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Septebmer 23, 2003
ONLINE COMMUNITY DATALOUNGE.COM LOGS ONE MILLIONTH "THREAD" NEW YORK -- DataLounge.com, the oldest lesbian gay bisexual transgender news site on the Internet, announced toady it logged its one millionth discussion board "thread." Every news story on the site is linked to a specific discussion thread, and users can create their own new threads, many of which attract thousands of "posts" by other users. The site, launched May 1995 by Mediapolis, attracts over one million visitors each month and is often sited by other news outlets for its witty gossip column. It won the 1999 GLAAD Media Award for Best Web Site. Last year, in an interview with PlanetOut, actress Rosie O'Donnell spoke about DataLounge.com: "I do like to click around PlanetOut and the Data Lounge, to see what's up. Who's saying what. How often, how loudly." "Underlying the incredible content on the site, provided by editor Christopher Barillas and the site's users, is a technical system capable of processing and presenting millions of pages and forum posts every month," said Mediapolis principal Carl Pritzkat. "The fact that the site runs as efficiently and effectively as it does is because of Mediapolis and its Iowa content management system." Created by Mediapolis, Iowa is a Web publishing environment that simplifies the creation and maintenance of large scale Web sites through the sophisticated integration of industry-standard hardware, operating systems and applications. Its unique database structures and template-driven presentation synchronize with software and hardware modules to make it easily scalable at typical Web site bottlenecks. Iowa has been built from the ground up to deliver high performance and high availability Web serving at a fraction of the cost of other systems. "We're providing a thriving, exciting online community for over a million visitors a month -- all with a fraction of the resources of other similar services," said Pritzkat. "That's because we've built great tools for doing it." Mediapolis (www.mediapolis.com ) creates technology that simplifies the production of high profile, high performance Web sites. Since 1994, Mediapolis has used the Iowaš Software Suite to build more than 180 sites for clients including Sony Music, The New York Times and Johnson & Johnson.
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