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Giant Global Give-Away of Web Space 'Real-Estate'
From Stan Lee Media and Warner Bros. Online
Alliance to Create Vast Global Community of Super Hero and Sci-Fi
Fans
ENCINO, CA, Aug. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Stan Lee Media and Warner Bros.
Online launched StanLee.AcmeCity (http://www.stanlee.acmecity.com/)
at San Diego's Comic-Con with the largest ever free home page give-away.
Through this endeavor, Stan Lee Media will reach out to a global audience
with the goal of creating the broadest online community of Super Hero,
sci-fi and fantasy fans ever assembled on the Internet. This epic project
will be made possible by combining the power of Warner Bros. Online's
highly successful AcmeCity community initiative with comic book icon
Stan Lee's renowned skills in Super Hero-fan community building.
"Our objective is simple, we're using the Internet to create the
largest global community of fans ever assembled in the history of fandom,"
said Stan Lee, Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of Stan Lee Media.
"A project of this scope requires a partner of Super Heroic proportions
-- enter Warner Bros. Online and their incredibly successful AcmeCity
community."
Stan Lee Media is kicking off the community with an Internet "land
rush" -- offering free Web pages of unprecedented size, 20 megabytes,
to every fan in the world who is linked to the Internet. These giant
Web pages will come complete with all associated free services such
as email, chat and message boards. Warner Bros. Online is the fastest
growing studio site on the Internet (MediaMetrix) and its entertainment-oriented
community site AcmeCity currently boasts over 400,000 members.
"Other communities are giving away the equivalent of condos on
the Internet...at 20 megabytes, we're giving away mansions," added
Lee. Stan Lee Media will reach out to all comic book retailers around
the world to include their involvement in this super-community site
with targeted incentive retail programs, online promotions and collectibles
uniquely made available through participating retailers. In addition,
Stan Lee Media and Warner Bros. Online will work closely together to
encourage independent community sites throughout the Internet to join
StanLee.AcmeCity.
Warner Bros. Online, a division of Time Warner Entertainment Company,
L.P. (TWX), is consistently in the top three of the most-trafficked
studio sites on the Internet, according to MediaMetrix. Producers of
the successful official sites for "Looney Tunes," "Friends,"
"Babylon5" "Seinfeld" and many other original Web
destinations, the company focuses on producing entertainment programming
for the Internet and commercial online services, with sites accessible
through the World Wide Web at http://www.warnerbros.com.
Warner Bros. Online has seen tremendous growth in the last six months,
increasing its reach by nearly 50%, according to Media Metrix numbers.
In the last six months, it has also become the fastest-growing studio
site on the Internet, growing 47% in ratings, over twice as fast as
its closest competition.
Stan Lee Media, Inc. (http://www.stanleemedia.com) is a publicly traded
Internet-based, multimedia branded content creation, production, marketing,
and licensing company founded by pop-culture icon Stan Lee, co-creator
of such classic characters as Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, and The
X-Men. More than two billion copies of books featuring characters Lee
co-created have been published in 100 countries and 27 languages. The
company has partnered with a range of globally branded talent and content
creators, including one of the most popular singing groups in the world,
the Backstreet Boys, to establish the largest independent creator and
aggregator of globally branded entertainment franchises on the Internet.
The company's two hit animated series the "7th Portal" and
"The Accuser" are currently featured on its distribution partner,
shockwave.com. Currently, the Mark Canton Company is co-developing with
Stan Lee Media a major live action motion picture based upon the "7th
Portal" franchise.
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Padres
Star Teams With TheSportsCoach.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Padres Star Tony Gwynn Teams Up with Web-based Sports Trainer
and Fundraiser TheSportsCoach.com
Moorpark, California (January 31), TheSportsCoach.com, a Web-based
sports-instruction site and youth-sports fundraiser, today announced
that San Diego Padres superstar Tony Gwynn has agreed to become an expert
content provider to its site for aspiring athletes.
TheSportsCoach.com offers a unique program providing exclusive sports
training and educational content from professional athletes and coaches,
combined with a fundraising service for youth leagues and high schools
and colleges. Viewers are encouraged to subscribe to the site and to
select a youth league or team they would like to support—their
own sports team program or another youth sports organization. TheSportsCoach
donates half of its fee to the subscriber’s registered league
or team of choice. Lou Birdt, the founder of TheSportsCoach.com, explains
that this is the true spirit of “giving back” and promotes
a sense of community.
Gwynn, like other leading sports authorities who have joined TheSportsCoach.com,
will contribute articles, essays, and training presentations to the
site, and will regularly host online chat sessions at TheSportsCoach.com
to speak directly with amateur players, coaches and parents. Gwynn will
also assist the company with its strategic direction.
“TheSportsCoach.com is quite honestly the most powerful teaching
tool available to players, parents and coaches that I’ve seen
at any level,” said Gwynn. “I’m proud to be part of
such a winning team.”
“From its inception, TheSportsCoach.com has been about educating
and inspiring the next generation of athletes, and helping organizations
dedicated to these young athletes raise the funds needed to run their
programs successfully,” said Lou Birdt, TheSportsCoach.com’s
founder and president. “As a player who is not only talented but
also tremendously enthusiastic and positive, Tony Gwynn is a perfect
fit for our mission to educate and inspire young athletes. We are extremely
proud to have him on our team.”
About TheSportsCoach.com
TheSportsCoach.com is a Web-based sports-training provider and a youth-sports
fundraiser. The site offers an up-to-date library of instructional and
educational content from today’s most successful and respected
athletes, coaches and sports authorities.
The company works with youth sports organizations throughout the country—including
organized youth leagues and high school sports programs—to raise
funds for their organizations by giving them 50% of the subscription
fees of every subscriber they bring to TheSportsCoach.com, as well as
donating a portion of its advertising and other revenue to these organizations.
For more information, visit www.TheSportsCoach.com.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Colorescience Partners With DermStore.com To Fill Mineral Makeup
Void Left By Bare Escentuals’ Change In Online Sales Strategy
Santa Monica, CA - January 4th, 2005. Due to Bare Escentuals recent
decision to restrict online sales to only two merchants, DermStore.com
and Colorescience have joined forces to help fill this void in the Mineral
Makeup marketplace. Their strategic alliance will provide:
• Ease of finding quality Mineral Makeup products online.
• Innovative Colorescience Mineral Makeup kits exclusive to DermStore.com.
• Dermatologist recommended beauty and make-up tips.
• Competitive pricing.
• Award winning customer service with a 100% risk-free purchase
policy.
Diane Ranger is the creator of the mineral makeup concept and developed
Bare Escentuals into the cosmetic industry’s first mineral make-up
company. After her success at Bare Escentuals, Ms. Ranger founded her
own state-of the-art mineral makeup manufacturing facility and continued
to pursue her passion for product development. Her twenty-plus years
of cosmetic chemistry lab experience in research and development has
resulted in the next stage of mineral makeup...Colorescience.
Unlike traditional makeup, Colorescience products have been shown to
have a positive effect on the actual condition of the skin. The micronized
minerals used are naturally anti-inflammatory and uniquely formulated
to protect and correct. There are no addictives and the product line
has been specially formulated for all skin types. Colorescience utilizes
state of the art nanotechnology to ensure the purity of its minerals.
The botanicals used are organically grown and the makeup’s core
ingredients are pharmaceutical grade.
”Mineral makeup has become a mainstay of the cosmetic industry
and DermStore.com is proud to announce the addition of Colorescience
products to our online store,” says Dr. Craig Kraffert, board
certified dermatologist and founder of DermStore.
“DermStore’s exclusive access to a cutting edge mineral
makeup such as Colorscience expands and enhances our leadership position
in the beauty and skincare marketplace. We will continue to fortify
exclusive agreements with the industry’s most innovative makeup
and skincare distributors. DermStore views this agreement as one that
expands our market base and enhances our opportunities for long-term
growth and profitability.”
Colorescience products have already been embraced by elite spas, resorts,
physicians and even celebrities such as Darryl Hannah, Natasha Richardson,
and Brittany Murphy. The line has been recently featured in such top
beauty magazines as Allure, Shape, Redbook, Seventeen, YM and Elle.
For more details on Colorescience and this online partnership,
go to DermStore.com, the online source for skin care and beauty products
and recipient of BizRate’s Circle of Excellence Platinum Award
for superior customer service.
DermStore Backgrounder
Founder Craig A. Kraffert, MD, a leading board certified dermatologist,
started DermStore.com as an offshoot of his Redding Dermatology Medical
Group website in 1999. Dr. Kraffert found that his patients were eager
to purchase reputable, high quality products recommended from his office
and had a vision to provide the same level of service, selection and
value to the vast online community. Since that time, DermStore has evolved
into the premiere online retail destination for skin care products,
cosmetics and more. Headquartered in Redding, California, DermStore
maintains a highly successful cosmetic dermatology center and accompanying
retail store, as well as creative offices in Santa Monica, California
and website development facilities in Ottawa, Canada.
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Homestore Introduces SeniorHousing.net™
– the Web’s Largest Directory of Senior Housing Providers
and Senior-Living Information
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. – August 6
– Homestore Inc., the leading online resource connecting real
estate professionals and consumers before, during and after a move,
today announced the availability of SeniorHousing.net (www.SeniorHousing.net)
– the Web’s most comprehensive directory of housing-related
information for seniors and their families.
SeniorHousing.net offers vast listings of all types of senior-specific
housing – independent living, assisted living, nursing homes,
continuing-care facilities and Alzheimer’s care – as well
as information to help prospective residents and their families determine
which type of housing is best for them.
“With SeniorHousing.net, Homestore has created a site focused
entirely on helping senior-housing providers increase the reach and
exposure of their communities, and to provide information that helps
seniors find housing that meets their specific needs and lifestyles,”
said Pat Whelan, Homestore’s President of Real Estate Services.
For prospective residents, SeniorHousing.net offers a host of free
housing-search tools and information, including help with finding the
right type of housing. The site also provides a library of senior-living
information, such as ideas for paying for care and guidance on health
and wellness.
SeniorHousing.net offers senior housing providers a range of targeted
advertising packages – from basic listing services to content-rich
Online Brochures that include 360-degree virtual tours. In addition,
SeniorHousing.net’s advertisers will increase their reach through
the company’s distribution partnerships with such leading Web
providers and directories as AOL, Netscape, Yahoo! and Lycos. SeniorHousing.net
also offers senior housing providers leads-management tools designed
to save time, turn more leads into renters, and lower their cost-per-lease.
ABOUT HOMESTORE
Homestore Inc. (NASDAQ SCM: HOMS) is the real estate industry’s
leading provider of information, media and technology and the premier
online resource for connecting real estate professionals and consumers.
Homestore operates the number-one network of home and real estate Web
sites, including flagship site REALTOR.com®, the official Web site
of the National Association of Realtors®; HomeBuilder.com™,
the official new homes site of the National Association of Home Builders;
RentNet™, the most visited property-rental site in the Web; and
Homestore.com®, a home information resource. Homestore’s print
businesses are Homestore® Plans & Publications and Welcome Wagon®.
Homestore’s professional software divisions include Computers
for Tracts™, Top Producer® Systems and WyldFyre™ Technologies.
For more information: www.homestore.com.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Component Event Management Expert PCNalert Introduces Lead-Free
Parts Category to Component Database
New Category Will Help OEMs and EMS Providers Better Adapt to Emerging
International Regulations Restricting Hazardous Materials
PASADENA, Calif. – August 25 – PCNalert,
the leading provider of Component Event Management (CEM) solutions to
OEMs and EMS companies, announced today that in an effort to help its
customers adhere to emerging hazardous-materials standards, the company
has added a new component category, lead-free parts, to its database
of PCN (Product Change Notification) and EOL (End-of-Life) component
information.
PCNalert’s electronic-component database includes over 12 million
purchasable part numbers and millions of PCNs and EOLs from more than
500 manufacturers. Component categories in PCNalert’s database
include actives, passives, electromechanicals, interconnect devices
and military parts.
Based on recent directives issued by the European Council of Ministers
– including Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) and
Reduction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) – OEMs and EMSes will
face stricter hazardous-material regulations for their products. Among
the materials that will come under heavier regulation is lead. (WEEE
and RoHS go into effect in 2005 and 2006, respectively.)
While many component manufacturers are beginning to place information
on their Web sites about the lead contents of their components, PCNalert’s
obsolescence database is the only online resource for lead-content data
covering the entire component industry.
This new component category will enable users of PCNalert’s Component
Event Management solutions to more easily identify lead-free parts –
in their bills-of-materials, for example, via PCNalert’s BOMverifier™
application. The lead-free information will also enhance relationships
between OEMs and their EMS partners on shared projects – in situations,
for example, in which EMSes must determine if the lead-content percentage
on their OEM’s bill-of-materials is sufficiently low to meet the
new standards.
“After speaking with many of our OEM and EMS customers, who are
concerned about meeting these upcoming standards, we determined a lead-free
category would give our customers significant value – saving them
time and resources and helping them avoid potential compliance problems,”
said Cliff Frescura, vice president of PCNalert. “The addition
of the lead-free parts category in the PCNalert database will help OEMs
and EMSes to be sure, before committing to a design or production schedule,
that their new product will be in compliance with the new regulations
– and, if they determine it won’t be, our lead-free data
will help them find compliant alternatives.”
PCNalert currently offers two Component Event Management enterprise
applications:
AVLportal, PCNalert’s proactive application
for Component Event Management, links designers, buyers and production
teams and gives them EOL and PCN information on the components in their
designs – for increased collaboration and better-informed decisions
throughout the development process.
BOMverifier, PCNalert’s on-demand application,
enables OEMs and EMSes to securely upload bills-of-materials for instant,
real-time EOL and PCN information – averting problems in the design,
quote, procurement or production phases by detecting potential component
issues early.
For more information about PCNalert, call 626-585-2788, ext. 180, or
visit www.PCNalert.com.
About PCNalert
PCNalert is the premier provider of Component Event Management solutions
for the electronic supply chain, as well as real-time component information
such as End of Life Notices (EOLs), Product Change Notices (PCNs), datasheets
and other critical component data. Established in 1998 and headquartered
in Pasadena, California, the company provides solutions for Original
Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), Electronics Manufacturing Service providers
(EMSes) and Electronic Component Manufacturers (ECMs) in the medical,
aerospace and defense, communications, test and measurement, networking,
computer hardware and automotive industries.
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