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**ActiveState Announces **Eat-A-Rama **Restaurant Discovery Application 
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*January 8, 2008* -- ActiveState Software Inc., a Vancouver-based 
technology firm, released a new restaurant discovery application on 
Facebook Platform called Eat-A-Rama. Building on Facebook users' wealth 
of knowledge and opinions about where to eat and by letting friends act 
as personal restaurant advisors, Eat-A-Rama aims to make the world a 
tastier place.

ActiveState is celebrating the release of Eat-A-Rama with a food bank 
donation of up to $10,000; for every five friends a user invites to add 
Eat-A-Rama and who install the restaurant ranking application in 
January, ActiveState will donate $1 to the user's local food bank.

With Eat-A-Rama, people can quickly discover new restaurants by browsing 
an interactive map or by searching with keywords. Adding restaurant 
ratings is an easy and fun process using thumbs up and thumbs down 
buttons, and people are immediately rewarded with an updated restaurant 
score. With Eat-A-Rama, each person has a unique experience based on the 
ratings of their network of friends. Where a restaurant may be the 
highest ranked for one person, it could be at the bottom for someone 
else because their friends rated it lower. A general community score for 
each restaurant is also available.

From $5 finds to 5-star eateries, Eat-A-Rama covers more restaurants in 
each city than any other restaurant site or app. Eat-A-Rama currently 
includes more than 250,000 restaurants across North America. Restaurant 
profiles for new cities will be added weekly, with a goal of complete 
worldwide coverage.

"We were frustrated that most online info about restaurants is out of 
date, obviously sponsored, or the opinion of some food critic that is 
hard to relate to. But friends always have a wealth of information on 
where to go, where not to go, and the latest hot spots or best kept 
secrets," said Sebastian Troen of ActiveState's Social Networking Team. 
"Eat-A-Rama unlocks this potential by combining social networking with 
all the great stuff friends know about where to eat."

"ActiveState is quickly becoming a leader in social networking 
technologies with applications that provide real utility to real users," 
said Bart Copeland, CEO of ActiveState. 

In September, Up4, an app that helps friends spend more time together 
offline was launched to rave reviews, such as "the best looking app on 
Facebook."

"Eat-A-Rama is another example of how ActiveState is fulfilling the 
potential of social networking to make technology that just works," 
added Copeland.

Eat-A-Rama can be found and installed from the Facebook applications 
directory (or at http://apps.facebook.com/eat-a-rama/) in the Utility 
and Food and Drink categories.

*About Eat-A-Rama*

Eat-A-Rama helps people discover new restaurants based on the knowledge 
and opinions of their social network. Restaurant ratings are based on 
the input of each person's friends thus every Eat-A-Rama user has a 
unique experience. Currently in beta, Eat-A-Rama supports North American 
cities with over 250,000 restaurant profiles. 

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*About ActiveState*

ActiveState creates professional software development tools, programming 
language distributions and business solutions for dynamic languages, and 
practical tools and applications for social networking platforms. 
ActiveState solves complex problems and produces cool and useful 
applications that help people live more productive and enjoyable lives. 
ActiveState technology just works. ActiveState is owned by its employees 
and Pender Financial Group <http://www.penderfinancial.com/> , a publicly 
traded investment company focused on technology in British Columbia. For 
more information, visit www.activestate.com <http://www.activestate.com/> .


Facebook� is a registered trademark of Facebook Inc.

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*Media Contact*

Sebastian Troen

Tel: +1 778 786 1100

Email: sebastiant@[...].com


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