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12/22
Chicago Online
LaunchChicago.com, a new economy directory profiling the City's high-techscene, has launched. The basic concept is to centralize Chicago's Internet resources.

It's really easy to join a Linux group, donate a computer, or find a freelancer when the information is indexed at one website -- and then located down the block. With categories like: E-Districts, E-Commerce MBA's, Networking Groups, Dot.Com Hot Spots and Non-Profits, Launch! Chicago hopes to encourage community involvement, improve access to public resources and accelerate growth of startup initiatives.

Agency.com Gets Flexible
Agency.com has developed something called Flexitecture Methodology. It's a method of delivering greater ease of communication and integration across multiple digital channels, including the Web, mobile devices, interactive television and beyond. Agency.com says Flexitecture Methodology is an evolution of the three-tier architecture that is commonly used in developing Internet solutions today. By providing a blueprint for effectively building multiple digital channel systems -- one back end serving many devices and constituents -- the Flexitecture Methodology apparently better addresses integrating disparate incompatible back end systems. 

Collecting Gizmo
Gizmoz, Inc., developer of a leading Internet-based rich media messaging platform, has introduced the Gizmoz Collector. The Gizmoz Collector resides on users' desktops and provides a framework inside which individual Gizmoz can be collected and receive updates. When a Gizmo has been updated with new content, the Collector will alert the user with both visual and audio cues. The frame of the Gizmoz Collector has a ticker-type feature that will identify the individual Gizmoz that have been updated, and alert users to new Gizmoz that are available. The Gizmoz Collector provides an unlimited number of opportunities for businesses to interact with their clients, increase traffic to their Web sites and get instant responses to new offers.

Razorfish Teams with Coca-Cola
Razorfish, Inc. has been selected to collaborate with the Coca-Cola Company, the leading soft drink company in the world, to develop the company’s marketing website in the Nordic region. Razorfish will team with Coca-Cola to implement a fresh site that speaks to the teenage demographic in these Nordic countries. Razorfish will provide Coca-Cola with a fresh online presence that underscores the current targeted teenage demographic. The easily accessible Coca-Cola site will be an integration of strategy, technology and design solutions. The new services will be launched in the beginning of 2001.

Razorfish Drives with Ford
Razorfish, Inc., the global digital solutions provider, and Ford Motor Company, a global leader in the automotive industry, today announced the completion of the first in a series of projects concerning Ford’s digital strategy - the relaunch of a fully transformed and integrated website, www.ford.com. Razorfish provided in-depth strategy and intuitive design, while the Ford-Trilogy joint venture implemented transformational technology to Ford’s existing corporate website. In an effort to produce a more user-friendly and consumer-focused experience, the existing site has been completely transformed and a more comprehensive navigation system has been developed. These joint efforts have extended the reach and relevance of Ford’s global communications.

Reuters Building Turns Green
Reuters America's new headquarters building at 3 Times Square in the heart of midtown Manhattan may serve as a model for office buildings not yet built. This structure is green, smart and ready. This means that it will be 30 percent more energy efficient, able to handle current and future technology needs and ready to receive a permanent certificate of occupancy in the new millennium. To be more energy-efficient, the building's design features a chiller plant capable of using more than one type of fuel. The building's design also circulates a greater amount of fresh air than other office buildings and its design maximizes the use of daylight using 5-ft. window mullions. Technologically, 3 Times Square is more advanced than any currently occupied office building in New York because it uses a carrier neutral backbone and triple redundancy for its systems, enabling building and information systems to operate 24 hours a day.

Proxicom Relaunches Toyota.com and Lexus.com
Proxicom, Inc., a leading e-business consulting and development company, has delivered the relaunch of Toyota Motor Sales, USA's Toyota.com and Lexus.com websites. Toyota is America's fourth largest automaker and manufactures more than one million cars per year in North America. Toyota Motor Sales, USA is the company's marketing, sales, distribution and customer service division. The newly launched sites use the Internet to leverage the Toyota and Lexus brands to inspire strong brand loyalty, provide increased dealer network support and further expand consumer relationships. 

12/15
Catching Songs
Forget about Napster. Music lovers are getting a new, convenient way to capture their favorite songs using nothing but a household radio, a PC and a simple software download that debuted recently from Gotuit Audio, Inc. SongCatcherTM, records songs directly from FM radio onto PCs, actually "catching" songs off the airwaves and creating a playlist of the downloaded tunes. Listeners can keep the songs they like and delete the ones they don't. SongCatcher is apparently the only software that allows users to make a legal library of existing music for free, using virtually no bandwidth. So, tune in!

MovingStation tRelocating Hewitt
MovingStation, a full-service relocation coordination company, has snagged a contract with Hewitt Associates to provide relocation coordination services to employees of the global management consulting firm. Hewitt will offer MovingStation's services as a benefit to all employees, even if they're moving for personal reasons. This includes transferred employees and new hires who move under the company's relocation program. MovingStation combines personal service with on-line tools and resources to simplify every aspect of relocation. Personal move coordinators (PMCs) offer expert advice and save time and energy for people who move by handling a wide range of move-related tasks.

Back to Poetry
Harpo Marx at Prayer is a new collection of poems by Saul Bennett, author of New Fields and Other Stones/On a Child's Death, which won the 1999 Benjamin Franklin Silver Award. The themes of Harpo range from the awe and wonder of childhood and the dismay and shocks of young adulthood, to the experience of a child in America during the Holocaust and the continuing journey of a bereaved parent. (Paradoxically perhaps, many of the poems are humorous.) New Yorkers will love how Harpo writes about a tiny community in the borough of Queens, New York's forgotten borough in literature. Through his writing, Bennett attempts to elevate a personal history of the tiny speck of his boyhood Sunnyside, in Queens, as did Joyce with Dublin and Faulkner with his Yaknapatwpha County in Mississippi.The book is published by Archer Books (Archer-Books.com), which has submitted Harpo Marx at Prayer for Pulitzer Prize consideration.

Verano Launches Click2Biz Platform
Verano, a pre-IPO software infrastructure company, launched the Click2Biz(TM) e-business platform for e-business process management. Click2Biz is designed to revolutionize how enterprises and trading exchanges integrate, collaborate, and innovate both internally and across external trading partners. with that and Verano's recent acquisition of Automation Integration Software (AIS) business of Agilent Technologies, the pre-IPO software infrastructure company is poised to emerge as a leader in the e-business process management market by becoming the first B2B software infrastructure company to successfully combine business-level processes and solutions with real-time manufacturing-related processes.

Let the Games Begin
With the Web becoming a virtual arcade, Yack has unleashed its Online Games Guide to the Internet's best games - from Pacman to DJ Nights. The company also relaunched an expansion of its popular Radio Guide - now debuting as the Yack Radio Tuner - which features thousands of listings of online radio stations, beaming every genre of music and talk. The latest in Yack's series of Vertical Program GuidesSM, which currently includes guides to online film, animation, seasonal sports and teen-specific content, the Yack Games Guide (http://games.yack.com) boasts the Web's most extensive database of online games. From classics like Centipede and Tetris, to new cult faves like the take-no-prisoners school popularity contest, SissyFight 2000, the Yack Games Guide helps users to both rediscover old favorites and uncover the latest underground hits. The Guide also features the free online demo versions of some of the hottest current retail releases. I'm game!

Eartnoise Packs Some Video
Earthnoise, Inc., the leading Video Application Service Provider offering video streaming solutions to businesses and consumers, is participating in the launch of Airguide, the world’s first wireless showcase of multimedia content driven by Packet Video, the global leader in wireless media. Wireless device users can access examples of Earthnoise’s Business Video Solutions (customized solutions for video-enabling business websites), V-Greetings (video greeting cards), and Video Sharing (sharing video with friends and family) in the Lifestyle section of the AirView channel at www.PVAirguide.com.

PhotoPoint Retains Beyond Interactive
PhotoPoint Corporation, a leading online digital photography company, has hired Beyond Interactive global digital advertising agency and Partner Company of Grey Global Group, to handle the company?s interactive advertising and marketing efforts. Beyond Interactive will provide PhotoPoint with account planning and management, media planning and buying, creative development, e-mail marketing, and other digital advertising services. Campaigns will be targeted at enhancing and positioning the PhotoPoint brand, as well as promoting the site?s array of photo-sharing features and e-commerce offerings.

Venture Vortex and Grant Thornton Partner
Venture Vortex has partnered with the Grant Thornton LLP, a leading accounting and management consulting firm, to provide accounting, audit, tax and management consulting services to businesses. BLAST! is designed specifically for early-stage technology companies. It includes compensation planning, tax consulting, capital raising consulting and information technology services. These services can be bundled into a flat-fee structure that fits your budget.

12/08
Online News Gets Recognition
Web-based journalists are earning their place in the annals of reporting excellence. In a competition sponsored by the Online News Association and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism Salon and MSNBC.com snagged the top spots for general excellence. Other Winners: ABCNews.com, APBNews, Associated Press, Babycenter.com, CNET News.com, Cleveland Live, The New York Times on The Web, Oxygen.com, TimesUnion.com, and Salon Wins an Additional Prize for Enterprise Journalism. The prizes were presented in front of more than 150 journalists gathered for the first national conference of the ONA (more information on the conference at http://www.journalists.org). The awards ceremony featured veteran journalist Kurt Andersen, co-founder of Inside.com, who spoke about the dynamic and dangerous new media landscape.

GO2 Gets a Coke
How about a Coke while you're surfing? The Coca-Cola Foundation is working with go2 Systems Inc., to bring to go2's location-based technology, content-rich directory and information services to Coca-Cola customers. The five-year deal enables Coca-Cola Foundation to offer the basic go2 services to its food service customers throughout the U.S. The go2 services offered include dedicated (brand-specific) go2 Web sites, location database management, store locators, premium listings and the distribution of accurate, real-time information in go2's wireless and online location-based directories and affiliates. go2's award-winning suite of location-based directory products and information services, including addresses, turn-by-turn directions and one-click calling, is available online and through Web-enabled cell phones, PDAs and pagers.

Comet Systems' Cursors Hit the Big Time
People are customizing everything these days -- even cursors! Comet Systems' Comet Cursors is now being used as a marketing tool by United Media, Universal Pictures, Universal Studios Home Video, and Sony Pictures Family Entertainment. The Comet Cursor, winner of Adweek's Best Marketing Technology award, is deployed in three basic ways: 1. As a custom Windows desktop cursor, branding a content property and stored in a Comet Cursor library on over 16 million desktops, 2. As an available "CometZone" cursor, branding established media properties at over 350,000 "CometZone" affiliate Websites, and 3. On a media partner's Website.

Razorfish Hits the Gas
Razorfish Inc. completed a joint project with SAP AG, for the new release of the mySAP Oil & Gas solution for Exploration & Production (E&P). Joining forces with the Industry Business Sector Oil & Gas, Raw Materials and Mining, and SAP AG, Razorfish converted legacy code to the mySAP.com environment through an automated process. Razorfish's automated process allowed SAP to decrease costs and development time by an estimated 50% of what would have been required to develop the solution from scratch. Now if Razorfish could only cut the price at the pump!

Find Some Culture this Holiday
Serving up a feast of holiday entertainment, CultureFinder.com launched its third annual holiday performance finder, Holidays 2000@CultureFinder, listing more than 3,500 live performances nationwide, including A Christmas Carol, The Nutcracker, Messiah, and several Hanukkah and Kwanzaa events.Tickets to virtually all of the listed performances can be purchased directly through CultureFinder.com, according to founder and president Eugene Carr. CultureFinder.com (www.CultureFinder.com; AOL keyword: CultureFinder) is the Internet's leading arts guide and ticketing service, combining a comprehensive national arts calendar with online ticketing services. Be sure to check out the cultural spin on the Twelve Days of Christmas!

Bully goes Bi-Weekly - New Issue Online...
The new issue of Bully Magazine is now online and it marks our first bi-weekly issue. With the change to a bi-weekly schedule readers don't have to wait as long for new stories, reviews, and interviews. The staff also redesigned the site with a whole new look and a killer flash intro.

Fitness Expert Forecasts Trends
Look out Tae Bo fans. The celebrity workout videos have run out of breath -- but Pilates and techno-workouts are looking fresh for 2001. So says eYada.com fitness expert Liz Neporent, who today issued her picks for the hottest trends of the coming year - and most tired fads of 2000. One of the Internet's leading entertainment companies, eYada.com reaches more than one million worldwide users each month. The network Webcasts 35 live, original shows each week on three channels: Entertainment, Sports, and Health, Fitness & Adventure. Author of "Fitness for Dummies" and other health and fitness best-sellers, Liz Neporent predicts the rise of corporate wellness centers, extreme workouts for groups, workout sessions that can be downloaded from your PC, and renewed gym popularity of the baseball cap.

Uproar Inc. To Acquire TrafficMarketplace.com
Uproar Inc., the interactive entertainment company, is acquiring TrafficMarketplace.com, an online advertising brokerage service based in Los Angeles, CA. TrafficMarketplace.com, which was established in April of 2000, provides marketing solutions for both advertisers and media publishers on the Internet. The company, which has about 20 employees, will continue to operate out of Los Angeles. Under the terms of the definitive agreement, Uproar will acquire all outstanding shares of Trafficmarketplace.com in a stock-for-stock transaction in which Trafficmarketplace.com stockholders will receive an aggregate of approximately 3.6 million shares of Uproar common stock. The acquisition will be accounted for as a purchase transaction.

Yacking Away at Earthlink
YackSM, the Internet Program GuideSM, and EarthLink have formed a partnership that provides EarthLink's 4.6 million subscribers with quick access to Yack's comprehensive online events listings. Yack is the authority on what's happening in the world of online events, including streaming media and chats. Event listings from both the narrowband and the broadband version of Yack will be accessible through a co-branded guide on EarthLink's subscriber-exclusive Web properties. Yack will be EarthLink's default Internet program guide for users searching for net events, live online chat and cybercasts.

Verano Acquires Agilent's Software
Verano, a privately-held, pre-IPO company and Agilent Technologies Inc., has acquired Agilent's Automation Integration Software (AIS) business. AIS is a division of Calgary, Alberta-based Agilent Technologies Canada Inc., and is a provider of software products that enable real-time services for the management and integration of industrial processes and their synchronization with enterprise and e-business processes. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Under the deal, Verano will maintain the AIS operations in Calgary while functionally integrating all managers and employees into Verano's operations. Verano will continue to sell and support existing AIS products and will provide customer, technical and sales support to current AIS customers. Agilent will take an equity stake in Verano.

12/01
Razorfish Restructures Content
Razorfish, Inc., is providing strategy, technology and creativity to the restructuring of ADIG-Investment's web site. The Munich, Germany, investment firm will also provide strategic consultation in the integration of a content-management system. A pioneer in the investment sector, ADIG has established itself as one of Germany's first investment firms. Razorfish will reproduce www.adig.com with two points in mind: ADIG's long-standing reliability as an investment and financial services expert and its support for technological customer service solutions.

CultureFinder Takes Time Out in New York
Time Out New York has one of New York City's most comprehensive listings of arts and entertainment events - and now it has one of the easiest ways to shop for tickets. The publication has selected CultureFinder.com as its premier online ticketing partner. By logging on to www.timeoutny.culturefinder.com, Time Out New York's more than 256,000 weekly readers will get instant access to CultureFinder.com's information and online ticketing for Theater, Dance and Classical Music and Opera. Visitors will also be able to subscribe to CultureFinder.com's eight free weekly e-mail newsletters highlighting New York City's arts scene in all its splendor. The Time Out New York weekly magazine will market the ticket service on a co-branded CultureFinder.com site by highlighting the URL on the pages of its Theater, Dance, and Classical Music and Opera sections.

Badger, Kry and Partners Snags Agency.com Deal
Agency.com has signed on Badger, Dry and Partners as its public relations agency. The company is geared up to bring timely information to Agency.com, the company that excels in helping its clients seamlessly integrate their businesses over multiple digital channels.

Razorfish Teams with CoCreate
Razorfish Inc., and CoCreate, a worldwide leading collaborative software company, are working together to re-launch www.cocreate.com. Razorfish helped CoCreate transform the existing site and visual identity as well as the company's branding positioning. CoCreate develops mechanical Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Product Data Management (PDM) software that enables online real-time collaboration for working design engineer teams. Razorfish reproduced CoCreate's on and offline look and feel by providing comprehensive and strategic solutions that speak to users' demands. The result is a site that allows global design engineering teams to easily work together.

LaunchChicago.com Launches
If you want to know what's going on in Chicago's technology community, check out LaunchChicago.com. The site is a new economy directory profiling the City's Internet resources. The basic concept is to profile the City's technology presence. It's really easy to join a linux group, donate a computer, or find a freelancer when the information is compiled in one place -- and then located right around the corner. Categories include City Developments, Venture Capital, E-Commerce-Education, Media, Networking Groups, Clubs-Organizations, Nonprofits, Recruiters/Freelancers, Jobs, Edistricts, Dot.Coms, High-Tech Calendars and Internet Cafes.

Stockback and US Airways Reward Flyers
Forget about frequent flyer miles. Get some stock when you fly. Stockback Members who purchase qualifying tickets for US Airways flights through Stockback's online program can earn stockback -- a cash reward -- on their airline tickets. Stockback Members can choose to invest their stockback in The Stockback Fund - a no-load, open-ended mutual fund managed by Merrill Lynch. The Stockback Fund buys shares of Stockback's publicly traded merchant partners, as well as other public companies, with the goal of achieving long term capital appreciation.

Cocktails With CondéNet
Cyber cocktails, anyone? That's what you'll get with CondéNet's new venture. The creator and developer of upscale lifestyle brands online has teamed up with United Distillers and Vintners (UDV), to serve up the Virtual Cocktail Club and Virtual Cocktail Hour to Concierge.com, Epicurious.com, STYLE.com and Swoon.com visitors. From now through January 31, 2001, these cyber cocktail mini sites are overflowing with party games, tantalizing recipes and more. Virtual Cocktail Club (www.virtualcocktailclub.com), geared towards the hip and style-savvy audiences of STYLE.com and Swoon.com, showcases Malibu rum, Smirnoff vodka and José Cuervo tequila. Players can vote to banish hopeful survivors from Malibu Island, get a free "Twisted Tarot" personality card reading, unveil their "Mr. Shy" or "Ms. Shyster" secret side in the Vive Cuervo Party Personality Quiz or register to win a swingin' vacation to the famous "Cuervo Nation."

MovingStation Relocates Administaff Employees
MovingStation, a full-service relocation coordination company, has made its services available at no charge to employees, their families, and client companies of Administaff Inc., the leading professional employer organization (PEO), via bizzport(SM), Administaff's e-commerce portal. MovingStation's services encompass a wide range of move-related tasks, including the sale and purchase of homes, acquiring mortgages and the transportation of household property. These services are performed on line and off line by personal move coordinators and tracked on the Web. MovingStation will also provide Administaff and its client companies with relocation policy consultation and its employee relocation expense tracking service, Expense CoordinatorTM, via Administaff's e-service platform, Administaff Assistant.

Inside.com and MSNBC.com Converge
Inside.com and MSNBC.com have formed a content alliance. MSNBC.com will increase the scope of its leading Web-based news services by incorporating Inside.com news and information into its new Media & Entertainment section, and elsewhere on the site. Inside, which is the primary content provider for the new area, joins The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Newsweek, E! Online, and ZDNet as news suppliers to MSNBC.com. Inside.com will provide MSNBC.com with its industry-leading brand of fast, deep, data-rich news and analysis in its primary areas of coverage: Film, TV, Music, Books, Media, and Digital.

Gizmoz and Hookt.Com Promote Hip-Hop
Hookt.com, Inc., a site for hip-hop music, news, entertainment, culture, fashion and shopping, has teamed with Gizmoz, Inc., a leading provider of rich media marketing technology. Together they will promote the Hookt.com Web network, particularly hooktstore.com, SlimShadyWorld.com and sayShe.com. Each Gizmo will be sent to more than one million fans that have signed up within the Hookt Network of Web sites. The first of the three Hookt Gizmos will feature fashions from Hooktstore.com, along with content from designers and the ability to sample audio selections from various hip-hop artists affiliated with the site such as BadBoy/BMG artist Puff Daddy.

Orb Snags Forbes Account
Orb has landed an account with Forbes.com. The agency will handle all online and offline advertising for the financial Web site. Billings on the project are estimated at $10 million to $15 million. Orb displaces Merkley Newman Harty, which held the offline advertising duties since 1999.

Gizmoz, Inc. To Promote GREATFOOD.COM
Gizmoz, Inc., a leading provider of rich media marketing technology, announced today that the company has partnered with GREATFOOD.COMa @ 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, a leading Internet provider of gourmet gifts, to promote holiday gift ideas, daily recipes and entertaining suggestions. The Gizmo will be sent to more than 2.1 million 1-800-FLOWERS.COM customers prior to the Thanksgiving holiday and will be updated on a regular basis. As part of the 1-800-FLOWERS.COM family, GREATFOOD.COM can be found under the Gourmet Treats and Sweet Shoppe categories of 1-800-FLOWERS.COM's Web site, www.1800flowers.com

Yack Programs the Internet
YackSM (www.yack.com), the Internet Program GuideSM, will distribute its comprehensive online events listings to the 4Anything Network's extensive network of approximately 1300 topical and city Web channels. Under the agreement, visitors to 4Anything Network's broad selection of Web channels, including its new super-channel, 4soapoperas.com, will have access to Yack's entire database of listings, including live, on-demand, and regularly-scheduled online events and programs. In addition, Yack's program guide will be integrated into 4Anything's search and navigiation, enabling 4Anything Network users to search for both Web sites and online events and listings. Yack's service will go live across the 4Anything Network by the end of November 2000.

MLX.com and Crain's Partner
Crain's New York Business, a New York City weekly financial newspaper has chosen MLX.com, New York City's online residential real estate marketplace, to provide real estate listings for Crain's Internet site. Through the partnership, readers of Crain's New York Business can create and update an online profile and do customized searches of over 4,500 apartments through MLX.com's database. In addition, consumers receive instant email notifications whenever a new apartment enters the market that meets their profile. The Crain's-MLX partnership also lets Human Resource managers open accounts online and sign up their employees for an annual corporate subscription.

Exhibit on Contemporary Russian Art
Alyona Makeeva of the St. Petersburg Arts Project, a New York based arts organization, and Olga Thomson, curator of the Russki Album Cultural Foundation of St. Petersburg, Russia, held a special New York invitation-only exhibition of 30 works by contemporary Russian artists to take place on November 15, 2000 at the Frants Gallery Space in SoHo. This exhibition marks the first of what is hoped to be a series of bi-annual exhibitions of Russian contemporary art in New York. This first exhibition in particular is made up of thirty individual works by 10 women artists active St. Petersburg today. It comes just as the New York Guggenheim Museum's exhibition, "Amazons of the Avant-Garde," gets underway. It features six extraordinary women who shaped the Russian avant-garde movement during the first quarter of the last century.

Environmental Defense Shoots for Profit
Environmental Defense, a leading U.S. non-profit advocacy organization, today announced its spin-off of LocusPocus, a for-profit Internet services company. LocusPocus will help membership-based organizations recruit, engage, and retain members, and will enable them to leverage the power of their constituencies for online advocacy. Environmental Defense will hold a minority ownership interest in LocusPocus. LocusPocus' products grew out of pioneering technology developed by Dr. Bill Pease and his team for Environmental Defense's Action Network and Scorecard, which LocusPocus will continue to power. The launch of LocusPocus marks the establishment of a new company by Dr. Pease and his team as well as the release of two new services: GetActive and BeLocal.

Availant Teams With Compaq
Availant, a leading provider of business-critical software and services, has signed an agreement with Compaq Computer Corporation to provide its availability management software -- Availant Manager -- on all new Compaq ProLiant(TM) servers. Availant Manager has been enhanced to integrate with Compaq's Web-based intelligent manageability tool, Compaq Insight Manager XE. Compaq will distribute this enhanced version, Compaq Availability Agents, with all new Compaq ProLiant servers. Compaq will also offer Compaq Availability agents for licensing on existing, installed ProLiant and ProSignia servers.

Culturefinder.com Launches Affiliate Network
Continuing its aggressive expansion as the Internet's leading arts guide and ticketing service, CultureFinder.com has launched its online affiliate marketing program based on ticket sales. CultureFinder.com enables users to search and purchase tickets for arts and cultural events using its vast and comprehensive database. According to Eugene Carr, founder and CEO of CultureFinder.com, affiliates will receive a commission for each ticket sold from their site. CultureFinder.com's affiliates network will allow partners to design and customize a ticketing directory service on their own sites. They will also be able to select and organize events in these directories by arts genre or in a particular geographic region.

Forbes.com Taps Orb
In a move designed to further expand the Forbes.com brand, Forbes.com has chosen ORB, Inc. as its agency of record. Alley-based ORB, a provider of ROI-driven marketing and technology solutions, has been engaged to help enhance and develop Forbes.coma€™s marketing initiatives. The overall advertising goal is to break through the noise and clutter in the financial information space and introduce a whole new generation of Internet users to the coverage and expert commentary that has made Forbes magazine synonymous with leading edge financial intelligence.

BestSelections Teams with NYStyle.com
BestSelections is merging with NYStyle.com. It has also signed an agreement with AOL to incorporate BestSelections in the Jewelry & Gifts category within the new Luxury Shops area of Shop@AOL . BestSelections will be featured in this new luxury area, along with Saksfifthavenue.com and InStyle.com, and in nine shopping categories and the gift area of Shop@AOL too.

Rxaminer and BestHalf Partner
Rxaminer Inc., a business-to-business and business-to-consumer Internet company that provides comparison information on prescription drugs, announced today a partnership with BestHalf.com, Inc. Covering topics from health and fitness to local and national news, business and finance to home and hobbies, BestHalf.com aims to be the premium Internet destination for the 55-plus market. In addition to providing savings for individuals, corporations who combine Rxaminer's pricing tools with their health plans or discount clubs can also achieve major reductions in overall health care costs. Rxaminer was formerly Rxchange.

AdNetware Launches
AdNetware has developed patent-pending technology that lets advertisers and content providers communicate with users anytime they are on-line, anywhere they surf, began operations today. AdNetwarea€™s innovative technology targets advertising and sends out relevant ads during the gap time between web page downloads. AdNetwarea€™s business model combines new technologies and strategic partnerships to deliver TV-like flash and video ads to users regardless of where they surf. AdNetware is in the process of finalizing strategic alliances with advertising agencies and content providers. Further announcements will follow shortly.

Popular Game Show to Come to the Uproar Network
Uproar Inc., the interactive entertainment company, has secured the exclusive worldwide online rights for the popular television game show Name That Tune. Additionally, Uproar announced that it is working with music company All Access Entertainment, a wholly owned subsidiary of Paradise Music & Entertainment, to produce the interactive online version of the game for the Uproar Network. Name that Tune, a music identification game, has entertained television audiences for over 50 years. Name That Tune is the latest television game show to be taken online by Uproar. Uproar already holds the exclusive worldwide online rights for Family Feud, To Tell The Truth, Match Game and 100% under a license from Pearson Television. Name That Tune is expected to launch on the Uproar Network in the second quarter of 2001.

Faspay Launches German Version
FasPay Technologies Inc. has launched the German version of its FasPay Mobile Commerce Platform. FasPay Technologies, a Lake Forest, IL based technology company, is launching a German version of its wireless payment application as a follow up to the English language version. The payment solution is designed to address the need for localized and personalized wireless Internet services while ensuring the user enjoys a secure and convenient buying experience. It is the first comprehensive mobile payment solution that incorporates artificial intelligence form fill with a mobile wallet and direct charge facility in the German market.

11/10
Predict It Nixes Merger
Predict It Inc., a provider of interactive prediction applications targeting the online sports and financial markets, has called off negotiations regarding its proposed merger with Hollywood Stock Exchange. Apparently the two companies haven't been able to secure the necessary to complete the proposed merger. In the meantime, Predict It cut its staff from 30 full-time employees to four in an effort to reduce costs and preserve remaining capital. Is this the beginning of the end? Let's hope not. Predict It is exploring several options, including raising additional financing, and/or a sale of the Company or certain of its assets. If the company can't raise additional funds or find a buyer, it coudl be forced into bankruptcy.

ScreamingMedia Forms Technology Alliance with Allaire
ScreamingMedia, aleading global provider of content solutions, has formed a technology alliance with Allaire Corporation, a leading provider of web site building software. The two companies will provide a full-service, content management solution. By seamlessly integrating their technologies, ScreamingMedia's SiteWare(TM) infrastructure technology for the aggregation, distribution and integration of digital content, can interface directly with Allaire Spectra 1.5, an application framework for content management, e-commerce and personalization. Allaire Spectra 1.5 customers will get a free 90-day trial of ScreamingMedia's SiteWare(TM) content solution before getting the opportunity to join on as ScreamingMedia customers.

Vertical Alliance Secures $500,000
Vertical Alliance, Inc., a leader in delivering integrated customer acquisition, retention and optimization tools for vertical eBusiness markets, has secured a $500,000 working capital facility from Progress Bank in Philadelphia, PA. CEO Jeffrey DiFrancesco says the funds will enable Vertical to enhance its comprehensive marketing and distribution program its Vertical Tracker 2.0 product.

Razorfish and Deutsche Bank in B2B eMarketplaces Venture
Razorfish, Inc., a global digital solutions provider, has joined forces with Deutsche Bank to provide strategic B2B solutions for online marketplaces. Razorfish has developed a platform for Deutsche Bank that offers online financial services on electronic marketplaces. The Deutsche Bank platform is going to feature an array of additional service functions - including both internal and external.

Bloomberg.com Expands News-to-Go
Bloomberg.com has unveiled an expansion of its News-to-Go service, the popular online newsletter that provides immediate daily overviews of top financial news at the close of business in major global markets. Bloomberg News-to-Go subscribers can now choose from 21 category-specific newsletters covering particular regions, countries, and industries, as well financial topics from currencies to commodities. The News-to-Go feature is accessible from the site's welcome page and provides users with a free, immediate, printable email summary of the day's news, distributed around the same time major markets close in a particular region or country.

Communities 2000 Set for December
Strategic Thinkers Forums, the conference division of technology research and consulting firm Basex, announced the East Coast 2000 reprise of its executive-level Communities conference inDecember 7, 2000. The one-day event, "Communities 2000 East" is designed for senior executives in companies looking to make community an integral part of business, as well as executives at community-related vendors, and will be held at the American Express Tower at the World Financial Center. The conference is hosted in association with American Express, Participate.com, PeopleLink, The WeTalk Network, Talk City, CoolBoard and Opinionware.

Venture Vortex and Grant Thornton Partner
Venture Vortex has partnered with the Grant Thornton LLP, a leading accounting and management consulting firm, to provide accounting, audit, tax and management consulting services to businesses. BLAST! is designed specifically for early-stage technology companies. It includes compensation planning, tax consulting, capital raising consulting and information technology services. These services can be bundled into a flat-fee structure that fits your budget.

10/27
Razorfish Tops Forbes 200
Razorfish, Inc., is in good company. The global digital solutions provider was named to Forbes Magazine's "200 Best Small Companies." According to Forbes' October 2000 issue, Razorfish ranked number one in sales growth among the 200 other companies included in the ranking. Razorfish's sales increased 412% annually during the past five years versus an average gain of 41%. The Forbes 200 Best Small Companies list is comprised of companies with annual sales between $5 and $350 million. Companies selected for the list had to undergone a comprehensive financial evaluation, and demonstrate five years of consistent sales and earnings-per-share growth and four consecutive quarters of net income surpassing $1 million.

Karetsu Expands into Empire State Building
In the next step toward expanding its reach, Gorann's Irish incubator Karetsu has taken space in the southwest corner of the Empire State Building's 58th floor. The ESB 2000 square-foot location will allow Gorann's Irish companies immediately gain a U.S. base, U.S. prospects and U.S. partners. This is essential in a country that considers local businesses to be he only serious companies out there. Furthermore, Gorann business developers will act on the clients' behalf by opening up new opportunities in the U.S. Some U.S. high-tech companies will also occupy the Karetsu, providing all the aspects of shared experiences so important to a successful environment. The view from the 58th floor is amazing, spanning down to the Twin Towers and across into New Jersey. Imagine this: the windows actually open to fresh air and fresh ideas.

Designing the Web
Tom Klinkowstein, president of Media A, LLC, and professor of Digital Design at Pratt Institute, spoke on September 18th at the Prix Italia TV / Web conference in Bologna, Italy. Mr. Klinkowstein spoke on, "Principles of Web Architecture," with Dr. Derrick de Kerckhove, director of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto. Other presenters included the author Umberto Eco and film director David Lynch.

OpenTable Secures $42 Million in Financing
The tab is on OpenTable, thanks to $42 million in mezzanine financing. The provider of Internet-enabled customer relationship management (CRM), marketing, yield management and reservations solutions to the $500 billion global foodservice industry, has aggressive plans to extend its offering of networked applications for the hospitality industry. It will deliver a full suite of Internet and software solutions to connect restaurants, hotels and consumers. OpenTable's technology solutions bring restaurants the applications they need to drive revenue and profitability, simplify operations, enhance guest relationships and effectively compete in today's marketplace. Investors in the company's financing round include Worldspan and leading venture capital firms Benchmark Capital, Adam Dell's Impact Venture Partners, Integral Capital, Epoch Partners, Comdisco Ventures and Upstart Capital.

New Restaurant Solutions
Look for OpenTable to release OTRestaurant - a web-based solution that enables restaurateurs to remotely access reservation data and reports, and dynamically update Dining Rewards in order to effectively and quickly manage yields. Other OpenTable products currently in development include centralized database solutions to enable restaurant groups to efficiently manage reservations and customer databases for multiple locations, executive-level reporting applications, Internet marketing tools, anywhere/anytime access to OpenTable's electronic reservation book (ERB), and ERB integration with point-of-sale (POS) systems for improved operational forecasting. The company is also working on International versions of its ERB and plans to launch its service in France within the next few weeks.

Bloomberg Launches Investor Relations Channel
Bloomberg has launched the Investor Relations Channel, a unique communications tool that allows direct distribution of information to the institutional and retail community. The Investor Relations Channel is designed to help corporations meet their new responsibilities under Regulation FD the Securities and Exchange Commission's mandate on full and fair disclosure to all investors by publicly traded companies. Regulation FD requires public companies to avoid making selective disclosure to analysts and others of material company information and to make full public release of any information that is being disclosed on a non-confidential basis to those outside the company.

MSNBC.com Named #1
MSNBC.com is the #1 news site for the month of September, according to the most recentdata compiled by Nielsen/NetRatings and Media Metrix. Traffic to MSNBC Sports during the Olympics set new audience records. MSNBC.com maintained its standing as the primary source for news on the Internet with a significant lead over the competition in the combined Home/Work audience. September Nielsen/Netratings show MSNBC.com had 10.4 million Home/Work users versus CNN.com's 7.6 million Home/Work users. According to Media Metrix, MSNBC.com remains at the top of the General News category with 8.9 million unique users in September, ahead of CNN.com.

SavvyVoter.org Goes for the Best
Savvyvoter.org, New York's only nonpartisan election site, named eight prominent Silicon Alley leaders to its Advisory Board. The newly created Advisory Board represents a diverse cross-section of Silicon Alley movers and shakers. Members of the board include: Monte Bartlett, brand strategist, Method; J.P. Frenza, worldwide marketing director, IBM; Josh Isay, director of public policy, Doubleclick; Alice O'Rourke, executive director, New York New Media Association; Courtney Pulitzer, publisher, The Cyber Scene; Andrew Rasiej, founder, Making Opportunities for Upgrading Schools and Education (MOUSE); Omar Wasow, executive director, BlackPlanet.com; and Jeff Yang, CEO and President, aMedia. David Birdsell professor and executive director of academic programs, School of Public Affairs, Baruch College and Marvin Rosen, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, are also Advisory Board members. Hoffman and Mark Schmitt, senior advisor to Savvyvoter.org and a program officer at The Open Society Institute, serve as co-chairs.

Screaming at Javits
ScreamingMedia has decided to take advantage of having Fall Internet World in our backyard. The first of ScreamingMedia's "March on Javits" began at the show. Hundreds of Screamers, all dressed in the signature ScreamingMedia red logo t-shirt, walked the 10 blocks from the company's offices to the Javits center, handing out pins, business cards, and brochures to people passing by and inside the show. It was a sight to behold.

ScreamingMedia Hits the Stands ScreamingMedia plans to dramatically expand its popular News!Stand service. ScreamingMedia News!Stand is an affordable, easy-to-implement content solution that provides websites, enterprises and wireless networks with packages of news stories, organized by subject-category, and updated continuously and automatically. The expanded service will debuted during Fall Internet World at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City, October 25-27. Then starting in November, ScreamingMedia News!Stand will feature a wide range of special-interest and industry-specific categories of news. Highly targeted categories like Nuclear Power News, Electronic News, Telecommunications Services News, Biotechnology News, and many others, will be offered, in addition to the general-interest news
categories already available through News!Stand.

Razorfish Takes Home M&M Grand Prix Awards
Razorfish, Inc., the global digital solutions provider, was recognized at the M&M Grand Prix Awards of Finland in both the best design and best customer relationship marketing categories. Razorfish received the best design award for TheFeature.com, a mobility community service portal created for Nokia, a world leader in communications. Razorfish received the best customer relationship marketing award for its work on muuttaja.com, a relocation portal created in conjunction with Fortum, one of the leading energy companies in the Nordic countries. Both projects were recognized for their intuitive usability and strategic excellence.

10/20
Disabled in the Net Economy
More than 300 decision makers from industry, government and the research community are expected to gather in Wall Street on Wednesday, November 1, to share perspectives on how people with disabilities represent major new sources of greater productivity - and profits - in the rapidly evolving global Net Economy. The 3rd Annual Expanding CyberSociety conference focuses on how making information and communications products and services more accessible for people with disabilities -- and how that makes good business sense in today's global economy. Global Community Digital Sandbox at the New York Information Technology Center, 55 Broad Street, from 9 A.M. to 6:00 P.M.

AvidLearn Teams up with Concentrics
AvidLearn, Inc., a leading provider of online seminars, customized training solutions, and continuing education for individuals and corporations, has formed a strategic alliance with Concentrics, Inc., a management consulting firm that is a leader in creating e-learning t raining solutions for the internet, internal networks and hosted solutions. With Concentrics' help, AvidLearn will create an interactive c lassroom without geographic boundaries.Y ack Dominates Broadband Guidance With Newly Expanded Road Runner Partnership YackSM, the Internet Program GuideSM, must be satisfied with its longstanding distribution partnership with Road Runner. YackSM is extending its contract with the broadband service provider another two years. Under the new deal, Yack will have a far greater presence on the service, giving Road Runner's more than one million broadband users an extensive guide to Web events and programs. Not only that, but the broadband version of the complete Yack guide, Fast Yack, will now be fully integrated into various contextualized areas of Road Runner. Fast Yack will be prominently featured on the Primary Channel, each Primary Channel Highlights screen and each Category Welcome screen.

Muji Caters to North American Fans After successful 1999 holiday season, MujiOnline.com plans to reopen for North American shoppers. The Japanese retailer will re-open for year-round business later this month, exclusively for customers in the U.S. and Canada. The site will open for permanent business at the end of October, just in time for the 2000 holiday season. Once a well-kept secret of jet setters and global fashion hounds, the no-frills Muji has steadily gained a worldwide following thanks to word of mouth and high-profile devotees like Catherine Deneuve, Johnny Depp, and Vanessa Paradis. The online branch store is Muji's only North American presence at this time.

09/29
Video Production Company - FUNY
For many years MWMWM showed installational video-based work and gained considerable critical attention both in Chicago and Brooklyn. Now, Chris Murray and Lars Haga have given it up. Inspired, they have launched a video production company, FUNY, and a video magazine, videosoapbox. Taking advantage of the new DV technology, FUNY has made the first of what should be a long series of commercials. On display are three commercials and a large group of interviews. Chris wrote two of the commercials in collaboration with World Federation for Fast Food Workers and Fry Cooks (WFFWF) and United Book-Sellers International and Cyberspace (UBSIC ). Lars and I directed and produced everything with vast help from close to a dozen others. We look forward to expanding this collective. FUNY is actively looking for interesting, smart people to act, direct, edit and write. Videosoapbox is actively looking for people to interview and to be interviewed. It’s an open invitation. Not paid work, mind you. FUNY is open to the public every weekend. (Saturday and Sunday 1-6 and by appointment, and will be part of the Elsewhere Williamsburg Festival this weekend.

09/22
Yack Secures Funding
Cementing its position as the leading guide to online events and programming, YackSM (www.yack.com), the Internet Program GuideSM, closed its third round of financing today, raising over $10.2 million from a group led by Trans Cosmos USA. Twice named the "Best Guide for Live Events" by Yahoo! Internet Life, Yack steers users through the explosively growing world of live and on-demand Web events and programs. In addition to Trans Cosmos, all of Yack's series B investors have re-upped for this latest round, including Mayfield Fund, Waterview Partners, Blue Chip Ventures, Infinity Capital LLC and Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners, L.P. This round of funding was secured under the leadership of Jeff Morris, president and CEO of Yack, who spent 15 years at Showtime, where he headed new media initiatives for the network.

MSNBC.com and SPACE.com Sign Content Distribution Deal
SPACE.com (www.space.com), the space multimedia company, has signed a content distribution agreement with MSNBC.com. SPACE.com will provide MSNBC.com with original reports, including navigation to content located on the SPACE.com Web site for users wanting more in-depth information. Space. MSNBC.com features in-depth space and technology news from around the world provided by SPACE.com's extensive team of reporters as well as content provided by MSNBC.com. Both companies will also evaluate future co-production opportunities including specials and multimedia applications.

Tribeca Conference Announces Keynoters
Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal have announced that Andrew Jarecki, chairman of AOL Moviefone and Douglas Rushkoff, author, journalist, and new media academic will be the keynote speakers at converge@tribeca (www.convergeattribeca.com). The event will showcase Tribeca as a community that thrives within the entertainment and technology industries. Andrew Jarecki is the chairman of AOL Moviefone. Douglas Rushkoff is the author of seven books on new media and popular culture. His newest book, Coercion: Why We Listen to What "They" Say was published by Riverhead in September 1999. Rushkoff's radio commentaries air on NPR's "All Things Considered," and his monthly column on cyberculture distributed through the New York Times Syndicate appear in over 30 countries.

Getting In Style
Need a little style advice? Check out Silicon Alley-based CondéNet's newest site, STYLE.com, which launched this week. STYLE.com, the online home of Vogue and W magazines, will feature full coverage of Fashion Week in New York, exclusive online auctions from some of the world's premier designers and luxury fashion from Neiman Marcus. Here is an overview of the site's features. Style.com is an unprecedented online fashion destination for consumers and designers, where fashion aficionados can find the latest news and trends, purchase their favorite fashions and accessories and communicate with other clothing and style enthusiasts on the Internet. Style.com is home to Vogue.com and WMagazine.com, and the spirit and style of each magazine is woven throughout these six destinations: Shopping, Fashion Shows, People & Parties, Trends, Today and Forums.

Institute Provides Media Management
Need a little help managing your media? The Media Management Institute, founded by Audrey Cohen College, is a "Think Tank" created to provide quality services to the College and the media community at large. Institute Executive Director and Audrey Cohen College President, Stephen R. Greenwald, is the former partner of Dino De Laurentiis and is currently producing "Deuces Wild" with Martin Scorcese through his company Presto Productions. For a list of Media Management Institute services, including consulting, research, seminars and events, andincubation, visit the Media Management Institute webpage at http://www.audreycohen.edu/mba/institute.html.

High-Tech Center Opens in Dublin
Gorann announces the opening of it's high tech karetsu at 25/26 Great Strand Street in Dublin 1. Up to 40 people from different companies, all in the Software, Internet and Telecoms sector will occupy the converted warehouse in the heart of Dublin. Gorann is Ireland's leading Venture Catalyst helping high tech companies at pre-seed, seed and early stages to accelerate their growth by the injection of Gorann's skills and experience of over 10 start-ups in Ireland and the USA. Gorann's research and precedence in the U.S. has shown that by having a cluster of such companies in one place, the start-ups can feed off each others experiences while at the same time benefitting from "coffee machine consulting" from Gorann's consultants. The karetsu, located just on the north side of the ha'penny bridge, opens on October 1st. Some allocations remain available and those interested should email sb@gorann.com.

A Little Multimedia Entertainment
Tired of all this talk about venture capital, stock drops and business planning? Why not ease your mind iwth a little multimedia entertainment. On September 23 and 24, Livesystems.net's Marni Kotak will conduct an outdoor performance in the Williamsburg/Greenpoint area: her PLEASURE AND PROFIT IN 2000 campaign. Kotak will circle the Williamsburg/Greenpoint area, encouraging the community to look beyond the immediate choices provided by mass media, to consider deeply what gives them the most pleasure and profit in their own lives. Residents of the neighborhood will be invited to make a pledge, by signing a pledge form, to do what they can to help the community achieve pleasure and profit. The multimedia performance artist will be driven around in a sound-truck used for local politicians' get-out-the-vote campaigns. From this mobile podium, she will address the local community,in both English and Spanish, about the importance of achieving pleasure and profit in their daily lives. The two performances each day will be from 1-3 p.m. and from 5-7 p.m. September 23-24, 1-3 PM and 5 -7 PM (during Elsewhere: Williamsburg) at various locations in Williamsburg/Greenpoint weather permitting.

Razorfish Teams With U.S. Navy
The U.S. Naval Supply Systems Command, the organization responsible for providing supply support to U.S. Naval forces worldwide, recently completed a project with Razorfish Inc., that has dramatically improved the Navy's financial accountability and control of funds used to procure equipment, supplies, and services. Razorfish and NAVSUP's information systems support organization, the Fleet Material Support Office (FMSO), joined forces and created, developed and incorporated two new modules for the Navy's Material Financial Control System. These two modules perform Allotment Accrual Accounting and Expenditure Processing for the $5 billion in annual funds processed by the Naval Inventory Control Point (NAVICP) for equipment, supplies, and services.

Razorfish Named Second-Fastest Growing Tech Firm
Razorfish, Inc., the global digital solutions provider has been ranked as the second fastest- growing technology company by Deloitte & Touche for its annual "New York Technology Fast 50," an award program that ranks technology companies by revenue growth in New York City and Westchester and Rockland counties. Fast 50 companies must have 1995 operating revenues of at least $50,000 and 1999 operating revenues of at least $1,000,000; must be a company with offices in the U.S. developing and/or providing technology products or services; and must have been in business for at least five years. The finalists are eligible to compete in the "Technology Fast 500," a ranking of the nation's top 500 fastest growing technology companies, which is also sponsored by Deloitte & Touche.

Jupiter Media Metrix Offers New Services
Jupiter Media Metrix has announced a new suite of services, Jx Intelligence, the first initiative to emerge from the union of the two research leaders, whose merger closed yesterday. Featuring three subscription services -- Market Intelligence, Customer Intelligence and Competitive Intelligence -- Jx Intelligence leverages and synthesizes proprietary assets from Jupiter Research, Media Metrix and AdRelevance into a powerful new set of products aimed at providing clarity and vision for companies competing in today's digital marketplace. The new subscription-based services will be sold along with existing services offered by Jupiter Research, Media Metrix, and AdRelevance.

09/15
Guyville.com Goes Mobile
Guyville.com, the largest online entertainment and information resource for men, and Upoc, a mobile community platform for the Gen Wireless market (wireless users ages 15-29), today announced a partnership to distribute Guyville.com content on Upoc's wireless network. The partnership will enable Guyville.com readers and Upoc users to receive relevant content and instant updates on their mobile phones and text pagers. Guyville.com is the first major online men's publication to distribute its content wirelessly. Guyville.com content that will be available through Upoc's Mobile Messaging Platform will include The Guy Fact of the Day, Girlfriendless Video Pick of the Week, Gadget of the Week, Feature of the Week (ranging from men's health updates to sporting news), The Guyville XY Files (original lists, such as things never to say to your girlfriend), and more.

Yacksters.com Guides Teens
Whether they're online to bop to Blink 182, chat with Charlie's Angels or swing with Sosa, teens will want to make Yacksters.com their springboard to cool programming on the Internet. Recent studies show that by 2004, more than 70 percent of all teens will be online, making them the Web's fastest-growing audience. Produced by YackSM, the Internet Program GuideSM, Yacksters is the ultimate online directory to the best live and on-demand teen programming the Web has to offer. Culled from YACK.com's database of tens of thousands of live and on-demand events, streaming media and chats, Yacksters guides teens directly to their favorite stuff online, from live chats with the hottest stars to hard-to-find underground cartoons and games, to the music videos they won't see on TV. Yack.com has five categories: Music, TV/Film, Games, Sports and Fashion to Fiction.

Avandia.com Offers Direction
If you've got diabetes, you've got questions about treatment. Now, Avandia.com can answer them. The recently launched Web site, which sells the oral antidiabetes treatment Avandia, now offers live operator assistance to advise patients on how to properly use the Web site's forms and interactive features. Online technical support for Avandia.com is available Monday through Friday, 9:00 am-9:00 pm ET, Saturday and Sunday 9:00 am-5:00 pm ET. Patients can click on the site's "Online Technical Support" link to take them to a screen that offers three choices for a connection with a live. Technical Support Representative while still online. Depending upon the computer, they could either connect with a representative by the same phone, request a call back to a second phone line or engage in a straightforward text chat. The patient will then be immediately linked to a Technical Support Representative who is able to see the patient's screen to guide them through the Web site.

Candidate Mocks the Vote
Tired of the same old politics? Get to know a very different candidate when write-in presidential candidate R.U. Sirius delivers his "DERISION 2000: MOCK THE VOTE" speech at historic City Lights Books in San Francisco's North Beach district on Wednesday September 20 at 7 p.m. The event will kick off the final stage of his campaign. Sirius says that he comes from the other side of the culture war. He has criticized Vice President Al Gore and Republican candidate George W. Bush for going "to war against people's recreation." At City Lights Books he will introduce his political organization, The Revolution. He will also sign copies of his book, "The Revolution: Quotations from Revolution Party Chairman R.U. Sirius."

IQdestination.com Secures Funding
Denver-based IQdestination.com, the first online single-source company to offer both classroom and online IT training available from its web site, today announced the close of its Series B round of funding, led by Access Venture Partners. Other investors in the series - which totaled more than $7 million -include meVC Draper Fisher Advisors (NYSE: MVC); Quest Capital Partnership, LLC; SV Equity Growth Fund L.P.; and Raeder Venture Fund. Brent Handler, president of IQdestination.com, says that the corporate IT training market is booming. It is currently a $23 billion market, and is expected to be a $28 billion market by 2002. According to Merrill Lynch, 1.3 million new computer scientists, programmers, and systems analysts will be needed by the year 2006 in the United States. Yet, currently one out of every 10 IT positions, or approximately 350,000 jobs, is open today.

Womensforum.com Expands Network
Love, relationships and deep dark secrets find a new home on the web as four new Partner sites join the womensforum.com network. The world's most successful network of independent entrepreneurial web sites for women, womensforum.com announced today that these recent network additions bring their total number of lively, niche-oriented Partner sites to 106. The four newest Partners are: OpenDiary.com, which lets visitors create an online 'open-book' diary, and peek into thousands of others to learn people's deepest secrets; LovePolice.com, which issues official 'citations' to those who've committed a love offense, from perpetual tardiness to failure to apologize; I-Thee-Webb.com, which offers creative notes for a range of occasions; and Nearlynewbridal.com, a treasure-trove of classified ads for those looking to give new and gently-worn bridal attire another trip down the aisle.

DoTell Interactive Teams up with HorizonLive
Net Technologies, Inc., a market-leading provider of streaming audio products and services, today announced an agreement with HorizonLive.com, Inc., the premier provider of live, on-demand Web-based communications, to cross-license each other's technology. Net Technologies will market the combined multi-media presentation product as DoTell Presenter. The agreement also allows HorizonLive to incorporate DoTell Interactive (www.), the premier phone-to-Internet broadcast system, into its product offerings. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The combined product enables presenters to: Conduct a live interactive class incorporating streaming audio and video; Chat with their participants through live and archived presentations; Conduct polls and surveys on-the-fly; Call up web pages, and annotate slides. In addition, the platform's robust archive feature allows complete playback of a session, including all streaming video, audio, chat, and visual content. It also enables up to 100 simultaneous users with the highest quality audio available. And remember, DoTell is firewall friendly, eliminating traditional barriers to entry.

Razorfish to Help Relaunch Hypovereinsbank.de
Razorfish, Inc., is going to relaunch a Web site for one of the biggest bank in Germany. The global digital solutions provider says has been engaged by HypoVereinsbank to reproduce www.hypovereinsbank.de and launch it in 2001. Selected from a list of several other international competitors, Razorfish has been appointed to provide strategy, technology and design. Razorfish will develop the core information architecture, content, design and front-end technology as well as produce and design HypoVereinsbank's online branding. Keeping in line with HypoVereinsbank's commitment to excellence and first-rate customer service, Razorfish will create personalized, reality-based features specifically tailored to the user's needs.

Savvyvoter.org Levels Playing Field
It's not easy to run for public office, nor is it cheap. But the Internet may change that. A new Web site is bringing comprehensive candidate information to New York City voters. Launching today, Savvyvoter.org, the only nonpartisan election Web site for New Yorkers, will bring candidates and voters closer together by providing an unbiased forum where issues prevail over campaign rhetoric. The site covers every election pertaining to New York City residents and gives all candidates an equal opportunity to communicate their positions, regardless of financing. Savvyvoter.org is sponsored in part by George Soros' Open Society Institute.

09/08
BigStar named by Forbes "Best of the Web" 2000
Eyada.com and Smallworld.com Create Fantasy Football
Web Digest Archives Free
Proxicom to Redesign Toyota eMarketplace
Centerseat Unveils Mobile and Wireless Content Services

09/01
Targeting Teens, Yacksm Launches Yackesters.com
Unveiling the latest of its new, highly-targeted Vertical Program GuidesSM, YackSM (www.yack.com), the Internet Program GuideSM, launched Yacksters.com, the most complete source for teen-relevant programming and events on the Web. Recent studies show that the number of teen girls online has more than doubled since 1999 and more than 70 percent of teens will be online by 2004. Therefore, aiming to meet the needs of one of the Web's fastest growing audiences, Yacksters.com showcases a directory of online programming for 12 to 18-year-olds culled from Yack's database of tens of thousands of live and on-demand events, including streaming media and chats.

WomensForum.com Launches Fun & Games Channel
Fans of wit, mental challenges and advice you'd never get from Mom now have one online destination to discover the "lighter side of life." Womensforum.com, the world's most successful network of entrepreneurial web sites for women, announced it launched its new Fun & Games channel that brings together an array of lively, independently operated sites created by enthusiasts of fun and festive living. The four founding Partner sites in the Fun & Games channel are: happywomanmagazine.com, sancho.com, blossomfuller.com and epsylongames.com

ScreamingMedia Announced New Deals With Latin AMerican Content Providers
ScreamingMedia (NASDAQ: SCRM), a leading global technology platform for the aggregation, distribution and integration of digital content for websites, enterprises and wireless networks worldwide, announced new deals with top Latin American content providers. These deals cement ScreamingMedia's position as the leader in Latin American digital content solutions. Using proprietary technology, ScreamingMedia syndicates and integrates text, photos, video and audio content to a customer base of over 1,000 corporate intranets, extranets, Internet sites and wireless networks.

Citytripping Productions Announces Online TV Show and Contest Powered by Load Media Network
CityTripping Productions, Inc. has selected LOAD Media Network, a leading provider of application and management services that enable video over the Internet, to deliver online video shows that bring CityTripping¹s unqiue brand of city-specific entertainment to life. The premiere episode of CityTrippingTV, "Glamorama: A Night Out On the Town," is now available on CityTripping¹s New York and Los Angeles Web sites, soft-launched earlier this month.

08/25
SOLILOQUY BOOSTS ACER SALES BY 21%
Soliloquy, Inc., a New-York-based e-commerce infrastructure company, and Acer, the world's third-largest PC manufacturer, today released the results of their five-month-long partnership. Soliloquy's natural language understanding (NLU) technology has been providing notebook sales support on Acer's website (www.shopAcer.com ) since February 2000. Notebook Expert* has had a significant impact on Acer's notebook sales, boosting them by 21% over a five-month period. In addition, 29% of shoppers using Notebook Expert are clicking through to the Buy page, a significant click-through rate for an online retailer.

Digital Kids To Examine Impact of the Net on Teen Marketing
Now entering its fifth year, Jupiter Communications, Inc (Nasdaq: JPTR), the worldwide authority on Internet commerce, will host its annual Digital Kids forum on September 12 and 13 in San Francisco. Featuring speakers from MTV, Warner Bros., Cartoon Network and Mattel, Digital Kids will focus on the emerging teen market and how businesses can navigate the privacy, commerce and content needs of this growing online population. Digital Kids will feature Bernard Stolar, president, Mattel Interactive; Tom Kalinske, president, Knowledge Universe and Betty Cohen, president, Cartoon Network Worldwide as keynote speakers.

Bikini.com makes a splash w/Miss Teen USA
Bikini.com, the pop-hit website celebrating the beach lifestyle, has signed with Backflips Inc. to create a line of Bikini.com branded swimwear for girls and juniors, as announced today by Gail Sonnenschein, President and CEO, Bikini.com and Bruce Waldman, President, Backflips, Inc. Bikini.com Swimwear, the first swim line launched by a popular, beach lifestyle brand born on the Internet, is making a splash in the teen market as the official swimwear sponsor for the nationally televised Miss Teen USA® Pageant. The pageant will be broadcast on CBS Television Saturday, August 26, 2000.

Exciting Change at eFusion
On 7/26/00 the management of eFusion announced that eFusion has agreed to be acquired by ITXC subject to a vote of eFusion shareholders. ITXC is a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: ITXC) based in Princeton, NJ that manages ITXC.net the largest worldwide network for voice on the Internet. With this acquisition, eFusion gains access to a worldwide voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network that enhances eFusion’s ability to deploy its Push to Talk and Suite Adelinesm services on a Global scale.

Always-On, Inc. Launches New Headquarters in New York's Silicon Alley, creating world presence
Always-On, Inc. (www.Always-On.com), the first multi-language broadband subscription software service to address the business and lifestyle needs of consumers worldwide, has announced the opening of its worldwide headquarters in New York City. By opening an office in Silicon Alley, Always-On has made a strategic move to put a foothold in the U.S. to complement its global presence in Europe and the Middle East. Additionally, Always-On has established sales and marketing operations in San Francisco and Washington DC.

Grand Central Holdings Partners with Premier Provider of Instant Financing Services
Grand Central Holdings has partnered with and purchased an equity interest in FreeDecision, a Silicon Alley-based company that brings instant purchase financing to the point of sale. Financial Technology Ventures, Woodhaven Venture Investments, and several prominent individual investors including Mort Myerson and Broadvision CEO Pehong Chen participated in the $4.5 Million round.

Silicon Alley License Plates Coming Soon?
Jonathan I. Ezor, director of Legal Affairs Mimeo.com is measuring the amount of interest in an official Silicon Alley-themed New York State license plate, as has been created for the upstate Tech Valley community. If you would be potentially interested in buying one of these plates, please add your e-mail address to the free eGroups list I've set up for this purpose. You may join by sending an e-mail message to SiliconAlleyPlatesubscribe@egroups.com.

RESFEST Digital Film Festival Launches "Net Cinema" Program
RES Media Group (RMG) has announced the launch of "Net Cinema" as a new screening component of RESFEST 2000. This year’s program will include short animated works that reflect the growing interest among digital filmmakers to create work exclusively for the Internet. RESFEST 2000 kicks-off in San Francisco on Thursday, September 7. In addition to the international touring schedule, RESFEST has dedicated Saturday, November 4th and Sunday, November 5th in Los Angeles for “Net Cinema 2000,” a special conference featuring exclusive screenings, panel discussions and seminars devoted to the topics of content creation and distribution over the Web.

Radical Zoo and ThrillRide! Join Forces
Alexander Westerman, Chairman and CEO of RadicalZoo, is happy make the following announcement: RadicalZoo has taken a 49% stake in the Internets premier amusement park site: ThrillRide!(http://www.thrillride.com/). This is a great opportunity for the Zoo and we look forward to a long and fruitful relationship with Thrillride.

A Host of Stars Will Gather To Preview New Shelter for Animal Haven
A galaxy of stars is expected to turn out for the 2000 Building Fund Luncheon for Animal Haven (www.animalhavenshelter.org)on Sunday, September 24 at noon at the Sheraton LaGuardia East, 135-20 39th Avenue, Queens. The luncheon, which celebrates Animal Haven's 33rd year of saving and caring for abandoned animals, will include the unveiling of preliminary plans for the shelter's visionary new facility.

08/18
Topol Group Leads Angel Round
Affirming the important role personalized content will play in the future of media, Gotuit Media , a pioneer in customized media delivery, has completed their first round of financing, raising $2.1 million in operating capital. Gotuit Media holds a portfolio of issued patents on systems that give consumers a new level of control over what they watch and listen to and when they do it. SongCatcherTM, Gotuit's first application scheduled to launch this fall, enables listeners to fill up their PC jukebox with songs captured off of FM radio broadcasts. This first round of funding was led by a team of seasoned Angel investors including, Bo Peabody, founder of Tripod; the Topol Group headed by Sid Topol, ex-CEO and Chairman of Scientific Atlanta; 100X, a Boston-based incubator founded by Ken Lang, ex-CTO of Lycos; Joel Harrison, a founder of Quantum Computer; and Stan Marder, co-founder of video portal On2.com.

IWantMedia.com Feeds Need for News
I Want Media Inc. has launched IWantMedia.com, a news and resource Web site for media professionals. Free to all users, the site is a one-stop destination for daily media news and industry data organized into an easy-to-use format. IWantMedia.com is a starting point to Web-based information about all major categories of media -- newspapers, magazines, television, the Internet and more. It provides quick access to news, statistics, publications, job listings, trade groups, media company home pages and speeches by media figures. It links to industry headlines -- including the free ones on pay sites such as The Wall Street Journal and Inside.com -- and other online media publications. Unlike the online journalist hangout MediaNews.org, IWantMedia.com focuses on media industry business.

Proxicom Opens Boston Office
Proxicom, Inc., a leading e-business consulting and developing company, has opened its Boston office, meeting the growing demand from Proxicom's financial services clients. "To augment our growing financial services practice in the region, it became clear for Proxicom to establish an office in Boston," said Steve Tempini, Senior Vice President of Proxicom's Financial Services Practice. "This important office underscores our commitment to our current and future financial services clients and capitalizes on our presence in one of the most established technology corridors in the world." Proxicom now has 13 locations worldwide.

Sam the Man and Wave Twisters Lead Off Resfest 2000
Jonathan Wells, festival director of RESFEST Digital Film Festival, has announced that Sam The Man by Gary Winick, starring Maria Bello, Luis Guzman, Rob Morrow, Annabella Sciorra, and Fisher Stevens, will lead off the festival this year, in conjunction with the animated feature film Wave Twisters from up-and-coming San Francisco directors Eric Henry and Syd Garon. Sam The Man is the first digital feature film from director Gary Winick (Tic Code). Produced by InDigEnt, this feature is a visual treat, featuring top-notch performances by a stellar cast - including the lead role played by Fisher Stevens (Brother from Another Planet, Super Mario Bros.), as an angst-filled writer whose downfall is a hankering for pretty women.The closing night feature film is Wave Twisters, an animated film by San Francisco directors Eric Henry and Syd Garon, who met at RESFEST a few years ago.

American Express Teams with StarCite
StarCite, Inc., innovators of the Internet's leading global business-to-business E-Commerce meetings and events marketplace (http://www.starcite.com], have formed a strategic alliance with American Express to provide customized Web-based meeting sourcing and management tools to American Express customers. Under the agreement StarCite and American Express One will create a co-branded version of StarCite.com and offer customized sites for individual corporate customers. American Express customers will be able to initiate and manage much of the meeting planning process online, in conjunction with American Express One's Meetings & Incentives group's traditional meeting planning services. These Web-based tools will allow customers to find destinations, choose properties, issue electronic RFPs and participate in online reverse auctions for meeting space and other related services.

Publish.com Taps Bookface.com
iPublish.com at Time Warner Books (http://www.ipublish.com), the electronic publishing division recently launched by Time Warner Trade Publishing, announced today that readers will be able to view many of its leading titles directly on the Internet at Bookface.com http://www.bookface.com. iPublish.com at Time Warner Books will launch as an online publishing site in the first quarter of next year. Bookface has built a technology solution for securely displaying valuable content on the Internet. Under the agreement, iPublish.com has licensed Bookface.com full book content from Time Warner Trade Publishing's backlist. Representing a wide range of genres, including science fiction, mystery, and romance, the agreement includes titles by prominent authors such as Alan Deane Foster, Joe Lansdale, and Rosalyn McMillan. Nonfiction books, such as business and travel books, are also included under the agreement. Bookface also displays additional book-related content, such as excerpts and reviews, from Time Warner Trade Publishing for readers to discover.

eYada.com Gets Health
Adding a third channel to its booming online talk network, the year-old eYada.com today launched its Health, Fitness & Adventure Channel featuring live, original talk from some of the country's leading health and fitness professionals.One of the Internet's leading entertainment companies, eYada.com reaches more than one million worldwide users each month. From its studios in Manhattan, Los Angeles, and San Jose, the network now showcases 29 shows and more than 220 hours of live, original talk programming each week. The network will kick off the launch of its Health, Fitness & Adventure Channel with a live interview with legendary sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer on "Psychology Today Live" with Dr. Robert Epstein on August 21st at 12PM EST. Epstein is the editor-in-chief of Psychology Today magazine.

08/11
Genosys Opens Network Operations Centers
Genosys Technology Management Inc., is getting into the business of providing management services. to that end, the firm opened two network operations centers -- one in New York and one in London -- to serve as hubs through which Genosys can monitor custoemr networks, systems and applications. This new service will boost Genosys' core work, a portal that allows clients to monitor the performance of their IT assets. The centers will give them the ability to maintain network and system uptime without making the investmetns in operations staff, software and equipment that would normally entail.

Cone Interactive Signs on Installinc and Lowestfare.com
Cone, Inc. Interactive practice has signed Installinc to its ever-growing client roster. Not only that, but Lowestfare.com, a client since late January 2000, has expanded its relationship with Cone. Cone will help Installinc, which coordinates product delivery for its customers, develop a consumer and business-to-business focused public relations campaign for its upcoming launch and subsequent nationwide rollout. Cone will also develop a corporate positioning program for Installinc, and help it brand the service through an aggressive media relations campaign. For Las Vegas, NV-based Lowestfare.com provides discount travel products and services to the leisure and business traveler and to U.S.-based travel agencies. Cone will conduct a comprehensive consumer campaign, including media relations, guerilla marketing and promotions for Lowestfare.com.

Guyville Teams with Healthology.com
Guyville.com, the largest online information resource and entertainment site for men, announced today a partnership with Healthology.com, a leading provider of health and medical content. Under the agreement, Guyville.com will provide its users with Healthology.com's vast resource of streaming video segments regarding men's health issues. One major goal of Guyville.com when it first launched its new site in June 2000 was to fill the void of men's health and fitness content on the web. Health issues are becoming increasingly important to today's man, whether it be hair loss, sexual health, disease prevention, or fitness. Guyville.com aims to be the leading online provider of this information, and its partnership with Healthology further establishes this commitment.

ABCNEWS.com Chooses ScreamingMedia
Video, audio, and text content from ABCNEWS.com will appear onScreamingMedia's network of more than 1000 website and wireless subscribers. ABCNEWS.com is part of Walt Disney Internet Group. ScreamingMedia will offer various types of content from ABCNEWS.com, including video packages created from ABC News programs and daily audio segments broken out in categories like news, technology, and entertainment. In addition, ScreamingMedia will be distributing interactive news components and original text stories from the ABCNEWS.com website.

Sapient to Acquire Human Code, Inc.
Sapient has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Human Code, Inc. of Austin, Texas, a leading developer of rich media and broadband applications for entertainment and e-learning companies, for approximately 755,000 shares of common stock (pre-split) and the assumption of existing Human Code options. The acquisition will bring new capabilities to Sapient that complement its existing expertise in strategy, creative services, user experience, and technology, and underscores the company's commitment to maintaining its leadership in the creation of New Economy businesses.

OgilvyInteractive Names JumpCut to Digital Syndicate
JumpCut, Inc., a leader in interactive live media programming, has been named to the newly formed OgilvyInteractive Digital Syndicate, a consortium of leading web marketing firms. This makes them the exclusive multimedia and digital imaging service and media delivery provider for OgilvyInteractive. JumpCut has executed numerous projects for OgilvyOne's leading BtoB and consumer clients in the technology sector. These projects have included multimedia webcasts designed to generate new product interest while increasing overall brand awareness. Most recently, the internal communications department of OgilvyOne called on JumpCut to webcast a corporate announcement live from Dublin, Ireland. The announcement, which incorporated live streaming video and audio along with chat and slide components, reached agency offices worldwide.

08/04
Venture Technology Enterprise is Born
Infonautics, Inc., IBS Interactive, Inc. and First Avenue Ventures, Inc. have formed a three-way strategic venture to create a publicly-held Venture Technology Company that will be named Digital Fusion, Inc. The new enterprise will have 1999 pro forma revenues of approximately $40 million, with 400 employees in 11 cities. Digital Fusion will set out to estore a disciplined approach toward creating, operating and implementing successful Internet strategies and businesses. The new company will provide corporate clients, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and incubators with both the comprehensive framework and the resources required to develop Internet technologies.

iPublish.com Unveils Monthly eBook List
iPublish.com at Time Warner Books (http://www.ipublish.com), the electronic publishing division recently launched by Time Warner Trade Publishing, today unveiled its first list of monthly releases - the first such list of e-book titles from any major publisher. iPublish.com at Time Warner Books, which will launch as an online publishing website in the first quarter of next year, will begin distribution of its electronic books this September. Set to make its debut on virtual bookshelves this September, the eclectic list showcases new works by some of Time Warner's most celebrated authors, including Nelson DeMille, David Baldacci, Sandra Brown, Nicholas Sparks and David Foster Wallace. The list will also include PASSPORT TO PROFITS: a business book by finance guru Mark Mobius with Stephen Fenichell, the first in a monthly series of business titles that are condensed and reformatted for electronic reading.

MedicinePlanet, Inc. and Expedia, Inc. Partner
MedicinePlanet, Inc., the premier health resource for travelers, today announced that it has signed a content distribution agreement with Expedia, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXPE - news), the leading online travel site. According to this agreement, MedicinePlanet will provide Expedia.comExpedia.com's ® customers with a rich package of co-branded travel health information, news and services -- from essential travel advisory alerts to convenient trip-planning tools like the Personal Travel Clinic.

07/21
Wine Alley Partners with Bordeaux Fête le Vin
Wine Alley, www.winealley.com, the first worldwide Internet club for wine lovers, was the official partner of Bordeaux Fête le Vin at the beginning of July. Wine Alley, which brings together more than 2600 professionals and individuals from 80 countries, has now celebrated the first anniversary of the birth of the Wine Alley Project and its launch. At this week’s event, Wine Alley introduced a new chapter, The Epicureans, dedicated to enjoyment and the art of living. Site managers said that one way to enjoy ourselves is through play, and that’s why they introduced a game with three levels of difficulty. Everyone can play, but only members can hope to win one of the numerous prizes that will be awarded to the best players at the end of summer! So, better join!

AvidLearn’s Rapid Growth Continues In Cherry Hill, NJ
AvidLearn, Inc., a leading provider of online seminars, customized training solutions and continuing education for individual users as well as corporations (http://www.avidlearn.com), recently moved to a new office in Cherry Hill, N.J.’s Executive Campus. The new space, which at 5,000 square feet is more than eight times the size of AvidLearn’s previous location in Woodbury, N.J., provides increased facilities and conveniences for a company that has experienced amazing growth since its launch in January.

JumpCut Produces Simultaneous 6-Language Video Webcast for Symantec
JumpCut, Inc., leaders in highly interactive live webcast programming, recently facilitated the first-ever multilingual interactive global webcast incorporating archive video, live video and presentation slides on behalf of Symantec, Inc. Three separate hour-long webcasts reached a collective audience of 1,800 corporate IT and CXO professionals around the world. Diane Beaudet, Symantec Group Manager, Global Marketing Communications, turned to JumpCut when she was charged with finding the best way to share Symantec’s vision for managing security in the enterprise space.

@Home Japan and Centerseat Form Groundbreaking Strategic Alliance
@Home Japan (www.jp.home.com), Japan’s leading broadband Internet service provider, and Centerseat Inc. (www.centerseat.com), the digital media and commerce facilitation company, have formed a strategic alliance. Centerseat’s signature technology platform will become the preferred interactive video and commerce platform for @Home Japan. Centerseat’s platform presents video with contextually related, interactive, rich media information and e-commerce opportunities, providing viewers with a total immersion experience. Programming presented on Centerseat’s platform will be provided by Centerseat and @Home Japan. @Home Japan is currently utilized by 5.1 million homes in Japan. Additionally, Centerseat and @home Japan will be working together to offer complete turnkey solutions for business in Japan which will allow large companies across multiple vertical markets to incorporate video streaming, commerce, advertising and interactivity to their Internet efforts.

Goal Media Goes to China
Goal Media Group, the digital media company that produces online football networks (www.goalnetwork.com) and www.todogol.com, today announced an exclusive Internet partnership with 21Sports.com, a leading Hong Kong-based publisher of sports-related online sites serving China/ Those sites include www.chinafootball.com and www.sydney2000.com. The alliance calls for the two companies to jointly market content, products and services. www.goalnetwork.com and www.todogol.com content will be published on 21Sports web sites and 21Sports.com will provide Goal Media with stories and results covering football in China. In addition, the two companies will collaborate on global advertising, sponsorship and e-commerce initiatives.

Wddg Nets Four Flash Film Îominations
New York-based design firm the wddg has earned four nominations in this year¹s Flash Film Festival ­ two each for Toohot.com and Campariusa.com. The nominations are in Sound and Motion Graphics for Toohot.com and Navigation
and Business for Campariusa.com. The Flash Film Festival runs in conjunction with the Flashforward 2000 ­ the premier gathering of web designers and artists working with Flash, the internet¹s leading animation and graphics program. A July 13 USA Today cover story highlighted the growing use of Flash by such Hollywood directors as David Lynch and Tim Burton and pointed out that over 248 million people have downloaded the program. The three-day Flashforward 2000 conference also features the wddg's Creative Director James Baker presenting a speech on Flash and on-line gaming. Baker was the lead designer for both Toohot.com and Campariusa.com.

Razorfish Opens Silicon Valley Office
Razorfish, one of the leading global digital solutions provider, plans to launch operations in Santa Clara, CA. Razorfish’s expansion into Silicon Valley will enhance the company’s ability to provide localized client services in the region’s digital consulting space. This new location will also serve as home for a new Razorfish mobile technologies research laboratory.

Predict It, Inc. Completes $6.3 Million Private Placement
Predict It Inc., an Internet service which documents and rewards users based on their prediction performance in event categories such as sports and finance, today announced an additional closing of $825,000 in a private placement with accredited investors of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock and redeemable common stock purchase warrants. Commonwealth Associates, L.P. acted as a placement agent in the financings, which totaled $6.3 million. Predict It had announced the initial closing of $4.3 Million in April and a second closing of $1.16 million in June. The key investors participating in the financings are: Robert H. Lessin, Chairman and CEO of Wit Soundview Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: WITC), Patriot Capital, Asia World Holdings, Belvedere Consultancy Ltd., Sportsbook.com, Quintel Communications, Inc.(Nasdaq: QTEL), Dawntreader Fund I LP, and Commonwealth Associates, L.P.

MSNBC.com Covers the Convention
Want to see what it’s like on the convention floor? Now you can. MSNBC.com plans to present extensive coverage of the National Republican and Democratic Conventions at Decision2000.MSNBC.com beginning on July 31 at the Republican Convention in Philadelphia and continuing August 14 at the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles. MSNBC.com will enhance its regular Decision 2000 daily reports with complete on-scene coverage inside and outside the hall, and ambitious Webcast coverage throughout the day and during the convention proceedings each night. Complete coverage of the 2000 National Political Conventions at Decision2000.MSNBC.com includes online reports, Webcasts, chats, reader/viewer email, Live Votes and news and analysis filed by correspondents from NBC News, MSNBC, The Washington Post and Newsweek magazine.

LOAD Hits the Next Wave
LOAD Media Network, a leading provider of application and management services that enable video over the Internet, has been selected as the exclusive video delivery platform for Next Wave Productions and Internet Business's International, Inc. (OTC BB: IBUI), as Next Wave embarks on a re-marketing program for IBUI's two newly acquired local Internet Service Providers, LA Internetworks and 2extreme.net, the companies jointly announced today. IBUI will use the LOAD Media Network to deliver high-resolution video to LA Internetworks (www.lainet.com) and 2extreme.net's (www.2extreme.net) dial-up and DSL subscribers in the Los Angeles and Sacramento markets. The content offered will include original programming from local events produced by Next Wave, such as exclusive online coverage of a concert series featuring a debut of world premier music from Pat Benatar's summer tour, and content licensed through LOAD Media Network partnerships, such as Reuters News.

Napster Users More Likely to Increase Music Spending
Users of networked music-sharing technologies, such As Napster, are 45 percent more likely to have increased their overall music purchasing than nonusers are, according to a new study by Jupiter Communications, Inc., a worldwide authority on Internet commerce. Record companies must refocus their strategy from litigation to adoption, and incorporate networked music sharing into their distribution channels. According to Jupiter’s research, if the music industry were to let players like Napster stand, it would drive incremental sales. But, if the industry partnered with networked music-sharing technology companies, the benefit would be exponentially greater.

cPulse Launches First National Ad Campaign
cPulse, LLC, a Gartner Group, Inc. company that monitors Internet customer satisfaction, has signed on Renegade Marketing Group, a top 100 interactive agency, as its advertising agency of record. cPulse LLC specializes in developing customer service solutions for Internet businesses and is the only universal Internet satisfaction monitor. Renegade Marketing Group will launch cPulse's first national advertising campaign in August. The cPulse campaign, featuring both offline and online components, will borrow measurement techniques from both advertising strategies. Understanding that the effectiveness of online ads is measured by the amount of new customers acquired, Renegade and cPulse will monitor its print ads in a similar way. Two different print advertisements will be published in a split run of American Demographics Magazine, each ad containing a different URL address for cPulse. Click-throughs to and ultimately new customers acquired from each URL will be tabulated to determine which ad is most productive. The campaign's rollout will be tailored based on this response.

07/14
Comet Systems Snags $20 Million
Comet Systems, developer of the Comet Cursor, has closed $20 million in a third round of financing. The new investment will help the company to deliver new desktop products to its user base of forty million Internet users, growing at more than two million users per month. The lead investor in the round is idealab Capital Partners. The $16 million investment by idealab Capital Partners represents its largest dollar total ever invested in a single company and its first-ever investment in a New York City company. Previous investors participated in the current round, including Prospect Street Ventures, Scripps Ventures, Advantage Capital, Carlin Ventures, Hudson Venture Partners L.P., and Robert H. Lessin Venture Capital, L.L.C.

Advance and Feed Launch New Venture
Advance.net and the founders of FEED magazine http://www.feedmag.com announced today the formation of Automatic Media, a new company that will build an online network of sites, services, and applications tailored to the Web's most sophisticated users. The company will be led by Lee deBoer, former president of HBO International and CEO of New Century Network.Lycos, Inc. has taken a 25% equity stake in the new company. In addition, Suck.com, the acclaimed satirical Web site acquired by Lycos in 1998, has become part of Automatic Media's new network. Both Webby-award nominees, FEED and Suck launched in 1995, and are widely considered two of the Web's most influential publications.

On-Demand Research Resource INFO-STOP.COM Debuts Online
Info-stop.com, a cost-effective on-demand research company built with an experienced team of research professionals providing customized services is now available online at http://www.info-stop.com. Info-stop.com's full range of professional research services includes comprehensive reports, topic summaries, periodic monitoring, abstracting and PowerPoint presentations. Info-stop.com's associates are experts in a variety of disciplines including e-commerce, market research and analysis, international economics, telecommunications, healthcare, GIS technology, case law, funding and legislation. Over 90 percent of the associates hold post-graduate degrees and are veterans of traditional corporate environments, academia, information science, and the Internet.

AvidLearn July Online Seminar Schedule Announced
AvidLearn, Inc., a leading provider of online seminars, customized training solutions, and continuing education for individual users as well as corporations through http://www.avidlearn.com, today released their schedule of online seminars for the month of July. The debut offerings for AvidLearn, all of which will be available online at http://www.AvidLearn.com, include: The Bank of Mom and Dad: Achieving Money Harmony Within Your Family with Marilyn August, the founder of Wealth & Wisdom Seminars;Learning to Market yourself as a Speaker, with Susan Levin, a Los Angeles-based publisher, information specialist, producer and entrepreneurial consultant; and How to On Projecting Professionalism Under Pressure, with Mary Sandro, founder of Professional Edge, which teaches people how to communicate for results and project professionalism under pressure.

Uncommongoods Launches Unique Online Marketplace
UncommonGoods (www.uncommongoods.com), an online marketplace that offers consumers an exciting selection of high quality, creatively designed merchandise at affordable prices, opened for business today. Combining the treasures of a specialty boutique, the great finds of a craft show, discoveries from a faraway bazaar, along with some enduring classics, shopping at UncommonGoods is a true exploration of the different. UncommonGoods offers a broad array of unique merchandise for the home across a number of categories, including lighting, bed and bath, dining, accents, paper chase (home office accessories), his and hers, and gifts. In the coming months, the company looks forward to broadening its offerings in these areas, as well as expanding to additional categories where the desire for creative, distinctive merchandise is important to consumers.

Infogate Featured on Popular ZDNet Site
Infogate, the flagship product from Internet Financial Network, Inc. has been selected by ZDNet (www.zdnet.com), as a featured download product, and has received the site's highest rating of five stars. Infogate (www.infogate.com) is an innovative and fast growing desktop portal that provides minute-by-minute news from Dow Jones®, Reuters, and other premium information sources, as well as real-time stock quotes, all tailored to the user's interests. Infogate is changing the way people use their desktops to receive and manage information throughout the day to serve their personal and business interests.

07/07
Bankers Hit Broadway
There are a few new tenants in Times Square. The Bank of Montreal recently signed a lease for 102,000 square feet in the Reuters Building on Seventh Avenue between 42nd and 43rd Streets. The Bank's move into the 30-story, $360 million tower makes it the first commercial bank in the area. Just 50,000 square feet of retail space and 15,000 square feet of signage are left in the building.

Cahners Teams with ScreamingMedia
ScreamingMedia has signed on Cahners Business Information, a business-to-business publisher, to its network of content providers. The aggregator and e-distributor of digital content will distribute Cahners original content from b-to-b magazines and Web sites to its network of Web sites and wireless subscribers. Cahners joins a subscriber list that includes Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, VerticalNet and Yupi.

Borders Advances Convergence
Borders announced it is live on the Web with Borders Vision, a total immersion entertainment experience that brings in-store events plus related content and buying convenience to customers worldwide. Borders Vision, which was created in conjunction with global media and commerce company Centerseat, Inc., is the latest in a series of key initiatives supporting the company's retail convergence strategy to create a compelling experience for customers no matter how, when and where they shop with Borders. Borders Vision, can be accessed through Borders.com and can be viewed directly at http://www.borders.com/bordersvision.

Grand Central Takes Stake in MaritimeDirect
Grand Central Holdings announced recently that earlier this year it partnered with and made an investment in MaritimeDirect (www.maritimedirect.com), a comprehensive business-to-business global marketplace for the $570 Billion maritime shipping industry. Grand Central's Chief Strategic Officer Gregory Belmont says that MaritimeDirect creates enormous efficiencies that will promote the interaction of over 500,000 industry professionals, managers and executives. That, he adds, will offer the global maritime community a $30 billion plus value proposition.

Starts Come Out in Broadway Barks!
Bernadette Peters and Mary Tyler Moore will host the second annual "Broadway Barks!" in Shubert Alley on Saturday, July 15, from 3:30-6:30 PM, with the celebrity presentation from 5:30-6:30 PM. The event, a star-studded dog and cat adoption, is expected to draw thousands of theater fans, pet lovers, and others. Stars slated to appear include legendary actress Celeste Holm; Tony Award winners Heather Headley (Aida), Brian Stokes Mitchell (Kiss Me Kate), Bebe Neuwirth, and Joel Grey; Patrick Stewart (The Ride Down Mt. Morgan); Tom Wopat (Annie Get Your Gun); Andrea McArdle (Beauty and the Beast); Michael Mulheren (Kiss Me, Kate); Ruth Williamson (The Music Man); Adam Pascal and Sheri Rene Scott (Aida); Joely Fisher and Maureen Moore (Cabaret); Bryan Batt (Saturday Night Fever); Howard McGillin and Sarah Pfisterer (Phantom of the Opera); Catherine Hickland (ABC's One Life To Live), among others. "Broadway Barks! 2" is produced by FIDONYC (www.fidonyc.org), an animal welfare organization founded two years ago by Peters and Moore. July's event will build on the "howling success" of last summer's initial "Broadway Barks!," which delighted an audience of about 6,000 people.

Latimes.com Creates LA Web Guide
Latimes.comLatimes.com has created a Web guide to Los Angeles, just as summer visitors and Democratic National Convention goers begin to flood the city. The directory, part of the award-winning Calendar Live section, utilizes information written by Los Angeles Times reporters and critics and brings it all together in one easy-to-use guide to some of the top hotels, restaurants, sights, shopping, entertainment and recreation Los Angeles has to offer. The address of the directory is http://www.calendarlive.com/visitors.

Razorfish Opens Frankfurt Office
Razorfish, Inc, the global digital solutions provider, has opened an office in Frankfurt, Germany. The office will provide comprehensive services for companies seeking to create or expand their digital business capabilities as market demand for robust digital business solutions increases dramatically. The Frankfurt office compliments the Razorfish presence in Hamburg, Germany, as well as its overall growth worldwide. Recent office openings include Milan, Italy and a joint venture with Intervision in Tokyo. The new office, with its 20 employees, will provide world class technology implementation and legacy transformation services, as well as a broad array of digital solutions, including mobile solutions, broadcast design and physical design. The marriage of Razorfish's in-depth technology capabilities with its experience with industries such as financial services, provides businesses with experts to help them deliver solutions across platforms, networks, channels and devices.

Pseudo.com Drops Bomb on Cherrybomb.com
After putting Cherrybomb.com on hiatus, Pseudo.com has pulled the plug on all new production activities on the adult Web site. The staff is re-running past shows in anticipation of resuming new programming. Visitors can still post on our message boards and gab in our chat room. The staff insists that this is NOT the end of Cherrybomb.com.

Smart Club Opens in Hollywood
After being held up by construction issues, Knitting Factory Hollywood, the first "smart" club will finally open on August 10th. The first month will feature an amazing lineup of shows, leading to a Grand Opening Party. For a tour of the venue, visit 7021 Hollywood Blvd. You'll see the first fully interactive destination, all set-up as a television & multi-track recording studio, under the veneer of a cool club. 20,000 square feet, pretty amazing space.

07/03
earthnoise.com Teams with aOnline
earthnoise.com, the Web's largest user-generated video sharing community, announced that members of aOnline, the Asian American Digital NetworkT, will now be able to easily edit, publish, and share their videos on the Web using earthnoise.com's proprietary tools. The agreement will make earthnoise.com the exclusive partner of aOnline for online video editing, publishing, and sharing, and aOnline the preferred provider to earthnoise.com of original video content for the Asian American community. aOnline's new video capability will enable its users to document and share the Asian-American experience, and to stay in touch with family and friends via streaming video messaging.

IFS Debuts DV Theater
The Independent Film Channel (IFC) launched DV Theater, IFC's new monthly multi-platform programming strand. The new strand, which premieres Wednesday, July 19 at 9:30 PM/ET with the presentation of Doug Block's acclaimed documentary, Home Page, will feature breakthrough independent films presented on-air on IFC, online at www.ifctv.com, and on IFC Broadband. The latest phase of IFC's ongoing commitment to providing viewers with the most cutting-edge programming available, DV Theater takes the movie-watching experience above and beyond existing parameters with an innovative, multi-platform approach that reaches on-air, Broadband and Internet audiences simultaneously.

Centerseat and ActiveSky Team Up
Centerseat, Inc., the digital media and commerce facilitation company, today announced that is has partnered with ActiveSky, a media technology company, to make its entertainment and information programming and e-commerce available on handheld devices. Centerseat will set up a channel called Centerseat Unplugged where users will be able to download the ActiveSky Media Player onto their handheld devices, and then they may download select Centerseat clips. ActiveSky's technology brings consumers closer to on-demand, wireless entertainment, making it possible for small devices to display high-quality Centerseat programming. ActiveSky is compatible with any large-screen mobile device, including Windows CE, Palm or Pocket PC platforms.

TargetRx Receives $12 Million Financing from NEA and Domain
TargetRx, an innovative pharmaceutical marketing services company specializing in market research and medical education, closec its first round of venture capital financing. The series B investment of over $12 million was led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and included Domain Associates and other strategic investors. TargetRx will use the money to enhance its wide range of internet-based information and market research products for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. TargetRx provides a unique, interactive, physician-only environment that allows for a convenient, rewarding exchange of information between physicians and pharmaceutical companies.

Orb Gets Big Bucks
ORB Communications &Marketing, Inc., just got a big boost from eVentures Group Inc. Of course, the Internet marketing and technology services company that tracks and optimizes transactions in real-time had to give something up -- like a 25% stake in the company. Orb has a client base that includes Citigroup, e-Citi, mySEASONS.com, Nano, Coty USA, TIME, Blue Dingo, and leading Web Advertisers. It was founded by Andrew S. Pakula, Chief Executive Officer, and Laura Berland, Executive Vice President, in 1996. They plan to use the eVentures investment, the first by an outside entity, to expand marketing and sales efforts, increase service support and expand technology development.

06/23
Photodex adds Fotki.com to its list of photo community site offerings
Photodex Corporation designs, develops and publishes leading edge digital content management, picture CD, scanning, digital camera and multimedia solutions. They have actively published quality software products for most platforms since 1987 and have successfully distributed products licensable online for the past 8 years. On Thursday, June 22, 2000 Photodex added Fotki.com to its offerings of photo community sites available for users to upload their pictures onto. Fotki.com has thousands of current users and expects this number to increase considerably with the added distribution, download and use from this arrangement. Fotki.com allows users to create, edit and delete online photo albums. Users have the opportunity to decide if they want their album public or private. One fun and unique feature of Fotki.com's site is the displaying of members' pictures chosen randomly from their public albums. Fotki.com is the exclusive online photo album choice for Cocktails with Courtney events. Photodex products ~ Revisions

2000 - 2001 Golden Web Award to follis.com
The International Association of Web Masters and Designers announced today that it has awarded follis.com the 2000 - 2001 Golden Web Award. The IAWD is dedicated to "the recognition of creativity, integrity, and excellence on the World Wide Web." This marks the WWW award debut for Follis, the New York shop known for it's award winning and effective traditional advertising. Among other things, the site offers the "Advertising Time Machine" and a "Guess Who" game which features eyes of famous people. Winning contestants receive a wild t-shirt. The site can be viewed at http://follis.com

Madison Relaunches Website
MADISON's newly re-launched Website, madisonsite.com, is the perfect compliment to the magazine: Both are dedicated to the power of the written word and the impact of the visual image. Both balance a modern visual aesthetic with an intelligent and uniquely textured editorial voice. madisonsite.com provides a free sneak preview of each issue before it hits the newsstands and the site is updated with new material every two weeks. The Website is a quick way of accessing the provocative writing and striking images that have made such a strong impression on MADISON's discerning, smart and diverse readers.

FEED Studies City Life
In its edgiest special issue yet, FEED (www.feedmag.com) immerses readers in city life with a collection of essays and interviews designed as a launching point for other urban explorations. "Street Level," the 10th special issue from the acclaimed online magazine, debuted last week. As fascinating to explore as a city itself, "Street Level" will offer up a feast of urban studies. Six noted journalists will ruminate on a single block in their respective cities; a panoramic "walking tour" will accompany each from Berlin, London, Singapore, Los Angeles, and Warsaw. "Street Level" will also feature an annotated list of metropolitan web cams, providing direct, live access to the pageantry -- varying hugely in scope and style -- of 20 cities worldwide. The special issue also features traditional essays in FEED's vein of provocative, witty, and thoughtful social and cultural criticism. Among them: Erik Baard, Andrey Slivka and Geoff Dyer.

Yack Content Travels to UK
Expanding its reach in the United Kingdom, YackSM http://www.yack.com, the Internet Program GuideSM, signed a deal with British Telecommunications (BT) to provide its comprehensive online event listings across BT's multiple Internet platforms, including narrowband ISP and broadband DSL access, throughout the United Kingdom. This latest partnership reflects Yack's growing involvement in the European community. The company already has a distribution deal with leading European Internet communications company World Online International, and has been publishing content specifically geared for the European audience (events scheduled for the GMT time zone) for almost a year.

City Harvest and OpenTable.com Fight Hunger
OpenTable.com, the online restaurant reservation network, and City Harvest, the nation’s oldest and largest food rescue organization, have teamed up to fight hunger. They're kicking off the partnership with an online donation drive for the month of June. Every time someone registers at OpenTable.com through June 30, a $1 dollar donation will be made in the name of the registrant to City Harvest. Each donation supplies enough food for one meal for a hungry child in New York City. OpenTable.com registrants will get all of the benefits of membership in the OpenTable.com network, including real-time 24-hour online access to the reservation books at hundreds of the country’s best restaurants, and a unique dining rewards program that rewards them for making reservations at their favorite restaurants online.

Online Ad Business to Reach US $28 Billion by 2005
Total online advertising revenues are expected to grow to US $28 billion worldwide by 2005, up from US $4.3 billion in 1999, positioning the Internet as the first marketing medium to offer global reach, according to Jupiter Communications, Inc. However, the majority of companies that market globally will be ill-prepared to leverage the Internet to communicate with consumers worldwide. Nearly six percent of all global advertising revenue is expected to be spent on the Web by 2005. Jupiter analysts say that this growth will be driven, in part, by the rise of the online population worldwide, which will more than double within the next five years, rocketing from 300 million users today to 800 million users in 2005.

USA Swimming Chooses CTA and Touchscreen
The National Governing Body for competitive swimming in the United States chose the CTA/Touchscreen by Computer Technology Associates (CTA) and Touchscreen Media Group. USA Swimming plans to use the touchscreen to create its new community web site, which will launch just before the Olympic Team Trials for swimming and the Olympic Games. USA Swimming is a Group A member of the United States Olympic Committee. USA Swimming’s web site (www.usa-swimming.org) has built a large following of viewers with a site completely written, designed and maintained by USA Swimming. The site received over 20 million page views from July 1997 to June 2000, and site ranked 16th in the world as the most-visited sports sites by Hot100.com in March 1999.

Morgan Creek Productions and Centerseat Select Winner
Centerseat, the digital media and commerce facilitation company, and Morgan Creek Productions, one of Hollywood’s most successful independent film studios, have selected a winner for the Mall Mania Sweepstakes to promote the upcoming Morgan Creek/Warner Bros. motion picture “The In Crowd.” The top prize in the Mall Mania Sweepstakes is a $1000 shopping spree with one of the stars of “The In Crowd.” The winner of the sweepstakes, who resides in Los Angeles, is currently being notified. After that, the winner can select a star to accompany him or her on their shopping spree. Both the drawing and the shopping spree will be incorporated into programming that will be presented on Centerseat.com and throughout participating malls.

Goalnetwork.com to Build Soccer Stars' Websites
As the U.S. Men’s and Women’s Olympic Soccer Teams prepare for the 2000 Sydney Games, Chris Albright, forward with the 1999 MLS Cup Champion D.C. United, and Sara Whalen, member of the 1999 Women’s World Cup Championship team, have each signed multi-year endorsement deals with www.goalnetwork.com, it was announced today by Craig Stoehr, CEO of goalnetwork.com. www.goalnetwork.com, the first comprehensive worldwide online soccer network which boasts U.S. Men’s National Team Head Coach Bruce Arena as its lead soccer personality, will be the exclusive website provider for Albright and Whalen. Through this partnership, each athlete will write columns, host multiple online chat sessions, provide audio and video bites, as well as answer fan mail.

hillmancurtis.com, Cleans-Up in Latest Round of Awards
hillmancurtis.com, inc, a cutting edge venue for "cross-medium digital design," has come out ahead in recent rounds of advertising and design competitions. Here's a look at the latest awards won for the team's projects: Outstanding Web Site Award in the 1999 Web Awards, a Silver and a Bronze Pencil and six merit mentions at this year's ONE SHOW. A 2000 Webby Award, the People's Choice Award, and 6 Clio Awards. CCO Hillman Curtis was listed as one of RES magazine's "Ten To Watch" in 2000 (Volume 3 No. 2). Born Magazine (www.bornmag.com) pays tribute to SKY, an eloquent piece of cross-medium, cross-discipline partnering between Hillman Curtis and poet Christina Manning. Sky, which can be viewed at www.hillmancurtis.com/site3/motion/sky_hc , was chosen as one of Born Magazine's top ten projects in multimedia design and will be included in the magazine's upcoming video compilation. Another feather in the cap of the hillmancurtis.com design team is an exclusive feature in the Adobe Web Gallery (http://www.adobe.com/web/gallery/curtis/main.html). Finally, Hillman Curtis's book Flash Web Design: The Art of Motion Graphics, has reached the number one spot in two categories at Amazon.com both in Computers and Graphics as well as Software.

06/16
Yack Snags Channelseek
In a deal that will unite the two leaders in online program guidance, YackSM (www.yack.com), the Internet Program GuideSM, will acquire ChannelseekTM (www.channelseek.com), the Convergence Guide, in a multi-million dollar stock deal. Channelseek founder and CEO Tom Britt will join Yack as its new Vice President of Business Development. The announcement was made today at Streaming Media East by Jeff Morris, President and CEO of Yack. The acquisition is expected to be completed within thirty days. Yack's acquisition of Channelseek will create a combined entity with the greatest traffic in the category, as well as the greatest number of participating event producers - nearly 250.

Blueprint Ventures Leads $10 Million Round For ShareGate
Blueprint Ventures will close as lead of a $10 million round of financing for ShareGate, Inc., of Reno, Nevada. ShareGate is a pioneer in residential gateways to the small office/home office (SOHO) market. Gil Amelio's Amtech, LLC and Advent International joined Blueprint Ventures on this round. ShareGate's products include the ShareGate DSL2000 unit, which allows residential and SOHO users plug-and-play sharing of four VoDSL lines, high-speed data and video from existing copper infrastructure. The complementary ShareGate Gateview EMS software, allowing Service Providers to remotely maintain, alter and upgrade the residential/SOHO bundled broadband services, supports ShareGate DSL2000 products.

Urbanbound Bits the Big Apple
What better place for a Web site for urban dog owners than New York City? That's apparently what urbanhound.com figured. The city dog's ultimate survival guide launched its website for dog owners in New York City. Founded by former Fortune senior writer Nina Munk, www.urbanhound.com is the definitive online network for New York City's estimated 1.1 million households with hounds. What's the best dog run in the City? Which breeds are right for apartment dwellers? How does one apply for a dog license? Can you take a dog on Amtrak? How can dog owners fight an eviction notice? Does anyone in the City bake cakes for canines? Answers to all these questions, and more, can be found at http://www.urbanhound.com.

06/09
Produces Live Webcast of First-Ever Electronic Music Festival
JumpCut, Inc. spent Memorial Day weekend in the Motor City to produce Groovetech's webcast of the world's largest FREE electronic music festival. With multiple cameras on the main stage as well as single camera views of three other stages,visitors to www.groovetech.com had a hearty selection of continuous programming from the festival. Plus, since every stage and every hour of the festival was webcast , electronic music fans can relive the performances on groovetech.com where more than 100 hours of music from the three-day event is archived. Groovetech, in association with the City of Detroit, the Detroit Department of Recreation and Pop Culture Media, sponsored the free event held in Detroit's Hart Plaza. Nearly a million people turned out to see performances by artists like Derrick May, Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson, Mos Def, The Roots, Stacey Pullen, A Guy Called Gerald, DJ Spooky, and Kenny Larkin, among many others.

Miltos Manetas Presents Neen
"Neen stands for Neensters: a still undefined generation of visual artists. Some of them may belong to Contemporary Art, while others are software creators, web designers or videogame animators. A neenster's identity is their state of mind?" - Miltos Manetas
"Neen," a new word for the arts with the framework of technology, is a nonprofit, public service project that entered the public domain via a demonstration at Gagosian Gallery Chelsea on May 31, 2000 in New York City. Miltos Manetas approached Art Production Fund over a year ago and said, " I need a new word and the world needs this word as much as I do". He continued by saying that he couldn't wait for a critic, curator or an artist to make this word- indeed over the years he had asked many of them. This was an urgent matter that required the collaboration with a different type of professional- the same people that created the names PowerBook and Pentium. A California based company named Lexicon Branding. Sixty-seven words were finally presented to the artist Miltos Manetas and producer Yvonne Force. From this list Manetas immediately chose "neen". He said, "it is the only word I can use to describe myself, and the only one I can imagine my mother saying".

Asian Americans Get New Online Home
America's most wired cultural community is getting a new home online. aOnline, the Asian American Digital Network(TM), launches this week as a source of news and information, shopping and community for Asian Americans at http://www.aonline.com. The digital network is the latest offering from aMedia, whose 10-year-old aMagazine has become the leading voice in Asian American culture and politics. The first Asian American network on the Internet, aOnline will connect Asian Americans with a constellation of community groups across America - and serve as a "virtual hub" for everything from advertising to political organizing.

Swayne Agency Flying High
In addition to being one fo the fastest growing literary agencies in New York, the Swayne Agency is quickly becoming a sought-after expert on electronic publishing. Owner Lisa Swayne is quoted in Upside magazine. See the agency's write up in this month's issue of Entrepreneur.

Respond2 Completes a 30-Minute Direct Response Program for ReplayTV
Respond2 has just completed a direct response program for ReplayTV. The 30-minute infomercial will begin airing on June 9, 2000. With ReplayTV, viewers can watch television on their own terms. It gives them the ability to find all their favorite shows, record them digitally, then watch them on-demand. ReplayTV provides these functions without the inconvenience or unreliability of videotape. Viewers can set up their own channels based on personal preferences, such as favorite show, actor, or director and be confident that programs will be recorded.

e4L And eWonders Roll Up BuyItNow.com And pcWonders.com In Merger
$350 Million Valuation With Expected Revenues of $150 Million (NYSE:ETV - news) and eWonders.com, Inc. today announced the merger ofBuyItNow.com, a leading online retailer, and pcWonders.com, a leading e-commerce company specializing in the sale of computer hardware and software, consumer electronics, audio and computer games. e4L is the largest stockholder of BuyItNow; pcWonders is a wholly owned subsidiary of eWonders.com. The new entity will retain the name BuyItNow. The merger was structured as a stock-for-stock transaction. pcWonders received a one-third equity position in exchange for its assets valued at approximately $100 million. BuyItNow.com received a two-thirds equity position in exchange for its assets valued at approximately $250 million resulting in an assumed post-transaction valuation of approximately $350 million.

06/02
foodline.com partners with the Myriad Restaurant Group
foodline.com, Inc. (www.foodline.com), the leading provider of diner information and reservation management technology solutions to the restaurant industry, has partnered with the internationally acclaimed Myriad Restaurant Group. Noted restaurateur Drew Nieporent, President of Myriad, joins the company's board of directors. Myriad's roster, with celebrated restaurants in New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas and London, includes the Tribeca Grill, Montrachet, Nobu, HeartBeat, Layla, and Icon. The Myriad Restaurant Group will use foodline.com's proprietary FRS (Foodline Reservations Solution) and eFRS (the ASP version of FRS) diner information and reservation management technology solutions. FRS and eFRS enable restaurants to replace paper-based systems for tracking customer data, manage information to support more personalized customer service, engage in more effective marketing efforts, build diner traffic and increase profitability.

E*Trade hits 52-week low
The online brokerage business isn't what it used to be. E*Trade shares hit a new 52-week low as the industry as a whole continues to endure a slowdown. Bridge News reported that Salomon Smith Barney analyst Matthew Vetto lowered his third quarter revenue and earnings estimates on E*Trade to $338 million and breakeven from $370 million and profit of 1 cent per share due to lower trading volume affecting the entire industry. E*Trade was down sharply in heavy trading Wednesday. Shares of the online brokerage firm hit a new 52-week low of 13 1/8 before closing down 1 13/16, or 11.51%, at 13 15/16, on more than three times average daily volume.

Mirsky Launches New Column
Mirsky, president of Mirsk-T FashionsEach week, is now writing a new column for Netslaves. In his first installment, he presents a new "plan" that's "open source" -- meaning anyone can use it as long as they split their profits with Mirsky. Look for it here!

Sigel & Partners Joins forces with Awards.com
Just two months after its stellar launch, Awards.com has teamed up with Sigel & Partners, a media consulting firm, to develop web strategic alliances. Awards.com, which launched in early April is well on the way to being THE place on the web for awards and recognition products. Look for a cadre of marketing events this summer, as well as the announcement of several major web alliances.

05/19
Miltos Manetas Presents a New Word for the Arts
Artist Miltos Manetas will open his exhibit at the Gagosian Gallery, 555 West 26th Street, on May 31 from 7 to 9 a.m. There will be a press conference at 7:30 p.m. "Words have the power to change the way we see the world," says Manetas. The conference will be a formal "happening" with statements from several speakers including: Miltos Manetas, Artist; JC Herz author of Joystick Nation: How Videogames Ate Our Quarters, Won Our Hearts, and Rewired Our Minds (Little Brown & Company, 1997), and columnist of New York Times Game Theory; Joseph Kosuth, Artist; Peter Lunenfeld, Author of Snap to Grid: A User's Guide to Digital Arts, Media and Cultures (MIT Press, 2000), and a member of the graduate faculty at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena; David Placek, President of Lexicon Branding, and a Sony VAIO laptop computer (Additional speakers to be announced.). A webcast of the event will be produced by Jumpcut Inc., New York, www.jumpcut.com. The show is being produced by Yvonne Force for Art Production Fund.

Mirsky is Back
Mirsky, who produced the ill-fated Mirsky's Worst of the Web" four years ago, is back on the Internet scene. Now he's offering "open source business plans" -- a collection of business ideas that range from online penny-collection services, anti-amnesia tools and a Priceline-like system that auctions off surplus smut. The way it works is that anyone who uses his ideas will promise to share the profits with Mr. Mirsky. The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition found the idea so humerous that they wrote an article about the 32-year-old Queens resident.

btldesign to redesign the Amerex Group website
btldesign, a branding and interactive agency, has been selected by the Amerex Group to redesign its website to help increase brand awareness. The July 2000 launch intends to position the multi-division company as the No. 1 cutting edge importer of fashion outerwear in the U.S. and Canada. btldesign is a full-service branding and interactive agency that specializes in integrated online and offline marketing strategy, and solutions for global brands. The agency's capabilities include marketing research, brand development, integrated marketing and planning, web analysis and design, technology tools and applications, and advertising and promotional solutions. Clients include Agfa Corporation, Lucent Technologies, MasterCard International, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Samsung Electronics and Whatman plc. For a more detailed profile of btldesign, visit its website at www.btldesign.com.

Kidkey Gives Parents Control
Want a way to limit the time your kids spend online? Kidkey can help. With Kidkey parents can fix a specific time limit during which their children may use the internet every month. More and more parents are in the dilemma that their children must and may use the internet, but combined with the risk that school, friends, sports and other good activities will be neglected. Sounds like an interesting and useful tool. Check out www.kidkey.com for more details!

Predict It, Inc. Becomes a Reporting Company
Predict It Inc., a leading developer and distributor of technologies that enhance the usability and increase the "stickiness" of destination websites, an Internet service which documents and rewards users based on their prediction performance in event categories such as sports and finance, today announced that the Company's has become a "reporting company" under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The company's stock is no longer be traded with an "E" appended to its symbol, but on the OTCBB under the symbol "PRIT". The company is viewing at this as a milestone, President Andrew Merkatz.

Viazcom Forms Vizy INteractive
Vizacom Inc. has announced the formation of wholly-owned subsidiary Vizy Interactive Inc. ("VIZY"), an international e-commerce solutions company that delivers complete solutions to drive e-business. Vizy Interactive provides a structure for integration of interactive firms acquired by Vizacom in the first quarter 2000, as well as a strategy to support the company's international growth strategy. Vizy Interactive consolidates interactive e-commerce solutions firms acquired by Vizacom Inc.: Renaissance Multimedia, a New York City-based interactive design firm; Junction 15 Ltd, a London-based interactive design firm; and PWR Systems, a systems integrator with offices in New York and Boston. Vizy Interactive is expected to include Silk Road Interactive Corp., an e-business technology developer and consulting firm based in New York City that Vizacom recently announced it expects to acquire in the summer of 2000. Each of these companies is expected to operate under the name of Vizy Interactive.

Centerseat and Skytron to Deliver Mall Programming
Centerseat Inc. (www.centerseat.com), the global digital media and commerce facilitation company, and Skytron Corporation (www.skytron.com), the creator of the first national large screen mall network, announced today that they have formed a strategic alliance. Through the relationship, Centerseat will provide Skytron with exclusive entertainment programming to be presented on the Skytron Network throughout affiliated malls in the United States. Currently, the Skytron Network has viewership of over 24 million viewers per year, with aggressive expansion planned for this summer and fall. Programming presented on the Skytron Network will be selected from Centerseat's vast library of original and acquired content that has been prepared for broadcast on Centerseat's entertainment and information megasite, Centerseat.com. Centerseat's programming for the Skytron Network will be uniquely tailored for mall shoppers and selected from diverse categories such as Music, Film, Lifestyle, Science and Technology, Sports, and Kids.

Goal Media Group Partners with Turkport
Goal Media Group, the digital media company that produces online football networks www.goalnetwork.com and www.todogol.com, today announced an Internet marketing and licensing alliance with Turkport, a leading publisher of major online services in Turkey. The agreement calls for the two companies to jointly market content, products and services. www.goalnetwork.com and www.todogol.com content are already being published on Turkport's Turkish language sports channel located on its leading Internet portal, www.turkport.com. Turkport is providing Goal Media with Turkish football content and results for www.goalnetwork.com and www.todogol.com. In addition, the two companies will collaborate on global advertising and e-commerce deals.

05/12
Grand Central Partners With Healthcare Companies
MOUSE's Announces Annual Volunteer Appreciation Party
Startup Launches Service for Facilities Managers
Worlds.com Launches Ad Campaign
Epinions.com and OpenTable.com to Develop Restaurant Review and Reservation Site
USLaw.com Closes Financing Round VintageGreetings Teams Up With I-Drive

05/05
Digital Hollywood Welcomes Noted Speakers
Several Keynote speakers have been added to Digital Hollywood New York, May 15-18, 2000 at the Puck Building. They include investigative reporter extraordinaire, Carl Bernstein who is now Executive Vice President and Executive Editor of Voter.com; Emmy Award Winning Producer of Law & Order, Dick Wolf; and technology industry legend, John Sculley, CEO, Sculley Brothers and Gizmoz.com and former CEO of Apple Computer and Pepsico. They will be join the already amazing line-up of music and film star, Courtney Love, ABCNEWS.com News Anchor Sam Donaldson with an introduction by Kenneth Hertz, Senior Music Partner, Hansen, Jacobson. See the entire updated agenda of the most comprehensive conference in the country at http://www.digitalhollywood.com.

04/28
Venture Vortex and Entreworld Announce Content Partnership
There's nothing like the voice of experience. And now you can get it in a new content partnership. Venture Vortex, Inc. (http://www.venturevortex.com), the next generation online community for entrepreneurs, announced a content partnership with EntreWorld (http://www.entreworld.org) -- the nation's leading resource for entrepreneurs and small businesses sponsored by the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. EntreWorld will provide its original Entrepreneur's Bylines to Venture Vortex on an ongoing basis. Through these candid peer-to-peer articles, renowned business founders explore the lessons they have learned in their rise to the top -- enabling others to build on their insights and avoid common pitfalls of growing a start-up. Venture Vortex's flagship Web site is based on a simple three-step strategy of enabling entrepreneurs to Educate, Execute and Interact within a diverse community of sophisticated venture creation players.

R/GA Designs Nasdaq Marketsite Kiosks
Kudos to R/GA, which announced today that it has designed the kiosk applications featured in MarketSite ExperienceSM, the interactive exhibit at the new Nasdaq MarketSiteSM at Four Times Square in New York City. The kiosks feature motion graphics from the Nasdaq 96-screen video wall that displays real-time stock market data and global news feeds. The kiosks' main feature is a hands-on stock market trading game, Nasdaq MarketMasterSM , a single-player game in which users buy and sell stocks, trying to do as well as possible in the market during a randomly selected five-year time period. MarketMaster is unique in that it uses real world historical stock data from the last 15 years, so it challenges market buffs and educates novices alike.

Integration Made Easy
SenseNet, Inc. is making sense of business. The leading provider of business intranet and extranet solutions, has unveiled a new business platform called SenseNet II Operating Environment (OE) featuring SenseNet’s robust workflow application suite, SenseNet II. SenseNet does this based on the principles that businesses should make both internal and client communication as easy as possible and should perform this sharing of information through a thin client a web browser. Faced with the dilemma that there is currently no flexible and expandable business technology platform available, companies are often forced to hire consultants to build expensive, customized applications that fail to integrate easily with each other. "Over time, the results of this can be disastrous and, to say the least, financially catastrophic," says Dane Atkinson, Chairman and CEO of SenseNet, Inc. "However, with the SenseNet OE, this will no longer be the case." Having been in the profession of building these types of solutions for Fortune 100 companies, SenseNet has the required business understanding and technology skills to create such a business technology environment.

Citrano and the Brain
Anthony Citrano, founder and president, BrainPaste.com, Inc. (www.brainpaste.com), has finalized a deal for R3Media (www.r3media.com) to acquire 100% of BrainPaste for an undisclosed amount of cash and stock. This is an important step in BrainPaste's growth, as R3Media brings much more to the table than a big check. They are a deeply experienced, committed team who have nurtured technology startups through the entire lifecycle from seed level to IPO and beyond. They share Citrano's vision for smart network products that enhance the user experience by learning about them over time and delivering a more relevant and manageable Internet experience. Citrano says that the combination of R3Media and BrainPaste is much more valuable than the sum of the parts. He will become R3Media's VP and Chief Communications Officer.

Plugging into Power
Enikia today announced its participation in the HomePlug Powerline Alliance as a sponsor. Enikia has teamed with 13 other leading technology companies to establish a forum for the creation of technology specifications for home powerline networking and to promote its wide acceptance in the marketplace. Working with HomePlug, Enikia will play a key role in facilitating and promoting the rapid availability and adoption of specification-based home powerline networks. "An industry specification is needed to boost consumer confidence in home networking solutions," said Bob Dillon, president of Enikia. "That confidence will drive accelerated adoption of information appliances using powerline networking for high-speed distribution of entertainment, interactive media, voice and data, audio, and video usage."

Rural Residents Unsatisfied with Local Content
Residents of rural areas are much less satisfied with local Internet content than their big-city counterparts. That's the finding of a study on local Internet use released today by Streetmail, whose locally produced e-mail newsletters reach residents of small and mid-size communities across the U.S. An overwhelming majority (74%) of rural residents indicated a preference for content produced by local residents, for local residents. As for whether the Internet currently does an adequate job of offering useful local information, 74% of urban respondents said yes, compared with only 55% of rural residents.

PhotoPoint Goes to the Movies
PhotoPoint.com, the Internet's largest free photo-sharing community, today announced that it is working with SmashCast (formerly Mslide), the online production studio and broadcasting network, to debut Web Movie-making capabilities. As the first SmashCast 3.0 Studio Partner, PhotoPoint will enable its hundreds of thousands of members to produce and broadcast Web Movies using personal digital photos and other licensed content. In less than five minutes, PhotoPoint members will be able to produce and broadcast a Web Movie directly from their browser. By accessing PhotoPoint's private-label SmashCast production studio, members will quickly and easily add music, text, animation and other licensed content to their personal digital photos. Members will upload photos directly from their desktop, or transfer photos from their PhotoPoint online album. Each Web Movie will be hosted at a private URL, enabling members to invite their family and friends back to PhotoPoint.com to view it as often as they wish.

BrightStreet.com Gets New Digs
To accommodate its growing staff, BrightStreet.com has moved to a great new office in Cupertino, Calif. Please make note of our new address, phone, and fax number.
BrightStreet.com
1601 S. De Anza Blvd.
Suite 100
Cupertino, CA 95014
408-777-7200 (main number)
408-777-7201 (fax)

UVentures.com Relocates
UVentures.com has moved to new space. Its new address is:
159 W 25th Street
New York, NY 10001
phone: 212-268-0154
fax: 212-268-0175

04/21
Bluewave Formalises Vision
As Europe's largest independent web creations company, Bluewave knows how to deliver stunning web sites to its clients. Now it's going one step further by forming Bluewave Vision, a consultancy dedicated to helping clients get oriented in the electronic age and leverage online business opportunities. Bluewave's development team will still provide the hands-on production and implementation services that have helped its clients achieve world-class web presence. Vision can deliver guidance in any form, from a single focus meeting all the way through to the conceptual and creative development, technical documentation, traffic analyses and monitoring and ongoing enhancement ideas.

Cone Interactive Signs On StarMedia Network and InfoRocket.com
Cone, Inc.'s Interactive practice has hit the big time. By signing on StarMedia Network and InfoRocket..comInfoRocket..com, the agency achieved $1 million in additional billings through year-end 2000. The agency will position StarMedia Network, the leading Internet media company for Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking audiences worldwide, with U.S. audiences and help build its brand identity. Cone will also develop marketing communications strategy in support of business-to- business and trade initiatives. For InfoRocket.com, Cone will initially develop brand positioning and launch media relations activities to both business and trade publications followed by the development and implementation of consumer outreach activities in third quarter 2000.

PC Week Becomes eWEEK
Going the way of the "E," PC WEEK is changing its name to eWEEK. Management says that PC WEEK was built on being the focal point of the PC revolution. The next wave is something the publication works with every day: the Internet. PC WEEK has always been a digital pioneer. Compuserve forums, Interchange, a Mosaic-based web site before Netscape was incorporated, audio and video webcasting and, most recently, online web seminars and lab testing using the Internet itself as the test bench are its heritage. Over the past 18 months, the company has aggressively developed our circulation strategy to be focused on our subscribers involvement with the Internet and eBusiness. It has restructured its news, analysis and lab groups to become the preeminent information source for companies undertaking e-commerce and Internet-based business initiatives. This project is a stealth restructuring where the final, rather than the first, step is a name change.

Centerseat and Y2G Create Y2G-CENTERSEAT.COM
Get immersed in entertainment with Y2G-CENTERSEAT.COM, a total entertainment experience for Y2G visitors. Centerseat Inc. (www.centerseat.com), the global digital media and commerce facilitation company, and Y2G.COM, a cutting edge Internet portal founded by FUBU to target the trendsetting African-American community, announced a partnership to create Y2G-CENTERSEAT.COM, a co-branded total immersion entertainment experience created for Y2G visitors. At Y2G-CENTERSEAT.COM, users will view programs specifically selected for them from Centerseat's vast offering of entertainment content, which includes over 100,000 hours of originally produced material and acquired films and classic TV. Viewers will also have the opportunity to buy products from and selected by Y2G while watching the entertainment. Y2G-CENTERSEAT.COM will be accessible through Y2G's entertainment portal (www.y2g.com). Centerseat will also partner with Y2G to produce Y2G sponsored events and special programming--a unique partnership to bring the FUBU-Y2G style to the Internet.

The TV show -15 Independent Networks
@ soapbox, April 21 - May 21, Hours: Sat & Sun, noon - 5, or by appointment. Want to explore television in all its glory? Check out The TV Show, an exhibit of over 15 independent television networks. Experience full-body-channel surfing as you peruse programs like "The Young and the Stupid", "Happiness", "Drinking and Boating", "Up Yours," and more. The exhibit explores contemporary models of desire through television - the machine itself, as well the mechanisms by which it broadcasts our objects of desire. Edith and Archie's living room chairs are in the Smithsonian to be preserved as part of the cultural legacy of this country. The Watergate hearings became one of the most dramatic "shows" in the history of television, and the ratings for the OJ trial are proof that the American public embraces improvisational theater; and now the TV Show embraces the debasing of the cultural discourse. It is a crazy social sculpture.

Girl Groove's Newest Issue is Waiting for You!
Girl Groove is the newest content affiliate of Chick Click, a great collection of chick-specific sites. The Girl Groove also launched its Discussion. You can reach it through the drop-down menu or click on the link at the bottom of the Home Page. Check out Beau's great training program in Did You Ride Today? The Metal Cowboy writes about Complications in View from the Saddle. And, one of the top junior racers in the country, Kelly Mandrell, is keeping her journal in Good Sports. If all that has whetted your appetite, check out the great original recipe on Good Food.

Qwest Signs 10-Year Lease
The AT&T building has added another communications tenant to its roster. Denver-based Qwest Communications International has taken nearly 160,000 square feet in the landmark structure at 32 Avenue of the Americas. A spokesperson at Rudin Management Co., the building's owner, confirmed the deal was signed but would not discuss the particulars of the contract. Sources close to the transaction, however, say the 10-year lease was inked for $48 a square-foot. They are expected to move in sometime in July. Qwest, which merged last year with U S West, already occupies a total of 260,000 square feet in several locations throughout the city. The company will join MCI WorldCom - which has signed to take 110,000 square feet in the building - and NorthEast Optic Network, which merged with Con Ed last November. The largest tenant is still AT&T, which will retain 400,000 square feet of the building's 1.15 million feet for the foreseeable future.

Predict It, Inc. Wants to Report
Predict It, Inc., has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to become a reporting company as soon as SEC rules permit. The Internet service documents and rewards users based on their prediction performance in event categories such as sports and finance. This action is intended to allow Predict It, Inc. to maintain its eligibility for quotation on the National Association Securities Dealer OTC Bulletin Board. Predict It, Inc. is a leading developer and distributor of technologies that enhance the usability and increase the "stickiness" of destination websites. The innovative patent-pending prediction exchange system objectively documents and rewards users ("analysts") based on their prediction performance in event categories such as sports and finance.

Digital Hollywood Welcomes Noted Speakers
Several Keynote speakers have been added to Digital Hollywood New York, May 15-18, 2000 at the Puck Building. They include investigative reporter extraordinaire, Carl Bernstein who is now Executive Vice President and Executive Editor of Voter.com; Emmy Award Winning Producer of Law & Order, Dick Wolf; and technology industry legend, John Sculley, CEO, Sculley Brothers and Gizmoz.com and former CEO of Apple Computer and Pepsico. They will be join the already amazing line-up of music and film star, Courtney Love, ABCNEWS.com News Anchor Sam Donaldson with an introduction by Kenneth Hertz, Senior Music Partner, Hansen, Jacobson. See the entire updated agenda of the most comprehensive conference in the country at http://www.digitalhollywood.com

StarCite Also Introduces Connect the Industry Program
StarCite, Inc., innovators of the Internet's leading global business-to-business E-Commerce meetings and events marketplace (http://www.starcite.com) plans To build free customized meeting and event planning Internet sites for corporations. StarCite says that closes loop between buyers and sellers. These sites will provide suppliers with the ability, for the first time, to view and respond to Request for Proposals (RFPs] online and in real-time from the RFP Management section of their custom site.

Women Rule
Women are on the top of the small business arena. According to the US office of Economic Research, women-owned businesses represent about 1/3 of all businesses in the United States, generating $3.1 trillion dollars in revenue in 1998. Although women own a third of all businesses, they do not receive equivalent amounts of either government or private capital investments. Ground Floor Ventures can help change that. The fund was established as a high-tech business incubator that closes the gender gap. It is leveling the playing field for women in the software and internet-development space and providing equal access to the resources they need to be successful. Ground Floor Ventures (GFV) is located at the Monroe Center for the Arts, 720 Monroe Street, Hoboken, New Jersey. In addition to high-speed Internet access, the incubator will provide an orchestrated series of technological, developmental and business support services including seed capital and funding advisory services through alliances with investment firms, accounting, bookkeeping and tax services; Internet, connectivity and web development services; legal services; marketing, advertising and branding expertise; business development and strategic planning; and executive recruitment services.

04/14
Virtual Offices Team Up
AtYourOffice.com has joined forces with Office.com (R)! Office.com, a Service From Winstar, rated the #1 Online Business Center by Cahners In Stat Group and Fortune Small Business magazine. Office.com says that its in-depth business content, best of breed partners, in-house experts and wide array of services help people work smarter, faster and more effectively. The new partnership will give visitors access to Office.com's business resources and content focused on nearly 150 industries and professions! Check out the comprehensive business solutions, cost savings, practical applications and more at http://www.atyouroffice.com and http://www.office.com.

Networking Paris Style
The new media community in Paris is taking on a decidedly American flavor with its networking events and burgeoning version of Silicon Alley. The Associated Press reports that Parisiens have formed "Silicon Sentier" in a bustling textile district in central Paris. In a move quite uncharacteristic of the French, new media professionals are resisting government efforts to give tech terms a French flavor, preferring instead to use the long-standing American versions.

Centerseat.com Rocks Online
Centerseat.com, the entertainment and information megasite, presented a live webcast of a press conference by rock supergroup The Who at 12 noon on Monday, April 10. The event will was herald The Who?s return to the road to promote their new album, Blues to the Bush. Centerseat used its unique interactivity, including ancillary information and relevant e-commerce opportunities delivered in real time.

Best Of Web Digest Honors 25 Sites
"Best of Larry Chase?s Web Digest For Marketers" (WDFM) honored the 25 best sites in its fifth anniversary issue. WDFM is a free fortnightly email newsletter. All 25 reviews of the sites honored are at http://wdfm.com where you can also subscribe to the free email newsletter. Check them out! You'll find such celebrated sites as Kozmo.com, Topica.com and BizRate.com.

Entrepreneur.com Relaunches
Entrepreneur.com, the Web site of Entrepreneur magazine, has redesigned its site so that small-business owners can run their businesses using Entrepreneur.com as their default desktop. The site is also striving to be small-business owners' online source the resources and products they need to build the business of their dreams. The new Entrepeneur.com features 30,000 pages of focused content, more than 50,000 products, more than 30 partnerships.

Get the Gist?
Gist Communications, Inc., an independent producer of online TV listings and related editorial content, has been selected by MSN, www.msn.com, to provide customizable TV listings and original TV-related content for the MSN Entertainment Channel. By entering their zip code once, users of Gist's listings on MSN receive TV schedules for their own cable system, broadcast-only channels or satellite service. They can then individualize and search their listings by day, time, program category and specific channels. And Gist's award-winning journalists are providing the MSN Entertainment Channel with TV-related news and original feature articles focusing on such categories as movies, sci-fi, drama and the soaps. Check it out!

CondNet Gets Style
CondéNet, the leading creator and developer of upscale lifestyle brands online, is getting in style with its planned launch of Style.com, which it is pegging as an online fashion authority for women. Style.com, launching in early summer, will feature content, contextual commerce and will include CondéNet's fashion service, Vogue.com. The launch of Style.com will play a critical role in bringing Condé Nast fashion brands online. Joan Feeney, the developer of all of CondéNet's upscale vertical brands, including Epicurious and Vogue.com, has been appointed director of Style.com to oversee the launch and the overall direction of the destination.

ideaEDGE Ventures Hits the VC Scene
An all-star team of technology and business leaders, in partnership with leading venture capital firms in San Diego, Silicon Valley and Europe, has formed the ideaEDGE Ventures, a San Diego-based Venture Accelerator and Management Firm focused on creating a new generation of Internet companies in one of the world's fastest growing technology markets. If experience is any indicator of future success, ideaEDGE will soar. It is led by former senior executives with Gateway, Sun Microsystems, Apple Computer, AlliedSignal, and McKinsey & Co., as well as a world-class advisory board that includes Ellen Hancock of Exodus; Paul Jacobs of QUALCOMM; David Nagel of AT&T; John Sculley, former CEO of Apple; Ted Waitt of Gateway; and Maynard Webb of eBay. ideaEDGE Ventures focuses on generating and developing ideas that integrate the Internet and emerging technologies into easy-to-use solutions for consumer and large vertical business markets. Over a dozen businesses are currently in development and at least five are expected to be launched over the next six months.

Agency.com Reports Encouraging Results
The industry may be faltering, but Agency.com managed to increase its fourth quarter revenues 75 percent over the same period last year. Revenues for the period this year were $56 million, while gross margin was 51.5 percent, up from 45.9 percent in the same quarter last year. Cash net income for the fourth quarter was $2.7 million, or $0.06 per share, versus $3.1 million, or $0.07 per share, in the third quarter of 2000, on a fully taxed basis. For the twelve months ending December 31, 2000, Agency.com recorded revenue of $202.1 million, compared to revenues of $109.2 million for 1999, an increase of 85 percent.

MSNBC.com and RedHerring.com Join Forces
MSNBC.com and RedHerring.com have entered into a content distribution agreement. MSNBC.com will increase the scope of its technology coverage by incorporating daily RedHerring.com content into the technology business area of MSNBC.com's business section. RedHerring.com will be MSNBc.com's premier provider of news and analysis for the technology news category. But it isn't the only content provider on MSNBC.com. Current content providers include The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Newsweek, The Motley Fool, Inside.com, Inc.com and ZDNet.

Data Security Isn't a Game -- Or Is It?
Want to find out if you've got what it takes to ward off attacks on your computer system? Play Verado, the IT Security Game. It'll bring you through a scenario so chilling that you'll go running to the nearest IT security vendor to shore up your defenses. Imagine it: Everything's going fine until your network gets cracked with a spam attack. The assailant is only a kid, but he has the computing power to clog your data pipes, putting your network in severe jeopardy. Fortunately, this scenario is not real -- not this time, anyway. Check it out at http://www.verado.com/forms/get_verado_game_1.shtml. You - and our network - will be glad you did.

Ads Won't Click on Post-PC Platforms
Bracing for the advertising onslaught on wireless devices, interactive television and Internet kiosks? Relax. Jupiter Media Metrix predicts that small and fragmented wireless and interactive television audiences in the U.S. will limit advertising opportunities on post-PC platforms. So, they will become secondary, rather than primary, digital marketing vehicles. According to a new Jupiter Research report, the post-PC audience will reach critical mass by 2005. However, the PC will continue to dominate with a 74 percent Internet household penetration and 68 percent Internet individual penetration. Jupiter analysts expect advertisers will be slow to allocate dollars for campaigns on post- PC platforms as they struggle to gain and control the key benefits of advertising on these devices.

ASPs Go Vertical
Industry specific Application Service Providers (ASPs) are poised to dominate the $3 trillion global service provider industry over the next five years. These vertical ASPs are quickly gaining ground on established horizontal applications with their in-depth understanding and insight of a given industry for both the customer and the enterprise. Experts predict that ASPs will start providing the same benefits and commoditized applications as horizontal competitors. They specialize in enterprise-level applications and services only. That's why CMP Media is predicting a major shake out in the ASP industry. Those that go vertical will have a much better chance of surviving. An exhibition of these blossoming ASP market players will be featured at CMP Media's CT Expo 2001 at the Los Angeles Convention Center March 6-8.

04/07
ShiftKey relaunches as Kinecta
ShiftKey, supplier of content-syndication systems, introduced last month a new version of its software and relaunched itself as Kinecta (www.kinecta.com). The new company name, a synthesis of the words "kinesis" and "connect," symbolizes the company's focus on helping businesses establish dynamic information connections with business partners. Kinecta's Interact system is a Web syndication system whose first high-profile customer is Reuters. It includes a server component, with which you create subscription offers and set up distribution, and a Subscriber component that helps you manage incoming feeds. Both components are Java applications available for Unix and Windows NT. The system is one of the first (along with Vignette StoryServer) to be compliant with the Information Content Exchange (ICE) protocol developed for syndicating content over the Web.

Kinecta Corporation Chooses Strategic Advisory Board
Kinecta Corporation (formerly ShiftKey, Inc.) has put together an impressive advisory board. The developer of distributed information management solutions, drew from a distinguished list of visionaries in the areas of business, academia, media and technology. Members include Dan Appelquist, technology manager for TheStreet.co.uk and vice president of Global Technology for TheStreet.com; Professor Francois Bar, Department of Communication at Stanford University; Bill Donner, managing director, Fenway Partners and former Chief Architect of Reuters; Scott Ehrens, managing director and head of Internet Equity Research, Bear Stearns; Mark H. Goldstein, president and CEO of Bluelight.com; Martin Greenberger, director of The Center for Digital Media, UCLA Anderson School of Management and president of the Council for Technology and the Individual (CTI); Stephen Lake, CEO at start-up eFrenzy; Michael Levy, founder, president and CEO of SportsLine.com, Inc.; Salil Mehta, senior vice president of Strategic Planning and Development for the Walt Disney Company; Stephen Messer, chairman, CEO and co-founder of LinkShare Corporation; Dr. John Pavlik, executive director and professor, The Center for New Media, Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University; Robert Wallace, manager of Advanced IP Services, Broadband Communications Sector, Motorola Corporation; and Dan Woods, CTO and vice president of Engineering for start-up CapitalThinking, and co-author of "A Developer's Guide to the Java Web Server."

Kinecta Tests Performance
Kinecta Corporation (formerly ShiftKey, Inc), has come up with some interesting figures concerning response times and performance of the Kinecta Interact?Server. The server creates and manages packages of content, called subscriptions, and delivers them to an online network of subscribers. Subscriptions can be automatically and dynamically delivered at any frequency and to any number of subscribers. The average response time for the entire test scenario was less than three seconds. Eight tests were performed, with three separate groups of 50, 200 and 400 Kinecta Interact Subscribers simultaneously retrieving 120 or 720 files per minute, distributed among 10 subscription offers. The tests used an 8 million row Oracle 8i database and a simulated load of several hundred to several thousand concurrent Kinecta Interact Subscribers, all routinely making data requests, to place maximum stress on the Kinecta Interact Server. In tests retrieving 120 files per minute, the median response times were blazingly fast at less than 0.2 seconds.

PolicyCounsel.com Watches Washington
PolicyCounsel.Com's (http://www.policycounsel.com/) new consulting/lobbying Venture, has launched with a new list called WashingtonWatch. The free, low-volume list is meant tol inform new media and new economy professionals about how coming laws and regulations may affect their businesses.

Diana Ross and the Supremes Appear Live on Centerseat.com
Talk about online entertainment! Centerseat.com, the entertainment and information megasite, has debuted a new feature on its site, called "Centerseat Special Event." Centerseat Special Event will showcase live Internet Broadcasts and special events presented with Centerseat's unique interactivity, including ancillary information and relevant e-commerce opportunities delivered in real time. Centerseat's Special Event debut last week featured singing legends Diana Ross and the Supremes, in New York City.

03/31
Bidland.com Launches Web Based Auction Tool
If you like the auctions concept you're going to love a new service from Bidland.com which allows businesses to create an auction on their site in under 30 minutes. The best part? Use of the technology is being given away for free. Instead of charging businesses to build the auctions, Bidland.com gets its revenue through a 5 percent commission on each auction sale the businesses make. Bidland.com is looking for strategic partners, such as associations, communities and agencies, to serve as resellers. And there's a few cool ways to use Bidland.com: chairyt auctions, market research, business-to-business sales and business-to-consumer sales.

Internet Companies Want Homegrown Content
Mass production may work for old media, but a new survey co-sponsored by Streetmail confirms that Internet users prefer local content produced in their own backyards. Launched to serve the small to mid-sized markets overlooked by most Internet companies, Streetmail http://www.streetmail.com employs local writers in communities across the country to deliver free email newsletters full of area news, views and listings. In the poll by Streetmail and Greenfield Online research, more than 70 percent of respondents said they would prefer to read local content created within their communities rather than content produced for their market by a remote source.

Centerseat and Henninger to Produce Digital Programming Archive
Online content is great, but once it's gone it´s hard to get it back. That may change, thanks to a new partnership between Centerseat LLC (www.centerseat.com), the global digital media and commerce facilitation company is partnering with Henninger Media Services Inc., one of the nation´s largest and most respected video, film, and new media services providers. Henninger will take care of cleansing, digitizing, color correcting and audio correcting Centerseat´s enormous programming content archive, which currently contains more than 100,000 hours of films and classic TV. The archive spans a wide range of genres and periods of history and contains rare independent films from around the world, including some of the first silent films dating as early as 1908 as well as more current blockbusters, cult favorites, documentaries, cartoons, and classic TV specials. This archive will supplement Centerseat´s rich slate of over 250 original shows.

Razorfish Launches Online Talent Market
Not sure who you are? Check out IAM.COM, a new site by Razorfish, Inc. (NASDAQ: RAZF). The global digital solutions provider has created IAM.COM, the first ever global Web site to bring aspiring artists and entertainment industry professionals together in a virtual community. Razorfish leveraged its expertise in business strategy, brand enhancement, innovative technology, and user interface design, to introduce IAM.COM as a premier online talent resource. Razorfish created a site, consisting of four performance areas divided into categories of actors, models, musicians, and dancers, which communicates resourceful information as well as provides artists the opportunity for legitimate industry discovery.

Schwartz PR Spins Off Internet Company
Schwartz Public Relations is putting both feet squarely in the digitral camp. In a move to more effectively provide PR services for the Internet community, Schwartz has spun off Schwartz PR Interactive, it was announced today by Barry M. Schwartz, President, Schwartz Public Relations Associates, Inc. The newly-formed company will focus exclusively on providing creative and strategic public relations support to the interactive industries. As Schwartz Public Relations, the company has been in the Internet space since 1993, establishing it as one of the most experienced players in thiscategory. Steven Wright-Mark, former Director of Internet and Special Events for Schwartz Public Relations, has been named President of Schwartz PR Interactive, and brings 15 years of PR experience to this position.

Goa Media Group Launches Spanish-Language Football Site
Time to brush up on your Spanish. Goal Media Group Chairman Alan Rothenberg today announced the launch of www.todogol.com, the definitive Spanish-language football site, and the appointment of Sergio Ferraro as todogol.com´s Executive Producer. The site debuts April 17, 2000. Ferraro comes to todogol.com from StarMedia where he served as sports editor in chief. He previously was the sports editor in chief at LA PRENSA and the editor in chief of the football section of DIARIO DEPORTIVO OLE, the Argentine sports newspaper. Ferraro is the author of “Argentina en los Mundiales,” a book about the history of the World Cup and Argentina´s role in it. www.todogol.com will offer live match results, news, exclusive stories, opinion and feature coverage from a network of correspondents based in todogol.com´s news bureaus in Mexico, Colombia, Uruguay, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Brazil, Panama, El Salvador, the U.S., Italy and Spain. Headquartered in Buenos Aires, todogol.com will provide coverage of all the leagues in Latin America, along with a comprehensive community section featuring message boards and chat.

03/24
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 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.

03/17
Promotions.com Goes Global
Promotions.com (Nasdaq: PRMO), has gone global by teaming up with PromoRed.com in a venture to Latin America. The exclusive strategic partnership will be Latin America's first promotion portal. This marks the second international deal Promotions.com has signed since January, when it first talked about its global expansion strategy. That's when the company partnered with TKAI, Inc., a leading Japanese e-commerce business development company. The PromoRed.com deal will allow Promotions.com to leverage PromoRed.com's full-service online promotion agency in Argentina, to market Internet promotion solutions to companies in the thriving Latin American market.

Cybergrrl Founder Launches Site for Hispanic Women
Aliza Sherman, founder and former President of Cybergrrl, Inc., is at it again. The well-known advocate for women on the Web has announced the upcoming launch of her new Internet venture, EVIVA, LLC. She promises to release a preview of EVIVA.NET (www.EVIVA.net), the Web's first bilingual online network and marketplace for Hispanic women, shortly. In January 1995, Aliza founded the first woman-owned Internet marketing and online publishing company, Cybergrrl, Inc., building the first women's website (www.CYBERGRRL.com) and the first searchable directory of women's sites (www.FEMINA.com). In April 1995, she founded Webgrrls International (www.WEBGRRLS.com), the first real-world global Internet networking group for women. Sherman is also the author of the books "Cybergrrl: A Woman's Guide to the World Wide Web (Feb 1998, Ballantine) and "Cybergrrl at Work: Tips and Inspiration for the Professional You" (Sep 2000, Penguin Putnam).

Bluewave Spearheads TNT Redesign
Bluewave really took the bull by the horns in the redesign of TNT, the global express, distribution, logistics and international mail company. Not only did Bluewave map out the new site's architecture, navigation, look and feel, and customer needs, but it looked at the overall user experience. Then it designed and produced the web identity guidelines, the Blueprint, which in turn allowed TNT to rapidly build its new site. One word describes the new site: customer-friendly. It has reflects customers? changing requirements and takes advantage of the industry-wide growth in doing business over the Internet. From a business standpoint, the site reflects the international expansion of its brand.

eYada.com Gets $25 Million Investment
If you like to talk (and who doesn't?), you're going to love this. eYada.com just received a $25 million investment from a group led by Chase Capital Partners. The investment comes at a time when talk radio is widely becoming one of the fastest-growing areas of online entertainment. eYada.com, the Internet's first all-star, all-talk radio network, is home to such diverse on-air personalities as Richard Johnson, editor of the New York Post's "Page Six"; George Rush and Joanna Molloy, the Daily News' husband and wife gossip duo; former WABC morning host Lionel; and former Sports Illustrated senior editor Kevin Cook.

Marvel to license its superheroes on IPnetwork.com
Spiderman is shooting a new Web -- and this one is interactive. Marvel Enterprises Inc. , which holds the rights to Spiderman and other characters including the Incredible Hulk, has signed an exclusive deal to sell the licensing rights for the Marvel Universe online through IPnetwork.com. The site, which provides online services for managing intellectual property, will offer rights to the Marvel Universe, a series of color images featuring the Marvel lineup of superheroes, to product manufacturers. Sales will start on IPnetwork.com in mid-March.

Yack is on the Attack
Stay tuned for a revamped Yack.com. Recently ranked #1 in its category by both Media Metrix and PC Data* -- surpassing both Onnow.com and Scour.net -- YackSM, (www.yack.com), is gearing up to launch its revamped web site. The Web's only comprehensive Internet Program GuideSM continues to revel in a period of unprecedented growth. This month, the site expanded its Event Producer NetworkSM (EPNSM) to nearly 150 members, and is preparing to launch a broadband edition and roll out its first major advertising effort with a multi-million dollar on and offline campaign.

Reserve the Centerseat at Entertainment and Information Megasite
If you're looking for a little entertainment (or a lot, as you'll find here), check out Centerseat.com, the entertainment and information megasite. All programming will feature Centerseat's unique signature online treatment, including contextually related interactive rich media information and e-commerce opportunities, providing viewers with a total immersion experience. You''ll get ancillary information that is relevant to the program you're watching, as well as targeted e-commerce opportunities. E-commerce from the following categories will be available on Centerseat: home electronics and appliances, audio and video products; computers and computer equipment; game systems and software; home furnishings and products; clothes, accessories, and jewelry for men and women; pet supplies; sporting goods; books, CDs and videos; travel; high speed Internet access; gourmet food and cooking utensils; toys.

The Webby Awards 2000 Nominees Are Out!
There are135 outrageously superb sites in 27 categories -- including five new ones: Activism, Broadband, Kids, Personal Web Sites, and Services! This year's nominees include relative newcomers like Atom Films, Kozmo, Wired Planet, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and the industry-shaking Napster, as well as classics like The Internet Movie Database, Thrive Online, and Disinformation. See them all now at http://www.webbyawards.com ! While you're there, register to vote for The People's Voice Awards and tell us *your* favorite sites. You might drive away in a brand new Audi TT Roadster if you do.
Here's list of all Webby-nominated Silicon Alley companies:, Activism: The Action Network http://www.actionnetwork.org, Arts: netomat http://www.netomat.net, Broadband: Video Farm http://www.videofarm.com, Fashion: Hint Fashion Magazine http://www.hintmag.com, Games: Happy Puppy http://happypuppy.com, Humor: Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency http://www.mcsweeneys.net (Brooklyn): Comedy Central http://www.comedycentral.com, Kids: Mamamedia http://www.mamamedia.com: Scholastic.com http://www.scholastic.com, Living: Epicurious http://food.epicurious.com: MarthaStewart.com http://marthastewart.comSwoon http://www.swoon.com, Music: Sputnik7 http://www.sputnik7.com, News: mediaattack http://www.mediaattack.com: The Wall Street Journal Interactive http://www.wsj.com: ABCNEWS.com http://www.abcnews.go.com, Politics: Political Junkie http://www.politicaljunkie.com, Print/Zines: Feed Magazine http://www.feedmag.com: Nerve http://www.nerve.com, Radio: KROQ http://www.kroq.com, Services: Kozmo http://www.kozmo.com, TV: Oxygen Media http://www.oxygen.com: MTV Online http://www.mtv.com: HBO Online http://www.hbo.com, Weird: Disinformation http://www.disinfo.com

03/10
Final Hope For Mid-Tier Media Sites Rests with "Invisible Networks"
Get specific: that's the message of Jupiter Communications' recent survey. The Internet commerce research company found that web media sites that have yet to achieve a dominant position in their categories must change strategies and deliver more focused content while joining "invisible networks,"--those that allow them to aggregate multiple audiences for advertisers and retailers. The research showed that almost half of US online consumers prefer more targeted affinity/genre sites over general-purpose portals, while 39 percent of those consumers gravitate towards familiar off-line brands. Jupiter surveyed approximately 1,500 online consumers on the way in which they selected their online media source, 46 percent of respondents indicated a preference for more specialized sites. Twenty-six percent liked sites focused on a single topic or genre, such as sports or health, whereas 11percent favored affinity sites that cater to a given audience, such as young families or boomers.

New York's Oldest Online Community Celebrates its 10th Anniversary!
People on Echo have spent the past 10 years perfecting the fine art of bickering, making friends and enemies, getting married, having babies and other things that have no business in a press release. Often referred to as "The Dysfunctional Family Echo," New York's first virtual community offers uncontestable proof that we will never learn and people are the same online as they are anywhere else. And, this is not a bad thing. Modeled on The WELL in California, Echo is a place where New York's best and brightest (cough, cough) get together to talk about books, movies, politics, culture, angst, and, our favorite subject: ourselves. And, our favorite subject after that: you.

Centerseat to Present Award Winning Films on the Web
Centerseat LLC (www.centerseat.com), the digital media and entertainment company, will present coverage of many festivals as well as select films on its entertainment and information megasite, which will launch in the next few weeks. The Centerseat deals are with the NewFilmmakers, the Telluride IndieFest, the Central Florida Film and Video Festival, the Mix Film Festival, the SIMBAL Festival, the Saguaro Film Festivals, and the Firewater Film Festival. All programming presented on Centerseat.com will feature Centerseat´s unique signature online treatment, including high-quality full motion video, contextually related interactive rich media information and e-commerce opportunities, providing viewers with a total immersion experience.

Report Blames Parties for Diluted Coverage
The MediaChannel.org (www.mediachannel.org), a global media oriented Internet "supersite" with aggregated content from hundreds of partner web sites worldwide, compared this year's presidential primary season to that of 1988. Guess which one lost. MediaChannel found that the 2000 season was nearly half as newsworthy as the 1988 campaign. According to the supersite's report, which was authored for The MediaChannel.org by media analyst Andrew Tyndall, the 1988 presidential primary season -- when Dukakis and Bush ran -- attracted more than 900 minutes of combined TV coverage on the three major networks (ABC, CBS and NBC), while this year's netted only 465 minutes through Friday of last week.

Lightningcast secures first-round venture funding from redleaf group, LLC and Birchmere ventures LP
Lightningcast, the first company to assemble a network of streaming media publishers (webcasters) that place targeted, audited advertisements inband in streaming audio, has closed $4.7 million in first-round funding from a team of investors lead by RedLeaf Group, LLC and Birchmere Ventures LP. Prior to this round, angel investors, such as Gerald Cassidy, CEO of Shandwick Washington (an IPG company), have contributed to the successful mentoring, funding and growth of Lightningcast since its inception last summer.

Get Dressed Up on Tuesday!!!
Silicon Alley companies hoping to get in the running for this year's Webby Awards should wear their Sunday best to work next Tuesday. That's because on Tuesday morning, March 14th, Tiffany and Maya Draisin, the director of the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, will hit the streets of New York - with celebratory champagne in tow - to notify Silicon Alley's nominees for The Webby Awards 2000 in person!

03/03
Enikia and ONELINE AG Team Up
Enikia (tm) and ONELINE (tm) AG, a powerline technology company affiliated with PreussenElektra AG and VEBA AG, will join forces to deploy end-to-end broadband services to consumers. The deal will marry Enikia's high-speed and reliable IAN- Information Appliance Network (tm) technology to ONELINE's communications service platform. Enikia uses existing power cabling to support broadband communications networking throughout a building. ONELINE's network solution is based on the ONELINE BOX (tm) that delivers telephony, Internet and smart home services over the power distribution access network.

Win $5,000 in Fantasy Trading
Does the thought of trading stocks online make you nervous? Relax. All you faint-of-heart investors can polish your investings kills with someone else's money -- Bloomberg's. The financial company is sponsoring The Bloomberg Stock trading Challenge, a month-long competition designed to help investors hone their skills as they play. You'll manage a fantasy $500,000 portfolio, and the best portfolio will win $5,000 or a computer with On-Site trading Software. Check it out at http://www.investmentchallenge.com/bloomberg

Razorfish Gets Big Mention
Digital solutions provider makes it into premier design book.
If you happen to pick up Motion Graphics, a new book saluting the industry¹s "brightest and most passionate designers," which hits the newstands this month, look for Razorfish, Inc., (NASDAQ: RAZF). The digital solutions provider and entertainment brand specialist got a big boost when the work of several Razorfish designers, including Bob English, Creative Director of Broadcast Design, and Seth Epstein, VP of Broadcast, was chosen for the book.

New Clients Tap Cone Interactive in 2000
Cone's Interactive Practice has snagged three new clients with total billings of more than $1 million: BMG Music Service, Harris Publishing and Lowestfare.com. Cone will help BMG Music Service, the world's largest music club, enter the online music arena with old and new products. Developing marketing communications strategy for the launch is top on Cone's priorities, as well as direct business-to-business and consumer initiatives. Harris Publishing, abusiness-to business client serving universities, colleges and associations nationwide, will get help developing corporate brand positioning and identity, as well as launching a media relations campaign and guerilla marketing program. Lowestfare is hiring Cone for the positioning and strategic counsel it needs to reach the business community and consumers.

Enews.com adds 50,000th Partner to 'Newsstand Network Affiliate Program
enews.com (http://www.enews.com) has proven that it is a big player in the online information industry. The company just added its 50,000th affiliate partner to its "Newsstand Network," an achievement it says solidifies its position among best-known e-commerce Web sites. enews.com , one of the leading magazine retailer on the Web, offers subscriptions to nearly 1,000 magazines from more than 650 publishers. The Newsstand Network is an affiliate program that gives Web sites the ability to offer print magazine subscriptions for commissions.

Comet Systems Releases Desktop Cursor
Web surfers can designate a personal desktop cursor, thanks to Comet Systems' release of My Comet Cursor, the first desktop software application enabling Web surfers to designate a personal desktop cursor. The company has now created "Surfer's Choice," which allows Web surfers to vote for their favorite Oscar nominees by selecting a desktop cursor in the image of their favorite nominated best actor or best actress. The Comet Cursor, has become tremendously popular since its launch 18 months ago, garnering 27 million unique users since its launch eighteen months ago. My Comet Cursor now extends this power from the Website to the Web surfer, allowing any user to designate their default cursor from a library of cursors sitting on their desktop.

Centerseat Lands with Ground Zero Entertainment megasite becomes exclusive home of Hip Hop's hottest interactive show.
Forget cartoons. Check out Ground Zero, the new interactive animated series from Centerseat LLC (www.centerseat.com). The digital media and Entertainment Company has signed on C-Traze Inc. to create Ground Zero, which will be available on Centerseat.com, the company's broadband entertainment megasite. The show features six animated characters that interact with real people and follows them as they watch videos, go to clubs and shows, and meet their favorite stars. C-Traze Studios' animation staff consists of Huy Dang, who oversees all animation projects, and Stephen R. Franney . Writing duties are handled by Tramp, Quanzilla, Carlito Rodiguez and Murph. The members of C-Traze Studios have been working together for 10 years and the company has offices in New York and Philadelphia.

Razorfish Enhances Mobile Site Digital solutions provider strengthens its global commitment to WAP technology
Looking for the latest information about one of the biggest digital solutions providers? Check out Razorfish, Inc. (NASDAQ: RAZF) enhanced German Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) site, wap.razorfish.de. This site is designed to meet industry-wide specifications for technology useful in the development of wireless communication networks via WAP-enabled mobile phones. You can get a current listing of job opportunities and employees can access the company intranet for employees to check e-mail.

Razorfish Delivers Smart On-Air Look in Demand pay-per-view
network features sleek graphics, rich colors and images.
iN DEMAND has a new look, thanks to Razorfish, Inc. (NASDAQ: RAZF), the digital solutions provider and entertainment brand specialist. The cable TV industry's leading pay-per-view network's broadcast package includes opens, menus, donuts, teasers, bumpers and other elements that deliver fresh graphics and abstract images. Senior Vice President Marketing/Brand Director Gavin Harvey and Senior Vice President, Video Promotion Leigh Bolton spearheaded the iN DEMAND initiative.

MapQuest.com Regains #1 Spot
Traffic to directions site hits record levels.
There's an old Eagles song that must be playing over and over in the minds of MapQuest execs. "The future is so bright I gotta wear shades." That's because the mapping site regained the #1 Travel website, as ranked by MediaMetrix, and boosted site traffic to record levels. MapQuest has implemented a number of advertising performance-enhancement programs that are reaping rewards for advertisers. In addition, the beta site relaunch is on schedule for March 7, and will go live on March 15.

Uuma Targets the Sophisticated Soman New site
features clothing and accessories for professional women.
Looking for something different? Check out Uuma.com, an experiential store for the style-conscious, sophisticated, professional woman. Featuring the world's best selection of bridge-to-designer clothing and accessories, Uuma allows women to build their own personal boutiques, complete with content and fashions in her own colors, sizes and preferred styles. Uuma offers a network of highly-acclaimed personal shoppers providing the Uuma customer with individualized attention both online and offline. "Virtual dressing rooms" will enable consumers to mix-and-match and preview selected clothing and accessories. Uuma is one of first companies to capitalize on the untapped high-end apparel sector. Forrester Research predicts that 9% of the $70 billion better, bridge, and designer category will be sold online within the next three years.

Iguana Interactive Relocates
Wall Street/Silicon Alley Provides for Rapid Growth
Iguana Interactive, Inc. ("Iguana") announced today that it has moved into its new corporate headquarters at 14 Wall Street, Suite #1607, New York, NY 10005. With sufficient space to accommodate Iguana's current rate of growth, Iguana can now comfortably hire more talent to meet the needs of its growing client base. Since its spinout from iXL on January 6, 2000, Iguana has already grown by 50% by focusing on existing client relationships, instilling confidence that the transition from iXL would be seamless. The result - more growth.

02/25
Icon Medialab -- One to Watch According to Adweek
Adweek has recognized Icon Medialab as a rising star of the interactive industry. Forrester Research ranked Icon Nicholson among the top 10 providers of eBusiness strategy.

American Express Invests in OpenTable.com
American Express will announce a substantial investment and national marketing agreement with OpenTable.com, the leading online restaurant reservation network.

Call Goes out for Webby Awards
The SFMOMA Webby Prize for Excellence in Online Art will offer $50,000 annually to an artist or artists for a body of work whose primary focus is to be experienced online and that explores and expands the distinctive capacity of the online medium.

IPNetwork.com, Inc. Moves on Up
IPNetwork.com is growing at such a rapid pace that it recently moved to larger quarters in the Graybar Building at 420 Lexington Avenue, 18th Floor. The company's new phone number is (212) 986-6677.

Yack.com Teams with World Online International
Yack.comSM will provide World Online International with the most up-to-the-minute online programming information. The guide will be incorporated into World Online´s sites and translated into local languages of the countries where World Online operates.

Comet and Homestead.com Join Forces
Comet Systems and Homestead.com will offer CometZone's comet Cursors to its 3 million "Homesteaders." This will include characters from Peanuts, Star Trek , Pokemon, and other programs.

Latin Superstars Help Create Latin Entertainment Site
International recording artist Julio Iglesias and Latin American TV star Don Francisco have joined online music pioneer Larry Rosen and Latin music executive Sergio Rozenblat to launch aplauso.com, Inc., a Latin Music and Entertainment Internet Site.

Zagat Survey Invests in OpenTable.com
OpenTable.com and Zagat Survey will bring free, online restaurant reservations to diners across the country. A co-branded website will enable consumers to make free online restaurant reservations. Zagat Survey's will be made available on www.opentable.com.

ShiftKey Becomes Kinecta Corporation!
ShiftKey has changed its name to Kinecta Corporation to better communicate its focus of connecting businesses through information. Kinecta comes from the words "kinesis" and "connect," symbolizing dynamic connections.
(http://www.kinecta.com/news/releases/pr_000214_name_change.html)

Centerseat Partners With Martial Arts Industry Leader TC Media
Centerseat LLC has secured exclusive digital rights for TC Media´s entire collection of martial arts instructional video and text. Centerseat will also be able to sell TC Media´s martial arts merchandise on Centerseat.com.

Smartedge.com(tm) Launches Direct PR Connection
Smartedge has built a sizable database of technology and computing-related PR contacts, and they're sharing them with the journalism community through Direct-PR.com.

Bloomberg.com and IRS Team Up
Bloomberg.com is giving investors a one-stop resource for tax forms and information with an online Tax Guide. Sponsored by the IRS, Bloomberg.com's Tax Guide combines tax planning background culled from a range of Bloomberg media. (http://www.bloomberg.com/tax)

eMediatainmentWorld to Launch in June
eMediatainmentWorld, the first-ever conference and marketplace to concentrate on the Internet's number one content categories, media and entertainment ("emediatainment"), is to debut in Los Angeles June 28-30, 2000, at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel.

Goalnetwork.com Launches Football Nation
Football Nation offers message boards and a chat forum. goalnetwork.com offers live match results, news, exclusive stories, opinion and feature coverage. It will feature the world´s largest online store for football merchandise and online memorabilia auctions.

02/11
Click2Asia and Centerseat Partner to Create The A-V Channel
Click2Asia, the premier Asian online community, and Centerseat LLC (www.centerseat.com), the digital media company, announced a partnership to create a state of the art audio-visual channel. The A-V channel will provide a complete, interactive entertainment experience for Click2Asia members. Click2Asia is the premier Asian online community providing interactive tools and Asian-oriented content in the area of news, entertainment, business and travel information.

Phase2Media Named Exclusive Ad Sales Rep for Gist Communications
Phase2Media, the innovative Internet advertising and marketing firm founded in April 1999, has been named exclusive advertising sales representative for GIST Communications, Inc., the Internet's leading independent supplier of TV listings and related editorial content. Phase2Media will sell advertising opportunities and marketing sponsorships for gist.com, the company's flagship listings and TV information site, as well as for customized listings and content produced on behalf of a number of Gist's Internet partners.

Goalnetwork Signs Deal with Fox SportsWorld & Fox Sports World Espanol
www.goalnetwork.com CEO Craig Stoehr announced that it has signed a deal to be the exclusive sponsor on 185 soccer matches broadcast on FOX Sports World and 175 soccer matches on FOX Sports World Español. The sponsorship kicked off today. The agreement calls for full category exclusivity, with rotating advertising spots in half of the soccer matches on FOX Sports World and FOX Sports World Español and the English Premier League telecasts on 22 FOX Sports Net regional sports networks. The programming schedule includes FA Cup and UEFA Cup matches, and league matches from Italy's Serie A, the English Premier League, the German Bundesliga, the Colombian domestic league, and the Brazilian league. FOX Sports World Español programming includes matches from the domestic leagues of Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Brazil, and El Salvador and coverage of such international tournaments as the Copa de Oro.

Computer Technology Associates Acquires Touchscreen Media Group
Computer Technology Associates, Inc. (CTA), a nationwide leader in the delivery of information systems and services, announced the acquisition of New York City based Touchscreen Media Group, Inc. (Touchscreen). This acquisition underscores CTA's commitment to the explosive eBusiness Services market. The combination of CTA, a 20 year old IT solutions provider, with this 8 year old Internet solutions pioneer creates an organization with the creative strategy development and technical depth to deliver the innovation, speed and scalability critical to meeting the competitive challenges of the Internet economy. The new subsidiary will be the platform for the consolidation of CTA's eBusiness capabilities.

Centerseat and DSLnetworks Partner to Provide Broadband Access
Centerseat LLC (www.centerseat.com) , the digital media and entertainment company, has partnered with DSLnetworks to offer private label DSL service on its broadband entertainment and information megasite launching first quarter 2000. DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) is a high-speed broadband connection to the Internet that is always on, eliminating the need to dial-in to an ISP for Web browsing or e-mail. DSL allows Internet users to get more out of the Web by delivering dynamic multimedia content at speeds up to 50 times faster than a 28.8K modem, and 10 times faster than ISDN.

Rhizome.org to Say "I Love You" in Valentine's Day Web Launch
Rhizome.org announced that it will say ''I love you'' to its online community by launching three new features on its web site (www.rhizome.org) this Valentine's day, Febrary 14, 2000. These features include a new media art book store, an archive of its weekly Rhizome Digest email newsletter and a redesign of its home page.

Razorfish Announces Partnership with Derby Cycle Corporation and Launches e-Commerce Web Site for Bicycles
Razorfish, Inc. (NASDAQ: RAZF), the digital solutions provider, has partnered with Bikeshop.com to create www.BikeShop.com. The site, which was implemented in just under two months, launched on December 16, 1999, targeting Southern California. This e-commerce site features Raleigh, Diamondback, and Univega bicycles, and includes a ShopAssistant that asks questions and recommends bikes; bike style browsing capability; a dealer locator; and the ability to purchase bikes on-line. Customer support for the site is provided through LivePerson, an Internet customer service company that provides real-time customer service, so users are able to communicate with a service representative around-the-clock.

Edgar Expands
If you haven't seen the IPO Express site for a while, or if you're new to EDGAR Online, it's time you checked it out. IPO Express (http://www.ipo-express.com) has been redesigned to give you easier and faster access to breaking IPO news and information. EDGAR Online has expanded IPO Express to include dynamic live updates, IPO calendars, and in-depth search tools including: IPO Headlines, IPO SuperSearch, and Lockup and Quiet Period Expiration.

02/04
Boutique Y3K Receives $15 million Investment
Boutique Y3K, Inc. (www.boutiquey3k.com), an e-Commerce solutions provider and e-tailing consultant for the fashion and retail industry, has announced that it has completed a privately placed investment of stock valued at $15 million. The lead financial investor was VantagePoint Venture Partners (www.vpvp.com) from Silicon Valley and New York. The funds will be used to expand Boutique Y3K's offerings such as e-commerce consulting, branding, design, marketing, data mining and digital photography.

Yack Selects Butler, Shine Stern
In its first major advertising effort since launching in 1996, Yack, (www.yack.com) the web's most comprehensive internet programming guide, today announced that it has hired Sausalito-based Butler, Shine & Stern as its first advertising agency of record. Butler, Shine & Stern will work with Yack on development of a branding strategy, and will handle all aspects of on and offline consumer and trade advertising. Butler, Shine & Stern will also be instrumental in helping to integrate the branding into the site which is currently undergoing significant enhancements.

Webstakes Changes Name
Webstakes announced that they are changing their name to PROMOTIONS.COM to reflect the full service promotions tools they offer and business-to-business growth. They're also introducing a new line of services called Promotions DIRECT that leverages email to help marketers reach consumers in a meaningful way. The company sees tremendous opportunity to continue to aggressively grow and capture market share with the high demand from businesses that need support for their online presence. Promotions.com will support its new name and services with a multi-million dollar marketing campaign.

Directweb Teams with IBM to Revolutionize the Way People Get Online
DirectWeb, Inc., a next-generation Internet solutions provider, announced today that it is teaming with IBM to provide customers with high-quality PCs, technical support and Internet access for as little as $29.95 a month-- or about the same cost as Internet access alone. DirectWeb now provides subscribers with the DirectWeb Internet Guide, a 450MHz IBM Aptiva personal computer with 3-year extended IBM On Call Service for hardware, 3 years of unlimited Internet access,24/7 technical support and premium software titles for as little as $29.95 a month. In order to provide consumers with the easiest and most affordable way to finance the purchase over 36 months, DirectWeb has partnered with MBNA Corporation (NYSE: KRB) to provide flexible financing to support the purchase. For more information about ordering, please visit http://www.directweb.com or call 1-888-WAY-2-WEB.

Guide Launches for the Hip
HipGuide recently opened it's virtual doors at hipguide.com. Billed as one-stop planning for a trendy life, it's geared towards travel but a local guide and planner as well. Targeting the chic 25-35 year old Prada-clad, jet-set wannabe audience, the site would like to give you chic info, has plans to allow you to make reservations, keep a calendar, buy plane tickets to a life behind the velvet ropes. The beta has Anchor Cities up with "it" places to eat, drink, dance, sleep and shop.

RealNetworks, Inc. Acquires Netzip, Inc.
RealNetworks®, Inc. (Nasdaq: RNWK), the recognized leader in media delivery on the Internet, today announced it has acquired privately-held Netzip, Inc., a leading developer and provider of Internet download management and utility software. Netzip has been a pioneer and leader in developing consumer-friendly technology to improve the reliability of downloading media and software files over the Internet. RealNetworks intends to widely distribute Netzip products to its existing base of more than 95 million unique registered RealPlayer® users and more than 22 million unique registered RealJukebox(TM) users as well as the more than 500,000 unique users who visit the Real.com® Web sites each day.

Advanstar and PurchasePro.com Hire Icon Nicholson
Icon Nicholson today announced it has been chosen to assist in the development of as many as 20 vertical industry communities for a project teaming media giant, Advanstar with PurchasePro.com, a leading provider of electronic marketplaces for businesses of all sizes -- its first new business win since Icon Medialab acquired Nicholson NY last month. Icon Nicholson has been hired as a strategic Internet partner to assist in implementing emerging technologies.

Metro Business; Rising Tower Adds Tenant in Times Sq.
Bain & Company, a management consulting firm, has leased 50,000 square feet of space in the Reuters Building, the 30-story office tower under construction in Times Square. The firm will move into two floors in the 855,000-square-foot tower early next year. Nearly three-quarters of the $360 million Reuters Building, at Broadway and 42nd Street, which is also known as 3 Times Square, will serve as the North American headquarters for Reuters, the financial information services company, and its 1,800 employees. Three floors of retail stores and some additional office space are also planned.

Leading Online Wedding Resource Continues Aggressive Online and Offline Brand Expansion
The Knot, the leading online wedding resource, announced today that it has entered into a merger agreement with Weddingpages, Inc., the largest publisher of regional wedding magazines in the nation, for $8.5 million in cash. With this merger, The Knot theknot.com(www.theknot.com; AOL keyword: weddings) will extend its brand into the local markets and gain additional advertising revenue. While The Knot will continue to publish quarterly regional magazines in over 50 markets, it will leverage its vast audience against a robust online directory of local wedding professionals and an experienced local sales force to aggressively grow online local advertising revenue.

Emusic.com Puts "Twang" into Downloadable Music
EMusic.com Inc., the Internet's leading seller of downloadable music, announced two new digital distribution agreements with Houston-based Justice Records and Los Angeles-based Miles of Music Distribution .Justice Records will offer its Country music catalog for sale in the MP3 format on EMusic.com -Emusic.com Signs Up Over 3,000 Afilliate Sites EMusic.com Inc., the Internet's leading seller of downloadable music, announced a new affiliate marketing program that allows any music-related Web site to earn money by linking to and selling downloadable music from EMusic.com's catalog of over 50,000 MP3 songs.

Internet Wire Attracts Venture Funding
Internet Wire is pleased to announce the close of our first preferred round of venture capital, a total of $17.5 million, led by Sequoia Capital and Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Additional information is attached and to follow. Internet Wire distributes direct company news, including press releases, financial announcements, graphics, audio and video files, and other time-critical business communications materials, to a worldwide audience of media, analysts and consumers.

Razorfish Wins On-Air Identity Package Contract for ARTE, the French/German Premiere Arts & Cultural Network
Razorfish, Inc., the digital solutions provider and entertainment brand specialist, today announced that it has been awarded an extensive on-air identity package for the premiere European cultural network, ARTE. The wide-ranging on-air identity package is made up of 105 sequences, including 20 for each of the 4 seasons and 25 for special events. The sequences will begin airing in December 2000.

Independent Media Voices Find Home at Mediachannel.org
Responding to a "media crisis" in an age of mega-mergers and unprecedented corporate concentration, an award-winning independent media company staffed by network veterans and new media innovators has partnered with over 300 media issues groups worldwide to launch a new "supersite" today dedicated to holding the media accountable. Revered CBS news veteran Walter Cronkite has endorsed and agreed to advise the new venture, which is aligned with England's successful OneWorld Online (http://www.oneworld.net), a multi-lingual global portal offering content on a wide range of international issues.

02/02
Profits and Growth Continue
Take NYU Courses Online
Controversial Documentary Film Debuts at Film Festival
iVillage Hits the Airwaves
New GMV Network Web Site Enables Online Purchases

01/26
Womensforum.com Falls in Love
The Uproar Network Soars
Designerlines.com Partners with Global Interactive Direct
No Credit Info Stolen from Egghead.com
Agency.com Working for DirectTV, Inc.
Soliloquy, Inc. Gets Funded

01/21
Online Bookstore Pioneer Joins ibooks.com
ibooks.com (www.ibooks.com), the expert source for digital online reference books, announced that Barbara Frerichs, the founder of the first online interactive bookstore, ReadUSA.com, will join the company as vice president of strategic relations. Frerichs will be responsible for developing strategic partnerships within the publishing, distribution, and Internet arenas as well as initiating relationships in key vertical markets on behalf of ibooks.com.

VintageGreetings Celebrates Black History
VintageGreetings (www.vintagegreetings.com) announces its collection of free electronic greeting cards celebrating Black History Month. Visitors can send e-cards featuring photographic portraits of historical figures such as Sojourner Truth, Booker T. Washington, and Jackie Robinson. Each e-card contains an inspirational quote. Users can access the Black History Month collection by clicking the Holidays button on the VintageGreetings home page at www.vintagegreetings.com. VintageGreetings' celebration of Black History Month is an example of how the e-card network is leveraging its antique photographic archive as a social, cultural, and educational resource.

i-sites Work for familyfoodzone.com Wins World Wide Web Health Award
Philadelphia Internet professional services pioneer i-site recently captured a Silver Award in the Health Information Resource Center’s (HIRC) First Annual World Wide Web Awards Program. i-site’s award-winning work, created on behalf of the National Diary Council, is familyfoodzone.com (http://www.familyfoodzone.com). The project was cited in the category of Health Promotion/Disease and Injury Prevention Information. The site is maintained by i-site’s Donald Smyth, in collaboration with nutritionist and writer Vicki Bourneauf and the i-site team.

Endeavor Partners
Further demonstrating the nexus between the worlds of technology and talent, worldwide digital studio and leading Los Angeles agency Endeavor have forged a strategic partnership to shepherd mutually beneficial business opportunities. Under the arrangement, Endeavor and will partner on specific projects, with each company lending its complementary expertise to create new business opportunities. offers Endeavor guidance in all areas of digital studio services, including business development, financial planning, web development, design and technology, marketing as well as financial, entertainment and technology relationships needed to nurture an early stage company into a formidable e-business. For its part, Endeavor offers expertise in all areas of creative and corporate entertainment while prospecting opportunities for among its clients and industry contacts.

Thinkmap Powers Soundtrak For Century Web Site
Plumb Design announced its part in developing a Web site (http://millennium.sonymusic.com) dedicated to Sony Music's Soundtrack For A Century 26-CD boxed set. The site offers users a unique vehicle for accessing and interrelating many of this century's most important artists, albums and producers through an interface driven by Plumb Design's innovative Thinkmap technology.

Centerseat Signs Emmy-Award Winning Entertainment Journalist Neil Rosen
Centerseat LLC, the digital media and entertainment company, announced that Emmy-Award winning film critic Neil Rosen has signed an exclusive deal to to be an entertainment news reporter covering movies and the film industry for the company’s broadband entertainment site, Centerseat.com, which will launch first quarter this year.Mr. Rosen, who is regularly seen on New York 1, will provide Centerseat with movie reviews, conduct interviews with movie stars and host a "coming attractions" show. His movie review show will give Centerseat viewers the opportunity to provide feedback on the reviews by choosing either a "Rosen’s Right!" or a "Rosen’s Wrong!" selection that will allow them to express their opinions and have them posted on Centerseat. Viewers will also be invited to send their own video responses, which will be compiled and presented on the site.

ZEFER: new offices and IPO
The NYC office adds to ZEFER's existing presence in Boston, Chicago, Pittsburgh and San Francisco. ZEFER Corp. today announced the filing of a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of its Common Stock. The Company will submit an application to have its Common Stock approved for quotation on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol ZEFR.

U.S. Interactive Wins New Client With TAHO Commerce Group
U.S. Interactive, Inc., (Nasdaq: USIT), a leading Internet professional services company,announced that its services were retained by TAHO Commerce Group, LLC, a software developer, systems integrator, and application service provider (ASP) that specializes in Internet infrastructure technologies. TAHO hired U.S. Interactive to work on the company’s Online Retail Brokerage Infrastructure Technology (ORBIT). ORBIT is a next generation online brokerage system from TAHO that’s engineered to meet the needs of independent retail brokerages, banks, and other financial institutions seeking cost-effective, private-label deployment of a transactional online presence.

WiseBear.com Raises $4.6 Million In First Round To Launch Web Site Dedicated to Wellness and Personal Growth
WiseBear.com, an e-commerce destination and online community focused on helping people lead a more balanced life, announced today it has raised $4.6 million in venture capital from Liberty Venture Partners, Cardinal Health Partners, P.S. Capital, WT Holdings and WiseBear co-founders Kay Koplovitz and Cris Popenoe.WiseBear.com's mission is to provide the tools to help people enhance their well-being - in mind, body and spirit - so that they can enjoy more balanced and satisfying lives. The Web site, launching in May, will provide content and advice on wellness and personal growth as well as sell books, videos and music, wellness gear and accessories, spa products, educational materials and travel packages. Products will be merchandised in both the online store and throughout the editorial and community sections.

Rudin's new deal
The former Long Distance Building of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company at 32 Avenue of the Americas, to which the Rudin family took title last month, will become the New York Global Connectivity Center. Although extensive updating will be required for the 68-year-old, 28-story landmark tower, the Art Deco lobby mural will be preserved. It depicts the world's continents as allegorical female figures, connected by golden rays passing through the lady North America.

Jupiter Communications joint venture agreement with Hikari Tsushin Capital
In a definitive move toward globalizing its business,Jupiter Communications, Inc, the worldwide authority on Internet commerce, announced a joint venture agreement with Hikari Tsushin Capital, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hikari Tsushin, Inc., Japan's fastest growing technology and communications service provider. The partnering will assure rapid growth for Jupiter in this important region, given Hikari's renowned innovation and aggressive approach to selling in the Japanese market.

01/19
Out of the Icebox and Onto the Desktop
Desktops may be getting colder. Gizmoz, Inc., developer of a leading Internet-based, rich media messaging platform, and Icebox.com, one of the Web's most popular entertainment content sites, have announced a distribution deal to make Icebox.com's content available right on users' desktops. The initial deal includes five Icebox Gizmoz, the first of which is called "Out of the Icebox." The Out of the Icebox Gizmo will feature coming attractions and sneak peeks at Icebox programming, including not-yet-released episodes of "Zombie College" and "Poker Night," two of the site's most popular series. Gizmoz's unique viral functionality will allow users to collect the Gizmo to their desktops, send it to friends, and copy it to sites that they maintain themselves. Each week, the Out of the Icebox Gizmo will be updated with fresh content, which users will automatically receive, delivered right to their desktop.

GMV Lands on Opposite Coasts
GMV Network, a leading developer of standards-based streaming media software and technologies, has opened new offices in Annapolis, Md., and San Diego, Calif. The Annapolis office will be the base for GMV Network’s business development activities. Led by Brad Pumphrey, recently hired vice president of business development, the Annapolis office will target the growing number of high-tech companies in the area and leverage the area’s talent pool as the company grows. The San Diego office will act as the base for GMV Network’s worldwide marketing and branding activities and will be led by Stephen Condon, recently hired vice president of marketing. The office will also reinforce GMV Network’s presence in the entertainment and technology industries, especially wireless, and serve as a base for representation in the high-growth Asian markets.

Bloomberg Expands Tech Center
Beefing up one of its most heavily trafficked features, Bloomberg.com has unveiled an expanded Tech Center whose pages will focus on specific types of tech stocks as well as the tech stock universe in general. Making it even easier for investors to get what they need quickly, Bloomberg.com will now offer data and information on five specific categories of tech stocks. The new Tech Center pages give Bloomberg.com more advantages over other financial-news sites, Wachtel said. Visitors can jump directly to the main tech stocks page. Features of the expanded Tech Center can be accessed by buttons at the top of the main "Tech Stocks" page. Each new tech sector page contains information from a proprietary Bloomberg tech sector index, along with a graph of the index's performance and a list of the best and worst performing stocks in that index throughout the day.

Two-Day Tech Expo
Infinity Broadcasting/New York and Opus360 will team up to produce the Opus360 Byte of the Big Apple, a two-day interactive high tech Expo at Madison Square Garden’s Expo Center on January 20 and 21. The Expo will showcase Internet based companies that are on the cutting edge of groundbreaking technology, of which, will effect New Yorkers in their business, as well as, personal lives. Attendees of the Opus360 Byte of the Big Apple will have the opportunity to get a hands on introduction to over 50 current and future Internet based services. Additionally, there will be seminars and discussions by some of the top New Media leaders of the 21st century. Infinity Broadcasting/New York is producing and promoting this Expo as an innovative way for their radio station’s clients and listeners to gain exposure to the new E-business economy. Infinity Broadcasting/New York owns and operates over 150 radio stations across the country. Locally they reach a combined audience of over 6 million New Yorkers a week and 4 million Internet users. Local Infinity Broadcasting stations includes WINS, WFAN, WXRK, WNEW, WCBS-AM, and WCBS-FM.

Big Apple Showcases Technology
Microsoft is the presenting sponsor of the Opus360 Byte of the Big Apple. Microsoft’s vision is to empower people through great software – any time, any place and on any device. As the worldwide leader in software of personal and business computing, Microsoft strives to produce innovative products, and services that meet their customers evolving needs. They will showcase their many products as well as highlight the many job opportunities they have available here in the New York area. In addition to OPUS360 and Microsoft, Audiovox, IBM, Pitney Works.com, Apple Computers, and UPS are just some of the companies participating in this high tech Expo. The Byte will also feature seminars on informative topics such as “ Music on the Internet,” “Wireless…What’s in Store for Us Now”, “Sports and Games”,”E.Business 101” and “Internet Safety Issues”. Top radio personalities from WINS, WXRK, WCBS-FM, WFAN, WCBS-AM, and WNEW-FM will moderate the seminars throughout the weekend. Opus360 Byte of the Big Apple will be held on January 20th and 21st at the Madison Square Garden Expo Center.

Essential Benefits Go Online
Benefits Essentials, the comprehensive online employee benefits resource from vSimplify, is now available to organizations of all sizes. Benefits Essentials is an online reference and research tool comprising employee benefits, employment law, and personal financial planning information. Originally available only to company HR and benefits managers as a component of vSimplify’s Hosted Intranet service, Benefits Essentials is now available to the general public at http://www.BenefitsEssentials.com. The free library at http://www.BenefitsEssentials.com provides voluminous employee benefits, labor & employment, and personal financial planning information. For HR managers, attorneys, accountants and others who require more detailed information, a more robust online library is available via annual subscription. Benefits Essentials can also be licensed for syndication on a company Intranet or public Portal site.

Garden.com Flowers Again
Just weeks after Garden.com closed up shop, W. Atlee Burpee has decided to continue serving Garden.com customers. Burpee, one of America's oldest and most trusted names in gardening, plans to keep online gardening alive and well! To visit the Burpee website please click on http://www.burpee.com. To help celebrate this momentous event, Burpee is giving customers $10 off their first order, plus exciting and exclusive free gifts. The original staff at Garden.com, though sorry to miss another spring online, is thrilled that one of the founders of American home gardening, and a trendsetter for 125 years, is taking over the helm and partnering with you to help make your 2001 garden the best ever. Garden.com will transfer to Burpee the customer information used by Garden.com to communicate with its members/customers and to enhance their website and buying experience. This information includes customer and/or member names, e-mail addresses, addresses, and order history. Garden.com will not, however, transfer any personal financial information.

MSNBC and Motley Fool Team Up
MSNBC.com and The Motley Fool have joined forces in a content distribution agreement. The agreement allows MSNBC.com to increase the scope of its financial news reporting by incorporating daily Fool features into its business section. The Motley Fool joins The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Inside.com, and ZDnet as specialty news suppliers for MSNBC.com. The Motley Fool will provide MSNBC.com with original reports targeted to individual investors wanting to learn more about in-depth market trends and specific companies

01/14
Kozmo.com to Get $100 Million From Investors Led by Amazon
Investors led by Amazon.com Inc. are pumping $100 million of venture capital into Kozmo.com Inc., a fast-growing company that delivers movies, snacks and other items purchased over the Internet, generally within an hour. The latest financing comes just seven months after Kozmo began expanding outside its original New York City market. Kozmo (www.kozmo.com) also offers its service in Seattle, San Francisco, Boston and Washington, D.C. The company plans to enter 21 more markets by year end.

Yack and Worldgate Sign Distribution Agreement to Bring Chat and Web Event Guide to TV.
YackSM and WorldGate Communications (Nasdaq; WGAT) announced a new content distribution agreement that will bring the web’s most comprehensive guide to live net events to the WorldGateSM Service. WorldGate, the leading provider of high performance, low-cost Internet access through TV uses standard cable set top converters to deliver Internet, e-mail and interactive advertising to cable subscribers without the need of a personal computer. Yack’s (www.yack.com) comprehensive listings will connect WorldGate subscribers to the rapidly expanding world of live Internet events.

TheSquare.com partners with leading Silicon Alley Content Providers
TheSquare.com, the network of the Ivy League+ (www.thesquare.com) has partnered with Vault.com (www.vault.com), TheStreet.com (Nasdaq: TSCM; www.thestreet.com), and Nerve.com (www.nerve.com) to build its membership offerings and increase its marketing reach.

Centerseat to Offer Broadband Programming in Windows Media Format
Centerseat LLC (www.centerseat.com), the digital media and entertainment company, announced an agreement with Microsoft Corp.(Nasdaq "MSFT") to provide broadband programming in the Microsoft Windows Media Format. Through the agreement, Centerseat will become an entertainment content provider on WindowsMedia.com, where highlights from its thousands of hours of original broadband programming will be featured through links to its broadband entertainment megasite which launches first quarter. Additionally, Centerseat.com will feature the Windows Media Player.

Agency.com Launches Interactive TV Global Practice Area
AGENCY.COM (Nasdaq:ACOM) announced the launch of its Interactive TV and Broadband Global Practice Area, following the acquisition of Visionik, the world's most experienced Interactive TV developer. AGENCY.COM is now the only company in the world to have developed Interactive TV and Broadband applications for satellite, terrestrial and cable systems.

Razorfish, Inc. Stock Split
Razorfish (NASDAQ:RAZF) announced that its Board of Directors approved a 2 for 1 stock split of the Company's outstanding shares of common stock. The stock split will be effected as a 100% common stock dividend, to be distributed on January 27, 2000 to holders of record of its common stock on January 20, 2000. After the stock split, Razorfish will have approximately 90.2 million shares of common stock outstanding.

Free DSL program
Steven A. Bruno, co-founder of New York based iNYC, announced the launch of the company's FDSL (Free DSL) Program, the first advertising subsidized DSL service to provide fast, "always on" internet access over regular phone lines in the customer's home. Orders for iNYC's FDSL are already being taken over the company's website at www.inyc.com.

Jupiter Communications, Inc. Announcement
Announced that it is expanding its coverage of the exploding online health industry, and launching a major new event later this month, The Jupiter Online Health Forum.

Totally Hip Update
announced that its update for LiveStage Professional was released. This new update to the multiple award-winning QuickTime(TM) Authoring Environment includes new advanced QuickTime VR and Text Track features, and also enhanced Macromedia Flash(TM) support. This update is available free to existing customers and further positions Totally Hip as the leading tool developer for interactive QuickTime broadband media.

01/07
OpenTable.com Announces Investment
The online restaurant reservation network announced a $10 million investment led by two top venture capital funds, Impact Venture Partners and Benchmark Capital. The funding will fuel OpenTable.com's rapid nationwide expansion, and furthers the company's position as the leading provider of online restaurant reservations. OpenTable.com's real-time reservation system links diners to open tables at fine dining establishments in major cities around the country at www.opentable.com.

The Mills Corporation Alliance with Centerseat
(NYSE:MLS), owner and operator of market dominant retail and entertainment destinations, announced a strategic alliance with Centerseat LLC (www.centerseat.com), the digital media company. The program will launch in February. Through the relationship, Centerseat will provide Mills Corp. and The Mills Television Network (MillsTV) with exclusive entertainment programming to be presented throughout the Mills Properties. The Mills currently operates ten Mills centers, which draw over 150 million visitors and $380 million in spending per year. Each Mills has over 200 stores and Mills properties are the #1 tourist attractions in 5 of the 8 states where they are located. MillsTV is the nation's oldest, mall placed-based media network that broadcasts throughout Mills centers around the U.S. MillsTV offers mall wide video programming that targets shoppers at the point of purchase. The network is a combination of video walls, parlor screens and overhead suspended monitors, supported by on-site video staff capable of live in-mall remote broadcasts and national satellite downlinks.

Powersgolf.com to launch
Set to launch in the spring Powersgolf.com will have everything for the golf course, professional and enthusiast - including tee times. Like the best-selling series of books, Powers Golf Guides, the new web-site, PowersGolf.com will deliver complete and comprehensive information, and services to golfers about golf courses from any participating course in the world. The site is being built now, said President and CEO Bill Anderson, and the first look at PowersGolf.com is expected at the annual PGA Show in February.

01/29
Calling all Musicians: Get Your Big Break
Looking for your big break as a musician? Gigmania, the dynamic source for live music listings on the Internet, can take care of that with its "Plug-In, Play Out and Get Paid" competition. First prize is am eight-city tour support package worth $39,471. And you don't have to be a professional artist to win. Just upload at least one MP3, preferably a live track, to the Gigmania site (www.gigmania.com) between now and March 31. Then include all your info, including tour dates, bio and photos. You'll find out if you're a winner on April 14.

LodgeNet and Wayport to Improve Hotel Stays
Traveling is about to get better. LodgeNet Entertainment Corporation and Wayport, Inc. today are teaming up to bundle their respective television and connectivity services to provide travelers with Internet services in the United States and Canada. The PC connectivity service will be called OnLine by LodgeNet(SM), powered by Wayport. The two companies will jointly market the services to the hospitality industry. LodgeNet will take care of the sales, installation and maintenance of Internet-enhanced television service. Wayport will take care of sales and marketing efforts.

Razorfish Acquires Qb International Holding AB
Razorfish, Inc. (NASDAQ: RAZF), is heading to Sweden. With the $20.1 million acquisition of Qb International Holding AB, a Swedish IT/Strategic consulting company, Razorfish will leverage its digital solutions to help Swedish companies invent and reinvent themselves. And on top of that, Razorfish will inherit 40 Qb employees with strong skills in management consulting and systems development, a small, but important, addition to its 1,300-member staff.

Comedy Central and LOADtv Team up Against Cancer
Can't get out to the comedy club? Never fear, Comedy Central.com will come to you. LOADtv (www.loadtv.com) will repackage the series "Comics Come Home," and show highlights of the program next month on Comedy Central. And it's all for a good cause. Comics Come Home benefits Gilda's Club, a support organization for cancer patients named in memory of actress Gilda Radner. Every time you e-mail one of the comedy videos to 0 friends, LOADtv will donate $1 to Gilda's Club. How's that for a win-win situation?

Get the Lowdown on the Elections
CHOOSEORLOSE.com Launches On MTV.com Now you have no excuse not to vote. CHOOSEORLOSE.com, MTV.com's political awareness and voter registration campaign, has hit the Net. Young voters in particular can voice their opinions about the 2000 campaign in an online form at CHOOSEORLOSE.com. Tales from the Trail is a set of weekly reports about the campaign trail. Online Polls will give you an up-to-date Picture of voter opinion, and Online Feedback gives you a place to voice your opinions. Project Vote Smart lets you search databases to find out where the candidates stand on particular issues. Their Heads, Your Words, a section on political art, will get you in the mood to get involved. And one more thing - you can register to vote at CHOOSEORLOSE.com. Now you really don't have any excuses.

Get Hip
If trendiness is important to you, check out the newly launched HipGuide at hipguide.com. This one-stop planning guide for a trendy life, features help for the traveling jet set. Make plane reservations, and siteseeing plans for local and international destinations. Then find out where you can eat, sleep and shop.

Webstakes Brings Customer Back
By Providing Incentive to Respond to Promotional Email Offers Webstakes, (Nasdaq: IWIN) wants everyone to come again. The provider of Internet promotion solutions announced its iDIALOG LUCKeTICKETS technology, which uses incentives to encourage web site visitors to return to sites. The announcement makes sense, given that iDIALOG Instant Win and iDIALOG KIDSAFE technologies, both introduced in the fall of 1999, are enjoying major success with such clients as Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN), CDNOW (Nasdaq: CDNW) and The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company (NYSE: WWY).

Centerseat Snags CyberSlacker
CyberSlacker may have hit the big time. The animated series, which use vector-based Flash animation, has received critical accolades and will soon be featured on Centerseat.com (www.centerseat.com), a digital media and entertainment company site. Created by Jaime Levy and her New York Animation Studio ELECTRONIC HOLLYWOOD, CyberSlacker chronicles the life of a 22-year-old hacker chick who moves to New York City. She lands in the East Village with not much money, a fat cat and plenty of attitude.

Wyndham Guests Will Be Surfing
Check out Wyndham International, Inc. (NYSE:WYN - news), the next time you need to make travel plans. Wayport, Inc., has apparently signed on as an exclusive Internet services provider for hotel guest rooms, meeting rooms and public areas, By mid-year, Wyndham plans to have fast, convenient Internet services -- including wireless connections in meeting rooms and public areas --accessible in nearly 200 properties and 50,000 rooms in the U.S., the Caribbean and Canada. Wyndham will become the first hotel company to offer wireless Internet access across its branded hotels and resorts.

01/07
OpenTable.com gets investment
OpenTable.com, the online restaurant reservation network, announced a $10 million investment led by two top venture capital funds, Impact Venture Partners and Benchmark Capital. The funding will fuel OpenTable.com's rapid nationwide expansion, and furthers the company's position as the leading provider of online restaurant reservations. OpenTable.com's real-time reservation system links diners to open tables at fine dining establishments in major cities around the country at www.opentable.com.

The Mills Corporation strategic alliance
The Mills Corporation (NYSE:MLS), owner and operator of market dominant retail and entertainment destinations, announced a strategic alliance with Centerseat LLC (www.centerseat.com), the digital media company. The program will launch in February. Through the relationship, Centerseat will provide Mills Corp. and The Mills Television Network (MillsTV) with exclusive entertainment programming to be presented throughout the Mills Properties. The Mills currently operates ten Mills centers, which draw over 150 million visitors and $380 million in spending per year. Each Mills has over 200 stores and Mills properties are the #1 tourist attractions in 5 of the 8 states where they are located. MillsTV is the nation's oldest, mall placed-based media network that broadcasts throughout Mills centers around the U.S. MillsTV offers mall wide video programming that targets shoppers at the point of purchase. The network is a combination of video walls, parlor screens and overhead suspended monitors, supported by on-site video staff capable of live in-mall remote broadcasts and national satellite downlinks.

Powersgolf.com to launch in spring
everything for the golf course, professional and enthusiast - including tee times. Like the best-selling series of books, Powers Golf Guides, the new web-site, PowersGolf.com will deliver complete and comprehensive information, and services to golfers about golf courses from any participating course in the world. The site is being built now, said President and CEO Bill Anderson, and the first look at PowersGolf.com is expected at the annual PGA Show in February.