Boston.com a Double Winner in 1999 MIMC Awards.BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 4, 1999-- Boston.com captured the honors as Best Information/Reference Portal Site Noun 1. portal site - a site that the owner positions as an entrance to other sites on the internet; "a portal typically has search engines and free email and chat rooms etc. (http://www.boston.com) and Best General Entertainment Online Site (http://mp3.boston.com) at the Massachusetts Interactive Media Council's annual awards held last night in Boston. The contest's 27 categories honor the best online and multimedia sites and products created by Massachusetts companies. In winning the Information/Reference Online Site -- Portal category, Boston.com topped three other finalists: Lycos.com, Zinezone.com and Allcam.com. Boston.com's mp3 music site, which features downloadable music from 300+ local bands, topped Videoshare.com in the General Entertainment Online Site category. All-Star '99 (http://www.boston.com/allstar99), Boston.com's special site devoted to Major League Baseball "MLB" and "Major Leagues" redirect here. For other uses, see MLB (disambiguation) and Major Leagues (disambiguation). Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in North American professional baseball. 70th All-Star Game An all-star game is an exhibition game played by the best players in their sports league. The players are often chosen by a popular vote of fans of the sport and the game often occurs at the halfway point of the regular season, although this is not the case for some all-star games , held in Boston in July, was one of five finalists in the Information/Reference Online Site -- Original Content category. Boston.com's traffic hit an all-time high of 37 million page views in September, an increase of 64 percent in one year. According to Media Metrix, Boston.com is currently #12 in the Boston market with a reach of 20.8 for the third quarter. About Boston.com Boston.com is a division of Times Company Digital, a new business unit that includes The 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 Times on the Web (www.nytimes.com), New York Today (www.nytoday.com) Wine Today (www.winetoday.com), Golf Digest (www.golfdigest.com), Abuzz (www.abuzz.com) and almost 50 other sites operated by Times Co.'s regional newspapers, magazines and broadcast groups. Boston.com currently averages up to 37 million page views and 2.9 million unique visitors per month. The New York Times Co. is traded on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. under the symbol NYT NYT New York Times NYT National Youth Theatre (UK) NYT New York Transit (New York, USA) NYT New York Tribune . |
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