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TellmeTwin.com, the website for user compatibility pairing and idea sharing, announced this week that it has been honoured as a winner in the Red Herring 100 Europe awards: an prestigious award given to the hundred top private tech companies based in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region every year.

“Even during this particularly tough year, Red Herring took delivery of a long list of applications from businesses across the EMEA region, clearly demonstrating Europe’s role as a major centre of innovation in the global technology sector,” said Red Herring Managing Director, Farley Duvall. “The exceptional accomplishments of European technology start-ups and entrepreneurs are a testament to the rapid advancements being made in building the European innovation ecosystem.”

The Red Herring rankings of their choice of best private enterprises have become an indispensable part of the publication’s tradition of identifying new and innovative technology companies and entrepreneurs. Companies like Google, eBay, and Skype were spotted in their early days by Red Herring editors, and touted as leaders that would change the way we live and work.

Einar Sigvaldason, CEO of Tell me Twin said: “A recognition such as the Red Herring 100 is very important to TellmeTwin and confirms our commitment to really make a difference in the world of social networks and recommendations solutions. TellmeTwin is a qualitative recommendation network where users discover content based on how well they match with other people. You can also think of it as a hybrid that utilizes data mining and human interaction.”

Red Herring staff carefully analysed hundreds of private companies using rigorous evaluation of financial data and subjective criteria, including quality of management, execution of strategy, and dedication to research and development.

The Red Herring 100 Europe Finalist companies were awarded at Red Herring Europe’s 2009 Conference, held March 31- April 2, at the Berlin Radisson Hotel.

About Red Herring
Red Herring is a worldwide media business bringing together the best high tech innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in the world in a variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine, an online daily technology news service, technology newsletters and major events for technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides an insider’s access to the global innovation economy, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy. More information about Red Herring is available on the Internet at www.redherring.com.

About TellmeTwin.com
TellmeTwin is a recommendations and user matching internet site. People use it to chart their character to find their people who think like them and use their profile to discover: paintings, movies, music, books, hotels, restaurants, travel spots… the list goes on.

TellmeTwin’s character mapping happens through the rating of likes and dislikes, interests and experiences and personality tests. Users can rate literally anything they love or hate. The data is user generated; if it doesn’t already exist in our database they create it wiki-style. Through data mining we match users with their Good or Evil twins. Good twins are those who are most similar to the user and Evil twins are people with polar opposite characteristics and preferences.

TellmeTwin is both dedicated to content discovery and the matching of people.

www.tellmetwin.com

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Einar Sigvaldason CEO
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TellMeTwin is celebrating its launch today. The innovative new website uses self psychoanalysis and personality tests to connect users to ‘personality twins’.

From today, it is now possible to register for TellMeTwin, the website aiming to identify and connect users with their ‘twins’. Twins are people with similar interests and personality types who can be relied upon to give advice and recommendations that are actually useful.

TellMeTwin takes the results from its unique selection of personality tests, self psychoanalysis and other user-generated material, and then applies its sophisticated mathematic systems to match users with unprecedented accuracy.

From useful recommendations on food, movies and collectibles and help with major life decisions and even mundane day-to-day ones – it is hoped TellMeTwin users will make real lifelong friends.

The website also offers users the opportunity to identify and interact with their best romantic matches and their ‘evil twins’. Evil twins are in no way bad people, but rather a user’s least similar matches – polar opposite tastes, beliefs and opinions. It could provide the perfect opportunity to find out if opposites really do attract.

Icelandic entrepreneur, Einar Sigvaldason came up with the TellMeTwin idea in 2001 while studying at Berkeley University. “I founded TellMeTwin because I wanted movie and song recommendations from someone who I can trust to think like me”, said Sigvaldason. “I’ve also always loved self-psychoanalysis. I felt there was a need for an online application; not just personality tests but also a way to rate my likes, dislikes and life experience in order to map myself more deeply than before.

The TellMeTwin tagline, “digging deeper” is a reference to users’ ability to find out more about themselves and others – and then actually use the information for something.

It is now possible to sign up for the website quickly and easily at www.TellMeTwin.com