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To: levy who wrote (18785)	5/1/2000 5:01:00 PM
From: sandintoes	Respond to of 28311

Levy, I think that you'd better start posting to another person. Have you noticed that people are skipping over your post entirely? Maybe they can't see you, or don't know you're there. You're becoming invisible.

To: levy who wrote (18785)	5/1/2000 7:04:00 PM
From: Pareto	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 28311

Go2net's (lack of) international presence We have to remember that the Mediametrix numbers only reflect the US-users. Some stats: Global users: between 288 and 300 million US users: 120 million US English users: 115 million US Spanish users: 10 million US English % of global population: 40% Sources and links. nua.ie glreach.com glreach.com limitless.co.uk Most assume that the growth potential of GNET is related to the growth of the internet in general. If GNET limits itself to the English speaking world and the US in specific, then it won't be able to get international leverage. Growth rates will slow. In the US the reach of the Go2net network maybe 10% (12 Million divided by 115 Million), but globally it will be less than 5% and getting smaller. More and more I get the idea that GNET is putting broadband development for the US first and global expansion last. The 100hot concept would be very useful to expand to country sites. This is a simple idea and should be easy to implement. But why others have implement it before GNET??? Check out the worldhot.com website. They have copied the 100hot concept. They have registered their site last October and are live now with 100hot sites for most countries of the world. register.com I tried to host an international website through Hypermart. It was not possible. I send them a mail and they answered that they only allow .com .net and .org sites to be used. That doesn't make me happy as a user, less as a shareholder. They allow international users to use a nnnn.hypermart.net name, but I want to use my own sitename. Hosting international sites is possible on many US-hosts. On a sidenote, they use an ugly old-fashioned newsgroup set up for Q&A on Hypermart. Why they don't use a SI-type of interface? I mentioned before the US focus of SI. Why not covering other stockmarkets as well?? The internet will count 1 Billion users within two or three years. To be able to get a fair share of this pie, GNET has to expand its offering globally. That means multi-country and multi-language. The top portals are moving this way. Yahoo, AOL, MSN and Lycos. MSN is using the country offices of Microsoft, they may be able to grow the fastest. msn.com Gnet doesn't have the resources to open local offices. To get global visibility, it is a viable option to set up a metacrawler/100hot page for each country and deliver it in the main languages. Regards, Pareto

To: levy who wrote (18785)	5/1/2000 10:39:00 PM
From: levy	Respond to of 28311

Levy look at this from the original announcement about the deal with Allegiance Telecom...... "This is a significant entry for Go2Net into the private-label portal sector, as we are committed to aggressively expanding the distribution of Go2Net's brands and technologies through leading corporate partners, such as Allegiance Telecom," said Russell C. Horowitz, Go2Net chief executive officer. "What stands to set Go2Net apart in the private-label portal category is that we are providing direct access to our own leading brands, such as MetaCrawler, Silicon Investor, and Authorize.Net. As Allegiance continues to expand its customer base, we're looking forward to extending Go2Net's offerings to users of both the private-label portal and Small Business Center." Both Allegiance Telecom and Go2Net have received significant investments from Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures during the past year, as part of Mr. Allen's "wired world" convergence strategy. Leveling the Playing Field Following are the three key phases of the plan for leveling the playing field: Phase One: Go2Net will develop a customized Internet portal which is intended to attract and retain Allegiance customers and serve as a platform to sell customers a number of value-added services. It has numerous features, including current information (news, stock portfolio), communications (calendar, e-mail, contacts, instant messenger), resources (search, weather/maps, yellow pages, knowledge links), community (forums, discussion database), customer care (link to Allegiance's customer support). The portal will also feature the industry-leading search capabilities of MetaCrawler, the personal finance information and discussion features of Silicon Investor and direct access to the private-label Allegiance Small Business Center, powered by Go2Net. Additions to the customized portal will be made on an ongoing basis. Phase Two: Go2Net also will develop a private-label Small Business Center for Allegiance, which will be available through the customized Internet portal. When using this Small Business Center, Allegiance's customers will be able to gain access to an array of resources with the click of a button. For instance, they'll find links to deals on office supplies, information about incorporating, trademark registration, chambers of commerce, the Better Business Bureau, the American Bar Association, Federal regulations code, communications services, financial services, government agencies and more. The Small Business Center will also provide Allegiance's customers with world-class transaction services, such as real-time credit card processing (provided by Authorize.Net), on-line payroll and on-line educational courses. Phase Three: Plans include collaboration on a web-based platform for applications hosting. For example, Allegiance's typical customer has 20-25 employees, which is too small to license PeopleSoft, Oracle or A.G. Edwards financial applications-resources that are, once again, most often found in large corporations. These resources would be made available to them via the web, at much more affordable prices. .... Levy it don't look like lots of this is happening now or ever now does it......and why is that? I don't know Levy cause no one is really talking about it.....Ok Allegiance doesn't want to pay but why should they.....Levy, I speculate that GO2NET thinks it is to cool to give away its private portal for next to nothing even if its to a PA family member and Allegiance thinks they got the customers so why should they pay Go2Net so much money......Levy, I think Allegiance has the trump card on this one so I would suggest you tell that Goldberg guy that he who has the customers rules so he better start kissing as$ a little or he is going to lose this whole thing and that is not going to look good on his already tarnished record.......can't that Goldberg guy see for what they would give up on a cheap licensing deal for the private portal will easily be made up by all the new Authorize.net customers they would get? Can't Goldberg make a joint revenue sharing offer on this whole package and make everyone happy?...if Goldberg don't make this happen I would suggest you put him on your "dump him" list.