---
title: "Thanks Sponsors"
date: 2007-11-16
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2007"
    url: "/tag/2007.md"
---

# Thanks Sponsors

![](https://web.archive.org/web/20091202011036im_/http://farm1.static.flickr.com/24/68119962_543b08394e_m.jpg)A big Thanksgiving **thank you** to our sponsors for supporting Read/WriteWeb. We have an amazing line-up of sponsors, all supporting RWW’s mission to provide quality analysis about Web Technology.

[Quintura](https://web.archive.org/web/20091202011036/http://www.quintura.com/) uses advanced visualization techniques to enhance the search engine user experience. Check out the Quintura Cloud on our network blog [AltSearchEngines](https://web.archive.org/web/20091202011036/http://www.altsearchengines.com/) as an example (where Quintura is a lead sponsor).

[Hakia](https://web.archive.org/web/20091202011036/http://www.hakia.com/) is a leading semantic search engine and also a lead sponsor of our AltSearchEngines site. Hakia recently released Meet Others, a social networking feature where you can meet people searching for the same topics as you.

[Lijit](https://web.archive.org/web/20091202011036/http://www.lijit.com/referrer/wijit?id=readwriteweb) offers excellent search tools and widgets for your blog. Using Lijit, you serve as a filter for search results for your readers. You also get detailed stats to help you understand your reader community.

[Etelos](https://web.archive.org/web/20091202011036/http://www.etelos.com/dm/article.espx?show=12977) CRM for Google Apps is an impressive Customer Relationship Management (CRM) application that leverages the Google Apps platform. There are four editions: Personal, Professional, Enterprise, and Developer.

[Zoho](https://web.archive.org/web/20091202011036/http://www.zoho.com/) is a leading Web Office suite, with IMO the most comprehensive product range of all the online office suites. This week Zoho [launched](https://web.archive.org/web/20091202011036/http://writer.zoho.com/public/raju/Writer-Update) a major upgrade to Zoho Writer, featuring Pagination Support, Headers/Footers Support, and Spell Check in 43 languages.

[Compete](https://web.archive.org/web/20091202011036/http://searchanalytics.compete.com/?src=rww001) is an online competitive intelligence service that combines site metrics and search analytics in one site. Compete’s recently released Search Analytics is a great way to build search marketing campaigns.

[Userplane](https://web.archive.org/web/20091202011036/http://www.userplane.com/webmessenger/index.cfm?utm_source=readwriteweb&utm_medium=banner&utm_content=wm2) is a provider of communication software for online communities. As well as instant messaging, Webmessenger 2 has a Presence system that allows sites to display and leverage online user ‘presence’ù anywhere. Check out the new Flash-based Userlist, which lets users easily manage buddies, find online users, and launch IM’s.

[AdaptiveBlue](https://web.archive.org/web/20091202011036/http://www.adaptiveblue.com/) is developing personalization technologies that leverage semantics and attention. Check out their SmartLinks, which we use here at RWW to display our network blogs (see sidebar).

[Eurekster](https://web.archive.org/web/20091202011036/http://swicki.eurekster.com/) is a search engine that learns from the community’s search behavior, so it gets better the more you use it. I use it myself nearly every day, to research RWW articles!

[MediaTemple](https://web.archive.org/web/20091202011036/http://www.mediatemple.net/.%3E/9r-readwriteweb.com) provides hosting for RWW – and has also been a huge help moving us from MovableType 3 to MT 4, and to a new server. So thanks (mt) and also [SixApart](https://web.archive.org/web/20091202011036/http://www.sixapart.com/) for that!

## Sponsor Opportunities

If you would like to enquire about sponsoring Read/WriteWeb and/or our network blogs [last100](https://web.archive.org/web/20091202011036/http://www.last100.com/), [AltSearchEngines](https://web.archive.org/web/20091202011036/http://www.altsearchengines.com/) and [Read/WriteTalk](https://web.archive.org/web/20091202011036/http://readwritetalk.com/), please [email the editor](https://web.archive.org/web/20091202011036/mailto:readwriteweb@gmail.com) for a Media Kit.

Pic: [Elevated](https://web.archive.org/web/20091202011036/http://www.flickr.com/photos/elevated/68119962/)

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/thanks_sponsors_17nov07.php))*