CircleUp, Inc. is announcing the availability of powerful new messaging features on Facebook® Platform that significantly enhance the power and utility of Facebook groups, events and Friend List when added to any user’s profile on Facebook.

CircleUp is a free Internet messaging service that lets groups, clubs, teams and any other organization communicate and collaborate on Facebook Platform, by email and on the instant messaging networks for work or fun. Users ask questions or request information from groups and get back a single aggregated, visual result in exactly the format they want, instead of a blizzard of individual messages. The result can be used to make decisions and be shared immediately with the group.

With CircleUp added to their profile, group leaders and members can gather information, make plans or decisions and collaborate effectively via Facebook with simplicity, time savings and flexibility. The user makes requests or asks questions of their group, choosing an AnswerPattern™ to indicate the format they want the results presented in. CircleUp builds a user customized messaging application on the fly which is delivered to recipients via Facebook messaging, posting to the group wall or individual profiles, newsfeeds, notifications, the CircleUp Inbox and optional email messaging. Responses from all group members are organized, summarized and presented on a public or private results page inside the CircleUp application on Facebook Platform that can be accessed directly from links on the group page. The result can be shared with everyone and exported to XLS or PDF files, viewed and mashed-up with other applications using Microformats™, or continually updated in an RSS feed or daily HTML email Daily Roundup.

CircleUps can also be created and delivered to guests attending Facebook events to allow the host to get more than just RSVP information from a group. CircleUp allows event hosts to ask for volunteers, signups and commitments, agree on dates and times for meetings and events, gather group opinions, ratings and rankings on any topic, organize riders and drivers, get the T-Shirt sizes from everyone on the team, or build a group roster of participants and address information. A bride organizing a wedding event can use CircleUp to ask the wedding party whether they want chicken or fish at the rehearsal dinner or ask everyone who is traveling for their flight arrival and departure information. She then uses the results to order meals and organize ride shares from the airport.

“With CircleUp added to user’s profiles, Facebook groups and events become enormously more useful as a central point of communication for the facts, information and decisions that groups use to operate on a daily basis, saving admins and members tons of time and effort organizing information and decisions and sharing them back to the group,” said John Payne, CEO of CircleUp.

CircleUp is one of the first applications to take advantage of recently available features in the Facebook Platform api to access informal groups of friends via Facebook Friend List. A user can CircleUp their “co-workers” Friend List to see who will work shifts for them at the restaurant when they suddenly get a chance to go to Hawaii, or ask their “Cyclists” Friend List “who wants to go on a Century bike ride this weekend?” CircleUp makes communication better anywhere friends and groups are found. To check out the new Facebook application from CircleUp, go to http://apps.facebook.com/circleup/.

About CircleUp

CircleUp is a social messaging application that turbo charges messaging across many social and communications networks for information gathering, collaboration and decision making in online and real world groups and communities. It is publishing-enabled messaging that provides a fast, easy way to ask questions, make requests and gather information, photos, files, documents or decisions from any community who communicates via Facebook, email, sitemail, and IM — and get back a single, organized result that can be published and shared instead of a blizzard of emails and instant messages. The company is venture capital funded and based in Newport Beach, Calif. For more information on CircleUp, go to www.circleup.com .

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