Durand Communications Introduces New CommunityWare Services for the Internet; Revolutionary Internet groupware for communities; First to offer sustainable revenue model.SANTA BARBARA Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 30, 1996--Durand Communications, Inc. (Durand), a leading developer of client/server tools, applications and services, today announced the upcoming release of two new CommunityWare services: B.Y.O.C. (Build Your Own Community), a new Internet See Web 2.0 and Internet2. service allowing anyone to create their own private intranet on the World Wide Web, and Ad-bank, a new interactive advertising service combined with a revenue sharing revenue sharing Funding arrangement in which one government unit grants a portion of its tax income to another government unit. For example, provinces or states may share revenue with local governments, or national governments may share revenue with provinces or states. model to reward the most active members of CommunityWare. Together, these new CommunityWare services provide solutions for the anticipated growth in demand to use the Internet as a communications tool and not just a content source. "Today, the content-centric models of consumer online services and the Web consume tremendous energy, time and human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. ," said Durand 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. Andre Durand André Durand (born Canada 1947) is a painter working in the European tradition. He is heir to such painters as Rubens, Titian and Velasquez. Although Durand is perhaps best known for his allegorical portraits, such as Princess Diana as Fortuna, he achieved international . "Durand CommunityWare is designed for the organizations and Internet users that desires real-time communication and groupware functionality, yet cannot spend the time, money or effort required to setup and facilitate a complete hardware and software system on their own." Durand's CommunityWare B.Y.O.C. service (Build Your Own Community) allows anyone to instantly create a private (or public) area on the Internet for real-time communication and information sharing See data conferencing. between friends, family, academia and business associates. Creating an online community is simple. Users select an online identity, choose a community name, select the desired community services and "look" of the community and then invite members to join through e-mail, fax or U.S. mail. Online communities are created on-the-fly and can be accessed by selected members instantly. Finally, with a link to an existing Web site or utilizing Durand's dynamic Web page A Web page that is returned to the user with custom content based on the results of a search or some other request. Also known as "dynamic HTML" or "dynamic content," the "dynamic" word is used with Web sites to refer to custom results individualized to each user in contrast to the creator, the Creator, the common sobriquet for God. [Pop. Usage: Misc.] See : God host completes the process for wrapping their Web site presence into their own community context. Community services available to users include: message boards, chat, e-mail directories, who's live, instant messaging, Internet phone, personalized Web pages, links to other Web sites and the ability to conduct electronic commerce and exchange money for community services. Communities generate advertising and transaction revenues which can be used as credit for development services, hosting fees and other community services costs which can yield relatively free services. Durand's CommunityWare Ad-bank service is a new interactive advertising model with a revenue sharing protocol that rewards the most active community facilitators. The Ad-bank service automatically places advertisements within a community that has been defined as a target group of consumers by the advertiser. Advertisers also have complete remote control over their account through Internet access and can quickly and easily rotate and redirect ads as often as they would like. Advertisers pay a one-time fee for posting their advertisement in the Ad-bank database and pay ongoing fees for the number of views and "click-throughs" an advertisement receives in a given period of time. "A key component of CommunityWare is the ability to share revenues between community sponsors, content and service providers," explained Casey Hughes, COO and EVP EVP Executive Vice President EVP EGR (Exhaust Gas Recirculation) Valve Position Sensor EVP Electronic Voice Phenomenon EVP Europäische Volkspartei (Germany) EVP Employee Value Proposition of Durand. "With the CommunityWare Ad-bank service, advertising revenues are automatically calculated and distributed between content providers and community sponsors along with transaction revenues driven from community services. This allows us to reward those sponsors that have the most active communities and thus ensure the survival of online communities." First announced at Spring Internet World, Durand CommunityWare is best described as "groupware for the Internet." It combines interactive services with software and protocols to provide a robust vehicle for real-time communication, information sharing and electronic commerce. "Durand is addressing a huge potential market for the millions of consumers and small business owners who will want to use the Internet as a networking and communications tool, but do not have the wherewith where·with pron. The thing or things with which. conj. By means of which. adv. Obsolete With what or which. all to purchase, setup and install their own systems," stated Ezra Gottheil, PhD., Hurwitz Group, Inc. Durand CommunityWare also serves as an Internet distribution channel for businesses that wish to deploy their products and services electronically throughout all communities on CommunityWare. By offering community-focused products and services to the members of an online community, businesses can expand their current market share and generate recurring revenue streams through electronic community transactions. Durand CommunityWare showcases a new live protocol (LAPI LAPI Low-level Application Programming Interface LAPI Low Level Api ) for creating real-time interaction between people on a web site using any Java or ActiveX enabled 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. . LAPI is designed to give content providers the ability to interact with each other on the Internet in a variety of new ways including live messages, real-time chat, whiteboards and document sharing. LAPI will be available to third-party developers of CommunityWare services in the fourth quarter 1996 and supports development in Java, ActiveX or Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC (Microsoft Foundation Class) An application framework for writing Microsoft C/C++ and Visual C++ applications. See application framework. MFC - Microsoft Foundation Class ). In support of the new CommunityWare services, Durand has also rallied the support of technology vendors such as Microsoft Corporation, Digital Equipment Corporation, Netspeak, CyberCash and AT&T to create solutions for developing online communities. Durand has also forged strong alliances with high schools, universities, magazine publishers, non-profit organizations, businesses and political organizations for participation in the CommunityWare services evaluation program which began Sept. 16. A commercial release of these new CommunityWare services is scheduled for Fall COMDEX The former, premier computer trade show in the U.S. Although it grew into an end user event, it was originally created for dealers and distributors (it was the COMputer Dealers EXposition). 1996. Further information about Durand CommunityWare can be obtained from Durand's corporate Web site at http://www.durand.com. All components of Durand CommunityWare support open standards and Internet tools such as Microsoft's ActiveX technology and Internet Information Server See IIS. (World-Wide Web) Internet Information Server - (IIS) Microsoft's web server and FTP server for Windows NT. IIS is intended to meet the needs of a range of users: from workgroups and departments on a corporate intranet to ISPs hosting websites that receive , Sun's Java programming language and Digital's Alpha NT Processor. Durand CommunityWare requires that all Community members have Internet access and use a Web browser that supports JavaScript and frames such as Netscape Navigator 3.0 or Microsoft Internet Explorer See Internet Explorer. 3.0. Founded in 1993, Durand Communications, Inc. (Durand) is a leading developer of client/server tools, applications and services for real-time electronic commerce and live Internet/intranet communications. Durand's new CommunityWare combines software technology, services and applications to facilitate the building of virtual communities. Durand also develops MindWire NT, a client/server developers toolkit for building online communities with real-time applications and services. Durand is headquartered at 147 Castilian Drive, Santa Barbara, Calif. 93117; 805/961-8700; http://www.durand.com. CONTACT: Durand Communications, Inc. Jennifer Slavin, 805/961-8700 ext. 221 jennifer@durand.com |
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