Business 2.0 Online Signs On Leading Technology Providers to Infuse Online Platform With New Resources for Its 'Transformer' Audience.Business Editors SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 27, 2000 Companies & Technology Behind a 'New Business2.com' Take Site to Next Level of Interest & Utility As Imagine Media's Business Division further enhances the newly-vamped Business 2.0 Website (business2.com), the company announced today a host of technological providers and accompanying innovations that will soon greet the site's users. Chief among the new features will be exciting video features and search capabilities delivered by Virage, Inc., a leading provider of software and application services See ASP and Web services. that enable video for the Internet. Working with Virage, Business2.com will offer a continuously updated and fully searchable database Refers to databases on the Web that are searchable by typing in a query. The term is quite redundant because all databases are searchable. In fact, that is one of their major features. of online video content by late summer. Initially, the primary source of video content to be dynamically published to the Web will be the "Next Step" television program, a co-production of KRON/Bay TV and Business 2.0. Subsequently, in the months to follow, the video content base will expand to include Business 2.0 event keynotes, partner events, panels, roundtables, and Business Division announcements, giving Transformers a rich online resource to tap into daily. "The new video channel is a great addition to our newly-designed Website," said Nicole C. Brown, vice president and general manager of Business 2.0 Online. "Through the center's features, our audience will enjoy a vivid video library of New Economy business insights and information in a moving, dynamic form." Additional content providers contributing to Business2.com include: AuctioNet, MarketWatch.com, Inc., Clickability, dbusiness.com, Delphi, eCal, EoExchange, iSyndicate, Online Opinion, ScreamingMedia, Trade Show News Network (TSNN TSNN Trade Show News Net ) and YellowBrix. Highlights of the enhancements offered by these partnerships include a customizable Web-based calendar of New Economy and finance-related events and information, a resource center allowing users to search for New Economy-focused content quickly and easily, and real-time industry news. About Business 2.0 Business 2.0 is an award-winning multi-platform brand including print, online (business2.com), conferences and television. Based on the belief that the Internet is changing the rules of business, the content speaks to "Transformers" -- people with the power, influence, and insight to re-invent their companies for the New Economy. Through in-depth, analytical reporting, Business 2.0 provides the ideas and information these business leaders need to succeed in the Internet Age. The international, biweekly Business 2.0 magazine has won three 1999 Maggie Awards from the Western Publications Association, including Best Overall and New Consumer Publication, and Best Special Interest Consumer Publication. Business 2.0 also was honored as Best Newcomer by the Computer Press Association and won Folio:'s Editorial Excellence Award and two Silver Ozzies for magazine design in 1999. This year, the publication has won Best Business and Finance Publication from the Western Publications Association at the 2000 Maggie Awards, was named a 2000 National Magazine Awards finalist by the American Society of Magazine Editors For the engineering society, see . The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) is an industry trade group for editors of magazines published in the United States. The group advocates on behalf of member organizations with respect to First Amendment issues, and serves as a (ASME ASME - American Society of Mechanical Engineers ) in the category of General Excellence, and was awarded Best Overall General Interest Publication by the Computer Press Association. Business 2.0 was also recognized by Adweek as one of the five top Upstarts--a category created by Adweek to recognize magazines that are experiencing incredible growth, and by Folio: magazine as a Power Launch for the '90s. About Imagine Media, Inc. Imagine Media (www.imaginemedia.com) is one of America's fastest growing publishers of magazines and Websites. Its success is based on the "passion" strategy: creating products that excite tech-savvy consumers. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area “Bay Area” redirects here. For other uses, see Bay Area (disambiguation). The San Francisco Bay Area, colloquially known as the Bay Area or The Bay , Imagine Media's publications sell in excess of 2.8 million copies per month. Its market-leading titles include: Business 2.0, digitalFOTO, Games Business, MacAddict, MaximumLinux, MaximumPC, Next Generation, Official Sega Dreamcast Magazine, PC Gamer PC Gamer is a magazine founded in 1993 devoted to PC gaming and published monthly by Future Publishing. The magazine features news on developments in the video game industry, previews of new games, and reviews of the latest popular PC games, along with other features , PSM PSM PlayStation Magazine PSM Process Safety Management (chemical industry) PSM Porsche Stability Management PSM Platform-Specific Model(s) PSM Platform Support Module PSM Professional Science Master's : 100% Independent PlayStation Magazine, Revolution, and on the Web: DailyRadar.com, the MacDaily Network, and the MaximumPC Network. Imagine Media recently merged in The Future Network plc (thefuturenetworkplc.uk), the media company founded by Imagine's 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. Chris Anderson Chris Anderson may mean:
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