With just 14 months to go before the 2008 elections, the race to the Whitehouse is on. While past primaries may have depended on popularity or patronage, this one looks to be all about money, BIG money, leaving most of us in the dust. Most of us that is, except users of WhitehouseCountdown.com, the new non-partisan website that gives the little guy a voice in the high stakes game of political fundraising. The basics are simple. Players sign up for free and choose a candidate for whom they raise virtual bucks by playing games and participating in a host of community features. Games like PAC Attack (Political Action Committee), Paintball Politics, and Fat Cat Ball keep players vying for first place in the player rankings and boost candidate standings. Trivia games, caption contests, and opinion forums round out the fun. Don’t know who you want to support yet? No problem, the Candidate Maker lets players create their own candidates and other players can rate and comment on them. WhitehouseCountdown.com is North South Studios’ first foray into independent publishing and was inspired by several factors. “Normally we make products for other publishers but this time we had a strong motive to publish something of our own. It’s no secret that fewer and fewer Americans are participating in the political process. We wanted to encourage people, especially young people, to get involved in the upcoming presidential elections,” says company President, Bill Newell...click to read more
Tags: Bill Newell, Sarina Simon, North South Studios, WhitehouseCountdown.com, Presidential Election, politics, fundraising, candidates
URL: http://www.whitehousecountdown.com
Lightworks New Media has launched Youthroots.com, a social networking website designed to help today's youth self-organize to serve their local or global community. The social network offers youth groups and their leaders an alternative to well-known sites like Myspace and Facebook, in that the emphasis is placed on the group to which the youth belongs, rather than the individual. Youthroots also adds increased security measures to protect privacy of its participants. Youthroots answers the requests of a growing share of youths around the world who wish for a location to organize activities, socialize, and be recongnized on the basis of their group identity. A female user shared, “My accomplishments in life have come as result of a team effort. I want a place to spend time online where my friends and I can impact others' lives through cooperative efforts and lift each other up along the way.” Youthroots.com members may perform searches through the network to coordinate with other groups that share common interests, faith-group affiliation, or geographic location. Family and friends may even be included within the groups' circle, at the discretion of the group leader. Youthroots.com addresses public concerns from both youths and parents about security for minors through supervision of an adult leader for each group. Only group leaders may create groups, control all aspects of membership, and can add helpful security features such as making details of the group invisible to public searches. Youthroots user Dane Kimball commented, “Myspace is fun, but my inbox is filled with spam and inappropriate invitations from strange women. Youthroots lets me ommunicate with who I want, without the extra...click to read more
URL: http://www.Youthroots.com
Tags: Lightworks New Media, Youthroots, Youthroots.com, social network, faith based social network, Myspace, Facebook
Direct Lending Solutions, located in Southlake Texas, helps educate consumers about various consumer-credit issues, consumer threats, the variety of finance programs available to them. Among the topics discussed on the site are mortgage/refinancing programs, credit cards, identity theft protection and recovery, divorce-debt concerns, student loan repayment, bankruptcy rules/regulations, and many other consumer-credit issues. Their staff writers have over 10 years of professional research/writing experience, compiling comprehensive articles about numerous topics, including consumer credit & finance. They continue researching the ever changing consumer-credit industry, and continue to add information frequently, and occasionally distribute our new articles via their RSS feed. Their articles are always fresh and unduplicated. Direct Lending Solutions is not a direct lender. They are an informational website providing links to a few reputable brokerages and lenders. They work directly with Quality Loan Network to help you find the best lender for your needs. We do not make phone calls about loans...click to read more
URL: http://www.directlendingsolutions.com Tags: Direct Lending Solutions, Southlake Texas, consumer credit
