Bamboo.Com Partners With Akamai to Deliver Compelling Visual Content Across the Web
Visual Content Applications Benefit From Accelerated Web Delivery
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 4, 2000--bamboo.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: BAMB - news), a leading Internet imaging service and content provider, and Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM - news), which offers global Internet content and application delivery, today announced an agreement whereby Akamai will provide its FreeFlow(sm) services to bamboo.com, allowing Web users fast access to rich visual content. Under the agreement, bamboo.com will utilize Akamai's Internet infrastructure to deliver its visual content solutions across the Web. Bamboo.com's full-service virtual tours include image capturing of multiple exterior and interior areas, image processing, Internet posting, distribution and hosting.
Bamboo.com provides its customers with full-service visual content solutions, which include content capture, processing, hosting, and delivery for more than 100 e-Commerce based Web sites such as REALTOR.com, Microsoft HomeAdvisor, VacationSpot.com and send.com. Akamai's Internet content delivery services speed up Web site performance and improve reliability by delivering Web content from Akamai servers around the globe, which are located close to Internet end users. Bamboo.com captures visual content through its worldwide network of service providers and delivers content to real estate, consumer, and e-commerce Web sites. As a result, bamboo.com's use of Akamai's services is designed to enhance the end-to-end delivery of rich, visual Web content for its customers.
''Bamboo.com strives to offer its customers superior service and provide their Web sites with rich visual content. Bamboo.com is always on the look out for new ways to enhance the way we do business,'' said Mark Searle, chief operating officer of bamboo.com. ''Akamai's technology services dramatically improve both the speed and reliability of Web sites, resulting in the delivery of dynamic, rich visual content over the Internet. This gives our customers the most compelling visual experience online.''
Taking full advantage of the Internet's interactivity, bamboo(tm) Virtual Tours consist of multiple moving panoramic images that permit, in the case of the real estate industry, potential homebuyers to view a home's interior, look around a neighborhood or see how big the pool is, as if they were actually standing there-something still photos do not allow. Bamboo.com's visual content provides viewers-whether they are shopping for a new home, looking for a place to take a vacation or a site to host a wedding reception-with pertinent information that allows them to make more informed decisions, thus saving time and money and improving the overall efficiency of the transaction for all parties involved.
''Bamboo.com delivers some of the most exciting visual content on the Web, whether a Web user is shopping for a new home or planning a vacation to one of the world's finest golf courses,'' said George Conrades, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Akamai. ''By utilizing our FreeFlow(sm) services, bamboo.com will be able to offer its customers increased performance, reliability and functionality of their Web sites, ultimately leading to an empowered Internet.''
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