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"KISS ME, I'M ITALIAN!"; VirtualItaly.com Sends Your Loved Ones Kisses On Columbus Day.


NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 7, 1999--

Virtual Communities Inc., the leading developer of web communities for U.S. ethnic groups, announced the Columbus Day Columbus Day, holiday commemorating Christopher Columbus's discovery of America. It has been traditionally celebrated on Oct. 12 throughout most of the United States, parts of Canada, and in several of the Latin American republics.  launch of Virtual Italy (www.virtualitaly.com).

The website will be the definitive online portal for Italian Americans This is a list of famous Italian Americans.

Anarchists
  • Arturo Giovannitti (1884-1959) union leader and poet
  • Sacco and Vanzetti (1891-1927; 1888-1927)
  • Carlo Tresca (1879 - 1943)
Artists
 and enthusiasts of Italy and Italian culture. To celebrate Columbus Day, VirtualItaly.com will offer visitors the chance to win a trip for two to Italy by entering the inaugural sweepstakes at the site. Visitors can also send virtual kisses free of charge to friends and family anywhere in the world!

VirtualItaly.com will bring visitors straight to the heart of New York City New York City: see New York, city.
New York City

City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S.
 with same-day photos of the city's famous annual Columbus Day Parade. Other features on the new website include: online Italian greeting cards, chat rooms, free email accounts (username@virtualitaly.com), user participation in site wide polls, and the "Italian Kitchen," where users can exchange their family's favorite Italian recipes.

VirtualItaly.com brings together the "Best of the Italian Web" to provide the finest content in one location. "We are proud to bring Virtual Italy to the World Wide Web, and we are confident that our Company's newest site will provide Italians everywhere with a sense of home on the Internet," said Michael Harwayne, vice president of marketing for Virtual Communities Inc. "Our goal with each of our sites is to harness the power of the web to give people a sense of community with other people who share their background." With the continued success of VirtualJerusalem.com, VirtualIreland.com, and VirtualHolyLand.com, Virtual Communities Inc. has been able to create highly book-marked and frequently traveled on-line magazines.

VCI VCI Verband Der Chemischen Industrie (German: federation of chemical Industries)
VCI Virtual Channel Identifier (used in Asynchronous Transfer Mode)
VCI Veterinary Council of India
VCI Virtual-Circuit Identifier
 is a privately held developer and publisher of Internet based communities. It currently publishes four sites: Virtual Jerusalem (virtualjerusalem.com), Virtual Holy Land (virtualholyland.com), Virtual Ireland (virtualireland.com), and Virtual Italy (virtualitaly.com). Virtual Communities Inc. also offers its Community Management Solution (CMS (1) See content management system and color management system.

(2) (Conversational Monitor System) Software that provides interactive communications for IBM's VM operating system.
) to organizations interested in building their own web-based communities. This end-to-end solution includes VCI's proprietary Community Content Server and a full array of interactive components to enable online communities.

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