From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V5 #154 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Wednesday, June 21 2000 Volume 05 : Number 154 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Beatnik in the news [RThurF@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue Jun 20 12:47:13 2000 From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Alloy: Beatnik in the news Streamedia.Net Selected to Join the Beatnik Leaders Program NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 20, 2000-- Streamedia Digital Solutions Group(TM) Will Add New Service Lines to Help Sonify Client Websites and Deliver Audio to Mobile Digital Devices Streamedia.Net(TM), www.streamedia.net, (NASDAQ: SMIL - news, SMILW - news; BOS: STA, STAW), announced today that it has become part of the Beatnik Leaders Program. The Beatnik Leaders Program brings together a network of Beatnik developers recognized for exceptional and groundbreaking design - from creating engaging listening experiences to complete interactive sound immersion - using the latest Beatnik tools. The Streamedia Digital Solutions Group(TM) at Streamedia.Net will be among several of the world's top Internet professional service groups participating in Beatnik's Leaders Program. As part of Beatnik's relationship with Streamedia.Net, Streamedia.Net will educate its creative teams on the art and business of "sonifying" sites with music and sound, exploiting Beatnik's training and support tools and benefiting from business referrals. Adding an interactive audio functionality to Web sites raises the Internet experience to a new level, and as such, being a mem! ber of Beatnik's Leaders Program allows the Streamedia Digital Solutions Group to help its clients foster stronger brand recognition, create a more pleasurable user experience, and develop some of the longest user session times on the Web. Beatnik relies on the Leaders to subcontract or otherwise fulfill requests to sonify Web sites. The Beatnik Leaders Program centers on the technical, artistic and practical elements of adding interactive sound and music to Web sites using leading Beatnik tools and the company's Rich Music Format (RMF). RMF is emerging as a Web standard for high quality, interactive, multi-track music and sound that does not require large file downloads or streaming, and provides secure Web-site licensing, usage and artist copyright protection. Beatnik's RMF provides the Streamedia Digital Solutions Group with enhanced flexibility to help its clients improve their product and merchandizing by adding such elements as user interface sound effects; voiceovers, alerts, prompts, and narrations on their web site; site background music; integrations with Real Networks (NASDAQ: RNWK) formats, Windows Media formats from Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Shockwave and Flash from Macromedia (NASDAQ: MACR), and QuickTime from Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL). In addition to enhancing web sites and mobile digital devices, such as cellular phones, the technology can be used to create musical e-greeting cards and voice e-mail in a bandwidth-conservative environment. About Streamedia.Net: Streamedia.Net (www.streamedia.net) is a digital media and broadband entertainment company broadcasting via the Internet. Its showcase product, The Streamedia.NetWorks(TM), integrates entertaining, interactive, streaming audio and video with dynamic news and information feeds delivered via its own StreamWire(TM). Streamedia.NetWorks' professional broadcast producers create original, compelling programming for all audiences. Streamedia.Net has launched the first of its planned networks and their associated channels on the Web including Sports Style, Crime Broadcast, Women on the Edge, and Motion Art networks. Additionally, the Bijou Cafe, at www.bijoucafe.com , has been recently acquired by Streamedia.Net. Bijou Cafe is a leading independent film and digital entertainment destination site, and was recently hailed by USA Today as a "fun cyber-art-house with wide-ranging eclectic fare, from vintage serials and cult oldies to cutting-edge shorts and animation." With this acquisition, Streamedia.Net has advanced its presence in the critical online film distribution industry. The Streamedia Digital Solutions TM Group offers a set of business-to-business solutions including rich media production services, IT services, web design, development and integration, as well as encoding, hosting and streaming. ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V5 #154 ***************************