BigDates Solutions Extends Leadership Position in Social Greetings and Micro Gifting

SAN RAMON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BigDates Solutions announces extraordinary growth for its popular Birthday Calendar application built on the Facebook® Platform, adding over 2.5 million users in November 2008 alone. With 5 million monthly active users and an install base of 12.5 million users, Birthday Calendar is the #1 birthday application on Facebook.

Ranking #12 on the list of all applications on Facebook, Birthday Calendar continues to strengthen its position as a forerunner in the capturing of ecommerce opportunities relating to social greetings and micro gifting. Combining holidays, birthdays and other special occasions, Birthday Calendar has over 1 billion opportunities per year to market virtual gifts, digital greetings, paper greeting cards as well as traditional gifts.

“We are mostly focused on acquiring new users right now, as is Facebook, so we’re thrilled that our growth is tracking ahead of projections. Looking ahead, we are well positioned to be a dominant player in the definition and distribution of the next generation of social greetings and gifting, much of which will be revenue generating,” states Paul Love, President.

In addition, BigDates Solutions continues its rapid growth in online sales of paper greeting cards via its website, GreetingCardUniverse.com (GCU), and via social network environments. In November 2008, powered by its community of 2,000 artists, GCU surpassed 100,000 paper greeting cards making it the world’s largest greeting card store. November was GCU’s strongest month with card orders increasing 17 percent over October 2008 and card sale growth of 200 percent over November 2007.

Nasser Gaemi, Founder and CEO, states, “Not limited by traditional retail shelf space, the range and depth of content on GCU are remarkable. GCU ranks at the top of most natural search results for any search that has to do with paper greeting cards. On the rare occasion that GCU doesn't have what the shopper is looking for, the artist community creates the requested cards within a few hours. It's a powerful content-creation engine.”

About BigDates Solutions

With a new focus on the social network space, BigDates Solutions is leveraging its assets, content library, and expertise in driving ecommerce around special occasions. BigDates Solutions is the leading provider of online Reminder Service Solutions, powering gift reminder and ecard services at major retailers like BarnesandNoble.com (NYSE:BKS), 1800Flowers.com (NASDAQ:FLWS), Overstock.com (NASDAQ:OSTK), and others. It is also the creator of GreetingCardUniverse.com, the world’s largest paper greeting card store with over 100,000 cards and 2,000+ artists. Learn more at BigDates-Solutions.com.

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