ARTISTdirect and HomePage.com Forge Strategic Relationship; Exclusive HomePage.com Deal Gives ARTISTdirect Members Free Home Page Service.Business Editors &High Tech Writers PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 31, 2000 ARTISTdirect Founded in 1994, Artistdirect, Inc. is an online digital media entertainment company. It owns several websites including Artistdirect.com, UBL.com, Loserkids.com and the Artistdirect Network. , a leading online music entertainment company that connects music fans directly with their favorite artists worldwide, has selected HomePage.com to be its exclusive provider of customized home page solutions. HomePage.com is the industry leader in the corporate market for home page services. The ARTISTdirect Network, which consists of ARTISTdirect.com, UBL (Universal Business Language) A format for exchanging data from one XML business language to another. Based on ebXML Core Components, UBL is designed to provide a common language that acts as an intermediate vocabulary so that one XML vocabulary can interoperate with .com, iMUSIC.com and DOWNLOADSdirect.com, will be utilizing HomePage.com's proprietary &uot;powered by&uot; system for its private label home pages. Under the deal, HomePage.com will create a customized home page service for ARTISTdirect that will offer a proprietary home page system to its users. When the service goes live in April 2000, all ARTISTdirect Network visitors and members will be able to register and set up a home page for themselves using a series of simple templates. Each user will have 20MB of free web space for their personal use with an easy-to-remember web address under the referring domain (example: http//:joefan.ubl.com or http//:joemusician.imusic.com). &uot;We're extremely pleased that ARTISTdirect wants to expand its web offering through home pages. As one of the most comprehensive and popular sites that provides multi-media, music, entertainment, news, information and merchandise direct from the artists themselves, they have an enormous amount of content and commerce for members made even more accessible through personalized home pages See personal portal. ,&uot; said Tim Cahill
&uot;HomePage.com will be supplying our network with a key piece of site infrastructure as we expand our channels, artist offerings, database and web music communities,&uot; said Marc Geiger, CEO of ARTISTdirect Inc. &uot;We are excited to be able to offer HomePage.com's service to our members.&uot; About HomePage.com HomePage.com, an idealab! company, is the industry leader in the corporate market for home page services. Founded in spring 1999, HomePage.com pioneered the category of corporate home page services. To date, it has forged forge 1 n. 1. A furnace or hearth where metals are heated or wrought; a smithy. 2. A workshop where pig iron is transformed into wrought iron. v. critical strategic relationships with high-profile clients such as About.com and AOL's ICQ ("I Seek You") A conferencing program for the Internet from Mirabilis, Tel Aviv, Israel (www.icq.com). It provides interactive chat, e-mail and file transfer and can alert you when someone on your predefined list has also come online. , who have turned to HomePage.com to extend their infrastructure, brand, reach and traffic, without the hassle Hassle () is a location in Närke, Sweden, where a Celtic treasure was found in 1936. It comprises a large bronze cauldron which contained two Bronze Age swords of the Hallstatt type, a pommel of bronze, two bronze buckets with of managing the back end. The company works closely with clients to customize their home page infrastructure according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. their corporate needs as well as the needs of their customers, maximizing customer dialogue, extending consumer relationships and increasing consumer loyalty. As a result, HomePage.com has taken off, attracting more than 890,000 users in 10 months. The heart of HomePage.com's success is its unique, flexible and proprietary &uot;Powered by HomePage.com&uot; sm. system. It uses LINUX and an open source environment to reduce problems in the system and ensure quick fixes when problems do arise. &uot;Powered by HomePage.com&uot; sm. assures users a crash-free system with zero downtime The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure. . For more information on HomePage.com visit www.HomePage.com. About ARTISTdirect: ARTISTdirect, Inc. is a leading online music company that provides music entertainment through the ARTISTdirect Network, an integrated network A network that supports both data and voice and/or different networking protocols. See converged network and new public network. of Web sites offering multi-media content, music news and information, community around shared music interests, and music-related commerce. The ARTISTdirect Network consists of ARTISTdirect.com (www.artistdirect.com), home of the online channels that the company operates and maintains on behalf of artists; UBL.com (www.ubl.com), a leading music search engine on the Web; iMusic (www.imusic.com), an online community site where fans exchange music. (c) 2000 HomePage.com, Inc. HomePage.com, Powered by HomePage.com, and The Homepage Engine are servicemarks of HomePage.com, Inc. |
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