Seattle, WA (PRWEB) April 04, 2012

Wetpaint, a next-generation media platform company, today announced that its celebrity gossip site Wetpaint Entertainment now attracts more than 10 million unique visitors and 50 million page views a month. A major reason for these significant traffic numbers, just 18 months after Wetpaint launched the property, is the company?s ability to drive traffic via Facebook and other social platforms. In fact, almost 30% of the website?s traffic was driven via Facebook.

Wetpaint Entertainment has over 1.7 million Facebook fans and uses its cutting-edge social analytics and distribution system, rapid experimentation, and proprietary state-of-the-art technologies to turn these into site visitors. Of the top 50 publishers on the Internet ranked by social traffic composition, Wetpaint far outpaces all of them at driving traffic via social platforms. The next closest, People.com, drove slightly over 15% of its site traffic via social platforms in February.

Wetpaint has also found that its audience from social platforms is substantially more valuable than its audience from search. Visitors from Facebook typically spend 25% more time on Wetpaint Entertainment, return to the site more frequently, and are more likely to share content with their friends. Because of these factors, advertisers are paying a premium to reach them.

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) March 07, 2012

Margaret Atwood, the Booker Prize-winning author of the internationally bestselling novel The Handmaid?s Tale and one of the most prophetic writers of our time, publishes I?m Starved for You today with the digital publisher Byliner. I?m Starved for You is a tale of love and lust in an Orwellian near future. An entertaining yet harrowing story that lays bare the very real dangers of trading liberty for safety, the story evokes the irrepressibility of human appetite and asks just how far a man and a woman are willing to go to get what they?re truly hungry for.

?I?m excited about Byliner, which I see as part of the short fiction revival that?s taking place online,? says Atwood. ?The inspiration for I?m Starved for You is, as usual with my ?speculative fictions,? real life. This is a story that imagines what might happen if certain present-day trends continue.? The result is a remarkable tale that is equal parts Tom Jones and Brave New World.

The gated community of Consilience isn?t your average American town, but in a future envisioned by Atwood, it may be as close as anyone can hope to get. Husband and wife Stan and Charmaine are among thousands who have signed up for a new social order because the old one is all but broken. Outside the walls of Consilience, half the country is out of work, gangs of the drug-addicted and disaffected menace the streets, warlords disrupt the food supply, and overcrowded correctional facilities churn out offenders to make room for more.

The Consilience prison, Positron, is something else altogether. The very heart of the community and its economic engine, it?s a bold experiment in voluntary incarceration. In exchange for a house, food, and what the online brochure hails as ?A Meaningful Life,? residents agree to spend one month as inmates, the next as civilians, working as guards or whatever?s required.

Stan and Charmaine have no complaints?until the day Stan discovers an erotic note under the fridge of the house he and Charmaine take turns sharing with another couple on the weeks they?re out of Positron. It?s a missive of erotic longing, pressed with a vivid lipstick kiss: ?I?m starved for you!? it breathes. If Stan rarely thought about the house?s other residents before?they?ve never met them and don?t know their names; it?s not allowed?now he can?t stop thinking about them, especially the note?s author, a woman who signs herself Jasmine, so unlike his girlish wife, Charmaine. He has to meet her, but in this highly ordered and increasingly surveilled world, disorderly thoughts are a risk, and breaking the rules has dire consequences.

Margaret Atwood is the author of the internationally bestselling novel The Handmaid?s Tale as well as forty other books of fiction and nonfiction, including The Blind Assassin, Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, and Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, which was made into a documentary film that recently premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Atwood was awarded the Booker Prize in 2000 for The Blind Assassin.

Byliner publishes compelling works of original fiction and nonfiction written to be read in a single sitting. Among its bestselling titles are Amy Tan?s Rules for Virgins, Jon Krakauer?s Three Cups of Deceit, Ann Patchett?s The Getaway Car, William T. Vollmann?s Into the Forbidden Zone, Taylor Branch?s The Cartel, and Mark Bittman?s Cooking Solves Everything. The companion website, Byliner.com, features curated archives of the best fiction and nonfiction writing and allows readers to easily find, share, and buy new and classic stories by their favorite authors.

I?m Starved for You will be available on March 7, 2012, for $ 2.99 as a Kindle Single at Amazon, a Quick Read at Apple?s iBookstore, a Nook Snap at BarnesAndNoble.com, and at Kobo.

For an Advance Reader Copy or to schedule an interview with Margaret Atwood, please contact Clare Hertel at clare(at)byliner(dot)com; 505-474-6783.

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Tampa. FL (PRWEB) March 02, 2012

Savtira Corporation today announced the launch of 4 of 11 planned Enterprise Cloud Commerce and EDN Application Streaming Data Centers to provide service for the USA and Europe. The active data centers are located in Tampa, San Jose, New York City and Amsterdam.

?Savtira is building one of the fastest GPU/CPU blade server clustered environments in the world,? said Timothy Munro Roberts, Chairman and CEO of Savtira Corporation. ?Our Data Centers will be able to take on all the challenges of modern cloud commerce and application streaming with ease.?

Savtira?s eStore clients receive access to an extensive media network that includes comprehensive redundancy, scalability, performance and manageability. Savtira?s self-healing hosting environment ensures 99.999% uptime and allows for rapid scalability while allowing for central management. Savtira?s network hubs are connected via fiber and termination with DWDM providing 40Gbps of connectivity between data centers. This allows Savtira?s network to scale bandwidth as needed to deliver eCommerce and media.

Savtira Corporation is the first ever Cloud Commerce company to use a cost-effective blade environment that processes more streams with a smaller footprint than current streaming providers. All Savtira data centers have UCS servers with blade chassis that hold 16 graphics processing units (GPUs). Savtira?s service aims to maximize the blade environment?s benefits of scale and to pass those benefits on to its eStore retail clients. Blade servers generate an enormous amount of processing power on a very small footprint. GPUs deliver the same performance as CPU?s for 1/20 of the power consumption and 1/10 the cost. Each GPU processor exceeds 400 cores: multiply that times sixteen GPU?s and you get a whopping amount of processing power that was only available before by using a very large number of CPU-based systems.

Savtira?s Tier 1 and Tier 2 Data Centers are reliable and reach key markets:

Orange County, CA (PRWEB) February 15, 2012

Carothers DiSante & Freudenberger LLP (?CDF?) announced today that Todd Wulffson has returned to its Orange County office as a Partner in the firm. ?We are very excited to have Todd return to the CDF team,? says Managing Partner, Marie DiSante. ?CDF provides California employers with unparalleled depth of labor and employment law experience, and Todd?s experience both as in-house general counsel and as outside employment counsel adds even more depth to our expertise and the unique value we provide to our clients.?

Wulffson was an attorney at CDF from 1999 through 2006, at which time he went to Palace Entertainment as General Counsel, where he oversaw all legal and human resources issues for over 12,000 employees at 38 locations in 11 states. Following the acquisition of Palace Entertainment, he worked with Greenberg Traurig LLP for almost two years until he returned to CDF this week.

For the past two decades, Wulffson?s focus has been on counseling and defending employers in labor and employment matters, including employment-based litigation and human resources issues. He also developed an expertise in the evolving area of social media law and liability. With clients ranging from local sole proprietorships to large, multi-national corporations, he regularly represents employers in the entertainment, manufacturing, banking, hospitality, and retail industries. Wulffson holds a J.D. from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles and a B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles.

About the Firm:

CDF is a 35-attorney labor, employment and business immigration law boutique firm that represents employers throughout California in employment-related matters. CDF maintains offices in Sacramento, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego. For more information about the firm, visit its website at http://www.CDFLaborLaw.com. For more information about California labor, employment and immigration law developments, visit the firm’s blog at http://www.CalLaborLaw.com or Twitter Account at @CDFLaborLaw.

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