NetGuide Announces Array of Stellar Winners from First NetGuide AwardsBill Gates, E! Online and Disney Among The People's Choice Winners Amazon Books, Yahoo! and GeoCities Among the Juried Award WinnersPRNewswire The first NetGuide Awards, held last night at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles, were a smashing success, as a standing-room-only crowd of multimedia celebrities and luminaries listened to award-winning comedienne Margaret Cho announce the NetGuide Award winners. The NetGuide Awards, sponsored by Legacy Software, were created to honor the most innovative and interesting Internet products and Web sites in the world. Additional sponsors include TotalNEWS, Epson and US Robotics. NetGuide Awards People's Choice Winners Winner, Best Educational Site Discovery (http://www.discovery.com/) Winner, Best Children's Site Disney (http://www.disney.com/) Honorable Mention: Best Children's Site Mudball (http://www.halcyon.com/kat/mudball.htm) Created by 12-year old Austin Taylor Winner, Best Gaming Site The Bingo Zone (http://www.bingozone.com/) Winner, Most Entertaining Site E! Online (http://www.eonline.com/) Winner, Site with Most Social Impact GeoCities (http://www.geocities.com/) Winner, Best Live Event The 1996 Science Fiction Convention presented by The Sci-Fi Channel's Dominion Web site (http://www.scifi.com/) Winner, Best Personal Site The Viking Underground (http://www.dwx.com/~vikings) Winner, Best Internet Service Provider Mindspring Winner, Best Commercial Online Service Provider Microsoft Network (http://www.msn.com/) Winner, Net Innovator of the Year Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft Corp. NetGuide Awards Juried Winners Winner, Site with the Best Use of Technology Pointcast (http://www.pointcast.com/) Winner, Best Home Internet Appliance WebTV (http://www.webtv.com/) Winner, Best Internet Authoring Tools Claris Homepage (http://www.claris.com/) Winner, Best Internet Conferencing Software White Pine CU-SEEME Winner, Best Internet Multimedia Delivery System Gateway 2000 G6-Professional PC Winner, Best Internet Multimedia Tools Apple QuickTime Winner, Internet Desktop Netscape Navigator (http://www.netscape.com/) Winner, Best Internet Development Tools Microsoft Visual Basic Winner, Best Internet Graphics Tools Adobe Photoshop Winner, Best Internet-Ready PC Gateway 2000 Professional PC Series Winner, Best Modem US Robotics Sportster Winner, Best Internet Peripheral Connectix Quickcam Winner, Best Internet Utility Progressive Networks RealAudio (http://www.real.com/) Winner, Site with the Most Innovative Advertising Model The Bingo Zone (http://www.bingozone.com/) Winner, Best Digital Commerce Site Amazon Books (http://www.amazon.com/) Winner, Site with the Best Sense of Community GeoCities (http://www.geocities.com/) Winner, Site with the Best Information Delivery Mr. Showbiz (http://www.mrshowbiz.com/) Winner, Best Search Engine Yahoo! (http://www.yahoo.com/) Published by CMP Media Inc., NetGuide Magazine is the leading monthly magazine for users of the Internet and online services. Building off NetGuide Magazine's reputation for expert information and quality delivery, CMP launched the first true guide to the Internet, NetGuide Live (http://www.netguide.com/). CMP Media Inc. provides publishing, marketing and information services to the entire high-technology spectrum -- the builders, sellers and users of technology -- through print and electronic media. All of CMP's publications and online products can be accessed through the company's TechWeb site on the World Wide Web (http://www.techweb.com/). Print titles include EE Times, Computer Reseller News, InformationWeek and WINDOWS Magazine. Visuals from awards show available for download at http://www.passport2.com/. B-roll of awards show available upon request. Previous releases regarding nomination and voting procedures, announcement of emcee and judges, and list of finalists available at http://www.netguide.com/awards or by request. -0- 03/14/97 SOURCE: CMP Media Inc. CONTACT: Andrea Salkin or Nissa Anklesaria of KillerApp Communications, |