Blab Media Inc. Adds New Enhancements to Blab.com; Site Offers More Fun and Innovative Choices for Consumers From Animated Book Trailers to Trivia Games to TouchSense Technology.Business/Entertainment Editors & Internet Writers COMDEX The former, premier computer trade show in the U.S. Although it grew into an end user event, it was originally created for dealers and distributors (it was the COMputer Dealers EXposition). Fall 2000 NOTE: Multimedia assets relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc this story will be available for journalists to download beginning today at www.newstream.com TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 2000 Blab Media Inc. President Vince Commisso announced today that the company will continue to add more enhancements to Blab.com. Once only an Internet greeting card site, Blab.com now offers an array of communication and entertainment services that will heighten height·en v. height·ened, height·en·ing, height·ens v.tr. 1. To raise or increase the quantity or degree of; intensify. 2. To make high or higher; raise. v.intr. customer experience and site stickiness. Blab.com is the first Internet greeting card site enabled with TouchSense(TM) technology from Immersion immersion /im·mer·sion/ (i-mer´zhun) 1. the plunging of a body into a liquid. 2. the use of the microscope with the object and object glass both covered with a liquid. Corp. (Nasdaq:IMMR IMMR Internal Memory Map Register ), which enables the computer user to experience different tactile tactile /tac·tile/ (tak´til) pertaining to touch. tac·tile adj. 1. Perceptible to the sense of touch; tangible. 2. Used for feeling. 3. sensations through an iFeel(TM) mouse designed by Logitech (Nasdaq:LOGIY) (Switzerland: LOGN, LOGZ). Together, Blab.com and strategic partner Random House Inc. will create and distribute animated greeting cards/book trailers, recently launching with Anne Rice's latest book, "Merrick," and to be followed by upcoming titles from other prestigious authors published by Random House. Focusing on offering more innovative choices for consumers, Blab.com has expanded its features to include four new options. BlabTrivia offers 5,000 proprietary questions at four levels of incremental Additional or increased growth, bulk, quantity, number, or value; enlarged. Incremental cost is additional or increased cost of an item or service apart from its actual cost. difficulty. Players, in turn, can engage their family and friends in a BlabTrivia e-mail challenge. BlabVites, an invitation functionality, has been added, along with BlabAwards, which lets users create awards that they can print out or give digitally. BlabBuilder is also new and lets customers make their own unique greeting cards See e-card. by combining elements from the site's special design library of text and graphic images. "Blab.com is redefining the shape of Internet greeting card sites," said Commisso, "because it offers real choices to consumers. What we offer is content with high entertainment value coupled with any number of options that enable consumers to connect with one another from games to greetings and much more. Simply put, we want them to have fun." Blab Media Inc. is a rich media, entertainment business providing enhanced messaging and communication services that offer "more" to consumers and corporate clients. A free online service, Blab.com is one of the Internet's largest electronic greeting card sites. Its tactile technology, varied design styles, vibrant movement, streaming sound and color provide site visitors with an unparalleled interactive experience from BlabCards to BlabVites to BlabBuilder to BlabTrivia, with "more" to come. Blab Media Inc. is located at 77 Mowat Ave., Suite 412, Toronto, NMBK 3E3 Canada; telephone 416/642-2520. NOTE: Multimedia assets relating to this story will be available for journalists to download beginning today at www.newstream.com |
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