Additionally, AdStar.com has announced its entry into a strategic alliance with business-to-business news, content and e-commerce destination, dbusiness.com, providing business users with a marketing service and tool that allows them to place locally targeted advertising. As part of the agreement, dbusiness.com will integrate a co-branded version of AdStar123.com into its web site.

Also announced by AdStar.com, were the financial results for the three- and six-month periods, which ended June 30, 2000. Revenues for the second quarter 2000 increased by 66 percent to $621,000 compared to second quarter 1999 revenues of $374,000. Revenues for the first six months of 2000 increased to $1,192,000, over 50 percent more than the 1999 period revenues of $781,000.

AdStar.com is on the web at http://www.adstar.com/. KnowledgePoint is on the Web at http://www.knowledgepoint.com/

With MapShop, an authorized user can select an area of interest through a place-name search, address match, latitude/longitude coordinates, or zoom window. Once defined, additional map layers, such as boundaries, roads, rivers, earthquake fault lines, population density, satellite imagery or shaded relief, can be added.

AP has also announced the launch of a new XML-based service, XML AP Online, and a new Internet-based delivery system, News Server Internet Delivery, allowing the integration of Associated Press content into web sites and the distribution of news on the Internet.

The Associated Press is on the Web at http://www.ap.org/. ESRI is on the Web at http://www.esri.com/.

The publishing archive service creates a digital archive of a publisher's content, provides a powerful search engine, supplies technical support and hosts and maintains the data center. The nation's second largest daily, USA TODAY, is the first publisher to implement the Qpass/ProQuest Archiver service to sell premium content on-line.

Bell & Howell Co. is on the Web at http://www.bellhowell.com/.

Unisys will combine EdgBiz, Edgil's program for the entry, modification and payment of classified advertisements using a standard Web browser, with its e-@ction Publishing Solutions, which contain ad booking, contract management, workflow management, ad planning and page-layout functions, providing an integrated advertising environment.

Edgil Associates Inc. is on the Web at http://www.edgil.com/. Unisys is on the Web at http://www.unisys.com/publishing/.

FileFlow, which has U.S. offices in Milford, Mass., has announced its second round of venture capital funding, which will further expand its presence in the United States and expand sales and marketing efforts worldwide for the company's FastSend and FastStore products.

FileFlow is on the Web at http://www.fileflow.com/.

Customers can now purchase rights to use on-line content of any American City's 41 business journals -- including the BOSTON BUSINESS JOURNAL, the SAN JOSE BUSINESS JOURNAL and the PUGET SOUND BUSINESS JOURNAL -- by clicking the iCopyright icon at the bottom of the desired business journal article. Content is custom formatted and delivered to the desktop in minutes.

iCopyright Inc. is on the Web at http://www.icopyright.com/.

In the new arrangement -- which includes ESPN.com, MapQuest.com, Switchboard.com and Yahoo! -- Real Cities will create news channels optimized for the handheld user for leading U.S. newspapers nationwide such as the ARIZONA REPUBLIC, Denver's ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS, the INDIANAPOLIS STAR and the BERGEN COUNTY RECORD.

Knight Ridder also said it developed an on-line resource devoted to coverage of the Republican National Convention that was held in Philadelphia, which included live chats with party officials and candidates, live streaming video from inside the First Union Center and continuously updated news generated by more than 100 Knight Ridder journalists from across the nation.

Knight Ridder is on the Web at http://www.knightridder.com/, while Real Cities is at http://www.realcities.com/.

As part of the agreement, the NEW YORK TIMES is building and managing a distribution channel for SkillSet services and products and making them available to its advertising agency partners and their customers. In addition, both companies are dedicating staff to the alliance in the areas of solutions development, marketing and sales support.

SkillSet is on the Web at http://www.skillset.com/.

Affinium is designed for companies seeking to implement one-to-one marketing and to leverage customer information across multiple data sources and interactive touchpoints. The STAR TRIBUNE will use two key components of the system Ð Affinium Model, Unica's data mining and predictive modeling software, and Affinium Campaign, for automated, cross-channel campaign management.

Unica is on the Web at http://www.unciacorp.com/.

Keynote speakers will include Gene de Rose, chairman & chief executive of New York City's Jupiter Communications, Stuart Garner, president & chief executive of Thomson Newspapers, Belgium's Jan Lamers, chief executive of the Tijd Group, Eugen Russ, chief executive of Austria-based Vorarlberger Medienhaus, Ulrich Reitz, editor-in-chief of the RHEINISCHE POST of Germany and Friedrich Hujer, member of the board, Agfa, Belgium.

WAN is on the Web at http://www.wan-press.org/.

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