Friday, March 24, 2000

Bits & Bytes -and- Shakers & Stirrers 3/24/00


SHAKERS & STIRRERS
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Brownstein shoots over to the Gallery
Bumgardner Leaves Pioneer for Pittard/Sullivan
The Mouse Has Moved Its House
R/GA hires Jim Bixler as Senior Producer
Tech Editor Ullman Joins Working Woman
Stalter Leaves Creative Good

BITS & BYTES
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Venture Vortex Announces New Site to Fuel Smarter Start-ups
Listen to the News from Silicon Alley
Amazon.com Teams up With Kozmo.com
Razorfish Creates Relocation Portal in Finland
Centerseat and Digital Club Network Ink Deal
Advisory Commision on E-Commerce Moves on Net Taxes
Razorfish Redesigns Armaniexchange.com
Eyada.com Hosts Multimedia Videogame Show
Bruce Arena Teams up with Goalnetwork.com
I-Hatch.com Gives MobileSpring "Pervasive Computing" Title
Novell and Passlogix Announce Single Sign-On Space
mySEASONS.com Chooses ORB Digital 



SHAKERS & STIRRERS FULL STORIES

Bumgardner Leaves Pioneer for Pittard/Sullivan

Looking for some right-brain stimulation, Jim Bumgardner has left Pioneer Digital Technologies in Burbank, Calif., to join the media design firm Pittard/Sullivan, in Culver City, Calif. Jim is one of two senior technical people working in the Convergent Media division. Pittard/Sullivan is well known for its Emmy and Clio- winning broadcast design work for numerous major entertainment companies such as Disney, Fox & ABC. Brian's division. Jim says that he's also excited about the interesting work that's going on there in the area of web design, settop interface design, wireless, kiosk and CD-ROMs. Good luck, Jim!

The Mouse Has Moved Its House

MOUSE Inc. has moved to new offices on Broadway and Franklin street.The company's new contact information is:

MOUSE Inc.
361 Broadway, Suite 600, New York, NY 10013,Phone: 212-431-1919, Fax: 212-431-4321, www.mouse.org

R/GA hires Jim Bixler as Senior Producer

R/GA has boosted its production team membership by naming Jim Bixler as senior producer. Bixler joins R/GA from Pixelpark, where he served as director of production and acting creative director, and worked on projects for Proctor & Gamble, WestLB and the German-American consulate. Prior to joining Pixelpark in December 1998, Bixler was at THINK New Ideas for four years. While at THINK he became a senior producer,working with clients such as Anheuser-Busch, Oracle, Gillette and Heinz. Congrats, Jim!

Tech Editor Ullman Joins Working Woman

Continuing her ascent in the high-tech journalism world, Ellen Ullman will join Working Woman magazine as technology editor! She'll be at her new post on March 27. Ullman is leaving FamilyPC magazine, where she has been a senior associate editor. She was previously with Small Business Computing & Communications magazine.

Stalter Leaves Creative Good

Kate Stalter has left Creative Good to move over to Studio One Networks, where she is now Vice President of Program Partnerships. Studio One syndicates original content to selected Web sites -- a very cool business model. Way to go, Kate!


BITS & BYTES FULL STORIES
Venture Vortex Announces New Site to Fuel Smarter Start-ups

Now start-ups can get the help they need -- free of the typical friction that goes into building a company. VentureVortex, Inc. (http://www.venturevortex.com) announced plans to launch the next generation of online communities for entrepreneurs and the venture capital industry in April 2000. The Vortex site has one main goal: to help people dramatically compress the time it takes to plan, fund, staff and scale start-ups in the Internet or Hi-Tech market spaces. It outlines a strategy of education, execution and interaction.

Listen to the News from Silicon Alley

Tired of reading stuff on your computer screen all day? Check out Silicon Alley Recap: Viral Edition (http://siliconalley.net/radio/recap0320.ram ), a weekly radio recap of some of last week's news stories, as well as a peek at this week. This week's edition is Pre-Launch Viral (in english, it means that Silicon Alley Station (http://siliconalley.net). The site is preparing for a re-launch and this week's edition is being distributed solely by e-mail for your listening pleasure. Silicon Alley Station is Silicon Alley's Radio Portal, covering technology and business news from a Silicon Alley perspective. If you want more information on the full Silicon Alley Station launch, you can send an e-mail to recap@siliconalley.net or launch@siliconalley.net. If you have questions, recommendations or comments, please send them to feedback@siliconalley.net.

Amazon.com Teams up With Kozmo.com

Amazon.com (www.amazon.com) has put its stamp of approval on Kozmo.com (www.kozmo.com) by investing $60 million inthe leading "e-mmediate" Internet-to-door delivery service. Also, in exchange for dibs on additional shares in Kozmo.com, Amazon.com has reached a three-year strategic alliance with Kozmo.com. Amazon.com will begin offering its customers a one-hour delivery option for certain book, music and toy orders via Kozmo.com.

Razorfish Creates Relocation Portal in Finland

Want to move to Finland? Then head on over to Razorfish, Inc. (NASDAQ: RAZF), the, and check out the global digital solutions provider's newly launched theme portal www.muuttaja.com. Razorfish produced the portal for Fortum, one of the leading consumer energy companies in the Nordic countries, to help relocating individuals and companies to plan their moves. The site also inaugurates Fortum's first electronic commerce initiative, offering the users electricity agreements and heating oil purchasing services among other relocation related services.

Centerseat and Digital Club Network Ink Deal

You're finally going to get centerseat at some high-profile entertainment events. Centerseat LLC (www.centerseat.com), the digital media and entertainment company, today announced a partnership with the Digital Club Network (www.digitalclubnetwork.com), the Internet’s premiere live music channel. Under the pact, the two companies will work together to create high-end concert programming for delivery over the Internet and broadband networks. Digital Club Network already has exclusive relationships with more than 40 live music venues around the country to webcast and archive performances from a broad range of artists. As part of this agreement, Digital Club Network and Centerseat will target select performances from these clubs for full-scale video production using Centerseat’s award winning production arm, Second Coming Productions.

Advisory Commision on E-Commerce Moves on Net Taxes

In its final meeting, The Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce voted this week to repeal the federal 3% excise tax on telecommunications services, simplify states' sales and use taxation systems, permanently prohibit states or localities from taxing Internet access subscription charges, extend the current Internet Taxation moratorium legislated by the Congress on multiple and discriminatory taxation, and clarify Nexus standards that impact the obligation of businesses to collect and remit state and local taxes on remote transactions.

Razorfish Redesigns Armaniexchange.com

Establishing a compelling brand in line with its creator, Giorgio Armani, Razorfish, Inc. (NASDAQ: RAZF), the global digital solutions provider, today announced a cutting-edge redesign of www.armaniexchange.com, a website featuring a versatile collection of clothing that merges seasonal fashion items with Armani-basics. Together Razorfish and A/X Armani Exchange developed the innovative electronic commerce site that includes compelling editorial information to help users personalize their shopping experience.

Eyada.com Hosts Multimedia Videogame Show

A new Internet videogame show that lets players take on the host -- and learn his tricks -- is becoming the hottest ticket in gameland since Sega Dreamcast. Videogame guru Matt Sager is playing interactive host to a crowd of high-score fanatics every night on eYada.com http://www.eyada.com -- while hundreds of wannabe players around the world wait in the site's virtual wings for their turn to play against the host.

Bruce Arena Teams up with Goalnetwork.com

U.S. National Soccer Team Head Coach Bruce Arena today announced that he has joined www.goalnetwork.com, the global soccer web site, as commentator and analyst. The announcement was made at a press conference in New York City. Arena will pen a bi-monthly column, host online chats and provide post-match analyses of the U.S. National Team’s performance. Also joining goalnetwork.com’s editorial team is best-selling author Joe McGinniss whose latest book, “The Miracle of Castel di Sangro,” chronicles the struggles of a tiny Italian village’s soccer team in the big leagues. McGinniss will be writing an opinion column every Tuesday, beginning March 28.

I-Hatch.com Gives MobileSpring "Pervasive Computing" Title

I-Hatch.com has named MobileSpring as a new Silicon Alley "Pervasive Computing" company. MobileSpring is an investment of I-Hatch.com Primedia Ventures, Impact Ventures, Broadview, and Mark Ein/VentureHouse a founder of Aether Systems (leading wireless company) MobileSpring was founded by an I-Hatch advisor, Mark Caron, who was most recently a co-founder of OmniPoint (yes he did the "parrot" ads) along with other wireless pioneers described in the attached release. MobileSpring will be building and spinning off next generation services and companies pioneering the wireless ecommerce space.

Novell and Passlogix Announce Single Sign-On Space

Novell and New York based Passlogix Inc. announced the advancement they have made in the Single Sign-On space through their partnership. The partnership enables the integration of Passlogix's v-GO single sign-on technology into the next version of Novell's single sign-on product to further extend the power and flexibility of NDS eDirectory across the entire enterprise and Internet Infrastructure.

mySEASONS.com Chooses ORB Digital

MySEASONS.com has chosen ORB Digital as its online agency of record. ORB Digital is directing the multi-million dollar campaign that will position MySeasons.com as the authoritative source for online gardening advice, perennials, bulbs, shrubs, fruit trees and trees. The mySEASONS.com site launched in January, and mySEASONS.com launched its online initiatives on March 20.