Boy is this insane..I guess I need to take a walk for two days and then ..come back..
Repeat of the same hype...Someone call the Crim-catchers...ouch.
GeoCities in Pact to Promote
7th Level Animated Character Technology
Starts with Free Digital Santa that Members Can Use
To Create Talking Animations for Their Websites
DALLAS, Texas, December 4, 1998 - 7th Level, Inc.
(NASDAQ: SEVL) and GeoCities (NASDAQ: GCTY)
announced that GeoCities -- the world's largest and
fastest growing community of personal websites -- is
offering exclusively to GeoCities members a special
text-to-speech version of 7th Level's Agent 7 animated
character technology.
The special holiday version of Agent 7 enables
GeoCities members to create reusable animations of
Santa Claus and six other seasonal characters.
Members can lip-synch the characters using
text-to-speech synthesis in a variety of different voices
to create -- within seconds -- an unlimited number of
animations for their personal web sites.
This unique version of Agent 7, offered as a free
download to all GeoCities members, marks the
beginning of a marketing relationship between
GeoCities and 7th Level to promote the complete line
of 7th Level enhanced communications applications.
Plans include special promotions for Mail 7, Present 7
and a variety of special character pack offerings later
this year and in early 1999.
GeoCities is supporting the marketing effort with
integrated text mentions and rotating banners
throughout the GeoCities community from now through
February 1999. In addition, 7th Level will actively
participate in the GeoCities House Warming program,
featuring targeted emails to the 12,000 new members
that join GeoCities every day.
The special version of Agent 7 is being promoted on
GeoCities' first "Holiday Member Tools Showcase" of
festive animations, backgrounds and graphic add-ons.
The page
(http://www.geocities.com/members/addons/7thlevel/)
also features links to 7th Level's www.7thlevel.com,
where members can get more information on 7th
Level's interactive animated character applications.
"The spirit of the holidays provides the perfect
opportunity for us to offer a gift from 7th Level and
GeoCities to our rapidly growing member base," said
Michael Barrett, GeoCities Vice President of
Advertising Sales. "Our members are quickly adopting
enhanced communications for their web sites, emails
and messages, and we are pleased to work with 7th
Level in growing this expanding business."
Donald Schupak, Chairman of 7th Level, said the
GeoCities agreement marks the beginning of web
community expansion for 7th Level's enhanced
communications technology throughout the Internet.
"As the Internet consolidates, through combinations
like America Online and Netscape, users will
consolidate into web communities like GeoCities,
which have become some of the hottest growth areas
on the Net," he explained.
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