Abrio Announces Enhanced Event Directory.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 7, 1999--Abrio, the first web-based calendar system with comprehensive features for both individuals and communities, today announced its latest upgrade. The new version expands Abrio's extensive event directory and provides more complete integration between the directory and calendar functionality. Furthering event directory and calendar ideas pioneered by When.com, Abrio has produced a completely integrated event directory/calendar solution. Mindy Lauck, director of Web Services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. at Abrio said, "This is the next step in web calendars and event directories. Our users can find any event using our search technology, and then add that event to their personal or community calendars. Abrio also allows them to set email and 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. reminders for the event, to ensure that they won't miss a thing. It really makes the whole idea of event directories much more useful, and provides the complete, round-trip solution for our members." In the most recent release, Abrio's search technology has been dramatically enhanced to help users take advantage of the vast event database. "Complex searches in our events area, which contains hundreds of thousands of events, used to take several seconds," said Will Sargent, lead programmer A lead programmer is a software engineer in charge of one or more software projects. Alternative titles include Development Lead, Technical Lead, Senior Software Engineer, Software Design Engineer Lead (SDE Lead), Software Manager for the new search features. "Now, comprehensive results are returned almost instantly, within fractions of a second." Abrio's search capability is integrated throughout the site, allowing users to find everything from appointments in personal and published calendars, to users and groups in the community, to favorite television shows in the events area. This advanced level of integration has significant advantages for e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. partners as well as members. For example, a search for `Star Wars' will not only alert users to the movie release, but also notify them of companion books, video games See video game console. and other related materials and events. An upcoming release will allow members to purchase products and services directly from commerce partners. Abrio can be reached at www.abrio.com, info@abrio.com, and (415)764-1000. For partnership opportunities, please contact Lane Paxton. For technical information, please contact James Greenfield Greenfield, town (1990 pop. 18,666), seat of Franklin co., NW Mass., at the confluence of the Deerfield and Green rivers, near their junction with the Connecticut; settled 1686, set off from Deerfield and inc. 1753. . Confluent con·flu·ent adj. 1. Flowing together; blended into one. 2. Merging or running together so as to form a mass, as sores in a rash. , Abrio, and the Confluent and Abrio logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Confluent, Inc. All rights reserved. |
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