AccessAtlanta: New Look, New Partnerships, New Benefits.ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 20, 1998-- "The Best Place to Start on The Web" We live in a city where businesses move at warp speed warp speed n. Informal An extremely rapid speed or state of activity: "A young pronghorn antelope teased a yearling wolf, shifting into warp speed and leaving the wolf in the dust when it tried to pursue" , information is communicated faster than ever before and personal time is at a premium. Atlantans need simple tools to help manage their increasingly complicated lives. In today's world, saving time, money and 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 are the secrets to survival. In response to these needs, AccessAtlanta - Atlanta's premier city Web site since 1997 - proudly introduces enhanced features designed to provide real-time solutions. It's more of what you log on for -- local and global search capability, expanded community features, e-commerce and comparison shopping -- all designed with Atlantans in mind. In addition, new partnerships with prominent Internet players like LookSmart, Talk City and Bottomdollar.com offer more ways to help simplify lives. This along with the site's easy navigation and new, dynamic look make AccessAtlanta a place to truly call home. Log on to www.AccessAtlanta.com and tap into cutting-edge utility and up-to-the-minute content available for the first time through a local city site. Shop, plan, play, chat, learn, search and find -- all now on AccessAtlanta. "AccessAtlanta is proud to bring another first to Atlantans - a site offering unmatched depth and utility for area residents and businesses," said George deGolian, General Manager, Atlanta Studio. "It's where the `Net is going ... and we're excited to be the first local Web site to combine local content, search, community and commerce together in an easy-to-use format, creating a more valuable and time-saving experience for Atlantans." One-Stop Internet Search - Local, Regional, Global AccessAtlanta now has the search capability to meet your needs -- whether you're looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. information from the neighborhood, the nation or the next continent. All from the comfort of one site, users can search for anything they need locally in Atlanta or globally - quickly and easily. Locally, AccessAtlanta boasts a comprehensive city-specific database that's updated daily to include only the best Atlanta sites for just about any interest. One simple point and click means access to more than 4,000 local Atlanta sites in 13+ categories, or lets users search for more. Now with the integration of the LookSmart Search Engine, the world's largest editorially-selected database of Web content, users can search more than 380,000 site listings in more than 20,000 categories - all through the unique cascading menu A menu system that displays submenus off to the side when selected. In Windows, the Programs submenu in the Start menu is cascaded to the right side when selected.  feature. In addition, advertisers can now take advantage of these LookSmart search categories. Targeted advertising messages can be served up to users in specific LookSmart categories - offering Atlanta businesses an unprecedented opportunity to target and reach potential buyers. Extended Virtual Community AccessAtlanta is a great place to meet Atlantans with similar interests, to share recipes, to engage in political debates, or to check out what's going on What's Going On is a record by American soul singer Marvin Gaye. Released on May 21, 1971 (see 1971 in music), What's Going On reflected the beginning of a new trend in soul music. in local church or neighborhood groups. Through a new partnership with Talk City, an Internet leader in Chat and Community building, AccessAtlanta now provides: -- Personal Home Page Building -- Chat (both moderated and member created) -- Personal Profiles (with links to personal homepages) -- Bulletin Boards -- Live Online Events In addition, non-commercial groups, clubs or associations can build their own Web sites in the AccessAtlanta Community area designed to provide Atlantans with an online extension of their local community. With HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. that is flexible for any level of user, this community tool invites local groups to include calendars of events, interactive maps, surveys, polls, and membership applications. Currently, 124 prominent local community organizations have utilized this feature to build a presence on AccessAtlanta - with 97 new sites in development. Shop `Til You Drop ... And Save Looking for instant comparison shopping in a virtual environment? AccessAtlanta now offers users the ability to compare any consumer product sold on the web through the added functionality of BottomDollar.com. This capability is integrated through the AccessAtlanta Shopping Channel Shopping channels are television specialty channels that present shopping related content, particularly for home shopping enthusiasts. Home shopping pioneers:
Best Place to Call HOME AccessAtlanta is Atlanta's premier local city site - voted by Atlantans as the "Best Local Web site" in Creative Loafing's 1998 Best of Atlanta Awards. Now with the integration of search, community and e-commerce, AccessAtlanta is the best place to start on the web -- helping busy people manage their lives. Atlanta's leading local city site since 1997, AccessAtlanta provides 24-hour-a-day coverage of the issues important to our city -- business, entertainment, sports, community and more. AccessAtlanta, produced in partnership with Atlanta-Journal Constitution, WSB WSB World Superbike WSB Washington Savings Bank (stock symbol) WSB World Series Baseball (Sega game) WSB Welcome South Brother (radio) WSB Weak Stability Boundary TV and WSB Radio, is a product of Cox Interactive Media, the nation's most popular provider of local content on the Internet. The volume of CIM (1) (Computer-Integrated Manufacturing) Integrating office/accounting functions with automated factory systems. Point of sale, billing, machine tool scheduling and supply ordering are part of CIM. pages read by consumers exceeds the page view performance of any other local site network (Media Metrix Special Analysis July 1998). To date, this network includes 25 city sites and two specialty sites FASTBALL.com and GreatOutdoors.com. (www.cimedia.com). CIM, founded in 1996, is a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises Cox Enterprises is the successor to the publishing company founded in Dayton, Ohio, by James Middleton Cox, who began with the Dayton Daily News. The company is private, 98% controlled by the octogenarian daughter of Cox, Anne Cox Chambers, and the two children of her late , Inc., and is headquartered in Atlanta. A leading media company, Cox Enterprises includes Cox Newspapers, Inc. (newspapers, direct mail marketing, book publishing book publishing. The term publishing means, in the broadest sense, making something publicly known. Usually it refers to the issuing of printed materials, such as books, magazines, periodicals, and the like. ), Cox Broadcasting, Inc. (TV, spot sales, television production, research, publicly-traded Cox Radio Cox Radio NYSE: CXR is a publicly traded company that holds a number of radio stations. Private company Cox Broadcasting, Inc., a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises owns all of the company's super-voting Class B common stock, and thus controls the company. , Inc.) and publicly traded Cox Communications Cox Communications is a privately owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises providing digital cable television and telecommunications services in the United States. It is the third-largest[2] cable television provider in the United States, serving more than 6. , Inc. (cable distribution, programming, broadband communications) in addition to Cox Interactive Media. The company also is the world's largest operator of automobile auctions through Manheim Auctions Manheim Automotive Services is the largest and highest volume wholesale automobile auction company in the world. As a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises, Inc., Manheim provides services including financing, title work, transportation, recovery, auto body repair, dealership management , providing financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , government auctions, online services and price guides. |
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