Yonja Media Group
Yonja Announces OpenSocial Platform Launch! 12/23/2008


ISTANBUL -- December 23, 2008 - - Yonja Media Group, the operator of the leading Turkish online social network Yonja.com, today announced that it has launched its OpenSocial container on Thanksgiving day with an initial set of 6 applications from KlickNation and RockYou. With more than 15,000 installs in the initial weeks, the Yonja Team expects to see increased usage once the feature is publicized.



Globant, a system integration and OpenSocial specialist, helped Yonja with the implementation of the container, which is based on the Java version of Shindig and is fully compliant with the 0.8 OpenSocial specification. Yonja worked very closely with KlickNation to be the first social network to launch the newest version of “Buy Your Friends" application. The team also played a crucial role to localize many popular apps for Turkey.

“The OpenSocial initiative and the community involved in Shindig provide an ideal application platform for social networks like ours. We are certain that this will provide a more engaging user experience and provide a great opportunity for new and established application developers interested in the Turkish market.” said Andreas Oesterer, CTO of Yonja.

About Yonja.com

Yonja is leading Turkish online social network and biggest youth portal. Launched in late 2003, Yonja has acquired over 5 million of registered users. Yonja connects people to new people through friends, and friends of friends for: dating, sharing, jobs, activities, entertainment and more.


About Yonja Media Group

Yonja Media Group is a leading Turkish-American internet media company that builds social experiences and services for millions of users in Turkey. The company’s leading brand is Yonja.com, the largest online social network in Turkey. Yonja Media Group also operates MetroListe.com, an online classified website and 7inci.com, a women targeted website. Yonja Media Group recently launched ADVenue, its new global online advertising network. Founded in San Francisco in 2003, Yonja Media Group has operations in San Francisco and Istanbul.

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