Alive.com To Power Web Sites With Multimedia Capabilities.SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 12, 1999-- Alive.com e-Show Engine(TM) and Alive.com e-Show Wizards(TM) Allow Any Web Site To Offer Multimedia Creation Abilities Alive.com, a Seattle-based multimedia application service provider, today introduced two Web technologies, the Alive.com e-Show Engine and Alive.com e-Show Wizards. These technologies make it simple for anyone to create and manage audio, video, graphics, voice narration, and other content on any Web site. Additionally, Alive.com announced the ability to add voice narration to Web applications over the telephone. The following companies have partnered with Alive.com to implement e-show solutions: NaviSite, Birthday Express.com, Destinations.com, dbusiness.com, Epage (ep.com), eWork, Senada.com, Teachnotes.com and On24. Alive.com's technologies benefit an organization's business and Web strategies by: -- Generating New Revenue Opportunities -- Maximizing Visitor Retention -- Developing Differentiated Product Offerings -- Creating Viral Marketing An online advertising approach that functions somewhat like word-of-mouth. The "viral" refers to how quickly it propagates, but its purpose is not to cause damage like a computer virus, but to make an offer available to the masses. The Alive.com e-Show Engine is the Web's first scalable and extensible media engine for publishing, encoding See encode. , hosting and managing media-enhanced content on any Web site or portal. Organizations can now offer this functionality to their end users. Alive e-Show Wizards provide customizable interfaces, consistent with a site's look and feel, that enable multimedia content creation from any Web site. No software is required and voice narration can be added using the telephone. "The multimedia ASP space is ripe for growth especially with broadband access See broadband and wireless broadband. on the horizon and stickiness becoming more important to retain advertising revenues," said Sujata Ramnarayan, Industry Analyst, e-Business Group, Dataquest. "We believe multimedia ASP offerings will become a widespread business model on the Web." "We are introducing technology that enables all end users to participate in the creation and management of advanced streaming media See streaming audio, streaming video and digital media hub. content," said David Weld, president and chief executive officer of Alive.com. "We see a future where media is an integral part of everything people create on the Web, from email and greeting cards See e-card. to business listings and classified ads to training and distance learning." Web applications now powered by Alive.com include: -- Distance Learning and Training -- Customer Service and Support -- Auction Listings -- Travel Listings -- Photo Albums -- Yellow Pages & Classified Listings -- Press Releases & Corporate Communications Corporate communications is the process of facilitating information and knowledge exchanges with internal and key external groups and individuals that have a direct relationship with an enterprise. The announcement of the Alive.com e-Show Engine and Alive.com e-Show Wizards represents an evolution of Alive.com's flagship desktop product, Alive e-Show, to a Web-based implementation. The application offers the ability to add streaming audio A one-way audio transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play audio clips and Internet radio. Computers in home networks stream audio (mostly music) to digital media hubs connected to home theaters. and video, images, and graphics to sales pitches, training seminars, and marketing presentations to create dynamic, multimedia communications. Alive e-Show provides all the tools necessary to develop and distribute streaming media content including creation, integration, media-synchronization and Web publishing Creating a Web site and placing it on the Web server. A Web site is a collection of HTML pages with the home page typically named INDEX.HTML. Web sites are designed using Web authoring software which provides a graphical layout capability or by hand coding in HTML or both. without any 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. knowledge. "One of the challenges the travel industry faces is communicating the value of travel packages to consumers using static text and images," said Steve Jarvis, Vice President of E-Commerce for Destinations.com. "This technology is exactly what we've been 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. . Alive.com brings our travel packages to life, letting consumers on the Web get a real feel for their travel destinations." About Alive.com Seattle-based Alive.com delivers turnkey See turnkey system. solutions for implementing dynamic multimedia capabilities on any Web site. Applications powered by Alive.com enable Web site visitors to create, send, and manage media-enhanced content, including listings, photo albums, training, corporate communications and other Web communications. For additional information about Alive.com and its services call 206/674-7700 or visit www.alive.com. |
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