IGN.com Wins Wired Magazine's Readers' Raves Award for Best Entertainment Site.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 18, 1999-- Leading Entertainment and Games Network for Males Tops Who's Who Who’s Who biographical dictionary of notable living people. [Am. Hist.: Hart, 922] See : Fame of Entertainment Sites and Joins Elite Winners' List IGN IGN Ignored (Status) IGN Institut Geographique National IGN Ignition IGN Instituto Geografico Nacional (Spain) IGN Imagine Games Network IGN In-Game Name (gaming) .com, a Snowball.com network, and the leading online entertainment and games destination, took highest honors as Best Entertainment Website at Wired Magazine's Readers' Raves awards ceremony on October 14, 1999. IGN.com topped the competitive list of the Web's most popular entertainment sites, which included MP3.com, Broadcast.com, E! Online, Pogo.com, Hollywood Stock Exchange, Spinner, The Onion, and others. IGN.com shared the winners' platform with Bill Gates (person) Bill Gates - William Henry Gates III, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, which he co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen. In 1994 Gates is a billionaire, worth $9.35b and Microsoft is worth about $27b. of Microsoft (Wired Visionary: Architect of the Future), Jeff Bezos Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born January 12, 1964 , Albuquerque ) is the founder, president, chief executive officer, and chairman of the board of Amazon.com. Bezos, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University, worked as a financial analyst for D. E. Shaw & Co. of Amazon.com (Ecommerce Innovator) and George Lucas Noun 1. George Lucas - United States screenwriter and filmmaker (born in 1944) Lucas , renowned film director (Entertainment Innovator). "We work extremely hard to provide high-quality content to our audience on a daily basis, so it is quite an honor to be recognized in this way by Wired's readers," said Simon Whitcombe, Network Director for IGN.com. "This award is especially gratifying grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. because it tells us that we're giving visitors what they want -- entertaining and informative content that keeps us in their mind's eye and keeps them coming back to the site. We will continue to exceed their expectations by expanding our content channels and offering more community services and incentives." IGN.com currently reports and delivers content, images, and multimedia (movies and downloads) about movies (theater, DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. , and VHS (Video Home System) A half-inch, analog videocassette recorder (VCR) format introduced by JVC in 1976 to compete with Sony's Betamax, introduced a year earlier. ), television, science fiction, video games (Sega Dreamcast, Sony PlayStation and PlayStation 2, Nintendo 64, Nintendo Gameboy and handheld games), PC and PC-accelerated games, and online gaming. About IGN.com IGN.com (www.ign.com) is the leading and most trafficked entertainment and games destination on the Internet today, publishing daily news, previews, reviews and features about movies, TV, science fiction, video games and PC games. IGN.com's content is generated by more than 25 editors based at its San Francisco headquarters, as well as, more than 55 of the highest quality content affiliate websites such as TheForce.net, PC Gameworld, Coming Attractions by Corona, and Blue's News. IGN.com brings humor, irreverence, and respected reporting to its millions of visitors every month. IGN.com is based in San Francisco, CA and is a property of Snowball.com (www.snowball.com) About Snowball.com Snowball.com is the leading online media company for Generation i - the 12-29 year old demographic who has grown up using the Internet. Snowball.com's networks include:ChickClick (www.chickclick.com), IGN.com (www.ign.com), InsideGuide.com (www.insideguide.com) and PowerStudents.com (www.powerstudents.com). Snowball.com also provides advertisers with valuable, timely research on this Web-savvy demographic. Snowball.com is a private company headquartered in San Francisco, Calif., with locations in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and Los Angeles and can be found at www.snowball.com. For more information about current Snowball.com networks, or to learn how to become an affiliate, visit www.snowball.com. |
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