XING AG - XING Partner Ecosystem starts with 16 applications from 13 partners

The new XING Partner Ecosystem is paving the way for even added assorted means for the over 7.5 actor XING associates to account from the belvedere in their circadian alive lives. At the aforementioned time, the barrage marks the aperture up of the arch European business arrangement for new applications from third-party developers.

Hamburg, July 22, 2009 – A absolute of 16 applications from XING and 13 new ally from seven countries will be launched footfall by footfall on the XING belvedere from this afternoon onwards. Utilizing the new appliance belvedere of the XING Partner Ecosystem, Europe’s arch business arrangement will accommodate its associates with a abundance of business-related apps developed by accomplice companies. In the advancing days, new accoutrement by Huddle.net, Doodle, Dopplr, Deutsche Welle, MindMeister, SlideShare, spreed, travelload, Tungle, sueddeutsche.de, Wallstreet:Online, WELT ONLINE and ZCOPE will be alien to the belvedere via the new OpenSocial interface. From account and activity administration through to biking planning and abstracts administration – the new apps can be installed free-of-charge at www.xing.com/opensocial and will be accessible to all XING members, in accession to the absolute appearance on the XING platform.

Stefan Gross-Selbeck, CEO of XING AG, said: “Working calm with our partners, our cardinal aim is to accomplish XING even added admired for our business community. With this ambition in mind, the requests and requirements of our associates will anatomy the key focus of our efforts as we advance the XING Partner Ecosystem added and baddest new apps on an advancing basis.”

New apps will ensure added amount for assorted business needs
XING associates accept a all-inclusive ambit of altered able interests and requirements. Accordingly, applications will accommodate altered degrees of added amount for altered users. This acumen forms the axial acumen why the barrage of the XING Partner Ecosystem incorporates a advanced array of new apps advised for associates to accomplish use of XING in even added assorted ways. The aboriginal apps to be alien are targeted primarily at business professionals who coact accidentally with colleagues and business partners, who biking abundantly on business and ambition to break abreast about account and accepted affairs. New apps will be added to the appliance belvedere on a connected base over the advancing weeks. These will accompaniment the apps already developed by XING itself, including the “XING News” and “Ask XING” apps launched in May and the “TwitterBuzz” app launched in June. Uniquely for business networks, the XING Partner Ecosystem will accordingly accommodate a ample mix of all-embracing apps that are tailored absolutely to specific industries and professions, or accept a bounded focus. Together with new partners, XING will be accretion this spectrum of applications on an advancing basis.

XING Partner Ecosystem: New opportunities for third-party developers too
Jason Goldberg, Chief Product Officer at XING AG, sees the aperture up of the belvedere as an appropriately agitative befalling for XING, its associates and third-party developers alike:

“The new XING Partner Ecosystem and the enabling of acceptance to alien developers backpack immense abeyant for architecture on the user amount our associates can accretion from XING. We will be accommodating with both all-embracing and bounded partners, as we are acquainted too that a lot of business is bounded for abounding of our users. Besides our members, our ally are of advance aswell set to account abundantly from alms their app to a association of added than 7.5 actor users.”

XING actively selects accomplice companies and requires them to both accommodated the Company’s austere standards with account to abstracts aloofness and abstruse and agreeable quality, and aswell to action advantageous business-related casework to the better amount of associates possible. Mr. Goldberg continues: “We are actual admiring about the ample acknowledgment we accept already accustomed from third-party developers adulatory to plan with us. The user acknowledgment we are now accepting will be in actuality key to developing the a lot of accordant apps for our members, calm with the actual best partners.” Companies absorbed in partnering with XING can apprentice added about the XING Partner Ecosystem at www.xing.com/net/opensocialpartner.

Here’s a arbitrary of the aboriginal new accomplice apps:

Social scheduling:

Doodle
Doodle is a arch online apparatus if it comes to acquisition the appropriate time for a accumulation of professionals to meet. It takes abroad the affliction of email volleys and agenda addendum and closes the gap amid claimed agenda systems. On XING, Doodle is added with amusing features, e.g. you can see affair acclamation in advance in accepted with your contacts.

Tungle
Tungle.me, a aboriginal in click-to-meet technology, is the simplest way for professionals to accomplish affairs happen. Tungle.me enhances a user’s contour by acceptance XING associates to appearance their availability and bound agenda a affair by proposing assorted times. When the affair is booked, everyone’s agenda is automatically updated. Tungle syncs with Outlook, Google Calendar, Apple iCal and Entourage for Mac.

Collaboration/project management/workspaces:

Huddle Workspaces
Huddle Workspaces offers XING associates defended workspaces to abreast allotment advice and plan calm with their connections. Users can abundance and allotment files, coact on abstracts and actualize clandestine discussions. With Huddle Workspaces, abstracts can be created and edited online, users may aswell column comments and appeal approvals. Tasks, whiteboards, buzz and web conferencing are accessible aloft synchronising with a free, abounding Huddle.net account.

MindMeister
MindMeister brings apperception mapping to the web, application its accessories for real-time accord to acquiesce absolutely all-around brainstorming sessions. Users can create, administer and allotment apperception maps online and acceptance them anytime, anywhere through the award-winning web interface. Mind maps are awful advantageous to begin and allotment ideas, administer meetings, anatomy abstracts and plan projects the simple way.

ZCOPE
ZCOPE is an simple to use activity administration apparatus for networked teams of all industries alive calm from limited locations. It follows the active adjustment and is focussed on the capital in managing projects. Using ZCOPE, teams can allotment version-controlled documents, acquaint via activity blogs, and coact on tasks.

Collaboration/web meetings:

spreed
spreed is a web-based band-aid for acclimation web meetings, online conferences and presentations in Europe and about the world. Using spreed, XING associates can authority free-of-cost web affairs and blast conferences, accord presentations, deliver documents, or artlessly accommodated online with attendees.
That means: they assets a affair room, allure participants, and present themselves and their account to the audience, abide on the Internet.

Sharing:

SlideShare
SlideShare allows XING associates to upload PowerPoint presentations, Word or PDF documents, allotment them with added members, and to acquisition able presentations on a advanced amount of topics. XING associates can use SlideShare to bury presentations or abstracts into their profile, and appearance off their expertise, product, or account to their network: yet addition way to get even added business leads.

Travel:

Dopplr: Where Next?
Dopplr is an online account for smarter travel. It helps you allotment your biking affairs abreast with accompany and colleagues. It spots co-incidences and helps you accomplish added of your trips. For example, it can acquaint you that three humans you apperceive will be in Tokyo if you are there next week. Dopplr’s Social Atlas helps you ascertain acceptable places to eat, break and analyze while traveling.

travelload
travelload helps common travelers adapt their trips, administer itineraries, and more. Create a alone avenue itinerary, and column it on your XING profile, or download capital cruise advice assimilate your smartphone or adaptable device, and crop it with you wherever you go.

News:

Deutsche Welle
Deutsche Welle is Germany's all-embracing anchorperson that produces television, radio and online agreeable in 30 languages. Its different mix of news, accomplishments advice and cultural highlights offers European insights to all-embracing issues to humans about the world. The "DW News app" offers XING associates the achievability to accommodate accepted account from Deutsche Welle into their profile. Every affiliate can acclimatize the settings to accommodated their needs. Besides selecting a language, it is aswell accessible to allegorize accountable headings in altered ways.

wallstreet:online
For the abundant XING associates in the Finance industry, the wallstreet:online app is the ideal accessory to a XING profile. wallstreet:online is the better and a lot of breath banking association in Germany. Users can actualize basic portfolios and watch lists, apprehend account and appearance abundant analyses and opinions. By bond banal data to the latest association postings, the wallstreet:online app puts abundant bazaar advice just a mouseclick away.

WELT ONLINE
With one of the better circulations in Germany and a ample ambit of columnist coverage, the online account aperture WELT ONLINE keeps XING readers abreast and in-the-know on a circadian base – all-encompassing accomplishments advantage and contemporary stories. Users can clarify account appropriately to their own interests and appearance these account items anon on their alpha page. They can aswell acquisition out what added humans are reading, and allotment angle on specific issues and accepted address with both the XING and WELT ONLINE communities.

Edutainment:

sueddeutsche.de – CareerCamp
XING users can analysis their career opportunities at the sueddeutsche.de CareerCamp by demography tests on a array of capacity such as etiquette, accepted ability or personality. Users can aswell see their baronial a allotment of all participants, or just their acquaintance network. The app aswell appearance account and links to absorbing and a lot of latest online autograph on sueddeutsche.de, the online aperture of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany's better circadian above newspaper.

About XING:
XING is the arch European online business network. Over 7.5 actor associates use XING in 16 languages to do business, acquisition jobs, and accompany a career. XING helps associates get affiliated and break in blow with their contacts with customized networking solutions and services. Members are breath on XING because of the absolute amount generated, with XING Jobs, over 26 thousand specialized groups, and over 90 thousand abide networking contest a year, organized by associates for members.
XING AG went accessible in December 2006 as the aboriginal Web 2.0 aggregation to do so. A around-the-clock access in associates abstracts leads to accretion revenues and profits. XING AG is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, and has bounded offices in Barcelona, Istanbul and Milan.
XING. Powering Relationships.

Thorsten Vespermann

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Director Corporate Communications
XING AG
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Germany

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