DashCenter Announces a Partnership With encoding.com.

SILVER SPRING, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 5, 1999--

Today, DashCenter, Inc., an Application Service Provider (ASP) for "thick content," announces a relationship with encoding.com of Seattle, Washington.

encoding.com is the market leader in digital media business solutions and provides optimized audio and video encoding services for the Internet.

According to the contract, DashCenter (www.dashcenter.com) will resell encoding.com's (www.encoding.com) digital media solutions including the digitization of audio and video content in RealMedia formats. The agreement extends the company's service offering for `thick' Internet content -- including site building, encoding, hosting and ongoing management of business-critical web applications. Internet, Intranet and Extranet sites hosted and managed by DashCenter will be able to stream audio and video content as a feature of the site built and hosted by the firm.

"We are talking with many organizations with important, valuable archives of audio or video that they seek to deploy on the Internet, often for reasons of e-commerce, or an Intranet, for reasons of cost savings," said Pete Celano, President of DashCenter, Inc. "encoding.com is by far the leader in the category of digitizing video and audio content. They have the greatest capacity, best quality and service, and have a sterling customer list."

"ASPs like DashCenter provide a key service in the business of delivering high bandwidth data on the web," said Martin Tobias, encoding.com's minister of order and reason. "Companies and government organizations are sitting on literally millions of hours of audio and video content, and there are major benefits to be gained by digitizing and distributing this content via the web. DashCenter's building, hosting and managing of Web applications, coupled with our comprehensive digital media solutions, means that organizations can launch compelling web sites quickly and cost-effectively."

About encoding.com

encoding.com is the leading provider of streaming and digital media solutions in the corporate, government, media and entertainment markets. By offering products and services that incorporate the encoding, publishing, distribution and management of digital media, encoding.com leads the streaming media industry in digitizing and optimizing audio and video content for the Internet. encoding.com enables a variety of digital media-on-demand applications including online music distribution, distance learning, marketing communications, training, rich media advertising and promotions, digital archiving and video promotion. encoding.com partners with key technology companies such as: RealNetworks (Nasdaq:RNWK), Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT), AT&T/a2b music (NYSE:ATT) and Apple Computer (Nasdaq: AAPL), and supports all streaming and digital media formats available. encoding.com also acts as a key influencer in the streaming media industry by presenting at events including: Streaming Media, WebNoise, RealNetworks Conference, Internet World, Consumer Electronics Show, Audio Engineer Society, Herring On Hollywood and National Association of Broadcasters (NAB). As an active member in industry organizations like the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI), the Washington Software Alliance (WSA) and S2A.org, encoding.com has been able to provide feedback on some of the most strategic initiatives developed by the industry. encoding.com's list of 500-plus customers include: AT&T, BMG Distribution, Capitol Records, Cisco, College Broadcasting, Discovery Channel, DVD Express, Federal Emergency Management Association, Merck, Roxbury Capital Management, Safeco Insurance, Siemens, Sony, Warner Brothers and more. For more information on encoding.com and its digital media solutions, visit www.encoding.com. Additional contact information: 3406 E. Union St., Seattle, WA 98122; tel: [phone]; fax: [phone].

About DashCenter

DashCenter, Inc. is a venture-backed company founded in early 1999 to help organizations deploy digital content via the web. The first DashCenter is located in Vienna, Virginia, and represents an extremely high bandwidth connection to the Internet, where customers can have their entire web site, or a portion of their site hosted for a flat monthly fee. The second DashCenter is currently being built in San Jose, California.

Based in Silver Spring, Maryland, DashCenter specializes in "thick content" -- photos, pictures, maps, X-rays, satellite images and audio/video, and builds, hosts and manages Internet, Intranet and Extranet sites. DashCenter sells directly across the U.S. For more information, contact Pete Celano, President and CEO, at 301/625-1027 or [e-mail], or visit the website at www.dashcenter.com.

DashCenter is a trademark of DashCenter, Inc.