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OpenSocial, the social network application platform backed by Google, is continuing to grow rapidly according to the Washington Post's TechCrunch blog. With four more social networks and services preparing to launch by the end of September, this number is expected to grow to 500 million using about 4,500 different applications. But OpenSocial still has a way to go to catch Facebook, which is open sourcing its own platform for developers and whose nearly 37,000 apps have been installed 715 million times.

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Mr. Guibert Englebienne , Globant, has extensive experience in the information technology and communication industries.

As Globant CTO, Guibert is in charge of the software production process and the creation and management of strategic company technology partnerships. Prior to co-founding Globant, Guibert was IBM's scientific researcher and later CTO for CallNow.com Inc., a telecommunications company based in New York providing international callback services through the Internet. He also conceived and developed a US patented technology powering a service named 2Speak, using the Internet to anonymously connect two parties through phone lines. Guibert was responsible for the phone-chat implementation at Chinadotcom Co., owner of the biggest Asian Internet portals. He also worked as IT Development Manager, outlining and developing software for tax collection, including the process administration, tax management, and on-line payment through Internet governmental portals. Guibert has lived and worked in Argentina, US, Venezuela and the UK. He holds a degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering from UNICEN University. -0- PR Contact: Elizabeth Flannery Title: Senior Public Relations Manager Email: elizabeth@kelandpartners.com Telephone: (508) 366-2099

Bill Kirkland is the CEO, President, and a member of the Board of Directors of Collexis Holdings Inc., a leading developer of high definition search and knowledge discovery software. Collexis offers the world's first pre-populated professional social network for life science researchers, www.biomedexperts.com. Collexis' proprietary technology builds conceptual profiles of text, called Fingerprints, from documents, Web sites, emails and other digitized content and matches them with a comprehensive list of pre-defined "fingerprinted" concepts to make research results more relevant and efficient. This matching of concepts eliminates the ambiguity and lack of priority associated with word searches. The results are often described as "finding needles in many haystacks." Through this novel approach, Collexis can build unique applications to search, index and aggregate information as well as prioritize, trend and predict data based on sources in multiple industries without the limitations of language or dialect. Collexis' current clients in the public, private and academic sectors include the Mayo Clinic; Johns Hopkins University; the University of California, San Francisco; the University of South Carolina; Erasmus University Library; Bristol-Myers Squibb; Lockheed Martin; the World Health Organization; Wellcome Trust; the National Institutes of Health; and the U.S. Department of Defense. -0- PR Contact: Stephanie Jones Title: Director of Public Relations Email: stephanie.jones@cnsg.com Telephone: (803) 254-8158

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