Football Season Kicks Off; New Web Site for Bay Area Sports Junkies.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 22, 1996--Livesports (http://www.livesports.com), the first interactive Web site dedicated exclusively to Bay Area sports, launches next week. Livesports hits the Web with the kick-off kick-off noun (Informal) start, opening, beginning, commencement, outset, starting point, inception kick-off kick n (Sport) → coup m of the 1996 football season, offering on-line sports fans complete Bay Area sports information including headline news, game scores, transactions, events and player interviews. Livesports, which debuts Aug. 29, is the creation of Web site developer World Wide Web Inc. (WWWI). "Livesports rolls sports talk radio, television and newspaper sports coverage into one package and takes it to an entirely new level -- because it's it's 1. Contraction of it is. 2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its. it's it is or it has it's be ~have completely interactive," says Mehran Azmoudeh, WWWI 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 founder. Livesports interactive forums include a Q&A and live, on-line debates with Bay Area athletes, coaches and surprise guests. "Web technology is the ultimate medium that keeps up with the minute-by-minute changes in the world of sports," says Mark Ibanez, KTVU's Sports Director and Livesports Editor. "Game scores and trades are all available in real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. on the Web." Ibanez believes the Bay Area is an ideal region for a site like Livesports. "The interest and activity level in both sports and the Web is rabid in the Bay Area," he said. Unique to the Livesports Web site is the depth of its Bay Area sports coverage, which reaches beyond professional baseball, football and collegiate-level sports. By mid-September, Livesports will have pages devoted to local and community recreational sports, including youth soccer and little league baseball. San Francisco-based World Wide Web Inc. (WWWI) and Ibanez have teamed up to create Livesports site, which features contributions from prominent Bay Area sports writers The following is a list of sports writers. Historical sportswriters
Livesports is created and hosted by World Wide Web Inc. (WWWI). Established in 1994, WWWI is a full-service Web site development firm specializing in high profile and branded Web sites. This year, WWWI introduced its SNOW technology, a customized 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. and market research tool. More information about World Wide Web Inc., and SNOW is available at http://www.servonet.com -- or contact Christine Lehtonen, World Wide Web Inc. at 415/675-2500. CONTACT: Communications West Julie Wellik or Laurie Faraday faraday /far·a·day/ (F ) (far´ah-da) the electric charge carried by one mole of electrons or one equivalent weight of ions, equal to 9.649 × 104coulombs. far·a·day n. , 415/863-7220 jwellick@comwest.com lfaraday@comwest.com |
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