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Idapted Profiled by China's Leading IT Publisher

Beijing, PRC July 27th, 2007

CSDN.net (http://csdn.net), China's leading IT publisher, will feature two articles about Idapted in the September issue of the company's flagship Programmer Magazine (http://programmer.com.cn).  The first is a "Company Profile" based upon interviews with executives in the company discussing the EnglishQuad service as well as the story behind the company.  The second is an interview with Jonathan Palley, Idapted co-founder and VP Product/Technology, discussing best practices for developing innovative web applications with small teams as well as cultural differences in software and product development between the U.S. and China.  The articles will hit news stands at the end of August.

Idapted connects a distributed network of U.S. based language training professionals to students throughout China through its proprietary EnglishQuad training system.  The system was developed by Idapted's internal Beijing based development team utilizing the latest web and voip technologies.  Mike Meng (Meng Yan), Chief Technical Editor of CSDN.net, had previously said of Idapted's team, “Idapted's technology team is filled with passion and wisdom and the team members participate in a active and harmonious environment. The product and technology they create is interesting, challanging and exciting. I believe they are not only one of the best Ruby on Rails development teams in China, but in the top class worldwide.”

Idapted Inc. is a Silicon Valley based technology start up, headquartered in Beijing, China and founded by two Stanford University graduates with a mission to revolutionize one-on-one language training. EnglishQuad, the company's flagship service, provides quality online Oral Language training through a network of English Trainers. The Company’s Board of Advisors includes well known mentors Bill Trenchard, President of LiveOps and Russ Siegelman formerly of VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers.