Bamboo.com and Arvida Realty Services Partnership Delivers 360-Degree Virtual Home Tours to Florida's Real Estate Market.PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 20, 1999-- The State's Largest Independent Realty Promotes Home Tours on Its 12,000 Listings Bamboo.com, Inc., formerly Jutvision Corporation, the leading producer of 360-degree virtual tours, today announced a strategic alliance with Arvida Realty Services, Florida's largest independent real estate brokerage firm with more than 80 offices located throughout the state of Florida. Under the agreement, Clearwater, FL-based Arvida will exclusively market and promote Bamboo.com 360-degree virtual tours on its Web site, www.arvidarealtyservices.com. Arvida Realty Services agents will be able to order virtual home tours by calling a toll free number. Bamboo.com will provide high quality service and execution including image capturing, processing, Internet posting to Arvida's Web site and to the company's Members-Only Intranet. "Our marketing alliance with Bamboo.com offers our agents a distinct advantage in both listing homes and ultimately closing sales," said Richard W. Cope, 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. for Arvida Realty Services. "For both real estate professionals and homebuyers, being able to visit a home anywhere on the Internet from anywhere in the world, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, will create a dramatic increase in visits to our Web site. Our agents, homebuyers and sellers all come out as winners." Arvida Realty Services offers visitors to its site the ability to view 360-degree moving pictures of multiple interior and/or exterior scenes of a home. Bamboo.com provides a turnkey service to Arvida Realty Services -- from videography vid·e·og·ra·phy n. The art or practice of using a video camera. vid  e·og and processing, to posting to the Web site -- thereby freeing the real estate professionals from investing in costly, complicated cameras and computers. Homebuyers can view the Bamboo.com-produced tours on www.arvidarealtyservices.com without any Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. plug-ins or downloads. "We are pleased to be able to offer Arvida Realty Services' agents one of the most powerful marketing tools available to real estate professionals today," said Leonard McCurdy, chairman and CEO of Bamboo.com. "They will no longer have to rely on grainy grain·y adj. grain·i·er, grain·i·est 1. Made of or resembling grain; granular. 2. Resembling the grain of wood. 3. Having a granular appearance due to the clumping of particles in the emulsion. , still photographs, which cannot showcase a home's features the way a Bamboo.com 360-degree virtual home tour can." About Bamboo.com Based in Palo Alto, CA, bamboo.com, formerly Jutvision Corporation, is a premier provider of Internet-based content services to the real estate community. Bamboo.com is the leading producer of 360-degree virtual home tours, and maintains strategic relationships with the top real estate Web sites and multiple listing service (MLS See multilevel security. ) providers, including REALTOR.COM, LoopNet and GTE GTE General Telephone & Electronics GTE Génie Thermique et Énergie (French) GTE Gas Turbine Engine GTE Global Tropospheric Experiment GTE Geothermal Energy GTE Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (Sweden & USA) . The company also has partnerships with Microsoft HomeAdvisor and HomeSeekers.com. Through these partnerships, Bamboo.com provides its virtual home tours to AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , Lycos, MSN (1) (MicroSoft Network) A family of Internet-based services from Microsoft, which includes a search engine, e-mail (Hotmail), instant messaging (Windows Live Messaging) and a general-purpose portal with news, information and shopping (MSN Directory). , Excite, Netscape Netcenter, InfoSeek, NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. , and others. Company investors include Intel Corporation, Trident Capital and the Walden Group. For more information about Bamboo.com and to order a tour, visit http://www.bamboo.com or call toll free 1-888-7BAMBOO. Editors, please contact Antenna Group, Inc.: Heidi K. Zuhl at 415-977-1915, or heidi@antennapr.com. About Arvida Headquartered in Clearwater, Florida, Arvida Realty Services is the state's largest independent real estate brokerage and the 5th largest in the nation, with 80 offices throughout the state. More than 3,200 licensed sales professionals and employees are affiliated with the company offering a full complement of real estate services, including residential and commercial real estate sales, relocation & referral services, asset management, title and mortgage services, annual and seasonal rentals and international real estate marketing. Arvida Realty Services is a business unit of The St. Joe Company The St. Joe Company (NYSE: JOE)is a land development company and Florida's largest private landowner, owning about 805,000 acres (0 km) in the state [1]. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :JOE) which is headquartered in Jacksonville. For more information from Arvida Realty Services, contact: Linda Burger, Executive Vice President, Marketing and Communications, 727-538-5468 or lburger@arvidaservices.com. |
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