Rare Medium Creates Solutions Software and E-Mail System for MailSpace;Free E-Mail System Contains More Than 1,000 Domain Names
DALLAS, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Rare Medium Inc., the Web consulting services arm of Rare Medium Group Inc. (Nasdaq: RRRR), announced it has been selected by MailSpace to develop the software and create a new web-based e-mail system capable of handling thousands of domain names. MailSpace is the first advertiser-supported, free e-mail provider to offer customers more than 1,000 extensions to select from to establish their Internet identity.
According to John South, senior vice president of operations Southwest region, Rare Medium Inc., when the free e-mail system launches in November, users of the site with Internet access can send and receive e-mail from all over the world. The e-mail service is designed to allow customers the ability to select e-mail addresses with personal affinities, hobbies, professions and interests. For example, a customer whose pastime is sailing can choose the sailing domain name, sailmail.net, and establish an e-mail in this category (johndoe@sailmail.net).
MailSpace, based in Abilene, Texas, was initiated in 1998 by Randall Barnett to add distinguishable e-mail addresses to the traditional forms of maintaining contact and communicating with people -- various addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses. MailSpace e-mail domain names are easier to remember because they are tailored to such things as personal interests, activities and professions. MailSpace conducted marketing research and the results indicated people want distinguishable e-mail addresses, not just obscure letters and numbers.
"I chose Rare Medium because they are well-seasoned professionals versed in every aspect of the Internet and its surrounding technologies, said Barnett. "I was impressed by their technical expertise. Rare Medium has developed software that brings MailSpace to life," said Barnett.
John South, general manager of Rare Medium's Dallas operations, said, "Rare Medium understood what MailSpace needed for its e-mail service, and we used our creative, strategic and technology resources to develop software specific to its needs."
About Rare Medium Inc.
Rare Medium Inc., www.raremedium.com, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Rare Medium Group Inc., is an Internet solutions firm that helps clients develop E-commerce Internet strategies, improve business processes, develop marketing communications, branding strategies and interactive content using Internet- based technologies and solutions. Rare Medium Inc. has more than 400 Internet professionals who develop Internet- and web-based solutions primarily for large and medium-sized corporations, including Microsoft, The New York Times, Merrill Lynch, Epson, Hotel Reservations Network, Flowserve and Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C., among other leading companies.
About Rare Medium Group Inc.
The mission of Rare Medium Group Inc., www.raremediumgroup.com, is to incubate paradigm-shifting ideas and build the next wave of blockbuster companies by leveraging its award-winning Internet development arm, Rare Medium Inc. Companies currently in development include: www.liveuniverse.com, a "Micro-Portal Enabler" with more than 100,000 web sites in its network; www.iface.com, a "VoIP" company, "Voice Enabling" the Internet; www.changemusic.com, a company at the vanguard of the digital music revolution -- using the Internet to find, promote and distribute the best new music first; and www.regards.com, an online greeting card and viral marketing company. Rare Medium Group Inc. is headquartered in New York with additional offices throughout the United States, Canada and abroad.
Except for historical matters contained herein, the matters discussed in this press release are forward-looking and are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Investors are cautioned that these forward-looking statements reflect numerous assumptions and involve risks and uncertainties that may affect Rare Medium Group Inc., and its subsidiaries' business and prospects and cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements. Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ are Rare Medium's limited operating history; competition; low barriers to entry; reliance on strategic relationships; rapid technological changes; inability to complete transactions on favorable terms and those risks discussed in the company's filings with the SEC.
SOURCE Rare Medium Inc.
CO: Rare Medium Inc.; Rare Medium Group Inc.; MailSpace
ST: Texas, New York
IN: CPR MLM
SU: PDT
10/27/1999 13:08 EDT prnewswire.com |
