Today's Internet traveler feels disconnected visiting one island
or pocket of civilization after another with vast vacuous voids filling the
gap."

"Our partnership with the St. Petersburg Times highlights the pairing of
our traditional services with sophisticated new search and advertising
technology developed with our media partners' needs in mind," said Michael
Galamb, vice president of sales, HarvestINFO, Inc.

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According to the author sites of the top 7 forum software products (PhpBB,
vBulletin , InvisionBoard, IkonBoard, SMF, UBB Threads, and XMB) there are
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About Echotainment, LLC
The company is the brainchild of veteran developers Evan Schwartz and
Richard Rhoden.

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Echotainment Releases New Network and Positions Forum Software to Replace Blogs

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With the Echoforum Network a member of one forum community can enter a
message and have that message read and responded to by all connected forum
community members network-wide in just minutes. "We are very pleased not only with our site's improved
search functionality and revenue opportunities, but the responsiveness and
professionalism of the HarvestINFO team as well.

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Additionally, the Echoforum Network imports external content feeds from
sources such as Usenet Newsgroups and allows messages from the Echoforum
Network to return and post back into the Usenet Newsgroups, leveraging even
more readership. The Echoforum Network will bring the internet community, and people,
together fulfilling the promise of the global shared community.

PRESS RELEASE St. Petersburg Times Selects HarvestINFO to Enhance Online Marketplace and Advertising Services

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The partnership between the St. will
continue into the new year with expanded Deal Storm services available
Q1 2006. Since 1996, HarvestINFO has
delivered solutions that enable media clients to strengthen their
commitment of service to local advertisers and consumers, and compete in
their local marketplace.

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The Echoforum Network hides the complexities of
communication between forum communities of different software types by acting
as translator.com/marketplace, Deal Storm enables consumers to search a
wide variety of advertisements -- classifieds, retail display ads, and full
page inserts -- to easily find the best local deals.

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content feeds from Usenet Newsgroup, RSS, email listserv, email newsletters,
and XML/BLOGS to form a seamless community among all currently active forums
on the Internet totaling millions of active communities. Their team spent
the last 3 years developing, testing and refining the Echoforum Network.

HarvestINFO, Inc.

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"A very new concept to forum communities," says Charles Anchors, VP
Marketing, Echotainment, LLC.
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the value of linking their sites together (Fidonet) and sharing the voices of
thousands.
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software (Simple Machines, vBulletin, InvisionBoard, IkonBoard, PhpBB, UBB
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"Forum community operators only see abundant new message traffic that
looks no different from a message entered locally into the forum community
regardless of message origin," says Richard Rhoden , VP Echotainment LLC. Collectively they have 30 years experience with
telecommunications, networking , and internet technologies. Our
media partners in turn benefit from strengthened relationships with both
advertisers and consumers. For more information on what HarvestINFO can do
for your local franchise, please visit www.

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Petersburg Times and HarvestINFO, Inc. provides leading edge local search, online shopping, and
online advertising technology solutions for hundreds of media clients,
representing 50 publishing groups, worldwide.

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http://www ., a leading provider of local
search, shopping and advertising solutions, today announced its partnership
with the St.

"Deal Storm connects our advertisers with local online consumers
through a content-rich and incredibly user-friendly shopping tool," said
Christine Montgomery, director of electronic publishing for the St.

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"One of the most valuable features of the Echoforum Network
is that each member of the network retains a private copy of each message thus
maintaining ownership of the data in their forum community," adds Rhoden.
Petersburg Times.

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For more information on the product visit http://www. Petersburg Times to deliver improved online marketplace and
advertising services in the Tampa Bay area with Deal Storm.

Featured within the popular Marketplace section of the Times' website,
www.sptimes. Users can search for
products or services by entering keywords or browsing by category.

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