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SAMEPOINT LAUNCHES UNIVERSAL SOCIAL MEDIA API; EXTENDS SOCIAL MEDIA THROUGHOUT THE ENTERPRISE

New York, NY, Oct. 19, 2009 - Samepoint, LLC, the leading social media analytics platform, is making its vast firehose of social media data available to organizations, adv./pr agencies and social media marketers via the release of the Samepoint Universal Social Media API. The new API offers unlimited access to a treasure trove of social media data and will serve as a primary, real-time data feed for many Enterprise 2.0 applications.

Available immediately, the Samepoint API integrates tens-of-millions of social media sources, including Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Digg, blogs, message boards, review sites, podcasts and much more. Through basic HTTP calls, you can bring a wide range of functional search requests easily within an application framework.

Samepoint's API supports advanced search capabilities to deliver more precise and filtered results. From word exclusion to words mentioned within a certain number of characters from one another, the API allows for sophisticated syntax queries.

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In addition to Twitter, Samepoint's API searches comments on popular social news sites, such as Digg and Delicious, video sites such as YouTube and Truveo, reviews from Amazon and Yelp, discussion boards from Yahoo, and many more popular services.

For more information about the company's Universal Social Media API, please visit the company's API developer site at at http://www.samepoint.biz.