january 1995 founder carl pritzkat michael rhodes tony travostino headquarters new york new york website www.mediapolis.com mediapolis inc. is a web engineering company based in new york city . founded in 1995 the company has built over 300 websites largely utilizing open source software . mediapolis owns and operates the datalounge a popular lgbt internet forum . history edit the company was founded in january 1995 by carl pritzkat michael rhodes and tony travostino . 1 the first headquarters were out of michael s apartment in the meatpacking district manhattan . in 1998 alan emtage creator of archie the first internet search engine joined the company . since then it has worked to produce several hundred websites with clients ranging from small not for profits to large multi national corporations . for a period the company operated a string of lgbt sites under the moniker the datalounge network . these included homorama.com gayvote.com gayhealth.com southernvoice.com and houstonvoice.com . 2 in january 1995 bmg entertainment launched the internet s first e commerce site featuring an entire record label catalog ecmrecords.com which mediapolis engineered and operated until late 2004 . other notable sites created and operated include yourpharmacy.com for express scripts 3 grandparents.com and volvoforlifeawards.com for volvo . in early 2010 mediapolis was part of a team that purchased publishers weekly 4 from media conglomerate reed elsevier . it built and operates the website . awards edit in 1999 the datalounge won glaad media award for outstanding lgbt interactive media . 5 references edit the history of mediapolis . mediapolis inc. retrieved october 26 2011 . pr newswire . express scripts and planetrx.com announce internet pharmacy agreement . retrieved october 26 2011 . a homecoming . publishersweekly.com . retrieved october 26 2011 . 1999 glaad media award nominees . queer resources directory . retrieved october 26 2011 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title mediapolis company & oldid 695874656 categories companies based in new york navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 19 december 2015 at 07 50 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view