sixdegrees & mybytes.com Press Update
Attention hoops fans: The Ultimate Online
Basketball Pool -- Shoot, Score, Win a Million! Sweepstakes via sixdegrees.com
sixdegrees users can enter to win autographed memorabilia from basketball legends like
Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson; Not to mention ... one lucky person could win
one million dollars!
Sixdegrees, www.sixdegrees.com, today tipped off of its Shoot, Score, Win a Million!
Sweepstakes based on the outcome of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
Men`s Basketball Championship 2000. The lucky entrant who selects the winning teams for
all sixty-three games played over the three-week time period will be eligible to win the
Grand Prize of a cool one million dollars! In addition, sixdegrees users can win thousands
of dollars in cash prizes and autographed sports paraphernalia by entering a progressive
bracket contest that is played and scored on a weekly basis.
Open to sixdegrees registrants new and old, the promotion begins:
-- 9:00 a.m. EST, March 13, 2000 and ends at 6:00 p.m. EST on April 1, 2000.
-- Members can click on the Shoot, Score, Win a Million! icon to enter the Million Dollar
Game.
-- Before the tournament begins, users must have selected their picks for all sixty-three
games played. Points are earned for each winning team selected and the entrant who selects
the winning teams for all the games wins the whopping one million dollar grand prize.
-- The entrant with the highest point accumulation will be awarded a second-place prize of
a multi-station home gym valued at approximately $5,000 - not too shabby!
Get With the Program Uncle Sam!
College Students Want To Vote Online
80% of College Students Say They`re
More Likely To Vote If They Can Do So On The Web
The answer to a frequently asked question posed by educators, politicians and even MTV
with its ''Rock the Vote'' campaign may only be a click away. Two-thirds of college
students say they would voice their opinion and vote if they could do so on the Web,
according to a Pulsefinder(TM) survey conducted by YouthStream Media Networks, publishers
of sixdegrees(R) and mybytes.com(TM), in partnership with marketing research provider
Greenfield Online.
Visit the ''Politics 2000 hub'' at mybytes.com (http://www.mybytes.com)
for complete survey results. The ''Politics 2000 hub'' at mybytes.com also features
articles on this year`s presidential race, weekly polls, discussions and more.
Webivore Knowledge Systems to Deliver Award Winning College
Webivore Online Research System via sixdegrees and mybytes.com
College Webivore is free for sixdegrees and mybytes.com users
The sixdegrees/mybytes.com College Webivore provides detailed previews of educational and
informational that students can use for research and more. Previews are written by
Webivore`s Content Experts - a group of scholars, librarians, and teachers specializing in
sciences, literature, history, and the arts. All sixdegrees/mybytes.com College Webivore
information is continually
updated and checked for accuracy. Students can now select and save exactly the information
they want from any web site and automatically save the complete bibliographic reference,
all in a personal notebook file.
sixdegrees and mybytes.com provide students with Discount Sessions.edu`s Online Web Design
Curriculum
In addition, sixdegrees and mybytes.com team with Schoolbytes.com to offer users a unique
suite of study and reference tools
Sister sites, sixdegrees(R) and mybytes.com(TM) will offer students a cache of online
design courses via Sessions.edu, the leading online provider of new media and design
education and sixdegrees and mybytes.com. Users of sixdegrees and mybytes.com now have the
ability to enhance their academic portfolio by participating in Sessions.edu`s design
courses available on both sites. Beginning in May, students who register for
Sessions.edu`s online design courses via sixdegrees and mybytes.com will receive a 15
percent discount. Currently, sixdegrees and mybytes.com are the only web sites offering
students such a significant discount on Sessions.edu courses.
College Students Using mybytes.com Have Free
Access To Versaware`s Co-Branded Reference Center
mybytes.com, www.mybytes.com provides millions of college students access to Versaware`s
reference center. Students using mybytes.com are able to easily cross-search through
Versaware`s reference center, which is fully integrated into the mybytes.com hub. The
Versaware reference center includes the 29-volume unabridged Funk and Wagnalls
Encyclopedia, The Random House Webster`s College Dictionary, an interactive World Atlas
and over 10,000 multimedia elements such as photos, maps, animations, music, sound effects
and more. The mybytes.com academic center currently provides users with reviewed academic
Web sites, a vast reference center, major and course information and discussions. |