Quick fact: visitors who interact on a stribed website spend 2x more time on the website than visitors who do not open Stribe.

Stribe increases dramatically the retention rate. It’s natural to see people sharing the same interests talking with each other for hours! The Pokemon Denshou business case is a great example about that.

This value proposition is very important for websites who want to increase users loyalty. But it’s not the only one! Stribe helps as well to generate more trafic for free. The new Stribe.com website brings together websites sharing the same interests to create more interaction and increase the visibility of content.

It takes only 5 minutes to install Stribe on a blog or website (we even provide a Wordpress plugin).

We will share other interesting metrics with you very soon!

After six months in private beta, Stribe opens today publicly its social network platform and unveils a major new feature that brings together websites sharing the same interests, enabling them to generate more traffic.

We have been working on this new service for several months and we are very excited to show you how simple it is now to generate social traffic on your website.

Why link together websites sharing the same interests?

Traffic acquisition is an issue for every website. Facebook or Twitter connect is a technical bridge to generate more social traffic. Link sharing is another way to improve indexation and get more traffic from search engines. However, it is time consuming, manual and not easy to deal with even for professionals and bloggers.

Stribe now helps websites to connect with social media and with other websites sharing the same interests to get more traffic.

Now, any website can socialize with others sharing the same interests to get more trafic and visibility!

New opportunities for websites

Join a “meta social network”: websites can look for communities, join them or create their own from www.stribe.com to link with others and boost their visibility in a ring of similar sites. This provides more relevant content for visitors.

Increase your traffic: All the content generated  by users will be shared by websites involved in the same community and indexed to improve SEO and drive again more traffic to “stribed” websites.

Feel free to invite any website now and generate more value and traffic. We are looking forward to hearing your feedbacks!

Manga, comics and cartoons are very popular and bring together passionate people who spend hours to talk and share with each other.

It is not surprising at all that pokemondenshou looks like to have felt in love with Stribe This website brings together more than 500 Portuguese speakers to experience online their passion for this famous Japanese manga.

This website was already established in the common social media sites but they needed Stribe to become a community and provide realtime interaction.  They even made a video about Stribe to explain to their users how to sign-in and use Stribe.

Get your dictionary if you’re not fluent in Portuguese

Few metrics about Pokemon Denshou: more than 14000 posts left in the newsfeed, hundred of private messages and IM sent every day, 30% of visitors use Stribe.

There are many “stribed” websites like this. We will present you now and then one of them.

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Starting from today, bloggers using WordPress can now install the Stribe plugin from the official wordpress.org repository, either by downloading it directly or by searching for the “Stribe Community Network” plugin in their WordPress admin interface.

After downloading the plugin files in the /wp-content/plugins/ directory, follow these simple steps to be up and running:

• Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress;
• Create your account on http://www.stribe.com to add your blog and get a Stribe API key;
• Go to the Settings section and fill in your API key;
• Go to your widget section and drag and drop the Stribe widget to your sidebar.

It’s done! Easy, uh?

And yes, Stribe can now be included as a widget in your sidebar! Just take a look our our own sidebar on this blog, you might find something interesting…

Stribe aims to be perfectly plug and play for all blogs and websites. We will continue to improve this plugin to minimize installation and configuration time even further, and we are not forgetting other platforms: we are developing other plugins and/or detailed installation steps for Joomla, Movable Type, Blogger, etc.

To reward user activity, we designed several badges. Now, when you sign-in and participate into your favorite Stribe community, you can get points and different gold, silver and bronze badges.

All your badges are visible in your profile to show visitors how important you are in the community.

So, if Gold is your favorite color: check-in, talk, send messages, comment, ask questions!

All badges will be displayed in the new newsfeed of Stribe.

To animate and fuel social conversations, we developed an automatic RSS sharing module that will leverage content created by bloggers and companies.

It’s very simple now to push your news from your blog into your Stribe communities and give to your visitors opportunities to share their opinion.

But there is more. In the next version of our service (coming next month… don’t tell anyone!), you will be able to invite any other website involved in the same topics than yours and display their content through their RSS feed. Your own feed entries can as well be pushed to their visitors. All these visibility settings will be customizable in your administration interface.

These news can be read, commented and liked with any Connect like Facebook or Twitter.

Take advantage now of this content sharing and join a Stribe community!

You can now sign into Stribe with your Facebook, Twitter, Google, or Linkedin account. It’s so easy! Write a message and when you post it, a login popup appears to invite you to create an account, sign-in if you have already a Stribe account or use a third-party social account like Flickr, Blogger, Aol or Yahoo!

How to share with your friends & followers

When you leave a message in the Stribe newsfeed, you can share it easily with your friends and followers on Twitter or Facebook. Just tick the Facebook or Twitter checkbox and the message will be visible in your wall or tweets.

We are looking forward to present you other new and exciting features!

More than 3000 websites have received an invitation to beta-test Stribe since LeWeb. Our Community Network has been visible in more than 10 million web pages talking about media, gaming, blog posts, shopping…

We’ve got many feedbacks telling us to simplify and improve the user experience and that’s what we have done! “Less is more” so we kept redesigning Stribe and focusing on the core features. In the same time, some important features were missing like Twitter Connect, RSS push, or user points and badges… but we will talk about that later.

A New Newsfeed:

The first  big thing to do was to redesign the “Public Chat Box” into a simple  “Newsfeed”. People were using this module like a news feed and needed a better way to understand and follow different conversations.

Before

To ease Stribe integration, we redesigned as well the “docked” toolbar. Webmasters can now use Stribe and another toolbar at the same time. They can as well choose the location on the screen: top/right or bottom/right. We also added notifications and visual indicators.

Before

After

A New Administration Interface:

The administration module to moderate the community and customize the Stribe look and feel was available inside the Stribe bar, which was pretty confusing. Many webmasters and bloggers asked us to turn this module into a dedicated administration website, so we moved these functionalities into the back-office.

A New User Experience:

We rethought and redesigned all the user experience to put forward social activity and simplify the Stribe navigation. All modules have been put on the top of the sidebar to see better where you are and what you can do.

We are very excited to show you the new features and cool things that we designed for you!

Breaking news: Organizers of LeWeb’09 just announced that Stribe is the winner of the 2009 European Startup Competition. This is an amazing recognition of all the hard work of Stribe team. This motivates us to further improve Stribe by listening to your feedback!

Today we have proudly announced two new major features, requested by many of our customers:

• Stribe, now, integrates seamlessly with Facebook accounts via FB Connect, which improves the end user experience and dramatically increases the user acquisition ratio in your community.
• Stribe is now available in White Label configuration. You can have your own community fully branded, with custom design matching the look and feel of your website. Single sign-on process integration is naturally available, as well.

We would like to thank all the people, partners and customers who supported us so far. We are committing to work even harder to match your expectations. Stay tuned for 2010 as it will be a very exciting new year for Stribe!

Stribe has been selected for the european startup competition LeWeb’09!

We will announce tomorrow morning on stage two new, significant features that many of our customers asked us. Support us on Twitter #stribe and check out the live video feed for the startup competition room!

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