(August 24, 2011) – True to the saying “misery loves company,” an anti-social networking website, Uncheerful.com, was launched recently. This, amid studies showing decline in Facebook usage. Said to be a spoof on the more popular social networking websites, Uncheerful aims to be the new home of people who want to post gripes, rants and frustrations but still keep their sense of humor intact.

“You can gripe about stuff that sucks” is the clarion call of Uncheerful.

“You don’t make friends in Uncheerful.com, you make foes. You don’t post comments, you post gripes,” Trevor, the creator of the website, said.

He made it clear, however, that the “anti-social network” is intended to “be funny.”

“While it’s true that you can post rants and frustrations, we actually do not intend that the users be so negative and just complain. Instead, consider Uncheerful.com as the avenue where people can release that negativity. After all, there really are times when you just need to be anti-social sometimes. That can be healthy, too,” he explained.

Interestingly, the entry of Uncheerful.com comes as a study reportedly conducted by Mashable shows decline in Facebook usage. Some of the activities on Facebook that have suffered a decline from 2009 to 2011 reportedly include the sending of messages to friends (down 7.4 percent globally), instant messaging, installing of application and searching for new contacts.

“Perhaps the decline means that people have now become warier of how instant and impersonable the more popular social networking websites have made our lives. Perhaps this anti-social networking website can be the wake-up call people need,” Trevor emphasized.

Registration to Uncheerful.com is free. Uncheerful.com also has a mobile version. Visit www.uncheerful.com for more information

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About Uncheerful.com

Founded with the aim to allow people to gripe about stuff that sucks, Uncheerful.com aims to be a spoof of Facebook. It calls itself as the “anti-social networking website” where users can register for free and post gripes, rants, complaints and frustrations. For inquiries, send email to trev@uncheerful.com Visit www.uncheerful.com for more information

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(Gibraltar, May 28, 2008) – Totally free and instant international bank-to-bank transfers are now possible with icBankTransfer, a system which uses a digital currency called iCoins which you can use to spend, send and receive money across the world. With the existence of icBankTransfer, merchants and non-merchants alike from all over the world can now do away with slow and expensive international transfer fees, resulting in great savings on their part.

icBankTransfer is a trading name of Spartan World Ltd – a company established to provide ‘thin wallet’ applications that link existing payment mechanisms to a system run by iCoins (www.iCoins.com) By converting money into iCoins, users can avoid the charges and delays normally involved in international bank transfers. iCoins retain their face value, meaning that if you buy an iCoin for US$1 or Euro 1, it’s always worth US$1 or Euro 1 in real-world money. iCoins can be made for payments of as little as 1 cent. There are no hidden charges whatsoever. Transferring iCoins between iCoins accounts, anywhere in the world, is always free.

icBankTransfer uses a network of international banks to handle transactions in 29 different countries with domestic settlement. Users only need to send and receive money via an icBankTransfer member bank in his own country and transfers will then be fast and free. All transactions are guaranteed, secure and user details are kept confidential.

Among the countries that icBankTransfer support are United Kingdom, Australia, France, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and even Singapore. Some banks might charge a minimal fee for eventually cashing in iCoins. The iCoins management team and its banking partners are continually negotiating with as many banks as possible in order to do away with those charges.

iCoins is the same backbone as used by the much-talked about Facebook application Coinjars (www.facebook.com/applications/Coinjars/6489937223). Coinjars is a place where digital cash can be stored and moved safely. This wallet application is also built on the iCoins platform. All iCoins are secured and underwritten by a licensed eMoney operation called a Treasury. The Treasury for Coinjars and icBankTransfer is located and licensed in the Isle of Man.

Users can access icBankTransfer and the Coinjars app via Facebook. icBankTransfer will also soon be available via a website at www.icBankTransfer.com.

To find out more details, visit www.iCoins.com or the Coinjars Facebook application at www.facebook.com/applications/Coinjars/6489937223

About iCoins

iCoins Limited (www.iCoins.com), based in Gibraltar, are developers and operators of an electronic cash system that can be integrated with existing 3rd party wallet servers. The iCoins system is a digital cash mechanism designed to allow cash transactions between disparate and unrelated Wallet systems in the digital era. iCoins are similar to bank notes. They can be acquired by a consumer on application to a suitable issuer (similar to a bank in the real world).

About Spartan World:

Spartan World Ltd is a company established to provide ‘thin wallet’ applications that link existing payment mechanisms to a system run by iCoins (www.iCoins.com). Spartan World is operated by Payment Systems Ltd, a leading payment provider owned by UK public listed company Waltech plc.

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FOR INQUIRIES, PLEASE CONTACT:

Sara Waller
sara@icoins.com

The application, which can be accessed at http://apps.facebook.com/coinjars and at its Facebook Page http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=6489937223&ref=s is a wallet application built on the iCoins platform, which includes a fully secured and licensed eMoney issuer.

Transferring of funds from one party to another on the Internet has to date required both parties to have wallets within the same system (such as Paypal). In the traditional banking world solutions such as IBAN – an international banking account number standard – provides a solution but is limited in that it only works between bank accounts. Moreover, transfers using IBAN (or SWIFT) are only credited once the actual funds are received by the receiving bank. This delay is inappropriate in today’s connected world. Other money transfer services such as Western Union and Moneygram provide international non-banking transfers. While these systems have proven to be useful in the offline world, these have not proven to be as useful in the ever growing online world.

Gibraltar-based iCoins aims to change all this with its system that provides the transfer mechanisms of SWIFT and IBAN, with real time execution, integrated within existing players in the online eWallet space. Facebook users can now enjoy the same security and freedom of cash movement through the CoinJars application.

Extending Coinars to provide a simple cash collection mechanism for small merchants on Facebook is a logical extension and is already in the works, according to iCoins CEO Adriaan Brink.

“We are extremely proud of CoinJars. It provides a showcase for our core iCoins secure digital cash technology. By providing the ability, through the CoinJars application,to transfer iCoins quickly, safely and easily between Facebook users and also to and from any places outside the Facebook system that support iCoins, the exciting potential of iCoins becomes apparent. These external places include merchants and also Payment Providers which facilitate the purchase and redemption of iCoins. We’re very optimistic that iCoins, through integrated eWallets such as CoinJars, will revolutionize the way we pay online.” Brink emphasized.

The CEO also underscored the fact that the user’s money (while in iCoin format) is all underwritten by a licensed eMoney operation (a “Treasury” in iCoins-speak). The Treasury for CoinJars is Mintflow Limited in the Isle of Man.

“The purpose of this mechanism is not to replace the credit card and other payment methods such as Paypal in normal merchant payments, but to facilitate payments that would normally be too expensive (small payments or between distant places) and to facilitate payments between disparate systems,” Brink said.

With the presence of iCoins and integrated eWallets such as CoinJars, people all over the world are given more viable, cost-efficient choices in dealing with online payments and money transfers.

Developers wishing to integrate with the iCoins digital money platform are advised to visit www.icoins.com for more information. iCoins is actively pursuing integrations with as wide a variety of payment platforms as possible.

More information at www.icoins.com & Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21145115323

About CoinJars

CoinJars is iCoins’ application at social networking website Facebook. It is a wallet application built on the iCoins platform, which includes a fully secured and licensed eMoney issuer. The application can be accessed at http://apps.facebook.com/coinjars and at its Facebook Page http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=6489937223&ref=s

About iCoins

iCoins, based in Gibraltar, are developers and operators of an electronic cash system that can be integrated with existing 3rd party wallet servers. iCoins is a digital cash mechanism designed to allow cash transactions between disparate and unrelated Wallet systems in the digital era. iCoins are similar to bank notes. They can be acquired by a consumer on application to a suitable issuer (similar to a bank in the real world).

iCoins Limited
www.icoins.com
3 Garrison House
Library Ramp
Gibraltar

Tel. +350 48595
Fax No. +350 52911

FOR MEDIA INQUIRIES PLEASE CONTACT:

Sara Waller- Marketing Manager, iCoins Ltd
E: sara@icoins.com
Tel+ 350 48595