Unfortunately, these days you can’t help but hear dreary news when it comes to the economy and how more and more people are losing their jobs.  Fortunately, at LeapFish we have a bit of a better hiring story to tell.  LeapFish is hiring and looking for talent in many areas!

We believe our people are our power and when it comes to attracting the right people, we have given a lot of thought to the careers that motivate professionals. We offer our team members intellectual power and independent insight. This in turn creates an entrepreneurial environment where a professional can reach their potential sooner and explore a full range of opportunities.

LeapFish encourages an open and communicative workplace, as well as an environment of growth and learning. We offer a great opportunity to learn and grow along with competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits.

If you seek an environment where you can embrace challenge, make an impact and enjoy significant growth, Join us!

We are currently accepting resumes for the following opportunities:

• Inside Sales Representative
• Regional Sales Managers
• Client Services Representative
• Project Manager
• Network Engineer
• Sr. Network Engineer
• Software Engineer
• Sr. Software Engineer

To apply online visit us at http://www.dotnextinc.com/Careers.aspx

Silicon Valley Search Startup Comes Out of Beta & Debuts First Real-Time, Multi-media, Social Search Engine Combining Searching and Sharing

PLEASANTON, Calif. – November 5, 2009 – LeapFish, an upcoming search and social media innovator, today unveiled the new multi-media and real-time search, communication, and sharing platform that gives consumers the most convenient, fun, and personalized way to experience and share the traditional and real-time Web – the new “Living Web.”

The LeapFish search experience empowers consumers with the ability to manage the two things they do most often online:  “search” and “share.” “Real-time and social are major movements and its time consumers are empowered with an ability to share to the real-time and social Web when they are most engaged – while searching the Web,” said Ben Behrouzi, Founder and CEO of LeapFish.

The new search platform seamlessly combines the ability to search and share real-time and traditional content in any media format in a single interface across a range of different sites (e.g., Twitter, Facebook, Digg).

“Aside from the Web’s growing size and variety there is an emerging duality of “real-time” and “traditional,” which now requires a completely different search experience.  One that includes both the content and the “contributor” in the search experience, such that both traditional and real-time searching and sharing are integrated seamlessly in our use of this Living Web,” said Behrouzi.

The new LeapFish search experience offers consumers a real-time search engine, a technically advanced customizable personal homepage, more multi-media results from the entire Web and the ability to share any piece of content found online.

LeapFish Search Engine Features :

Real-Time Search Engine : A fresh multi-media real-time search engine capturing results from all containers of real-time content (e.g., Twitter, YouTube, Twitpic, Flickr).

Searching and Sharing : Easy and convenient sharing features empower users to merge traditional content into the social and real-time Web as they search and find content anywhere online (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Digg).

Variety of the Web : Delivering rich multi-media content from the deep and wide new Web via integration of leading authorities in website aggregation, videos, images, news, blogs, tweets and much more on every search query (e.g., YouTube, CNN, Twitter).

Personal Internet Dashboard : Technically advanced customizable personal homepage allowing consumers to build their own dashboard to the Internet by adding multiple news feeds, blogs, applications, tools and more (e.g., Facebook Application, Twitter Application, Mashable Feed).

Until a few years ago consumers came to the Web to just search for simple information.  Now the Web is a place where people come to also share information.  Information today that is multi-media and more complex in nature.  “LeapFish refers to this new place as The Living Web, and has developed an evolved search engine to help consumers get the most from it – a service to help consumers Live the Web,” said Behrouzi.

To try the new search experience for yourself, visit http://www.leapfish.com/.

So what makes a Spooktacular LeapFish Halloween Bash? Great Employees, Great Food, Creative Costumes, Fabulous Decorations and a Costume Contest with awesome prizes!

This time last year the office was celebrating Halloween and gearing up for the launch of LeapFish Beta. This year will be hard to forget, from the life-size kissing booth to the scariest of Zombies, LeapFish truly captured the spooky spirit of Halloween and everyone had a great time.

Congratulations to the Jungle a.k.a Halloween Allstars who not only won a private preview of LeapFish 2.0 prior to the highly anticipated launch this November but also took first place as the winning team in our Costume Contest!

A big thank you to all LeapFish employees who participated in this years festivities! Without our people LeapFish is nothing. Every LeapFish employee plays an important role and we are thankful to be part of a loyal team of people  and it is through them that we’ve been able to perform month after month & continue to celebrate our success.

Our Team at LeapFish wishes everyone a safe and fruitful Holiday Season and looks forward to an even bigger and better 2010!

So what exactly is a Tweet Up? A Tweet Up is a geeky term for a networking event that takes place in person beyond the 140 characters of a “tweet”.  In other words a “tweet up” is an in person “meet up” for those that have connected via Twitter. This event has gone above and beyond the expectations of the Silicon Valley Tweet Up (SVTweetUp) founder Michael Brito, Social Media Strategist for Intel. After a few short months SVTweetUp has grown into a premier social event attracting bloggers, leading PR  professionals and social media evangelists including Brian Solis, published author.

LeapFish agreed to sponsor the 3^rd Silicon Valley Tweet Up with special book signing by Brian Solis. Solis is globally recognized for his views and insights on the convergence of PR, Traditional Media and Social Media & is considered one of the original thought leaders who paved the way for Social Media.

Key influencers in the media attending the TweetUp were excited to engage and discuss LeapFish. The LeapFish team conducted several interviews with key media outlets including top tech publication ZDNet and top Social Media authors Brian Solis & Shel Israel.

Michael Brito, a top influencer in the Social Media, Search and  Tech Industry also took the time to review LeapFish prior to the event, he was delighted with the search experience stating “What I dig about LeapFish is that you can pretty much find every piece of content related to any specific search query”.

In closing, our team at LeapFish would like to extend a big thank you  to Michael Brito & The Anissa Lopez Foundation for putting on another succesful Silicon Valley Tweet Up.  Great work!

For many Americans, the passing of legendary news anchor Walter Cronkite on Friday brought up fond memories of tuning in to CBS during the 1960s and 1970s to hear “the most trusted man in America” present the Nation’s latest news and current events. Cronkite, who spent 19 years delivering the evening news to households across America, became one of the country’s most well liked and credible sources for information in a pre-Internet era. Through war, political scandal, the assassination of John F. Kennedy and NASA’s landings on the moon, Americans found themselves looking to Cronkite’s daily reports as their primary means of keeping apprised of current events and gathering the most relevant, real-time details as historical events unfolded on their televisions.

Cronkite was known for his objective reporting, and stood out as a leader in breaking news to the public as quickly as possible. When reporting the shots fired at JFK’s motorcade, he began speaking about the story before the cameras could be set up and in 1973, as Cronkite reported on the death of Lyndon B. Johnson, he appeared on screen while simultaneously holding a telephone conversation in order to relay the details of the story as they were told to him by Johnson’s Press Secretary. Evidently, Cronkite recognized the public’s interest in real-time access to important news and developments and provided timely reports whenever possible.

In honoring Cronkite’s career and dedication to providing up-to date information, it seems timely to kick off the countdown to our own launch date with our first official hint of what’s to come in our upcoming release of Leapfish 2.0: real-time search!

LeapFish, the new multimedia search engine, announced on June 29^th the release of its new lucrative Affiliate Program that offers site owners an added avenue of monetizing their sites with Free LeapFish Search Widgets.

To kick the affiliate program off, LeapFish is giving 1 of the first 1000 affiliates a Free Macbook Air!  The LeapFish Search Widgets are free and offer site owners income for every search performed from their sites.  You can sign up as an affiliate and enter to win here.

The LeapFish Search Widget is a direct access point to LeapFish’s innovative, multi-dimensional search engine that aggregates a variety of data from a growing list of major portals such as Yahoo, MSN, YouTube, eBay, and others.  Through LeapFish.com, users are presented with conventional results as well as relevant videos, images and more, all in one convenient, clean interface.

Once 1000 LeapFish Affiliates enroll a Free Macbook Air will be awarded to one lucky winner.

Here’s How it Works :

• Get Yourself Entered As a LeapFish Affiliate at http://www.leapfish.com/affiliates/
• Simply Install The Search Widget On Your Website or Blog
• Send a Quick Screenshot (jpg, png or gif) And The Website URL to affiliates@leapfish.com
• Sit Back and Earn Cash From Every Search Performed From Your Site!
• Once 1000 Affiliate Members Have Successfully Entered Someone Will Win a Brand New Macbook Air!

To Enter the program and earn cash for every search from your site and enroll to win a new Macbook Air, click here.

Web Site Owners Earn Income by Installing LeapFish Multimedia Search Widgets

PLEASANTON, CA – (June 29, 2009) – LeapFish, the new multimedia search engine, announced today the release of its lucrative Affiliate Program that offers site owners an added avenue of monetizing their sites and blogs.  The affiliate program is open to all publishers and offers a growing list of installable widgets including LeapFish Search and LeapFish Domain Valuations. 

“The LeapFish Affiliate Program offers a great vehicle for Search 2.0 adopters to support the migration to multimedia search, while simultaneously empowering affiliates and publishers with a new found ability to monetize their current websites.” said Ben Behrouzi, CEO of DotNext, parent company of LeapFish. “There is no limitation on the income that affiliates can earn with our program,” said Behrouzi.

Today’s LeapFish Affiliate Program release includes :

• The LeapFish Search Widget is a direct access point to LeapFish’s innovative, multi-dimensional search engine that aggregates a variety of data from a growing list of major portals such as Yahoo, MSN, YouTube, eBay, and others. Through LeapFish.com, users are presented with conventional results as well as relevant videos, images and more, all in one convenient, clean interface. Each search originating from an affiliate’s installed widget generates income for the affiliate.
• The LeapFish Domain Name Appraisal Widget provides an accurate and fresh valuation of nearly any domain name instantaneously and right on site. LeapFish uses a proprietary valuation algorithm that considers length, traffic, age, link popularity and other factors to instantaneously appraise nearly any domain name.

LeapFish’s new Affiliate Program is set to release more widgets this year including a prepackaged version of its new engine that offers the variety of the web right on an affiliate’s website.  For more information about the LeapFish Affiliate Program, visit leapfish.com/affiliates/

7th annual Stevie® Awards will be presented on June 22 in New York City

PLEASANTON, CA ( June 17, 2009) – LeapFish was named a Finalist in the Best Interface Design category in The 2009 American Business Awards.  More than 2,600 entries from companies of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted for consideration in more than 40 categories.

LeapFish, launched by DotNext in November 2008, is a multimedia search engine that is helping to pioneer what is known as Search 2.0.  “LeapFish is working hard to capture the growing multimedia Web in a single, easy to use interface,” said CEO Ben Behrouzi.  “We are delighted to have been selected as a Finalist for the Stevie Award’s Best Interface Design and congratulate all of the other Finalists for their innovations and advancements”.

Members of the Awards’ Board of Distinguished Judges & Advisors and their staffs will select Stevie Award winners from among Finalists in final judging that was completed on June 3.  Finalists were chosen by business professionals nationwide during preliminary judging in April through early May.  Stevie Award winners will be announced during the annual gala on Monday, June 22 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City.

“Despite very tough economic conditions, many organizations and individuals continue to perform well,” said Michael Gallagher, founder and president of The Stevie Awards.  “The results of the 2009 ABAs thus far are a testament to the resilience, creativity, and hard work of American organizations, executives, and workers.”

PHISHING ATTACK – LEAPFISH SCAM ALERT :

LeapFish advertisers have recently reported an individual who is sending a large number of anonymous emails to LeapFish advertisers identified on Twitter, Phishing for Personal Information, Attacking the LeapFish Brand, Spreading Propaganda and in some cases attempting to Cancel an Advertiser’s Account while gaining access to their Credit Card Information.  LeapFish has identified the attacker as someone who has been attacking LeapFish clients and Employees on Twitter, Blogs and via email in order to gain access to personal and confidential corporate information.  One example of the initial Phishing Attack email is provided below :

From: annonymous@annonymous.com

Date: April 13, 2009 9:02:29 AM PDT

To: ##########

Subject: Website request for: LeapFish

Name: A Good Citizen

Mail address: annonymous@annonymous.com

Message sent from  ##########:

Saw your question about LeapFish on Twitter and I can help you with questions and your account with them.

This is a standard notification informing our customers that these anonymous Phishing emails did not originate from LeapFish Corporate. All legitimate communications from LeapFish will arrive from an official LeapFish.com email address.  All sensitive client information remains secure and accessible by authorized parties only, unless you provide your information to the attacker.

LeapFish has initiated a formal investigation of the full criminal matter and will provide an official update shortly.

For more information on phishing scams visit :  Phishing Attacks

Please assist us by forwarding any suspicious emails to support@leapfish.com or by contacting us directly at 888-748-5510.