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Geocaching.com Wins Prestigious People’s Voice Webby Award

Site Honored with People’s Voice Webby Award

SEATTLE, June 6 /PRNewswire/ — Geocaching.com, the global Web site for
the popular sport of geocaching, was a big winner last night at the 2003 Webby
Awards ceremony, the Oscars(R) of the online industry. Geocaching.com was
awarded a People’s Voice Webby Award for Best Community Web site.
Launched in September of 2000, Geocaching.com was established to help
players of a high-tech treasure hunting game — geocaching — place and seek
caches around the world with the help of global positioning system (GPS)
technology. The site maintains the global database of geocaches; gives
players the ability to share geocaching stories, list their hidden caches and
locate specific caches around the world. Geocaching.com also offers a variety
of related services for the geocaching community.
“Over the past three years, we’ve worked hard to create a site that gives
geocachers an easy and interactive way to get involved within this growing
community,” said Jeremy Irish, president of Groundspeak Inc., the owner and
operator of Geocaching.com. “Winning the People’s Voice Award is a true
testament to the passion of geocachers around the world. This honor wouldn’t
have been possible without them and their dedication to the outdoors and
adventure.”
The sport of geocaching combines treasure hunting, adventure and the
outdoors, and has been embraced by more than 300,000 people in more than
170 countries around the world. In the simplest of terms, it involves players
logging on to Geocaching.com to determine the coordinates of a geocache
(treasure), and then hiking to the cache using a GPS unit. For more
information, visit http://www.geocaching.com.

About The Webby Awards
The Webby Awards, presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts
and Sciences, is the leading international awards program for achievement in
technology, creativity and individual achievement in the online world. The
awards honor Web sites that individuals around the world visit daily for
information, entertainment, community issues, products and services.

About Groundspeak
Groundspeak Inc. creates the toolset for building location-based
adventures in the real world using a unique combination of technology and the
Internet. Groundspeak owns and operates Geocaching.com, the global
headquarters for the sport of Geocaching. Groundspeak currently is developing
new technology to enable the next level of geolocational entertainment. For
more information, visit http://www.groundspeak.com.

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