Cybersites, Internet's "Stickiest" Community, Allies With Petswarehouse.com; Fourth Largest Online Petstore Now Number One Pet Community.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 23, 1999-- CyberSites (http://www.CyberSites.com), home of the VinesNetwork, the Internet's "stickiest" community network, today announced a strategic partnership with Long Island-based Petswarehouse.com. Petswarehouse.com, the fourth most-visited pet site on the Internet, now joins with CyberSites' whose members collectively viewed over forty million pages last month. Elliot Klein, CyberSites' 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. , noted, "Both Petswarehouse.com and CyberSites are thrilled to join together in this partnership. CyberSites enhances Petswarehouse.com with the broadest range of community-building features on the Internet. These include who's online, instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or , chat, bulletin boards, surveys, and even free home pages. Completely free of charge, Petswarehouse.com members can now enjoy community programs and services not available at any other online pet site today." "Today, simply adding a bulletin board and even a "chat" function doesn't constitute a community," Klein noted. "As we have designed, developed and fostered it, true 'community,' involves people who eat, sleep and breathe that subject area - in this case, pets. Members of CyberSites' communities promote the community to their friends, participate in content generation and nurture a sense of belonging." "Proof of the success of the CyberSites' community model is the fact that our typical PetVine.com member spends 85 minutes on the site per login Signing in and gaining access to a network server, Web server or other computer system. The process (the noun) is a "login" or "logon," while the act of doing it (the verb) is to "log in" or to "log on. (more than 5 times that of the average AOL.com visitor), viewing more than 1,200 pages every month, says Klein. "Visitors spend more than 75% of their entire monthly online time within our community. There are few sites that can equal that." CyberSites' VinesNetwork is the Internet industry's leading community site, with more than 200 distinct interest areas across 20 themed sites or "vines." Petswarehouse, founded more than twenty-five years ago, launched Petswarehouse.com. in November, 1997. Since its launch, Petswarehouse.com has grown to offer, more than 34,000 pet products - more than any other site on the Internet. About CyberSites, Inc. CyberSites, Inc. was founded in 1995 to facilitate the growth of interactive societies online. The company's innovative sites have been recognized for excellence by the InterNIC Academic Guide to the Internet, The Internet, the, international computer network linking together thousands of individual networks at military and government agencies, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, industrial and financial corporations of all sizes, and commercial enterprises Family Channel, Yahoo Site of the Day, MSNBC MSNBC Microsoft/National Broadcasting Company , Excite, Magellan, Business Week, PC Week, PC Magazine, The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). and others. CyberSites' communications programs enable web builders to dramatically boost their reach, increase customer loyalty and generate revenue through free integrated community products, services and forum technologies. The proprietary software allows seamless integration An addition of a new application, routine or device that works smoothly with the existing system. It implies that the new feature or program can be installed and used without problems. Contrast with "transparent," which implies that there is no discernible change after installation. of CyberSites' out-sourced community-building features. Privately held, the company is based in 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 , NY. |
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