Slingpage Selects Internap To Scale Social Browsing Platform

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Internap Network Services Corporation,a global provider of end-to-end Internet solutions, announced its Content Delivery Network (CDN) and Managed solutionsare helping to scale the rising demand of social Web collaboration andinteractivity by powering Slingpage, Inc., a free social browsingplatform. Currently in open beta for the Microsoft Internet Explorerand Mozilla Firefox Web browsers, Slingpage relies on Internap todeliver robust, scalable and reliable network and hosting services.

Launched in June 2008, Slingpage is a free social browsingapplication that helps people discover and share the Web instantly.With one click from the browser, Slingers can share Web pages with asingle friend or thousands of followers - direct to the desktop.Slingers can also follow like-minded individuals and browse popular Webpages shared by others. Slingpage represents a portable social graphwhere users interact with friends and followers as they browse andenjoy real-time access to a personalized social discovery feed.

“With the help of Internap’s CDN and Managed solutions, weare transforming Web surfing from an individual activity to aninteractive community experience,” said Ryan Stephens, CTO andco-founder for Slingpage. “As Slingpage continues to Internap’ssolutions will allow us to efficiently scale while ensuring a reliableuser experience.”

Integrated with media servers, enhanced storage, virtualizationtechnology, network acceleration and route optimization, CDNsolutions deliver, manage and monetize media content for Slingpage.Patented MIRO (Managed Internet Routing Optimizer) technology embeddedin the CDN provides automated Internet performance monitoring andintelligent routing, ensuring the best Internet performance forslinging. Internap’s Managed Server using Dell PowerEdge serversrunning Microsoft Windows Server or Red Hat Linux, are fullyintegrated with the CDN as well, supplying Slingpage with enterprisequality performance and reliability.

“Slingpage is opening a new paradigm for the Internet by enhancingthe individual user experience with real-time community interaction,”said Tim Sullivan, chief technology officer at Internap. “AsSlingpage’s innovative social browsing application is embraced byInternet users, Internap’s CDN and Managed Server will deliver theperformance, reliability and scalability to support their growingbusiness.”

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