Userplane sent out new stats for their communications suite. (Userplane is a long-time sponsor of ODI).

• 40 million, 60 million live conversations between users in 20 countries each month.
• The company is adding 5,000 new communities to its roster each week
• Ad network that now hosts 5 million banner ads and 2.5 million text ads daily.

CEO Mike Jones told me that Presence, VOIP and phone-enabled voice are in development as well as ongoing improvement of their live video and text communication suite.

Presence detection goes hand in hand with chat and VOIP messaging. Channeling communications via preferred context based on location or circumstance is a hot topic, especially for dating and social networking where stickiness counts.

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