NTXY Nettaxi.com Goes Live with Activeworlds.com
CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 14, 2001--Nettaxi.com (Nasdaq OTC BB: NTXY), a community and portal web site with 4,169,000 unique
visitors the week ending December 30, 2000, according to PC Data Online, today announced the implementation of Activeworlds.com. This three-dimensional
internet virtual environment allows users to wander the streets of a virtual Nettaxi.com city, complete with flying taxicabs.
``The incorporation of Nettaxi.com World within the ActiveWorlds environment allow users to add a different dimension to chatting online,'' said Robert G.
Speicher, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing. ``Most people are familiar with text message programs that allow two or more people to chat online,
and some people have even experienced video chat. Here at Nettaxi.com, we have designed our own virtual cityscape with Activeworlds.com. Within this virtual
city, people can assume avatars of various characters, and virtually `walk' the streets of Nettaxi.com. High above the city, we have a floating Club Nettaxi.com
where people can listen to music and hang out with other virtual people. The graphics are amazing and will dazzle you as you enjoy this entirely new experience. We
believe this will keep people chatting online longer than the more traditional text-only chat methods, and ultimately draw more traffic and keep people at our site.''
Nettaxi.com's technical staff designed the architecture of Nettaxi.com World within the Activeworlds.com environment, while Activeworlds.com provided the
graphical interface, look and feel of the experience. Registered users can select from a number of predefined avators and can then wander the streets, listen to music
in the club or actually build virtual stores. As the popularity of Activeworlds.com grows, Nettaxi.com hopes to bring more and more people into their own
Nettaxi.com World and enjoy chatting with other Nettaxi.com members.
About Activeworlds.com
Activeworlds.com, Inc. provides software products and online services that permit users to enter, move about and interact with others in a computer-generated,
three-dimensional virtual environment using the Internet. The Active Worlds(TM) browser is a small 1 megabyte download and has been downloaded by more than
1,000,000 users worldwide. Through the technology's scalable capacity, Active Worlds(TM) users have placed more than 74,000,000 objects in Active
Worlds(TM) largest world Alphaworld, whose virtual land space is larger than the state of California. Some uses for the software include: online training and
education, website development, e-commerce and entertainment. Companies such as Boeing, Siemens, Juno, Cornell and many more are currently using Active
Worlds(TM) technology.
About Nettaxi.com
Nettaxi.com, based in Campbell, Calif., is an Internet portal with a range of services and content. Nettaxi offers members access to broadband content featuring
sports, movie clips, movie trailers, and other forms of entertainment. Nettaxi's homepage provides access to news, shopping, games, entertainment, sports, financial,
computer, educational, political and travel information. Nettaxi also provides services such as free e-mail, personal home pages, premium web hosting, chat and
message boards. Nettaxi is found on the Web at www.nettaxi.com.
Safe Harbor Statement
The matters discussed in this news release include forward-looking statments such as statements relating to our ability to keep people chatting online for longer
periods, which are subject to various risks, uncertainties, and other factors that could cause actual results to vary materially from the results anticipated in such
forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to the possibility that our planned online marketing campaigns may not attract
sufficient additional visitors to our site, keep visitors on our site for an increased period of time, our ability to retain key personnel, competition, the management of
our growth, our ability to deliver new products and services to market on time. These, and other risks detailed from time to time in our filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, represent our judgment as of the date of this release. We disclaim any intent or obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
Contact:
Nettaxi.com
Robert Speicher, 408/879-9880
bgspeich@nettaxi.com
or
Rubenstein Public Relations
Kirk Harrington, 212/843-8086
KHarrington@rubensteinpr.com
or
Investor Relations, Nettaxi.com
Jim Pearce, 949/737-1674
Jpearce@nettaxi.com |
