zite, which is understandable, yet these tablet readers aren't truly 'social' and don't allow you to read news with your friends," said Daszkowski. "Besides, only 11 percent of Americans own tablets. Our goal is not just to make newsfeeds look pretty on a tablet, but to create the 'network effect' for your every day news reader." Comunitee combines the laid-back and lean-forward approach to news consumption while also creating a truly social environment for readers to discover news.

For more information, please visit www.comunitee.com.

ABOUT COMUNITEE.COM™:
Comunitee.com is a social news network that bridges the gap between news consumption and social networking, consolidating all your news in one place so that you and your friends can share top breaking news stories effortlessly. News displayed within each of your "comunitees" is self-driven and organic, rather than selected by outside editors, because it is fueled and continually reshaped by each comunitee's actual reading patterns. Comunitee.com is headquartered in the New York City area with offices throughout the United States.

Comunitee™ and Comunitee.com™ are registered trademarks of Comunitee, Inc.

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