Coupons are conveniently scattered around the web, you can find LeapFish on sites such as SuperCoolCoupons , Couponit , CouponChief , and Retailmenot.

Click here to redeem your coupon code today!

LeapFish has partnered with CafePress and now LeapFish is part of the worlds largest collection of user-designed products!

Head on over to the store and see what LeapFish goodies grab your attention. Don’t be shy if you have a request let us know!

Last week LeapFish helped sponsor web/search strategist & well respected blogger Bas Van Den Beld on his journey to Search Engine Strategies in New York. If you were at the conference you may have seen Bas as part of the group “Search Cowboys”. Bas currently writes for SearchEngineLand, SearchEngineWatch, SearchCowboys and is the Chief Editor at State of Search.  Last year LeapFish sponsored the hit evening event at Search Engine Strategies San Jose, SearchBash , with well over two thousand attendees and was delighted to sponsor Bas.

Search Engine Strategies New York is the premiere search event with well over 6,000 attendees this year and LeapFish was excited to contribute to the conference.  Bas goes on to describe his experience:

“Thanks for Leapfish for sponsoring me to get to SES New York. It is THE place to be when it comes to search engine marketing conferences and I’m glad I didn’t miss it. Next year I’m looking forward to seeing the Leapfish people at the conference ”

Bas writes with authority and always speaks true to innovation in search technology.  You can follow Bas Van Den Beld’s post’s here.

The Tri-Valley YMCA Healthy Kids Day is part of Activate America, an innovative public health initiative of the YMCA movement. Activate America is making healthy living a reality for millions of families.

LeapFish promotes a healthy and active environment and enjoys seeing kids take part in fun physical activities. Grab your kids & join LeapFish on Saturday, April 24th from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 at Amador Valley Community Park, 4301 Black Avenue, in Pleasanton.

The LeapFish Team realizes we have users nationwide so please click here to find a Healthy Kids Day event in your area.

Have fun and stay healthy!

Want to win a Free MacBook Air?  In celebration of March Madness, LeapFish, a new way to search share and stay connected online, has decided to give one lucky user a MacBook Air!

It could be the highest ROI on any Tweet you ever send.  Simply set up a LeapFish Social Profile and send a Tweet to win!

Due to popular demand the contest has been extended to the end of the month! One profile page will be selected on April 30th 2010, but you have to be in it to win it!

Here’s how it works :

1. Set up a LeapFish Social Media Profile Page Here
2. Send profile page URL to @LeapFishMedia to be entered in the contest
3. If you do not have a twitter account , you can post your Profile URL on the LeapFish FaceBook Fanpage Here

Example Below:

Win a MacBook Air From @LeapFishMedia http://bit.ly/aBKzoG Here is my #LeapFish Profile! http://bit.ly/9GkqTw

The Winner will be announced on Twitter and on this blog in April.

Good luck!



The article goes on to discuss the need for real time results in search engines. Studies have shown that users are not finding Google Real Time results useful leading researches to believe that the results in general are not useful. However with their recent announcement, Twitter has seen a rush in innovation allowing smaller real time search engines to have access to their “firehose” feed.  Bas goes on to state that “Bing could be one of the real time search engines and compete with the likes of LeapFish”.

Behrouzi believes there are two types of real time searches that will attract users to sites like LeapFish:

“There are two types of real time searches,” Behrouzi said. “One occurs passively when the user is searching for a specific, potentially non real-time topic and they are offered real time results. The second occurs when a user is actively looking for a real time search experience for a particular topic. Including real time results in SERPs only addresses the first type of real time search, because it is an inadequate experience real-time content. The second type of real time search must be answered with a more multimedia experience that not only captures the piece of news occurring in real-time but also delivers the key imagery, video and opinions that users are looking for when actively performing a real-time search.”

Click here to read article

PLEASANTON, CA – (March 16, 2009) – Ben Behrouzi, President and CEO of DotNext, parent to brands including LeapFish.com, announced today that his Pleasanton California based company is growing to an additional 150 employees in 2010.

DotNext is looking for talented local bay area professionals with search engine marketing, search engine optimization, sales, Microsoft software development or client support experience for new positions announced today.  “Despite a tough economy DotNext is growing and looking for talented professionals to become part of the team,” said Behrouzi, who anticipates the number of employees to approach near 250 in the bay area by the end of the year.

“Growth anywhere is critical to see given the current local and national unemployment rates,” said Behrouzi, who refers to the 10.5% national and near 11% Alameda and Contra Costa county unemployment rates. DotNext currently occupies 15,000 square feet of office space at Pleasanton’s Carr America Corporate center and is preparing to expand to 40,000 square feet of space in 2010.

Behrouzi, who has been recognized as a top 40 under 40 Silicon Valley entrepreneur for helping build brands including iMotors, AgentConnect and LeapFish, also cofounded San Ramon based Reply.com in 2001 which recently filed for a $60 million 2010 IPO on February 22^nd.

To learn more about DotNext and current job openings, visit www.dotnextinc.com.

About DotNext :

Founded in 2006, DotNext is a privately held Internet company operating a growing series of online brands in search, social media and performance based marketing headquartered out of Pleasanton California.  For more information, visit www.dotnextinc.com.

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/.