Visual Data To Provide Medical Video Content For NBCi's Snap Internet Portal For Higher-Speed Users
POMPANO BEACH, Fla., Dec. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Visual Data Corporation (Nasdaq: VDAT - news), a leading provider of original video content for the Internet, today announced that its MedicalView subsidiary has been chosen by NBC Internet Inc.'s (Nasdaq: NBCI - news) Snap Internet portal to provide medical- oriented video content for Snap's enhanced portal for higher-speed users (http://speed.snap.com).
Launched last winter, Snap For Higher-Speed Users is an Internet portal catering to the needs of high-speed users. It is designed to provide Internet users with an experience that showcases all rich-media types -- video, audio, gaming, animation, telephony and more -- built atop Snap's Internet directory and search service. The site features rich media content in all key Snap topics, including Health, Kids & Family, Living, and Science & Technology.
``Snap For Higher-Speed Users offers us the ideal platform to showcase our library of medical videos that we have been compiling over the past few years,' said Glen Udine, Vice President of MedicalView, a Visual Data subsidiary. ``High-speed connections are opening the door for Internet users to enjoy video over the Web as never before. Our videos are designed to give consumers and health professionals information on a variety of health and medical topics including nutrition, wellness, fitness, surgical and diagnostic procedures, chronic disease conditions, health and medical treatments and products from the comfort of their PC.'
``As more users gain access to higher-speed Internet connections, they are looking for an Internet portal where they can quickly find a rich, full visual experience, not just text-based lists of Web sites,' said Benjamin Feinman, General Manager, Broadband, NBC Internet, Inc. ``We believe that the addition of MedicalView's library of video content will benefit our users who are looking for rich media medical content on the Web.'
Snap For Higher-Speed Users is a high-speed starting point of choice in the rapidly converging worlds of video, audio, communications and the Internet, offering users multimedia content and navigation services provided by a host of partners.
``We are pleased to be recognized as a leader of broadband content by an industry pioneer like NBCi,' said Randy Selman, President and CEO of Visual Data. ``We founded Visual Data on the belief that high-speed access to the Internet would lead toward Interactive Television, and have been preparing for that event by compiling a catalog of informational videos. As the convergence of the Internet and television continues to move forward, the content we are creating will be demanded by Internet users.'
Visual Data has established strategic alliances with major Internet players such as Yahoo! Broadcast Services, Road Runner, PR Newswire, TravelWeb, Rezsolutions, and Intelihealth, to provide those sites with original video content. In addition, Visual Data has also established a roster of other original video content Web sites, including HotelView.com, ResortView.com, CareView.com, MedicalView.com and Videonewswire.com.
Snap, the Internet portal service from NBC Internet, Inc., offers users powerful ways to search for, find and buy virtually anything on the Internet. Snap's Internet portal services feature content from over 100 leading Web publishers, and are distributed by more than 50 Internet Service Providers, telephone and communications companies, PC manufacturers and third-party marketers. Snap also offers Snap For Higher-Speed Users (http:/speed.snap.com) a service for broadband users, offering top-quality video and audio content. At the heart of Snap's portal services is a directory of Web sites and over 500 resource centers, built by a team of editors and reviewers to ensure quality, freshness and usefulness. Users may either search the Snap directory by using keywords, or browse through the directory's 16 topic categories.
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