What’s common between Ellen DeGeneres, Brittney Spears, Ryan Seacrest, Kim Kardashian, and Oprah Winfrey? They all have between 2 million to over 3 million Twitter followers and staggering number of online fan followers. The celebrities and social networking relationship is making news headlines more frequently now, with Ashton Kutcher’s antics on Twitter, or some other celebrity taking swipes at their peers through their blogs.

Social networking and community software has been the technology foundation for a lot of PR companies and fan bases for popular movies, bands, artists, and celebrities … and this trend is simply going strong. Well known personalities who were once “access restricted” now “more human” and reachable through their community sites, blogs, or micro-blogging accounts. Social networks are now places where the bodyguards, PR agents, and entourage surrounding these stars seem to fall away.  And celebrities have a place where they can just be themselves and freely exchange conversations with fans, while still having the physical security of knowing they won’t be mobbed while at their keyboards or iPhones. To them, these social software platforms are a great way to communicate with their audiences and reach out to them with the ever-so-important personal touch, while still keeping a safe distance.

To the fans and the audiences, this offers an experience like never before. It offers a chance to freely communicate or connect with their favorite personalities and makes them accessible like any other person on a social network. How else would we imagine being able to know what David Beckham has to say, get to comment on Fred Durst’s blog to kick start a discussion, or actually get Donald Trump to hear someone else’s opinion for once. Communicating with the famous has never been easier!

The social networking technology and social software platforms have become the PR agents of the online world, and provide a way for the stars to build stronger, more personal relationships with their fans. It’s lending a human touch to a space where it was badly needed and somewhat lacking. It brings together people with a common interest in a celebrity, a movie, a band, or person they admire and includes that entity in the conversation, giving everyone what they need. For those who have a fan base and don’t have or use the technology to back it, they may just be missing out on the new era.

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ASP.NET powerhouse releases proven, proprietary technology platform to merge the best of community and search, includes customizable advantages over fixed Google custom search.

Ontario, CA (December 12, 2008) – US-based software development and eBusiness consulting firm Axero Solutions announced today it launched ASP.NET Quest, a vertical search engine for ASP.NET technology to benefit the ASP.NET developer community.

“Axero quickly recognized that the ASP.NET developer community is being pulled in several directions in both the quest for information and leadership status. On one hand, forums are great but they can be hard to navigate. And on the other hand, general search engines just return too many irrelevant results. At the same time, you have two groups: those with expertise who share their knowledge in order to expand their influence, and those entering the developer community in order to learn as much as they can,” explained Timothy Eisenhauer, a Subject Matter Expert For Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 and one of the firm’s two managing partners.

“We already had developed the technology, and it had already been proven enormously successful in a number of other vertical search engines. So, launching ASP.NET Quest was a merely a question of asking, ‘Do we truly want to help the developer community grow stronger?’ The answer to that was a totally serious no-brainer.”

ASP.NET Quest’s major strength as a medium is that it pulls together information in one place, not only providing the advantage of forums in delivering solutions by experts to newer developers, but it also incorporating through its searches access to articles and blogs as both additional educational resources and vehicles through which experts can grow their following and leadership further.

“Some people, after seeing ASP.NET Quest, told us this already exists for the .NET community in the form of Google custom search. Google custom search does produce relevant results. However, if you want us to make changes and tweaks to bring you even more relevant information, we can easily customize the technology. Can you change Google technology? Which would you say is truly customized? Which serves the community better?”, asked Eisenhauer.

“As a vertical search engine, ASP.NET Quest delivers the satisfying, one-stop shopping experience we all want. It’s simply a richer, more complete environment in which the community can grow,” added Eisenhauer.

If you publish blogs, forums, or articles and want to get right in front of the ASP.NET developer community, go now to http://www.aspnetquest.com/pages/inclusion.aspx and follow the easy submission instructions.

About Axero Solutions:

A US-based software development and eBusiness consulting firm, Axero Solutions brings its clients over 30 years of professional experience in custom software development, stellar web design and branding, and aggressive online marketing.

For more company information, please visit: http://www.axerosolutions.com

About the Axero Solutions team:

Vivek Thakur, Managing Partner, is a ASP.NET Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP) for 2007 and 2008, a Subject Matter Expert For Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 Certification Exams, and the author of the widely popular book, ASP.NET 3.5 Application Architecture and Design.

Timothy Eisenhauer, Managing Partner, is a Subject Matter Expert For Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 Certification Exams, and has over 11 years of website architecture and development experience with a focus on usability design, user interface, and web engineering, and is highly sought after for his state-of-the-art GUI designs for the ASP.NET platform.

For more Axero Solutions team information,

please visit: http://www.axerosolutions.com/company/management

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