Andover.Net Licenses GIFWorks 3.0 to Lycos' Community Sites; Animation Now Easy for Homepage Builders.Business/Technology Editors ACTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 18, 2000 Agreement Enables Tripod and Angelfire Users to Access Powerful, Online Graphics Software Application Through Co-Branded Sites Andover.Net (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :ANDN), the leading Linux and IT destination, has entered into a licensing agreement with Lycos, Inc. (NASDAQ:LCOS (Liquid Crystal on Silicon) A technology used to make microdisplays for rear-projection TVs and head-mounted displays (HMDs). Each LCoS chip hosts a grayscale LCD shutter sandwiched between a cover glass and a mirror. ), the fastest growing portal and world's largest online community. GIFWorks 3.0 is now available on Tripod (http://www.tripod.lycos.com/) and Angelfire (http://www.angelfire.lycos.com/). GIFWorks is a free online application that allows Web builders to select, process and create animations online with a standard Web browser--at no cost. The year long licensing agreement lets Tripod and Angelfire members access GIFWorks through co-branded sites (http://tripod.gifworks.com/ and http://angelfire.gifworks.com/). As part of the agreement, Andover.Net receives a portion of the advertising revenue. "The addition of GIFWorks to Lycos' community sites, Tripod and Angelfire, makes perfect sense and will let our users quickly and easily enhance their personal Web sites. Our members' homepages will reflect more personality and interactivity. GIFWorks' features will help add zest," said Don Zereski, Tripod's general manager. GIFWorks--Online, Free Application GIFWorks is one of the Internet's first free online software applications that uses the Web as a powerful, cost-effective computing platform See platform. . Using GIFWorks, Tripod and Angelfire homepage builders can animate, optimize and apply special effects special effects, in motion pictures, cinematographic techniques that create illusions in the audience's minds as well as the illusions created using these techniques. to any GIF GIF in full Graphics Interchange Format Standard computer file format for graphic images. GIF files use data compression to reduce the file size. The original version of the format was developed by CompuServe in 1987. , easily adding it to their Web pages. Since all processing is done on Andover.Net servers--at a rate faster than the average PC--there is no time-consuming download or complicated installation. With GIFWorks' Windows-like interface, the latest versions are always used and new animations are created in seconds. GIFWorks supports Linux, Mac and PC platforms. In fact, even people without computers, such as Web-TV users, can create animations with GIFWorks. Andover.Net's GIFWorks 3.0 includes 20 new effects similar to those found in expensive packaged graphic design applications such as chalk, emboss, oil paint and watercolor. In addition, GIFWorks 3.0 features several new editing tools, including insert text, smart crop, replace color, optimize to a Web-safe palette and add/remove transparency. "GIFWorks has a tremendous following, one that will surely increase now that it is accessible through Tripod," said Bruce Twickler, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Andover.Net. "We're pleased that Tripod and Angelfire see the benefits of GIFWorks as an online application and are excited to offer this application to their members." About Lycos Founded in 1995, Lycos Inc. (NASDAQ: LCOS) is a leading Web media company and the owner of the Lycos Network, one of the most visited hubs on the Internet, reaching nearly one out of every two Web users. The Lycos Network, the fastest growing network and the world's largest online community, is a unified set of Web sites that attracts a diverse audience by offering a variety of services, including leading Web navigation resources, homepage building and other Web community services, and a comprehensive shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into . The Lycos Network is composed of premium sites: Lycos.com, Tripod, WhoWhere, Angelfire, MailCity, HotBot, HotWired, Wired News Wired News is an online technology news website, formerly known as HotWired, that split off from Wired magazine when the magazine was purchased by Condé Nast Publishing in the 1990s. Condé Nast later purchased Wired News on 2006-07-11. , Webmonkey, Suck.com, Sonique, Quote.com and Gamesville.com. Lycos.com (http://www.lycos.com/), "Your Personal Internet Guide," is dedicated to helping each individual user locate, retrieve, and manage information tailored to his or her personal interests. Headquartered near Boston in Waltham, Massachusetts One of the early centers of the Industrial Revolution in northern America, Waltham is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 59,226 at the 2000 census. , Lycos, Inc. is a global Internet leader with a major presence throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Europe, Asia and Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. . About Andover.Net Andover.Net (NASDAQ: ANDN) is the leading Linux destination on the Internet. Serving 50 million page impressions to over 2.4 million users each month, Andover.Net (www.andover.net) includes the largest news/community site, Slashdot (slashdot.org); the largest site for programmer resources, Freshmeat.net (www.freshmeat.net); and the popular developer e-commerce site, ThinkGeek (thinkgeek.com). With these sites and our other Linux sites such as FreeCode (freecode.com) and LinuxDaveCentral (www.linux.davecentral.com), Andover.Net accounts for over 50% of the visits to Linux destinations on the Internet. Andover.Net also includes cross-platform sites that provide programmer and developer resources for users of many popular operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. in addition to Linux such as Windows, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and Macintosh. MediaBuilder (www.mediabuilder.com) includes powerful e-Tools such as GIFWorks (www.gifworks.com) and HTMLWorks (www.htmlworks.com). It also has Animation Factory (www.animfactory.com), one of the Internet's largest GIF animation See GIF animator and animated GIF. libraries. For the latest information technology news and resources, corporate tech managers and buyers go to AndoverNews (www.andovernews.com), The IT Managers Journal (www.itmanagersjournal.com); TechMailings (www.techmailings.com) with over 3,900 free e-mail newsletters and discussion lists; and, the Internet Traffic Report (www.internettrafficreport.com), which provides Internet performance data every 15 minutes. Users can also download free Windows applications at DaveCentral (www.davecentral.com) and Slaughterhouse slaughterhouse: see abattoir; meatpacking. (www.slaughterhouse.com). Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this news release are forward-looking statements involving risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, Andover.Net's limited operating history, expectation that Andover will incur substantial losses in the future; Andover's reliance on Linux/open source community; Andover's heavy reliance on advertising revenues; intense competition and other risks listed in Andover.Net's S-1 registration statement. Andover.Net, Slashdot, Freshmeat, HTMLWorks, GIFWorks, AndoverNews Network, MediaBuilder, Internet Traffic Report, DaveCentral, FreeCode, IT Managers Journal, Slaughterhouse, TechSightings and TechMailings are trademarks of Andover.Net. (c)1999 Lycos, Inc. - Lycos(R) is a registered trademark of Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University, at Pittsburgh, Pa.; est. 1967 through the merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (founded 1900, opened 1905) and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research (founded 1913). . All other product or service marks mentioned herein are those of Lycos or their respective owners. All rights reserved. |
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