Wave Issue 9035 4/05/99 Article 9-01

***GeoCities and Realnetworks Team Up
(March 1)

RealNetworks and GeoCities announced a distribution and marketing
agreement which will provide more than 3 million GeoCities
Homesteaders seamless support for creating and streaming
RealSystem G2 multimedia content. Through the agreement, millions
of Homesteaders may offer next-generation media experiences to
their business partners, customers, friends, and colleagues by
taking advantage of production tools and Web multimedia hosting
services.

GeoCities will be installing RealSystem G2 RealServers to provide
a free trial period of streaming media hosting services for their
customers, enabling them to stream their multimedia content from
their Web sites. Additionally, these users of GeoCities services
will be provided with RealProducer G2, at no charge, for easy and
simple production of RealSystem G2 multimedia content.

The agreement will allow GeoCities small business users to create
a wide range of streaming video applications including customer
education, promotional, real estate listings and training videos.
GeoCities consumers will now be able to post home videos of
friends and family, weddings, and vacations on their personal Web
pages in streaming audio, video or as a slideshow.

Also announced Dazzle Multimedia will be offering an Internet
Edition of its market leading Dazzle Digital Video Creator
available in parallel port and USB versions, based on
RealProducer G2. The Dazzle Digital Video Creator Internet
Edition will allow GeoCities members to easily capture, edit,
manage and publish digital video content and produce RealSystem
G2-based Web pages.

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