Web Start-Up Asks Users to Help Improve Democracy; Gives Away iPads

Social opinion aggregator NatSent.com wants users to help improve democracy by voting on and
discussing the issues that they care about. To help get out the vote, NatSent is giving away $4000 in
prizes through Election Day, November 2nd, including 3 Apple iPads. The first of eleven prizes was
won by 24-year-old Houston resident Anusheh Hashim. Ms. Hashim's contributions on the site
focused on Affordability of Higher Education, Flooding in Pakistan, Muslims in America, and
Barack Obama.

Houston, TX, September 08, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Web start-up NatSent.com announced today that it has
awarded the first of eleven prizes in its Launch Competition featuring 3 Apple iPads and $2,000 in gift
certificates to Amazon.com. The Competition is designed to encourage users to vote on and discuss the
political, business, and social issues that they care about. The winner was Anusheh Hashim, a 24-year-old
graduate student from Houston, Texas.

“We are very excited about the initial participation level on NatSent,” said founder Shelby Joe. “Every
day we're adding new users who are discussing and shaping the direction of America's great debates
ranging from Muslims in America to the Economy and the US's role in Iraq.”

During the first week of the competition, NatSent users cast more than 500 votes on over 300 topics
ranging from the Muslim Center in New York City to food safety concerns about eggs. Ms. Hashim
attracted her supporters based on her contributions in topics including Barack Obama, Higher Education,
Iraq, and Flooding in Pakistan.

Since the site's public launch at the beginning of August, NatSent users have focused their discussions on
Unemployment, the Mosque Controversy, Mexican Drug Violence, Apple's iPad, and BP's Gulf Oil Spill.
The National Sentiment over the same period was 48.4%, showing that NatSent's users were somewhat
worried or disliking of current events and issues facing America.

The Launch Competition continues through Election Day, November 2nd. Competitors can win in three
categories: Most Followers, Most Contributions, and Most Influential. Weekly prizes for Most Followers
are Amazon.com gift certificates ranging in value from $175 to $500. Apple iPads will be awarded for the
Most Contributions and Most Influential Categories, including a 64GB Wi-Fi iPad for the competition's
overall winner in the Most Influential category. Official Rules are posted online at
NatSent.com/Competition. Neither Apple nor Amazon is affiliated with or has endorsed the competition.

About NatSent

NatSent's founders created the site as a way for anyone to easily understand and influence business,
political, and social issues of national importance, such as immigration reform and unemployment.

The website is like a personalized digital newspaper where users are the editors, writers and readers.
Through voting on and following issues, users decide which topics make the front page; they decide how

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those topics are framed and influence the direction of the debate. NatSent itself is editorially agnostic and
does not modify or filter the user-generated content.

Former Rice University roommates Shelby Joe and Patrick Redford began to put together the idea for
NatSent in 2009, when the financial crisis loomed large and the debate on health care reform was
reaching a fever pitch. As recent entrants into a distressed workforce, unemployment and an uninsured
future loomed over the two founders' heads. They wanted a better way to understand the world and a
more efficient mechanism for making an impact. NatSent is the product of those uncertain times.

For More Information:

Shelby Joe
NatSent, Founder
www.NatSent.com
shelby@natsent.com
+1 832-380-5171

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Contact Information:
NatSent
Shelby Joe
+1 832-380-5171
shelby@natsent.com
www.natsent.com

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