Samantha Seventeen is an animated computer personality who interacts with users via vocal dialogue. She enables users to access programs and search the Internet by using their voice. Samantha Seventeen can be downloaded onto users computer FOR FREE making computer-use faster, easier and fun. Not only does Samantha Seventeen open programs, search the web and take users shopping -- she has a personalized sense of humor.
And what a sense of humor does Samantha have! Samantha is just like a teenage girl. If she remains idle for too long her cell phone rings to remind you she's there. If she's busy with the user -- she'll tell her friend on the phone "she'll call her back later." If the user takes too long to make a choice, Samantha will tell you that she "hasn't got all day." She also takes brakes to slurp her cafe drink and flip her hair.
Not only is Samantha Seventeen a great device for users to navigate the web, she's the ultimate branding tool for Seventeen.com. Samantha Seventeen puts a face to the website by providing users with an infinite number of impressions. Samantha Seventeen can be compared to an onscreen billboard -- but she interacts with users and can be updated and changed over time. She is a perpetual marketing device for both Seventeen magazine and the website. Moreover, Samantha creates revenue for Seventeen.com as she directs users to advertisers' sites.
Since users will be spending a great deal of time with Samantha Seventeen, Seventeen.com conducted a series of polls asking teens what kind of ScreenFriend they wanted. Following are the results from Seventeen's online poll to design Samantha, polls indicated that girls want a ScreenFriend who:
-- Looks like Leslie Bibb from "Popular"
-- Has a personality like the trend-setting and quirky
Rachel on "Friends"
-- Dresses like Gwyneth Paltrow, who has an "impeccable"
fashion sense
There were six polls conducted in all -- the average response to each poll was over 2,000 girls. Samantha Seventeen will make her nationwide debut at the Webcast of Seventeen's New Star Designer Showcase 2000 scheduled for November 16th at 4:00 PM. Seventeen's New Star Designer Showcase features the season's hottest music and fashion -- with a special performance by Pink -- not to mention that fact that Puff Daddy and Whitney Houston stopped by to check it out! Whitney loves Seventeen as she graced the cover back in November 1981!
ScreenFriends Corp. was founded in 1998 and acquired by WENR October of this year. With the ScreenFriends(TM) Personal Inter(Face)(TM) software installed, a user can operate their computer and navigate the web simply by speaking to an interactive character in everyday language (instead of using the keyboard or mouse). ScreenFriends(TM) Corporation partners with companies to provide a valuable "relationship branding" and "voice-rich" direct marketing tool, allowing these corporations an infinite number of impressions with customers who interact with their ScreenFriend(TM) character. For more information, visit the company's web site at www.screenfriends.com.
For more information, please call: Lauren Fisch or Mark
Silver of FactoryCommunications, 212-941-7057;
or Laura Brounstein of Seventeen, 212-407-9733;
or Jonathon Barbato of ScreenFriends Corporation, A Subsidiary
of WENR Corp., 303-331-8091.
SOURCE WENR Corp.; Seventeen
CONTACT: Lauren Fisch or Mark Silver of FactoryCommunications,
212-941-7057; or Laura Brounstein of Seventeen, 212-407-9733;
or Jonathon
Barbato of ScreenFriends Corporation, 303-331-8091
URL: http://www.seventeen.com
http://www.screenfriends.com
http://www.wenr.net
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