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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (74476)	8/18/1999 3:53:00 PM
From: Bob Kim	Respond to of 164684

Michelle, I personally think that Blodget likes EBAY, but he doesn't officially follow it at Merrill. Meanwhile, UBID is a ML client. In a Bloomberg story in April, he recommended that investors buy "a basket of the best companies" which included EBAY but apparently not UBID. It's typically against ML policy to make recommendations on stocks without an official rating.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (74476)	8/18/1999 6:23:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

DULLES, VIRGINIA, U.S.A., 1999 AUG 17 (NB) -- By Brian O'Connell, Newsbytes. If a child lives in a big city, they spend more time in front of a computer screen than their rural counterparts, according to a new study by America Online [NYSE:AOL] on the top ten "wired" cities for kids aged 2-17 in the US. According to the study, New York children spend the most time online, followed in order by Philadelphia, Tampa/St. Petersburg, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Boston, Detroit, Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Seattle. Not surprisingly, the older kids are, the more time they spend on online chatting via e-mail or shopping for compact discs on the Internet. More surprisingly, kids who are barely out of the cradle are logging online. According to the study, children aged 2-5 spend three hours per week online; kids aged 6-11 four hours per week; kids aged 12-14 six hours per week; and children aged 15-17 seven hours per week. According to Jupiter Communications, more than 5 million children under the age of 12 are online with that number expected to grow to 20 million by the year 2002. Additionally, 25 percent of 10,000 parents polled said their kids are using the computer by age two and 90 percent said their children are using the computer by age six. "By any measure," the study stated, "computers are an increasingly integral part of young people's lives." "It used to be that kids came home from school or for the summer and picked up the telephone. Now, they race to the computer," said Jonathan Sacks, a general manager at AOL. In AOL houses, at least, parents are taking greater control of what content their little darlings are viewing online. The AOL study reported nearly 80 percent of AOL parents with kids between the ages of 6-17 are now using Parental Controls. Kids are also taking a greater interest in online educational fare, with the older children scoping out college preparatory resources and the younger ones plugging into sites like the Children's Television Workshop. As any lawyer at AOL or Microsoft will tell you, instant messaging is hip with the younger set. According to the study, on average, teens have at least twice as many "buddies" on their AOL "Buddy List" as adults and often as many as 80-100 names. AOL says that kids taking their AOL addresses with them to college to stay in touch with mom, dad, and friends is a big trend.