OREANDA-NEWS. April 01, 2008. Southern telecommunications company introduced a new version of its popular web-project mediazona.ru - an Internet - portal "Mediazona 2.0" (mz2.mediazona.ru), based on Web 2.0 technology, reported the press-centre of  Southern telecommunications company.

Users of the new resource can independently publish video and audio content and news as well as communicate online.

Visitors of  "Mediazona 2.0" portal  can take advantage of 10 sections:

Learn: news, events, supplemental information, cinema and TV programs.

Communicate: blogs, voice chat, video chat – in future prospect.

Listen: music, audio files, subcasts, round-the-clock web-radio broadcasting.

Install: reviews of the newest commercial, free and conditional free software available for installation by the portal users. In future it is planned to add online - shopping of commercial software to be paid both through "internal currency" of Mediazona and through external payment systems.

Watch: video, photo, web TV. At present only Video section operates containing 40 rating content units divided into 8 headings – from cinema trailers to TV programs.

Exchange: exchange of files between the portal users.
 
Be yourself: Private office of a user allowing to control the balance on the user’s account and monitor on-line shopping.

Play: popular Internet games and office flash games. Game statistics service enables a player to monitor his/her rating in each game and compare it with ratings of other players

Meet: search for users having similar interests.

Create: diary marks, video and audio compositions, subcasts,  personal photograph albums, individual articles and notes.

Activity of portal users is being constantly rated allowing the most active visitors to receive the same rights to content management as the portal administrator has. Users can also adjust interface elements individually. The new portal operates at the same time with the old one which later will be closed for visitors.

Entertainment Internet - portal Mediazona www.mediazona.ru  is a special content - resource for hi-speed  DISEL Internet users of Southern Telecommunications Company in the territory the Southern federal district. At present total number of unique visitors of the portal makes 100,000 per month.