Our Partners

• Anchor Partners
• Technology Partners
• Content Partners
• Marketing Partners

Anchor Partners

Adobe Systems

Founded in 1982, Adobe Systems builds award-winning software solutions for Web and print publishing. Its graphic design, imaging, dynamic media, and authoring tools enable customers to create, publish and deliver visually-rich content for various types of media. The company's products are used by Web designers, graphic designers, professional publishers, document-intensive organizations, business users, and consumers. Adobe is the fourth largest U.S.-based personal software company, with annual revenues approaching $1 billion. It employs over 2,400 employees worldwide and has operations in North America, Europe, the Pacific Rim, Japan and Latin America. Adobe's worldwide headquarters are in San Jose, California and its web site is located at www.adobe.com.

Through ActiveShare.com, Adobe PhotoDeluxe and ActiveShare users can create their own eCircles — private Web communities for sharing photos and having threaded conversations with friends and family. Adobe ActiveShare software includes everything needed to import, edit, manage and send photos directly to ActiveShare.com for sharing on the Web.

ZDNet

Based in San Francisco, ZDNet operates the leading Web destination (www.zdnet.com) for people who want to buy, use and learn about technology. ZDNet offers an enormous depth and breadth of original, fresh content that it serves to a growing audience ranging from IT professionals, to families, to gamers. Winner of the Computer Press Awards' Best Overall Online Site, ZDNet Sites consistently ranks among the Top 20 Web properties according to Media Metrix's at home/at work study and ZDNet.com has been ranked as the number-one news, information and entertainment site in ten out of the last 13 months. ZDNet's content is available worldwide through its four wholly owned and 16 licensed international sites.

eCircles.com and ZDNet have a multi-year agreement for a co-branded, private online community service that brings the power of eCircles' community-building features to ZDNet's active, tech-savvy audience. eCircles.com hosts and supports two co-branded sites, ZDNet eCircles and GameSpot eCircles. ZDNet eCircles is integrated into ZDNet's network of more than 60 sites, while GameSpot eCircles is offered on GameSpot.com, a one-stop source for information on computer games.

Technology Partners

Firetalk.com

Headquartered in South San Francisco, California, Firetalk, Inc. is leading the evolution of voice communications on the Internet and is the first company to provide a layer of voice communications on any Web site on the Web. The company's Firetalk application is the first Internet-based voice communications service that lets its users talk, chat and browse the Web together. A single, powerful application that comprises a range of free services, Firetalk provides worldwide calls, unlimited conference calling, instant messaging, voicemail and voice chat on any Web site as well as the ability to surf and talk simultaneously. Firetalk is a robust yet easy-to-use solution for communicating with a wide range of Internet users, with lightning-fast set-up time and a nearly flat learning curve. Firetalk can be found at www.firetalk.com.

BigNetwork.com

BigNetwork.com creates massively scalable community products designed to entertain and enrich the online world. BigNetwork.com's products are based on Java technology and load quickly and easily through any Java-capable Web browser. The first product based on this system, BigGames, enables thousands of people to play classic card and board games in a hip, friendly environment. BigNetwork.com hosts an extremely active entertainment and community hub featuring more than 200,000 registered members and distributes its product offerings through entertainment and community sites that reach nearly 20% of the Internet market.

IPrint.com

iPrint.com is a leading online print shop for small businesses and consumers, as well as a leading provider of private-labeled online solutions for the commercial printing industry. Founded in 1997, iPrint.com was recently distinguished with an "Innovation in Print" award by CAP Ventures, a leading print research firm, and was included on Upside Magazine's prestigious HOT 100 list of e-commerce companies. iPrint.com can be found at www.iprint.com.

eFrames.com

Founded in April 1999 by Brian Dunham, a regular consumer and amateur, eframes.com is a leading destination for printing, framing and sharing digital photographs. The Web's best and broadest collections of photo frames are literally at the customers' fingertips. Photo frames can be purchased alone or assembled with that pixel perfect photograph using eFrames.com's proprietary Framing Engine®. eFrames.com is committed to providing the easiest, most intuitive, e-commerce solution for printing, framing and sharing digital photographs. eFrames.com can be found at www.eframes.com.

Content Partners

Riffage.com

Riffage.com, an Internet-based music service aimed at connecting musicians and fans worldwide, combines powerful community, communications and e-commerce capabilities to deliver the most comprehensive source for cutting-edge music on the Net. For musicians, Riffage.com provides a powerful medium to develop their fan base, promote their music and sell both music and merchandise. For consumers, Riffage.com provides an online community where fans are matched with others of similar music tastes to discover and discuss artists and their music. Unique personalization tools provide a better consumer experience than other music sites by enabling people to receive recommendations from other listeners about music they will like. Riffage.com can be found at www.riffage.com.

Listen.com

Listen.com is the Internet's first comprehensive directory of downloadable music. The directory includes original reviews and categorization of tens of thousands of artists and links to their legally posted work on more than 300 Web sites. The San Francisco company has partnerships with leading independent record labels and online music distribution companies, including, Artemis Records, Emusic.com, Kill Rock Stars, Launch.com, Liquid Audio, Matador Records, Mjuice, MP3.com, Musicmaker, Riffage.com, Palm Pictures/Rykodisc, and Tunes.com. Robert Reid, a former venture capitalist and author of "Architects of the Web" founded the company in December 1998. Listen.com is backed by August Capital and Austin Ventures, is headquartered in San Francisco and can be found at www.listen.com.

Marketing Partners

Acer Peripherals

Acer Peripherals Inc. is one of the world's leading computer peripheral manufacturers and suppliers with revenues of more than $1.2 billion in 1998. With headquarters based in San Jose, California, Acer Peripherals America is a subsidiary of the Acer Group, the third largest PC manufacturer in the world with more than 20 years of experience in the computer industry. APA products are sold throughout North America including monitors, scanners, optical storage devices, and keyboards. Numerous Acer Peripherals America products have been ranked among the top five in the world.