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Columbia TriStar Interactive Picks ePod Corp.'s Online Promotion Service.


Internet, Technology, E-Commerce, Entertainment, Advertising,

Film and Movie Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 2000

Online Entertainment Company Uses ePod (TM)

Showcase for Showbiz Scoop Syndication See syndication format.  

Columbia TriStar Interactive and ePod Corp. today announced a deal to use the ePod (tm) showcase to syndicate Syndicate

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 Showbiz Scoop (www.showbizscoop.com) content to third-party sites including fan sites throughout the Web. Showbiz Scoop is the ultimate insiders daily online magazine that takes Hollywood's pulse.

The ePod showcase is a new vehicle for packaging products and content into a mini-store or magazine that companies can deliver to affiliated sites across the Web. The affiliated sites receive fresh content automatically, and their visitors can browse (1) To view the contents of a file or a group of files. Browser programs generally let you view data by scrolling through the documents or databases. In a database program, the browse mode often lets you edit the data. See Web browser.  content within the showcase without leaving the page.

The Showbiz Scoop ePod showcase, which is available now at www.epod.com, lets fans easily place a mini-magazine on their page that gives readers fresh news and gossip from Hollywood. The showcase includes Tinseltown Trivia, Soirees and Segues, Celebrity Birthdays, and Freeze Frame freeze frame

a facility on an ultrasound machine which permits an image to be held on a screen.
 sections, advertising, and a free newsletter offer in an engaging, interactive set-up.

"ePod provides a simple yet compelling solution for us to syndicate and distribute Showbiz Scoop content to affiliate sites and fan sites while maintaining control over the content and brand," said John Matra, director of business affairs for Columbia TriStar Interactive.

Unlike conventional content syndication services, which transmit single Web pages, ePod enables Columbia TriStar Interactive to deliver Showbiz Scoop content in a self-contained unit complete with text, graphics, advertising, and merchandise. Readers can navigate (1) "Surfing the Web." To move from page to page on the Web.

(2) To move through the menu structure in a software application.
 through the content right on the affiliated site.

"The ePod showcase is ideal for distributing a promotional package that mixes content and commerce, and Showbiz Scoop's spicy reports are supremely suited to such a mix," said Michael Zimbalist, executive vice president of ePod.

Fans can get the Showbiz Scoop ePod showcase by visiting www.epod.com, signing up as a member, and cutting and pasting paste 1  
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1. A soft, smooth, thick mixture or material, as:
a. A smooth viscous mixture, as of flour and water or of starch and water, that is used as an adhesive for joining light materials, such as paper and cloth.
 a small HTML tag A code used in HTML to define a format change or hypertext link. HTML tags are surrounded by the angle brackets < and >.

 onto their Web page.

About ePod Corp.

Based in Manhattan, ePod Corp. is a commerce network that provides merchants and advertisers innovative services for selling their products and distributing their brand across the Web. ePod Corp. distinguishes itself with the ePod (tm) showcase, a unique vehicle for delivering an interactive experience directly to customers at the point of demand, and with the ePod.com network, a distribution channel for delivering targeted ePods through thousands of Web sites. ePod helps merchants bring the transaction closer to the customer, overcoming the diminishing di·min·ish  
v. di·min·ished, di·min·ish·ing, di·min·ish·es

v.tr.
1.
a. To make smaller or less or to cause to appear so.

b.
 effectiveness of banners and badges. This is done by allowing visitors to view and purchase products within the ePod showcase without leaving the site they are on. ePod Corp. is a venture-funded firm. Investors include I-Hatch Ventures, US Trust, and XDL (language) XDL - An object-oriented extension to ITU-T's SDL.

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 Capital Corp.

About Columbia TriStar Interactive

Columbia TriStar Interactive is a leading producer and distributor of compelling online entertainment experiences based on original content and Sony Pictures Entertainment branded properties. CTI's content is distinguished by its innovative design, message and technology as well as its broad-based consumer appeal.

Columbia TriStar Interactive is a Sony Pictures Entertainment Company. Sony Pictures' global operations Global Operations is a first-person shooter computer game developed by Barking Dog Studios and published by both Crave Entertainment and Electronic Arts. It was released in March of 2002, following its public multiplayer beta version which contained only the Quebec map.  encompass motion picture production, television programming and syndication, home video and acquisition and distribution, operation facilities, development of new entertainment technologies and distribution of filmed entertainment in 67 countries. Sony Pictures Entertainment can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.spe.sony.com.
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