Badongo.com: From Zero to the Top 100 Largest Site in the World in One Year

Exactly one year after its arrival onto the World Wide Web, Badongo.com crossed a major threshold in becoming ranked as #99 on the Alexa.com top 100 websites around the globe. Badongo is rapidly gaining popularity on the web for its speed, convenience, multiple features and price: $0.

Santa Monica, CA (PRWEB) November 3, 2006 -- Exactly one year after its arrival onto the World Wide Web, Badongo.com (www.badongo.com) crossed a major threshold in becoming ranked as #99 on the Alexa.com top 100 websites around the globe.* "This is very exciting news for all of us," says Badongo.com's CEO Patrick Boden. "When I started the site a year ago I was merely doing a favor for a few friends. Now we're up there with the likes digg.com, CNet, and About.com. It is amazing how fast the word of mouth of our services spread."

What is Badongo? Put simply Badongo.com is a file hosting site that allows users to upload large files (photos, videos, music, etc.) to send to friends, family and colleagues. The site provides users with a link to their file that can easily be sent via email or instant messenger for viewing or download without having to worry about file size limitations of email and messenger applications. Badongo's services are also handy for the light traveler to store his/her largest files for easy retrieval. Whether displaying a slideshow for family, viewing the weekend's embarrassing video with friends, or easy access of a last minute business presentation, Badongo remains among the web's top services of its kind.

With the recent launch of Badongo Beta users have access to many new and expanding features such as GROUPS, allowing users to join and create community networks, granting access to each other's uploaded files. In addition, the site now offers several tools for inclusion onto blog, forum, website and My Space pages; The MUSIC PLAYER can play tunes uploaded into your account, directly on any webpage. The FILE LINK WIDGET is another integrative tool, allowing for direct downloads of uploaded Badongo files straight from a user's web or My Space pages! Also, FLASH SLIDESHOWS are a great way to add pizzazz to any website. Upload photos onto Badongo.com, use the easy slideshow wizard, post the code within a website's HTML and the user has a beautiful artistic rotating display of their very own images.

How to Badongo? New users who find their way to www.Badongo.com can gain access to all of the above features by filling out a simple form which signs them up for a free account. Badongo gets by mostly on sponsored advertising to provide these features but also offers a low cost premium membership for high volume users. These memberships offer additional perks such as faster download speeds, unlimited no deletion uploads and use of the BADONGO BUDDY, allowing direct desktop uploads and downloads.

Why Badongo? Similar file sharing sites tend to specialize in only one type of file hosting, i.e. Flickr for photos and YouTube for video. Badongo is a one-stop site for ALL and ANY type of file. Badongo's enormous servers currently feature over 50 terabytes of redundant storage and are connected to the internet via several blazing fast gigabit connections spread out across multiple datacenters in the U.S.

Who is Badongo? The site was created in late 2005 as the brainchild of web wunderkind Patrick Boden. Beginning as a simple favor for friends who wished to send large files easily, requests soon arrived for similar services. One year later, Badongo now serves over a million unique visitors each day! Patrick Boden is the CEO of ICL Ltd. based in Santa Monica, California and utilizes developers, designers and programmers on four different continents to keep the site up to date and efficient.

*Source, Alexa.com http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?ts_mode=global)=none

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