Bondi Software Launches Premier Adventure Travel Site - AdventureSeek.com.GREENSBORO, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 9, 1999-- Bondi Software, Inc. ( www.bondisoftware.com ), a leading provider of end-to-end e-business solutions, announced this week the launch of AdventureSeek.com, a community based adventure travel portal. Bondi Software designed, implemented, and hosts the AdventureSeek.com site ( www.AdventureSeek.com ), which is the premier site for adventure travelers and travel providers around the world. The site offers AdventureSeek.com customers the opportunity to search for trips around the globe - such as a sea kayaking trip in Belize, a safari in Africa or a walking tour through Bhutan - focus their search by activity, cost or agenda, and then do a side-by-side comparison of the trips they want to consider. AdventureSeek has an exclusive affiliate marketing Affiliate marketing is a method of promoting web businesses (merchants/advertisers) in which an affiliate (publisher) is rewarded for every visitor, subscriber, customer, and/or sale provided through his/her efforts. agreement with REI.com, "the biggest outdoor store on the net." When members have chosen their trip, they can simply click a button and be in REI's virtual store to purchase the specialty gear they will need to climb Everest, surf Pavones in Central America Central America, narrow, southernmost region (c.202,200 sq mi/523,698 sq km) of North America, linked to South America at Colombia. It separates the Caribbean from the Pacific. or trek through Nepal. A forum for discussion and feedback allows travelers to communicate with each other about trips, gear, etc. Looking to be the "good housekeeping Good Housekeeping is a women's magazine owned by the Hearst Corporation, featuring articles about women's interests, product testing by The Good Housekeeping Institute, recipes, diet, health as well as literary articles. " of Adventure Travel, 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. Pete Wheelen notes, "We came to Bondi with a concept and they were able to deliver a robust, high quality, complex site in less than 100 days. Our site allows travelers to share information, do side by side trip comparisons, buy gear and report on a trip they have taken. Bondi Software, with their development methodology, did a great job on delivering a focused, solid site." Along with the community forum, members will earn AdventureSeek miles that can be redeemed through the site. Future enhancements to the site will offer real time community conversations, e-commerce capabilities, and the ability for customers to enhance personalized accounts. In addition to site design, development and hosting, Bondi Software will be assisting with interactive marketing services in partnership with AdventureSeek.com to promote its new e-business. "We're very pleased to play such a vital part in bringing AdventureSeek.com to the online travel space," said Brad Cooley, President of Bondi Software. "Our goal is to be an e-business partner to AdventureSeek.com by ensuring they have a bullet proof site and to help enhance their overall marketing visibility through the technically most superior adventure travel portal. By choosing to use SilverStream Software's (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 : SSSW) application server, we were able to provide AdventureSeek.com with unique, leading edge functionality - like the side-by-side trip comparator comparator Instrument for comparing something with a similar thing or with a standard measure, in particular to measure small displacements in mechanical devices. In astronomy, the blink comparator is used to examine photographic plates for signs of moving bodies. - and decrease their time to market. Using any other application server would have significantly increased development time." About SilverStream SilverStream Software, Inc., a global Internet infrastructure company, delivers software and services that enable businesses to create, deploy and manage Internet, e-commerce, extranet, and intranet applications. SilverStream Software, http://www.silverstream.com, is publicly traded on the NASDAQ national market under the symbol (SSSW) and is based in Burlington, Massachusetts. About AdventureSeek Founded in 1998 AdventureSeek's mission is to serve the needs of the active travel marketplace. AdventureSeek recently secured funding from Baccharis Capital and the partners at Clayton Dubilier & Rice, as well as a group of private investors that includes the former chairman and CEO of Rand McNally & Company, the former president of Ziff Davis Inc., a former Microsoft executive, and bankers with San Francisco-based Hambrecht & Quist. AdventureSeek is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. based in San Francisco. About Bondi Software Bondi Software is a premier provider of end-to-end e-business solutions. Bondi Software doesn't over emphasize any one e-business discipline, but understands that interactive marketing is just as important as back-office integration. Bondi Software combines strategic consulting, interactive marketing and e-business application development, integration, and outsourcing into powerful e-business solutions for Fortune 1000 and dot.com companies. Customers include Walt Disney World Noun 1. Walt Disney World - a large amusement park established in 1971 to the southwest of Orlando Orlando - a city in central Florida; site of Walt Disney World , BellSouth Wireless Data, MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. WorldCom, HP, Agilent Technologies, iMedeon, Bali, APCO APCO Association of Public Safety Communications Officials APCo Appalachian Power Company (Columbus, OH) APCO Air Pollution Control Officer APCO Alabama Power Company APCO Associated Public Safety Communications Officers, Inc. and VCG VCG vectorcardiogram. VCG vectorcardiogram. . Bondi is a privately held company with offices in Greensboro, Atlanta, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and Denver. |
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