BuzzCompany. com Selects Bowstreet Web Services Marketplace to
(PRWEB) April 9, 2000
BuzzCompany. com extends its community ASP offerings – including discussion boards, polling, surveys, ratings, product reviews and advertising – across Internet via the Bowstreet Business Web Exchange
NEW YORK, NY, April 5, 2000 – BuzzCompany. com (www. buzzcompany. com), the leading provider of XML (Extensible Markup Language)-based e-community software, today announced its selection of Bowstreet’s (www. bowstreet. com) Business Web Exchange as the next generation ASP platform through which it will expand its market reach and generate new revenue from its BuzzPower e-community software (comprised of discussion boards, ratings, product reviews, surveys, targeted advertising and other “buzz” generating services).
“The Bowstreet Business Web Exchange is an ideal venue for BuzzCompany to leverage our commerce-enabled BuzzPower e-community platform. We expect to quickly expand the market reach of our software as companies engage e-community services provided by BuzzPower through the Bowstreet Business Web Exchange, and integrate it with other cutting-edge technologies,” said Zor Gorelov, president and CEO of BuzzCompany. com. “We chose Bowstreet to establish powerful B2B communities that enable buyers and sellers to build profitable partnerships and relationships in a fraction of the time and cost, minimizing business meetings, phone calls, special legal arrangements and months of custom programming.”
BuzzCompany. com will publish its BuzzPower e-community platform to the Bowstreet Business Web Exchange as web services wrapped in XML. Companies visiting the Exchange can obtain any combination of these web services, customize the “look and feel,” and integrate them into their website as part of their own portfolio of services. For example, a net market maker can go to the Bowstreet Business Web Exchange, obtain BuzzCompany. com’s discussion boards, product reviews and ratings engine as web services wrapped in XML, and embed them into their own web site where they can customize the look and feel to precisely brand their company. From there, the net market maker can set up an e-community with unlimited numbers of discussion boards, pertaining to a specific vertical market and enable product reviews feature integrated with products in the e-commerce catalog.
To help encourage subscription to BuzzPower services and create a dynamic e-community around the Bowstreet Business Web Exchange, BuzzPower is being deployed throughout the site.
“BuzzCompany. com’s e-community software helps companies transform community ‘buzz’ into profitable e-business, through highly scalable discussion boards, targeted advertising, member-contributed ratings, and integration of e-commerce catalogs, auctions and exchange software packages into BuzzPower communities,” Bob Crowley, Bowstreet’s president and CEO explained. “The Bowstreet Business Web Exchange is the ideal portal through which BuzzCompany. com can easily and cost-effectively ‘rent’ their BuzzPower platform across the Internet, reaching a much wider range of customers and partners than was previously possible.”
The BuzzPower 3.0 Portal Edition is the flagship product of the BuzzPower family, and is designed for large-scale web destinations, including support for web farms, load balancing, failover and clustering. The Portal Edition incorporates operational, management and monitoring tools, and will be available on the Bowstreet Business Web Exchange when it goes live in Q2 2000.
The Bowstreet Business Web Exchange
The Bowstreet Business Web Exchange is the most tangible manifestation to date of the web services revolution that technology giants are only beginning to outline. It is also the Internet’s first two-way B2B community. While other B2B sites simply publish content or enable transactions, the Bowstreet Business Web Exchange creates a “network effect” as companies publish and acquire web services, and proliferate one another’s presence across the Internet.
About BuzzCompany. com
Founded in 1996, Silicon Alley-based BuzzCompany. com is a leading provider of e-community products and services for both major corporations and dot. com ventures. Key customers include Multex. Com, CNBC. Com, EB2B, OnHealth. com, Lucent Technologies, Microsoft, NBC, iTurf. com (previously DeliaÂ’s Interactive) and Planetkidz. com.
For more information, contact Keith Kaplan, BuzzCompany. comÂ’s Director of Internet Marketing, at 212-425-1122 ext. 300 or keithk@BuzzCompany. com.
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