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Press release edited by Applelinks senior editor Kirk Hiner

Web Crossing, Inc. today announced new International capabilities are now included in WebCrossing Neighbors 2, the company's private-label social network system.

"Social networking is a worldwide phenomenon," explained Tim Lundeen, president and CEO of Web Crossing, Inc. "The new international enhancements for WebCrossing Neighbors 2-based sites further empower companies and organizations to build relationships with their customers and constituents all over the world."

New Multilingual Support Areas let WebCrossing Neighbors administrators provide a more natural, multilingual experience. Now, for sites with multiple languages, the support areas for members who speak different languages are automatically maintained by linking to the support area in that member's primary language. For example, if a primarily Japanese speaker clicks on the Support link, they automatically land in the Japanese-language Support Area.

The new IP Address to Country Mapping feature allows a site administrator to automate detection of an accessing user's country. Sites may need to detect the accessing country for marketing or policy reasons, while others may be required to actually restrict access by country. Administrators of WebCrossing Neighbors 2 sites can contact support for quick integration of the IP Address to Country Mapping capabilities with their system set-up.

These new International capabilities complement the legendary localization infrastructure of all Web Crossing products as well as the recently announced Unicode support in IM and chat rooms. IM and chat rooms implemented using WebCrossing Neighbors 2 all now support UTF-8 so that members can use two-byte non-Roman languages, such as Japanese or Chinese. Complete end-user Japanese localization and encoding enhancements are now also included in WebCrossing Neighbors 2.

WebCrossing Neighbors is a private-label social network system for companies and organizations to extend brands and build relationships with their customers, colleagues and constituents.

WebCrossing Neighbors is a hosted solution complete with common areas for interest groups, personal user spaces, profiles, blogs, discussions, photo, video and file sharing, access controls, search and more. WebCrossing Neighbors lets businesses and organizations create, with complete control, their own customized, branded online social networks where members can link personal spaces with friends and colleagues.

WebCrossing Neighbors is scalable, extensible and completely customizable. Personal spaces link friends and colleagues together using a dynamic tagging engine, with support for "degrees of friendship." System-wide search is fully indexed and lightening fast, while system-wide announcements provide members with hot news or other updates.

WebCrossing Neighbors is available immediately as a server hosted package for maximum uptime, priced based on traffic and member storage capacity starting at $195/month. Guided tours of WebCrossing Neighbors are available. Additional information can be found at the Web Crossing website.