GO.com's Wall of Sound and ARTISTdirect Network Join to Expand Music Offerings.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 10, 2000 GO.com's (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :GO) Wall of Sound (http://www.wallofsound.go.com) and ARTISTdirect, Inc. today announced an agreement to share editorial and promotional content and to enhance the exchange of traffic between the two major music sites. The deal provides ARTISTdirect.com (www.artistdirect.com) users access to Wall of Sound's daily music coverage, while providing Wall of Sound users integrated links to the ARTISTdirect Network, which includes UBL (Universal Business Language) A format for exchanging data from one XML business language to another. Based on ebXML Core Components, UBL is designed to provide a common language that acts as an intermediate vocabulary so that one XML vocabulary can interoperate with .com, a premier music search engine; imusic.com, a community site; DownloadsDirect, a digital music hub See digital media hub. ; the ARTISTdirect Superstore; and ARTISTdirect.com, home of the Web sites ARTISTdirect maintains on behalf of artists ranging from Metallica to The Backstreet Boys. &uot;This partnership enhances both Wall of Sound and the ARTISTdirect Network,&uot; said Erik Flannigan, senior executive producer of Wall of Sound. &uot;Our users expect a wealth of information on their favorite artists and bands. The agreement with ARTISTdirect will allow users easy access to ARTISTdirect's vast archive of information, Web links and multimedia for thousands of artists, as well as the ability to get closer to their favorite bands through ARTISTdirect's exclusive relationships and official sites. At the same time, Wall of Sound gives ARTISTdirect users our original editorial content in key areas like music, news, reviews, and biographies.&uot; &uot;The addition of Wall of Sound content to the ARTISTdirect Network allows us to offer our users even more comprehensive music coverage,&uot; said Marc Geiger, 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. of ARTISTdirect, Inc. &uot;These two musical properties carry a tremendous amount of music news and information and together make a powerful resource for music lovers.&uot; As part of this deep content integration with ARTISTdirect, Wall of Sound will provide full-text versions of its entire, ever-growing archive of musical biographies. Direct links to Wall of Sound artist-specific news archive pages and CD reviews will be contextually included within respective UBL.com artist pages. Visitors to Wall of Sound will benefit from a co-branded search application that draws content from both Wall of Sound and ARTISTdirect.com. Wall of Sound will also feature:
-- Contextual links throughout its biographical profiles, CD
reviews, interviews, and UBL.com artist links, including related
Web sites, tour dates, downloads, audio/video content,
merchandise, listening rooms, and more
-- Links to ARTISTdirect contests, promotions, and sweepstakes
About Wall of Sound Nominated for Best Overall Music Site by Yahoo! Internet Life Yahoo! Internet Life was a monthly magazine published by Ziff-Davis, which licensed the name from Yahoo!, a well known search engine website. It was created and launched by Barry Golson, the former executive editor of Playboy and TV guide. , Wall of Sound is the home of the most comprehensive and timely CD reviews and music news on the net. With over 3,000 album reviews by top national critics and hundreds of cross-referenced artist bios, music samples and streaming video, Wall of Sound provides its 1 million plus monthly users with a complete music experience. About GO.com GO Network is part of GO.com (NYSE:GO), which was formed in a merger between Infoseek Corporation and The Walt Disney Company's online unit, Buena Vista Internet Group (BVIG). GO.com oversees many of the Web's most popular sites and services, including the GO Network portal, ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. .com, ABCNEWS.com, Disney.com, Disneystore.com, DisneyTravel.com, ESPN.com, EXPN EXPN Expand .com, ABCSports.com, NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga .com, NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= .com, NASCAR NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing), organization that sanctions American stock-car races, est. 1948. It held its first race in Daytona Beach, Fla. Online, Family.com and Mr. Showbiz. |
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