WILLIAMSTOWN, MA, Feb. 21,
2001 – Clickshare Service Corp., the leading infrastructure provider for
marketing digital content on the Internet, today announced a pilot project with
AccuWeather, the World’s Weather Authority™, for customized delivery of
weather-related information.
At the Internet World
Wireless 2001 conference in New York this week, the two companies are
previewing the wireless delivery of weather information to pagers and other
untethered devices, customized for the first time to the interests of
individual subscribers.
AccuWeather.com, the Best
Weather on the Web,™ is a premiere provider of weather forecasts, data,
graphics and other information to clients that include 
media, government, educational institutions,
business organizations and private users. For the most part, individuals
subscribe through third-party carriers such as telephone companies. In the
prototype being demonstrated at Internet World Wireless 2001, Clickshare
provides the transaction infrastructure to enable these resellers to deliver
individualized content to their subscribers.
“Wireless delivery of individualized content expands access to
information, offering carriers and portals another way to buy and distribute
weather, " said Dr. Joel N. Myers, AccuWeather founder and president . In
order to deliver a service that is tailored to the needs of individual
subscribers, we need a partner that shares our obsession with quality,
timeliness, and accuracy. The pilot project with Clickshare is intended to
prove that wireless devices such as pagers and cellphones can profitably
provide this information anywhere, at any time. 
Clickshare President Nell
Fields said, “This pilot demonstrates a new flexibility for buyers and sellers
of digital content. Until now, end users could only retrieve their weather
information through bulk subscription services. Now, Clickshare makes regular
or premium content more accessible, instead of being wedded to pre-paid
subscription services. Millions of direct and indirect users trust the
AccuWeather name, a reputation that has developed over the past 39 years, and
we are delighted to be partnering with them.”
Clickshare’s service for a
digital content exchange includes payment aggregation, audience measurement,
site-access control, personalization and privacy-protected demographics
management.
About AccuWeather and AccuWeather.com
AccuWeather,
the World's Weather Authority(TM), provides a portfolio of products and
services that benefit hundreds of millions of people worldwide; through the
airwaves, via the Internet, in print and behind the scenes. AccuWeather
services more than15,000 customers in media, business, government and
institutions and millions more through AccuWeather.com.
AccuWeather also provides
content onto more than 1,200 Internet sites including CNN Interactive, MSNBC,
The Associated Press, The Washington Post and the New York Times. AccuWeather
currently employs more than 400 people, including 93 operational
meteorologists, the largest staff of operational forecasters at one location
anyplace in the world. AccuWeather was founded in 1962 by Dr. Joel N. Myers,
then a Penn State graduate student.
About Clickshare Service Corp.
Clickshare
facilitates one-click sharing of digital content and users among content owners
and other infomediaries. The Clickshare service includes payment aggregation,
audience measurement, site-access control, personalization and privacy-protected
demographics management. It provides
portals and other proprietors with built-in customer bases, such as ISPs,
wireless carriers, banks, and affinity groups with a way to strengthen and
monetize their bond with customers. Clickshare offers consumers a way to have
an account at one web site, yet buy content from many other websites -- without
having to pass around a credit card number, fill out forms or give up personal
information.
CONTACT:
Tom Burka, 814-235-8628
[Burka@accuwx.com]
Ed Bride, 413-442-7718
[Bride@clickshare.com]
Bill Densmore,
413-458-8001 [Densmore@clickshare.com]