Upperz social networking, the Facebook for professional and business purposes.

Upperz is a free social network site for professionals that connects you with your business and professional contacts.

2008-05-02, Upperz - Roy Berg

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Category: Business | Tags: business social networking

Creating more business, and move yourself up is what Upperz is all about. And all without any costs, because Upperz is free to use.

Additional to presenting themselves or their business, Upperz’s users can easily manage and maintain all their business and professional contacts by broadcasting their latest activities or development. Therefore, users are given the functionalities to create unlimited entry of blog, news, events, and media items.

It is also possible for users to invite unlimited number of contacts into their network, start a interest-based group, or join existing ones. The functionalities does not stop here, but extends to the possibility of posting job openings, searching for open vacancies, and uploading portfolios.

Upperz is positioning itself in the open space between Facebook and LinkedIn. In Facebook there is no possibillity to use the social network only for business and professional purposes, while at LinkedIn there is not much you can do, unless you pay for the monthly subscription.

Furthermore and most important, Upperz is based on open source standard, and is ready for Google’s Open Social.

Upperz will be released worldwide, through locally operating partner organizations, who are also responsible for Upperz’s local marketing strategy.

Upperz is developed by several developing teams all over the world, but mainly in The Netherlands and Indonesia.

Company behind Upperz is Ten Ants Webware BV. Ten Ants has offices in Zaandam (The Netherlands) and in Jakarta (Indonesia), consists of 20 employees and specializes in building complex web applications such as content management systems, extranets, intranets and social networking sites for the corporate market. Recently, a corporate social network was delivered to the McDonalds Netherlands organization.

For more information about Upperz please contact:
Upperz: Roy Berg, e-mail info@upperz.com
More information can be found at Upperz www.upperz.com