SANTA MONICA, Calif. (June 13, 2007) - Userplane, the premier communication platform for online communities and a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL, today announced the deployment of its Webchat application on Confabb, the Web’s largest resource for conferences and trade shows.

Webchat enables real-time text messaging and streaming audio/video communication for any website. Confabb is using it to allow attendees, speakers and administrators of any conference or trade show communicate with each other online, and to participate in ongoing discussions about conference details and session topics before and during events.

Maintaining a growing database of more than 29,000 conferences worldwide, Confabb has built an online community that provides tools to help people maximize the time they spend planning for and attending conferences and trade shows.

“As we further expand and enhance our application suite, we’ve hoped companies would embrace our tools for this exact purpose,” said Michael Jones, CEO of Userplane and vice president of AOL. “The Webchat platform is a perfect fit for extending the conference experience outside the physical event. Allowing a shared social space for professionals to discover and connect with their industry is a natural next step for business events, and brings substantial added value to conference attendees.”

“Userplane makes it easy to enhance our online community with the most robust and feature-rich communication tools available,” said Jon Mandell, COO, Confabb. “Just like the conferences themselves, Confabb is more than just a place to get information. It’s a thriving community of people connecting and sharing ideas, and Webchat helps us make that personal connection possible.”

Confabb is providing Userplane’s chat capabilities to its hosted clients, and soon will open it up to all members of the online conference community. So far, Confabb has made Webchat application available to administrators of the Personal Democracy Forum 2007.

Next, Confabb will offer both text and a/v chat for Take Back America 2007, billed as “the premier progressive event of the year.” Set for mid-June in Washington, D.C., Take Back America 2007 expected to draw thousands of progressive activists and leaders – including many 2008 presidential candidates. In addition to chat capabilities, Confabb will live stream audio and video content promoting the event’s sessions and speakers.

Leveraging Macromedia’s robust Flash Communication Server technology, Userplane applications enable community, dating, corporate and collaborative websites to rapidly deploy a scalable, centrally-hosted a/v chat room for their users. Userplane is used on more than 150,000 websites.

About Confabb
www.confabb.com

Confabb is the largest database of major conferences, conventions and trade shows in the world, sorted by industry. On top of this powerful resource are social networking tools which help people find, plan for and create a total conference experience. Confabb uses reputation management to let conference attendees, speakers, organizers and administrators critique and review events they have attended and want to share. This is all layered on top of a social network designed to bring “hallway conversations” into long lasting meaningful business relationships. No other resource contains as comprehensive a listing of events or as robust a tool set for maximizing the conference experience. Conferences are opportunities. Don't miss yours!

About Userplane
www.userplane.com

A wholly owned subsidiary of AOL, Userplane is the world’s premier communication platform for online communities. The company’s hosted applications enable instant community and communication for websites of any scale and audience. The combination of instant and elegant with robust and powerful has made the platform a must-have for thriving sites worldwide – supporting millions of daily users. Founded in 2001 by long-time partners Michael Jones, Nate Thelen, and Javier Hall, Userplane is a diverse and talented team headquartered in Santa Monica, Calif.

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