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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.