Paltalk Receives 5 Stars Award from Soft82.com Editors

Soft82 honors Paltalk for Excellence in Internet Video Chat

NEW YORK, NY - July 23, 2009 - Paltalk, the leading real-time, video-based community with over 4 million active members, today announced they have won an award for excellence in the video chat industry. Soft82 editors have recognized Paltalk for its high-quality features that make the service one of the top video chat providers in the world.

Paltalk receives 5 of 5 stars from Soft82. Paltalk v9.8 allows users to video chat, send IMs and join chat rooms with anyone in the world for free. Users can browse or search thousands of free chat rooms, or create their own. Plus, the SuperIM feature enables webcam chat with up to 10 people at once with rich video, audio and text - even if the participants have never downloaded video chat software of any kind before. Version 9.8 improves upon the new user experience by including a first-of-its-kind volunteer guides feature for new subscribers. The thousands of new users joining Paltalk every day can choose to be paired with experienced, volunteer community members who act as personal guides to help them become accustomed to the video chat community's features and technologies.

In addition to the award from Soft82, Paltalk receives an award of Excellence from TopTenREVIEWS, as well as 4 star reviews from both Tucows.com and CNET's Download.com. Paltalk is consistently the #1 Chat download on CNET's Download.com.

To view TopTenReviews.com listing for Paltalk, users can visit:
www.soft82.com/download/mac/paltalkscene/

About Paltalk
Paltalk is the premier provider of software and technology for real-time, rich media, interactive social networking. The Paltalk platform powers the largest collection of video based communities and continues to grow since it was launched in 1998. Paltalk now boasts millions of active members with nearly 100,000 people simultaneously chatting in rooms engaged in lively dialogues, meeting new friends, trading stock tips, singing karaoke, and attending family reunions. The Paltalk community is vibrant due to the high quality of the room environments supported by a range of free moderation tools.

In addition, Paltalk delivers original programming geared to the interests of the community. Paltalk Interactive events have hosted such entertainment celebrities as William Shatner and radio personalities Opie and Anthony, among others. Paltalk supports IM pals on AOL, Yahoo, and ICQ and is available as a free download. For more information, please visit: http://www.paltalk.com.

CONTACTS:
Judy Shapiro
Sr VP, Sales & Marketing
(212) 564-9997, ext 208
judy@corp.paltalk.com

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