Pioneering Online News Site Blottr.com Officially Exits Alpha and Adds New Servers to Cope with Demand for Its Ground-Breaking User Generated News Service
As the demand for transparent news reporting increases with the success of wikileaks and other online-only based information sites, new site www.blottr.com is finding success with its unique blend of community moderated news reporting. The site has now officially exited its alpha phase with a re-designed look and feel and increased capacity.
London, United Kingdom, December 09, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Blottr.com, the UK’s first user generated news service, exits alpha and officially opens up its service in the UK, initially focused on London News and news from the home counties.
Blottr is a user generated news service, empowering anyone to capture, report and discover news as it happens.
Blottr aims to change the way news is reported and delivered by harnessing the power of crowd sourcing, to deliver an engaging news service through the contribution and collaboration of many.
Enabling the public to capture, write and break news stories has many benefits; two of which are:
1) The resource for generating news content from across the UK becomes hugely powerful, with potential for thousands (or millions) of "foot soldiers" on the ground reporting/creating their own news stories as they break.
2) There is no limit to how many people can contribute to the same story, so they are able to deliver a story as it unfolds, from multiple view points and stages of development.
Since ALPHA launch in September 2010, Blottr users have originated more than 500 news stories, uploaded more than 100 videos of footage captured at the scene of events, posted over 1,000 images and made more than 250 revisions to other user posts.
Blottr currently has over 500 registered users, 42% of which have made at least 1 contribution.
In September, Blottr reported 90,000 unique users and 270,000 page views.
Adam Baker, founder, says, “We’d love to be the catalyst for people to become more aware of the role they can play in capturing and reporting news happening around them and in doing so, how it helps enrich the lives and engage the interests of others.”
Baker adds, “Our long term mission is to have a large preponderance of the UK population instinctively uploading stories and media of breaking news, as it happens, just as many use Google for search and Facebook for social networking. We begin this mission focussed within London and surrounds.”
For interviews or more information, please contact:
Adam Baker
Founder – Blottr.com
E: ab@blottr.com
W: www.blottr.com
For media enquiries and photos, please contact. pr@blottr.com
Online PR submission by www.seocompany4.com
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Blottr is a user generated news service, empowering anyone to capture, report and discover news as it happens.
Blottr aims to change the way news is reported and delivered by harnessing the power of crowd sourcing, to deliver an engaging news service through the contribution and collaboration of many.
Enabling the public to capture, write and break news stories has many benefits; two of which are:
1) The resource for generating news content from across the UK becomes hugely powerful, with potential for thousands (or millions) of "foot soldiers" on the ground reporting/creating their own news stories as they break.
2) There is no limit to how many people can contribute to the same story, so they are able to deliver a story as it unfolds, from multiple view points and stages of development.
Since ALPHA launch in September 2010, Blottr users have originated more than 500 news stories, uploaded more than 100 videos of footage captured at the scene of events, posted over 1,000 images and made more than 250 revisions to other user posts.
Blottr currently has over 500 registered users, 42% of which have made at least 1 contribution.
In September, Blottr reported 90,000 unique users and 270,000 page views.
Adam Baker, founder, says, “We’d love to be the catalyst for people to become more aware of the role they can play in capturing and reporting news happening around them and in doing so, how it helps enrich the lives and engage the interests of others.”
Baker adds, “Our long term mission is to have a large preponderance of the UK population instinctively uploading stories and media of breaking news, as it happens, just as many use Google for search and Facebook for social networking. We begin this mission focussed within London and surrounds.”
For interviews or more information, please contact:
Adam Baker
Founder – Blottr.com
E: ab@blottr.com
W: www.blottr.com
For media enquiries and photos, please contact. pr@blottr.com
Online PR submission by www.seocompany4.com
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