Attending SXSW will give the LeapFish Team an opportunity to interact with social media thought leaders and early adopters in the online community. The Team has already scheduled meetings with Robert Scoble, tech-enthusiast, & Pete Cashmore, founder of Mashable.com.

SXSW has been known to increase organic adoption of emerging technologies, for example in 2007 Twitter was unknown to the masses prior to thier appearance at SXSW. Twitter was up against a site called “Dodgeball”,a location based check-in service, as  a breakout hit at the conference. Twitter went on to win several awards and shocked the online community with a new way to network.  Surprisingly, Dodgeball was not adopted and fell off, now this year the spotlight is now on the creators of Dodgeball, for their latest creation Foursquare, a new location based social application with a gaming twist.

Geo-Locating technology was ahead of it’s time in 2007 but this shows how trends in the online community can shift based on needs and interests. LeapFish was described as an alternative to Google and Bing, recently coming out of Beta in 2009. As the web evolves LeapFish continues to work with the social media community, applying innovations based on needs and interests. This year the talk of the town is real-time search and geo-locating technologies, two areas that LeapFish is currently developing and innovating.

If you would like to meet with a member of the LeapFish team please send a @ reply to @LenaShaw or @LeapFishMedia.

If you’re attending SXSW, visit The Plancast List of Events for event details.

See you there!

The Super Mixer brought local talent, business, and non-profits together with well over 350 guests in attendance. People were excited to discuss LeapFish’s growth, job opportunities and the innovative ways LeapFish is improving search on the new web.

LeapFish would like to thank the team at Bay Area Business Link for putting on another successful event and encourages all companies to take the time to research ways to become a green company. Green companies will play an integral part in the preservation of our environment moving forward, the time is now & the environment will not wait.

Please see below for a list of resources.

Business.Gov

Sustainable Business

Natural Resource Defense Council

The Green Office

TreeHugger Green Business & Politics

Green Business Articles from AllBusiness.com

PLEASANTON, CA – (February 25, 2010) – LeapFish, an evolved search engine, announced today the integration of Topsy into its real-time search results. Consumers can now identify the most popular, relevant and influential results on the real-time web.

Topsy is a search engine that finds the most talked about links on Twitter and organizes them by popularity and influence. Topsy’s index is available via its extensive open API called Otter, which powers LeapFish’s integration.

LeapFish’s real-time search empowers consumers with immediate access to live news, video and imagery for any real time topic.  Now through the integration of Topsy, LeapFish curates the Twitter stream into a powerful list of the most popular and influential links being shared in the real-time web.

“Real-time search just became a lot better,” said LeapFish CEO, Behnam Behrouzi.  “With Topsy’s aggregation intelligence, LeapFish users now have the most popular and influential links on Twitter identified for them,” said Behrouzi.

“LeapFish’s integration of Topsy’s ranked results provides a great example of the power and potential of the Otter API,” said Vipul Ved Prakash, CEO of Topsy. “Topsy is excited to support LeapFish’s innovative approach to providing users access to the hottest and best content,” said Prakash.

To learn more about the newest additions to the site, visit http://www.leapfish.com.

About LeapFish:

LeapFish is an evolved search engine that captures the traditional, multi-media and real-time Web, through a single, connected search platform for both searching and sharing content.  LeapFish is a privately held corporation headquartered out of CARR America Corporate Center in Pleasanton, California.  For more information, visit blog.leapfish.com.

About Topsy:

Topsy is a next-generation search platform powered by the social web. Based in San Francisco, Topsy is a privately held company founded by Vipul Ved Prakash, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, and Gary Iwatani. For more information, visit labs.topsy.com/about/.

PLEASANTON, CA (February 11, 2009) – LeapFish announced today that its multimedia search engine continues to grow in user base and that it anticipates more than 20 million searches in 2010.  The company reported strong early adopter growth in 2009 having reached a 10,000 Alexa rank in one year.

“We are seeing a great growth trajectory in the number of users setting their homepage to LeapFish,” said David Bruggeman, Vice President of Marketing. “LeapFish’s versatile homepage and its deep search results are serving as a great tool for searching the new multimedia web.”

The company reported that at its current growth rate and with its new partnerships, the search engine anticipates more than 20 million searches to be performed in 2010.  “Through search engine optimization, our growing affiliate network, partnerships with strategic software vendors and our continued organic adoption we are growing user base by large multiples this year,” said Behnam Behrouzi, president and CEO.  “Our product advancements in 2009 have helped gear the engine for an even bigger year in 2010,” he said.

In 2009 the company made substantial advancements and innovations to its growing search engine including; real time search, deeper search results, personalized homepages, content sharing features and proprietary Twitter and Facebook applications, that have helped grow the engine from an Alexa traffic ranking of 150,000 to 10,000 in less than one year.    “We are the only search platform searching all that users care about in the new web with over fifty providers including Google, Yelp, Twitter, Youtube, Mashable, Topsy, Wikipedia, and many others,” said Bruggeman.  “The innovations and data integrations from 2009 have set LeapFish apart and are clearly reflected in our Alexa traffic ranking,” he said.

The company also reported growing success with its unique ad model that boasts zero cost per click fees.  “Thousands of advertisers are securing high demand keywords that can deliver ROI in just a short period of time,” said Bruggeman.  “Over 80% of our advertisers renew their sponsorship for one year or more,” he said.

“My experience with LeapFish has been unbelievable. Since purchasing two key words from LeapFish, our website is getting quite a bit of viewing.  Sales are getting much better and the exposure is larger than I ever expected,” said advertiser Chad Levinger, of Temecula California.

LeapFish plans to release a secondary ad program to advertisers this spring.  For more information visit www.leapfish.com

About LeapFish

LeapFish is an evolved search engine that captures the traditional, multi-media and real-time Web, through a single, connected search platform for both searching and sharing content. LeapFish is a privately held corporation headquartered out of CARR America Corporate Center in Pleasanton, California. For more information, visit blog.leapfish.com.

PLEASANTON, CA – (January 27th, 2009) – LeapFish announced today the launch of its personalized homepage, empowering users with a single customizable page that captures all that they care about on the web. From Yahoo News to Mashable to Facebook to US Magazine Celebrity News and many other providers, consumers can now drag and drop their favorite portals and applications in a new easy to use homepage that loads everything in one window.

“Access everything you care about online from one homepage,” said LeapFish CEO Ben Behrouzi. “Users can now get their latest news, fully interact with their Twitter and Facebook accounts and share content, from a single easy to use page on the Internet,” he said.

The LeapFish homepage acts as a personalized dashboard to the Internet where everyone can get the latest news from the providers they choose, interact with their social networks and share the content they care about at anytime from one homepage. Two of the main features of the customizable homepage include Facebook and Twitter applications, where users can interact with their accounts without having to visit the sites separately.

The LeapFish homepage is equipped with a growing list of portals, applications and tools that users can easily add via a widgets page that currently offers about thirty five different widgets. Some of the homepage widgets currently available include Yahoo News, Celebrity News, Mashable, TechCrunch, Youtube Videos, Facebook and Twitter.

LeapFish plans to release more homepage widgets every month including an up-and-coming FourSquare widget. For more information on customizable LeapFish homepages, visit http://www.leapfish.com

About LeapFish:
LeapFish is an evolved search engine that captures the traditional, multi-media and real-time Web, through a single, connected search platform for both searching and sharing content. LeapFish is a privately held corporation headquartered out of CARR America Corporate Center in Pleasanton, California. For more information, visit blog.leapfish.com.

What started out as 10 sponsored kids, quickly turned to 39 and counting for a Salvation Army toy and supply drive driven by some kind hearted LeapFish employees.  Employees received ornaments symbolizing their sponsored child along with details on their sponsored child’s needs. Each employee purchased what their child needed and placed it under the company’s beautiful Holiday Giving Tree with delivery from Santa to the wonderful kids set for Christmas Eve!

Shepherds Gate, a Women and Children’s abuse shelter also received some holiday love from some kind hearted LeapFish employees this year as employees purchased boxes of kitchen supplies, educational toys, sports equipment and books for both the women and children. In addition, LeapFish is providing a Holiday meal to for the shelter and its residents this holiday season.

LeapFish is proud to contribute and help improve the lives of Greater Bay Area families. We hope to put a smile on each child’s face, and assist families in feeling the love that is shared during this special Holiday Season.

Happy holidays from all at LeapFish.

A few months ago LeapFish sponsored one of the first Silicon Valley Tweet Ups. Last night due to the positive response generated at TweetUps in the past, LeapFish was invited to do a live demo for 200+ technology enthusiasts in San Francisco.

The San Francisco New Tech MeetUp is a premiere networking community sponsored by the New York Times & Mashable. The MeetUp attracts the likes of VCs, journalists, hackers, techies, recruiters, CEOs, and bloggers, with a running total of 5 thousand active members.

BBC News describes SF New Tech as “a networking event in which the -next big thing- in web developments meets the audience looking out for the hot new tip.”

Last night was an event to remember, SFNewTech set a personal record with 7 companies presenting and LeapFish had the opportunity to close out the event and end the year strong with a very interactive demo!

Key influencers in the media attending the MeetUp were excited to engage and discuss LeapFish. In the end LeapFish received a positive response and the question of the night was “Are you hiring!?” The Team at LeapFish is proud to say we are hiring, growing and will continue to innovate your search experience online.

In closing our team at LeapFish would like to extend a big thank you to Myles Weissleder, for putting on another successful San Francisco New Tech MeetUp. We would also like to congratulate Twilio , Cubetree , PSD2CSS Online , Useful or Waste , Zuora , & Fido Factor on great presentations. Great Work and we’ll see you all in 2010!

PLEASANTON, CA – (December 14th, 2009) – LeapFish, a new multi-media and real-time search, communication, and sharing platform, announced today the integration of four new services.  The search platform now includes results from Digg, Facebook, Crunchbase and Scribd, expanding its reach for consumers on every search.

Perform a topic search and get news results from Digg.  Perform a company or person search and see profile results from Facebook and Crunchbase.  “LeapFish will continue to integrate more services and valuable content to equip users with a search engine that does an extensive search of the web,” said Ben Behrouzi, LeapFish CEO.

LeapFish’s latest release includes :

• Digg – Digg is a social news website made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet with over 527 Million Digg recommendations and 14 million submitted stories.

• Facebook – Facebook is the largest social networking user database with over 350 million users worldwide.

• Crunchbase – Crunchbase is a free directory of technology companies, people, and investors that anyone can edit with over 20 million page views each month.

• Scribd - Scribd is the largest social publishing network in the world with over 10 million documents published.

For more information on the recent release, visit http://blog.leapfish.com

About LeapFish:

LeapFish is an evolved search engine that captures the traditional, multi-media and real-time Web, through a single, connected search platform for both searching and sharing content.  LeapFish is a privately held, 100-person corporation headquartered out of CARR America Corporate Center in Pleasanton, California. For more information, visit blog.leapfish.com.

The Tweet-a-Cause for the Greater Bay Area Make-a-Wish Foundation is officially over.  Thousands of Tweets were generated by thousands of individuals supporting the cause and although the number Tweets fell short of the goal, LeapFish will be making Jacob’s wish come true anyway.

LeapFish has donated $10,000 to the Greater Bay Area Make-a-Wish Foundation and is sending Jacob to Disneyland with his family for a week!

Thanks to all of who Tweeted, published Facebook posts & made mention of the Tweet-A-Cause in blogs.  Jacob’s family is full of gratitude and thanks.

A Thank You From Jacob’s Mother:

Gratitude to all the special Angels at Make-A-Wish,

This will create a memory that will last a lifetime; bringing much needed healing and joy to our hearts.  As Jacob’s mother, I witnessed the reflection of joy and wonder in Jacob’s eyes I will never forget when he found out.  You provided a magical haven, a world away from daily cares and challenges that life threatening heart disease can bring; letting go of the emotional, mental, social challenges that Jacob faces in his life. Gratitude from the bottom of our hearts for everything!

LeapFish was proud to team up with the Greater Bay Area Make-a-Wish © Foundation in its first social media fundraiser and hopes more of such causes take form in the future.

The article covered the partnership between The Greater Bay Area Make-A-Wish Foundation and LeapFish that raised $10,000 to send a 4-year-old ill boy to Disneyland.

Excerpt from the Article:

Regarding the use of Social Media to promote Charities, ” It only takes a couple of moments a day to change the world…LeapFish, a Pleasanton search engine, has pledged to donate $10,000 if 100,000 Twitter messages are generated.”

Click here to read the article on SFGate.com:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/techchron/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=52391