DayTips Delivers Daily News and Entertainment to Thousands.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers BALTIMORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 9, 2000 With the amount of information available on the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the growing exponentially ex·po·nen·tial adj. 1. Of or relating to an exponent. 2. Mathematics a. Containing, involving, or expressed as an exponent. b. every day, tracking down useful, relevant content can be a time-consuming and often frustrating frus·trate tr.v. frus·trat·ed, frus·trat·ing, frus·trates 1. a. To prevent from accomplishing a purpose or fulfilling a desire; thwart: process. Enter DayTips.com, http://www.daytips.com, a one-stop source of free newsletters and ezines on topics ranging from antiques to science news - and nearly everything in between. DayTips.com is one of the largest services of its type on the web, offering 50 free daily and weekly newsletters and ezines to more than a quarter of a million subscribers. And the site is still expanding, explains owner Mickie Kennedy. "If you don't see a newsletter or ezine of interest to you on your first visit, bookmark A stored location for quick retrieval at a later date. Web browsers provide bookmarks that contain the addresses (URLs) of favorite sites. Most electronic references, large text databases and help systems provide bookmarks that mark a location users want to revisit in the future. us and keep checking back," he says. "We're adding new lists monthly." Although some of the newsletters contain syndicated material -- Dear Abby Dear Abby column of moral or psychological advice; syndicated since 1956. [Pop. Culture: Payton, 185] See : Guidance and Doonesbury, for example -- most of them are written in-house In-house In the context of general equities, keeping an activity within the firm. For example, rather than go to the marketplace and sell a security for a client to anyone, an attempt is made to find a buyer to complete the transaction with the firm. exclusively for DayTips.com. "A few of our more unique offerings are 'Poem-a-Day,' which includes a poem by a famous or not-so-famous poet (ranging from classical to contemporary), followed by a short biography; 'ToyTrove,' focusing on toy news, reviews, and collecting tips with an action figure focus; and 'Public Recalls,' which notifies subscribers of newly recalled consumer products," says Kennedy. Subscribers seem happy with the ad-supported newsletters. "Your 'Living Today' service is excellent! I do a radio show each evening on a country station here in South Dakota South Dakota (dəkō`tə), state in the N central United States. It is bordered by North Dakota (N), Minnesota and Iowa (E), Nebraska (S), and Wyoming and Montana (W). , and 'Living Today' is always part of my daily show prep. Thank you very much for the information," wrote one. Another subscriber told of how the 'Public Recalls' newsletter had prompted the local Ford dealership to fix her daughter's car for free. "Thank you so much for these recalls," she wrote. Kennedy established DayTips.com in late 1998. At that time the site offered just one free newsletter. DayTips.com now sends out over 290,000 newsletters each day on several dozen topics. The site and the newsletters are ad-supported, but DayTips.com has a firm policy against selling or renting subscriber names. To subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; any of the ezines and newsletters DayTips.com offers, log on to http://www.daytips.com. For advertising information, contact Mickie Kennedy at sales@daytips.com or visit http://www.daytips.com/pages/sponsor.html for more information. |
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