Thursday, November 11, 1999

BITS AND BYTES - 11/11/99

Cone Inc. Expands
Cone Inc., a strategic marketing communications firm dedicated to the new and innovative, is quickly expanding with three new accounts. ZanyBrainy.com and Student Advantage will be handled out of Cone's Interactive practice in New York City and Shine! will be managed out of Cone's Cause Branding Group in the firm's Boston headquarters. Billings for these three accounts will total $1.7 million.
 
Sixdegrees Chooses Dynamic Logic for Research Partner
Nick Nyhan, President of Dynamic Logic, announced that his company has been chosen as the research partner for sixdegrees.com, the premier personal online community with more than 2.8 million subscribers. Dynamic Logic will provide strategic research services to help sixdegrees extend its customer base and product offerings.
 
HistoryChannel.com Salutes Veterans
Highlighting an extraordinary collection of letters from American war veterans -- including one written on Hitler's stationery -- HistoryChannel.com
http://www.HistoryChannel.com is commemorating Veterans Day with a moving exhibit that captures the horror of World War II in the soldiers' own words.
 
HeyNetwork.com Ranked in Hot 100 Most Popular Kids' Sites
HEYnetwork.com (www.HEYnetwork.com) the premier free Internet destination for the entire family was ranked as one of the top 100 most popular kid's internet sites by 100hot.com. Heynetwork.com also was reviewed by webthisweek.com and received four stars. HEYnetwork.com created the first safe and private on-line closed community where parents, children, relatives, and friends can communicate, explore, learn, be entertained and purchase goods and services on-line.
 
TMCS to Offer foodline.com Online Restaurant Reservations on Local Portals
Ticketmaster Online - CitySearch, Inc. TMCS and foodline.com, Inc. (http://www.foodline.com) today announced that TMCS has made a $5 million investment in the real-time online restaurant reservations company and have entered into a multi-year Distribution Agreement for TMCS to distribute foodline.com's restaurant reservations service on its CitySearch (http://www.citysearch.com) city guide sites.
 
The Independent Schools Multi-Media Center has changed its name to iMedia Source. Dianne Baasch (212) 348-5690
 
Rhizome.org launched the Rhizome ArtBase, the first online preservation archive of Internet art, at www.rhizome.org/artbase.
Internet art is the most significant new art medium since video, but it also the most vulnerable of art media; a systems administrator can delete art history with the click of a mouse. Already many early works of Internet art have disappeared. The Rhizome ArtBase addresses this urgent problem by preserving copies of Internet artworks in an online database.