Comet Systems Unleashes CometZone.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 9, 1999-- Teams with FortuneCity, Comedy Central's South Park, United Media's Dilbert, and Others to Launch the World's First "Cursor Portal" Comet Systems today secured its position in the exploding personal home page community by opening CometZone (http://www.cometzone.com), a site that provides homesteaders with free tools to transform the "arrow" cursor on their Websites into any custom image found in the CometZone content library. CometZone is powered by the Comet Cursor Comet Cursor was a software program manufactured by Comet Systems. It allowed users of Microsoft Windows Operating System to change the appearance of their mouse's cursor and to allow websites to use customized cursors for visitors. , a patent-pending technology that allows a Web developer to substitute an image or animation for the standard cursor on a Website. CometZone boasts an initial library of over 300 cursor images, including some of the most recognizable icons in pop culture. Founding content partners on CometZone include Comedy Central (who are delivering South Park cursors), United Media (Dilbert and Peanuts), Universal Press Syndicate Universal Press Syndicate, an Andrews McMeel Universal company, is the world's largest independent syndicate and provides syndication for a number of lifestyle and opinion columns, comics, and various other content. (Garfield, Doonesbury, and Foxtrot foxtrot one of the two artificial gaits of the five-gaited horse. A four-beat gait midway in speed between a walk and a trot. There is a great deal of similarity with several other gaits such as amble, fadge, slow pace, stepping pace, running walk, jog, hound jog. ), and MixxOnline (Rayearth and Sailor Moon anime characters). Membership in CometZone will be stimulated through a partnership with FortuneCity, a leading online community network with over 2.5 million members. FortuneCity today announced a co-branded version of CometZone to be added to its Web builder area. FortuneCity will be the official free home page provider at CometZone. Comet Systems is the only company offering such a cursor tool for Websites and expects that -- because CometZone is so easy to use - "cursorizing" one's home page will soon become a standard design element for any new Website, along with page counters and guest books. "CometZone will take personal Web publishing Creating a Web site and placing it on the Web server. A Web site is a collection of HTML pages with the home page typically named INDEX.HTML. Web sites are designed using Web authoring software which provides a graphical layout capability or by hand coding in HTML or both. to a new level," said CometZone's General Manager, Adam Solomon. "There is an explosion in personal Website development going on and we are confident that budding Web designers will use CometZone to integrate compelling, interactive content into their sites." Because CometZone allows content partners to monitor the distribution of their intellectual property, companies that are normally wary of propagating their content on home pages are embracing cursor distribution. Unlike most online graphic files that can be altered by Web designers, the custom cursors provided on CometZone are delivered from CometZone's secure servers and cannot be manipulated. Larry Lieberman, VP of Business Development at Comedy Central, commented, "CometZone helps us to extend the distribution of our content to millions of South Park fans. This is a great way for us to promote our properties through online communities." Marty Chavkin, VP of Marketing for FortuneCity, added: "We've been fans of the Comet Cursor for some time now and are excited that we are able to partner with Comet Systems in this new venture. We have no doubt that our members will find CometZone a creative and easy way to make their sites unique." Once a user registers at CometZone, she is provided with a few lines of HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. code that can be pasted into her Website. Once this HTML code is added to a Web page, CometZone allows the Website owner to swap her site's cursor by simply clicking on a new image. In addition to Comedy Central, United Media, Universal Press Syndicate, and MixxOnline, CometZone content sponsors include: Tucows, Astrology.net, Virtual Jerusalem, Canada.com, Christmas.com, and The Vermont Teddy Bear Company The Vermont Teddy Bear Company is one of the largest producers of teddy bears and the largest seller of teddy bears by mail order and Internet. The company handcrafts each of its teddy bears and produces almost 500,000 teddy bears each year. About Comet Systems Comet Systems, Inc. (http://www.cometsystems.com) is the developer of the Comet Cursor, a patent-pending, rich media technology that allows any Website to display a graphic or animation of its choice in place of the traditional "arrow" cursor on a Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . Headquartered in New York's Silicon Alley, Comet Systems was founded in 1997 by Jamie Rosen, President; Dean Margolis, 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. ; and Tom Schmitter, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. . The company has licensed its technology to numerous Web sites, including Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . Online, AT&T WorldNet, Comedy Central, Mattel, and Universal Studios Online. Comet Systems is the leader in cursor advertising, which has been deployed by portals such as Yahoo! and Lycos, and by advertisers such as BellSouth, Virtual Vineyards, Energizer Battery Company, and MSNBC MSNBC Microsoft/National Broadcasting Company . Comet Systems has received a $2.5 Million first round and a $7 Million second round of financing from Scripps Ventures, Prospect Street Ventures, Robert Lessin, MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings, PS Capital Ventures, Hudson Venture Partners L.P., Advantage Capital, Carlin car·line or car·lin n. Scots A woman, especially an old one. [Middle English kerling, from Old Norse, from karl, man.] Ventures, and Value Capital. Contact Ben Austin at marketing@cometsystems.com or 212-231-2000 for further info. |
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