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Rounds Launches Intelligent Matching System for Users to Hang Out with Second Degree Friends and Meet New People
With Data from More Than 250 Million Sessions, Company Launches Intelligent Social Matching Algorithm and Leads the Hangout Space
TEL AVIV, Israel, May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Rounds, the world's only "communitainment" platform, combining video chat and social apps into one fun real-time consumer experience, announced today the launch of a social matching algorithm, which allows Rounds' five million users to connect with their friends of friends and hang out with people they are most likely to find interesting.
Users can now call any friends of friends who are online in the platform and engage in Rounds interactive chat sessions, which combines secure video chats with games and the ability to dynamically share content together. Using the platform's intelligent "Meet New People" feature, users are also encouraged to pair up with new people for a meaningful chat discussion. The advanced system helps users by suggesting conversation topics and tips based on their mutual likes, interests and social graph.
Rounds is the web's leading lab for meeting people with similar interests and currently hosts more than one million sessions a day, monitored in real-time, ensuring all interactions are conducted appropriately. Rounds enforces a zero tolerance policy and for that purpose it partnered with Face.com, which helps the company identify users with age discrepancies or those who misbehave. Since its launch, the company has also banned more than 65,000 users indefinitely from the system.
The advanced matching algorithm that Rounds has developed, explores the users' likes, history, social graph, location, and demographics to find the most suitable and engaging users for live hangouts. Using the platform's data from over 250 million sessions, Rounds identifies and categorizes users the moment they register and continues to tweak and customize their account, based on their activity on the platform and other users' feedback and thus creating a social hangout DNA. This allows Rounds to offer a tailored experience for its users, resulting in a significant competitive advantage for the platform among existing players and new enterers, such as Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning's Airtime.
"Rounds is much more than just a chat platform, it's a real time social network that encourages relationship building and lifelong connections," said Rounds CEO and co-founder Dany Fishel. "With our new social matching algorithm, we are allowing our users to easily broaden their social circles and actually meet new people that we know will be of interest to them, as opposed to just randomly friending someone that Facebook recommends. This is a very powerful feature that sets us apart from any competitor and will allow us to continue our explosive user base growth."
About Rounds
Rounds is the only "communitainment" platform in the world, combining video chat (communication) and social apps (entertainment) into one fun real-time consumer experience available across operating systems and devices. Rounds users enjoy the closest experience to actually hanging out in the real world. The company has raised a total of $5.5 million in funding from industry leading investors, including Rhodium, Verizon Ventures, DFJ's Tim Draper, and other professional angels. The Rounds Video Chat Facebook Application can be added at http://apps.facebook.com/chatrounds. For more information, visit http://www.rounds.com or contact Natasha Shine-Zirkel at natasha@rounds.com.
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Rounds
CONTACT: Lisa Kornblatt, SS|PR, +1-847-415-9330, lkornblatt@sspr.com
Web Site: http://www.rounds.com
Rounds Launches Intelligent Matching System for Users to Hang Out with Second Degree Friends and Meet New People
With Data from More Than 250 Million Sessions, Company Launches Intelligent Social Matching Algorithm and Leads the Hangout Space
TEL AVIV, Israel, May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Rounds, the world's only "communitainment" platform, combining video chat and social apps into one fun real-time consumer experience, announced today the launch of a social matching algorithm, which allows Rounds' five million users to connect with their friends of friends and hang out with people they are most likely to find interesting.
Users can now call any friends of friends who are online in the platform and engage in Rounds interactive chat sessions, which combines secure video chats with games and the ability to dynamically share content together. Using the platform's intelligent "Meet New People" feature, users are also encouraged to pair up with new people for a meaningful chat discussion. The advanced system helps users by suggesting conversation topics and tips based on their mutual likes, interests and social graph.
Rounds is the web's leading lab for meeting people with similar interests and currently hosts more than one million sessions a day, monitored in real-time, ensuring all interactions are conducted appropriately. Rounds enforces a zero tolerance policy and for that purpose it partnered with Face.com, which helps the company identify users with age discrepancies or those who misbehave. Since its launch, the company has also banned more than 65,000 users indefinitely from the system.
The advanced matching algorithm that Rounds has developed, explores the users' likes, history, social graph, location, and demographics to find the most suitable and engaging users for live hangouts. Using the platform's data from over 250 million sessions, Rounds identifies and categorizes users the moment they register and continues to tweak and customize their account, based on their activity on the platform and other users' feedback and thus creating a social hangout DNA. This allows Rounds to offer a tailored experience for its users, resulting in a significant competitive advantage for the platform among existing players and new enterers, such as Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning's Airtime.
"Rounds is much more than just a chat platform, it's a real time social network that encourages relationship building and lifelong connections," said Rounds CEO and co-founder Dany Fishel. "With our new social matching algorithm, we are allowing our users to easily broaden their social circles and actually meet new people that we know will be of interest to them, as opposed to just randomly friending someone that Facebook recommends. This is a very powerful feature that sets us apart from any competitor and will allow us to continue our explosive user base growth."
About Rounds
Rounds is the only "communitainment" platform in the world, combining video chat (communication) and social apps (entertainment) into one fun real-time consumer experience available across operating systems and devices. Rounds users enjoy the closest experience to actually hanging out in the real world. The company has raised a total of $5.5 million in funding from industry leading investors, including Rhodium, Verizon Ventures, DFJ's Tim Draper, and other professional angels. The Rounds Video Chat Facebook Application can be added at http://apps.facebook.com/chatrounds. For more information, visit http://www.rounds.com or contact Natasha Shine-Zirkel at natasha@rounds.com.
SOURCE Rounds
Rounds
CONTACT: Lisa Kornblatt, SS|PR, +1-847-415-9330, lkornblatt@sspr.com
Web Site: http://www.rounds.com