BAMB + MSFT - Bamboo.com and Microsoft Partner to Deliver Virtual Tour Gallery
Tour NBC's ''Will and Grace" Studio Home in Addition to the Many Unique Residential Homes Across the Country
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 12, 1999--Bamboo.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: BAMB - news), a leading provider of 360-degree virtual tours, offers an exclusive look inside the set of NBC's hit sitcom ''Will and Grace'' on MSN HomeAdvisor.com. The entertainment set, or ''home,'' of one of today's hottest television shows, which begins its second season on NBC this evening, is available for exploration at the Virtual Tour Gallery on MSN HomeAdvisor. The virtual tour of the characters_ apartment may be viewed on the MSN HomeAdvisor site, homeadvisor.com.
''Our virtual tour of the Will and Grace 'apartment' is the only inside look that provides moving panoramic images of the set of one of TV's most popular shows,'' said Kevin B. McCurdy, founder of bamboo.com. ''We applied the same technology and service used to provide 360-degree virtual tours of residential real estate properties to allow viewers to tour the Will and Grace set as though they were actually standing in the living room of the characters_ New York City apartment.''
Bamboo.com and MSN HomeAdvisor have a distribution agreement that allows real estate professionals to order a bamboo.com 360-degree virtual home tour for a property and have it appear along with their listings on HomeAdvisor. The tours are priced at $99.95 for 360-degree moving pictures of four interior and/or exterior scenes of a home. Bamboo.com provides a full service that includes image capturing, processing and posting on the HomeAdvisor site. Bamboo(TM) Virtual Tours simplify the home buying and selling process, and save real estate professionals and their clients valuable time.
''HomeAdvisor is excited to provide bamboo Virtual Tours of homes throughout the United States to the millions of MSN visitors each month,'' said Ian Morris, group product manager for MSN HomeAdvisor. ''Our Virtual Tour Gallery is attracting home buyers in record numbers, sending thousands of qualified leads to our partners.''
About bamboo.com
Based in Palo Alto, CA, bamboo.com (NASDAQ: BAMB - news) is a leading provider of 360-degree virtual tours on the Internet. Bamboo.com maintains key relationships with major real estate Web sites and multiple listing service (MLS) providers, including HomeStore.com, REALTOR.com, HomeSeekers.com, Microsoft HomeAdvisor, HOMES.com, CyberHomes, LoopNet, Moore Data Services and GTE. As a result of these alliances, bamboo(TM) Virtual Tours can currently be viewed on America Online (AOL), Yahoo!, Microsoft Network (MSN), Excite, Netscape Netcenter, GO Network/InfoSeek, NBC, The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition and others. Company investors include Intel Corporation, Trident Capital, the Walden Group and VantagePoint Venture Partners. For more information about bamboo.com, visit bamboo.com or call toll free 1-888-7BAMBOO. Editors, please contact Antenna Group, Inc.: Heidi K. Zuhl at 415-977-1915, or press@bamboo.com.
About MSN HomeAdvisor
HomeAdvisor is the Internet's complete guide for finding homes and loans, combining Microsoft® technology with services and expertise from some of the most trusted names in the real estate industry. It empowers consumers through every step of the home-buying process and is the first Internet site to fully integrate content and services such as neighborhood, crime and school statistics with homes, loans, editorial content and expert advice. Winner of the Inman Innovator Award as the best residential real estate site, HomeAdvisor is a PC Magazine Top 100 Web site and Yahoo! Internet Life ''Best of the Best'' winner. Part of the MSN network of Internet products and services, HomeAdvisor launched in July 1998 and is free on the World Wide Web at homeadvisor.com (connect-time charges may apply).
This press release contains forward-looking information within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and is subject to the safe harbors created by those sections. Actual results may differ materially. The matters discussed in this press release also involve risks and uncertainties described from time to time in bamboo.com, Inc.'s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In particular, see ''Risk Factors'' in the Final Prospectus included in the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-1 declared effective by the SEC on August 25, 1999 (www.sec.gov). sec.gov
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Contact:
Antenna Group
Heidi K. Zuhl, 415/977-1915;
press@bamboo.com
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