Monday, February 12, 2001		The world of  dot.com

Break a heart this Valentine’s Day

Day after tomorrow is Valentine’s Day. The dot.com world is full of stuff for the Cupid-struck. Here are a few of them:

This site that is one-year-old now asks you to win while sending e-Valentine’s card. Onlineclassics.com is a Web site that offers performing arts lovers worldwide the chance to access their favourite performances at the click of a button. Embracing the latest technology in audio-visual streaming, Onlineclassics.com has recently premiered the film of the Royal National Theatre’s production of Merchant of Venice, and streamed live performances from some of the most famous performing arts venues in the world, like the Salzburg Festival, the Arena di Verona and the Vienna State Opera.

In addition to the streaming of live events, Onlineclassics.com also provides a constantly growing archive (currently over 150 hours) of video-on-demand of opera, theatre, concerts, dance and musicals, available to watch entirely at the user’s convenience. New and live broadcasts of the performing arts are being added to the site each week.

The site www.hungama.com is all about winning prizes. Click on Valentine’s hungama and you will find a heart-downloading. Break a heart with McDonald’s is what the site dares you to do. It actually requires you to buy a value or combo meal at any of the promoter’s restaurants in Mumbai and Pune, get a heart and break it open to win prizes. The site gives the surfer one-hundred cyberpoints for every promo that one participates in. Other e-promo links on the site are by Pantaloons, Swatch, TVS, Apnaloan, besides others. The site requires an ID and password to log on to.

A site that explains why Valentine’s Day is celebrated, www.holidays.net, has links to the story of Valentine’s Day and history of Valentine’s Day cards. The site also provides links to send e-greetings. So here for your entertainment are some fun holiday things for you and your family. The site has got stories, holiday crafts to make and some "Beat ‘n hearts" (a Valentine movie to download)!

The site www.theholidayspot.com is for Valentine’s Day freaks. The section Announce 21 reasons why you love your sweetheart. The home page has links to 12 other pages that includes Valentine jokes, Valentine poems, Valentine wallpaper and it’s history, besides other links. The site provides Valentine screensaver too.