Alabama Live Sets New Record, Among the Most Popular Local Sites in America.HUNTSVILLE, Ala ALA aminolevulinic acid. Ala alanine. ala (a´lah) pl. a´lae [L.] a winglike process. .--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 8, 1999-- Alabama Alabama, indigenous people of North America Alabama (ăləbăm`ə), indigenous people of North America whose language belongs to the Muskogean branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). Live, www.al.com, the state's most popular web site, surpassed 21 million page views for November, setting a record for the service and positioning it among the most popular local sites in America. The traffic volume was boosted by the Alabama/Auburn football match-up, one of the hottest rivalries around. "Our visitors definitely respond to football," said Cindy Martin, President/CEO of Alabama Live. "They come to chat about it, post opinions in our discussion boards and get some of the state's best coverage from The Birmingham News, The Huntsville Times and the Mobile Register. Our loyal visitors have helped make Alabama Live one of the leading community sites. We aim to give them the content they want and a place to voice their opinion." Alabama Live's traffic has consistently grown an average of 17% per month since its launch 2 years ago. Features of Alabama Live include local, state and national news, sports, movie reviews, event calendars, job, auto and real estate classifieds, auctions and free sites for community groups. Interactive features include 24-hour chat rooms and over 50 discussion boards. Alabama Live is free to anyone with Internet access See how to access the Internet. . In November, Alabama Live's traffic surpassed that of the oldest and largest service in Advance Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the - and also one of the largest local sites in America - New Jersey Online, placing Alabama's own service among the top tier of local services. Advance Internet Inc. is the corporate owner of 10 local web sites that are created in alliance with newspapers owned and operated by Advance Publications Inc. The web sites cover regions including Cleveland, Massachusetts Massachusetts (măsəch  `sĭts), most populous of the New England states of the NE United States. , Michigan, New Jersey, New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded , Oregon, Pennsylvania, Staten Island Staten Island (1990 pop. 378,977), 59 sq mi (160 sq km), SE N.Y., in New York Bay, SW of Manhattan, forming Richmond co. of New York state and the borough of Staten Island of New York City. and Syracuse. Alabama Live (www.al.com), based in Huntsville, Alabama Huntsville is the county seat of Madison County, Alabama. Huntsville is the largest city in northern Alabama in a region of a half-million people, with the city proper having 168,132 residents (2006 estimate). , is an affiliate of Advance Internet Inc., a subsidiary of Advance Publications, owner of The Birmingham News, The Huntsville Times and the Mobile Register and newspapers in 22 cities as well as Conde Nast magazines, CondeNet, Parade and React. Advance Internet Inc. is, currently, responsible for the development and management of nine local web sites that are created in alliance with newspapers owned and operated by Advance Publications Inc. The web sites include New Jersey online (www.nj.com); Michigan Live (www.mlive.com); Cleveland Live (www.cleveland.com); and Oregon Live (oregonlive.com). In addition, affiliates of Advance Internet Inc. produce web sites Rain or Shine (www.rainorshine.com) and The Yuckiest Site on the Internet (www.yucky.com). |
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