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To: levy who wrote (19980)	7/13/2000 10:27:00 PM
From: Susan G	Respond to of 28311

too bad we all didn't sell everything back then very funny levy, LOL and the Truth! If I sold everything I had in March and took the entire summer off, I'd be much further ahead of where I am right now.... but oy the priceless lessons I've learned <ggg> Isn't the games site rollout supposed to be in July???? Hope the sandbox investment doesn't delay it, and the news will come out soon, maybe Monday.

To: levy who wrote (19980)	7/14/2000 3:12:15 AM
From: brk	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28311

Go2Net invests millions in gamemaker Sandbox What ?......GNET scores some "box" and no comment from jz ? <gg> He must be out on the sandy beaches scoring some of his own.

To: levy who wrote (19980)	7/17/2000 11:42:48 AM
From: Sarkie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28311

levy, this is just the type of news that would be of interest to you. Dr. Erik Selberg - MetaCrawler Creator - Appointed FizzyLab's Director Of Technology Selberg to Oversee Development of Company's Related Content Technology Platform SEATTLE, July 17 /PRNewswire/ -- FizzyLab (http://www.fizzylab.com), a developer of technology that manages and monetizes content on the Internet, today announced Dr. Erik Selberg, co-inventor of the MetaCrawler search engine and expert in Web search and comparison technology, joins the company as director of technology. Selberg, who is widely recognized for his award-winning work in the field of information retrieval technology, will oversee FizzyLab's engineering and development efforts as the company creates a new class of related content delivery technology designed to improve the performance of digital publishing companies. "Erik is a visionary thinker with an exceptional base of technical knowledge and experience that will be a strategic asset to FizzyLab as we further develop our related content delivery platform," said Scott Hudson, CEO and co-founder of FizzyLab. "His decision to join us is an indication of the power and potential of our technology, and his talent and leadership will be instrumental in helping FizzyLab become the leader in our space." Selberg, who holds a PhD in computer science and engineering from the University of Washington, brings nearly a decade of research, development, and management experience to his role at FizzyLab. Most recently he was director of search at Go2Net, Inc. (Nasdaq: GNET), where he led the engineering efforts of MetaCrawler, DogPile, another meta-search service, and 100hot, a popularity guide for the Web. While at Go2Net, he assembled and directed a team of developers that completed two major re-launches of MetaCrawler and significantly increased the speed with which MetaCrawler responds. "FizzyLab is a young company with a lot of depth in its R&D, sales and marketing groups, which is unusual and exciting," said Erik Selberg, director of technology at FizzyLab. "Its culture of innovation, and sound methodology for creating new technologies and products represents a tremendous opportunity for me and for the rest of our development team." Selberg created the MetaCrawler parallel Web search service in 1995 as his master's project. A year later he assisted in the founding of NetBot, Inc., which was formed to commercialize MetaCrawler and was later acquired by Excite, Inc. Also in 1996, MetaCrawler was licensed by Go2Net, Inc. and continues to power Go2Net's search functionality. Selberg earned master's and doctorate degrees from the University of Washington in 1995 and 1999, respectively. He completed his undergraduate degree at Carnegie Mellon University in 1993 with a double major in mathematics/computer science and logic & computation. About FizzyLab Seattle-based FizzyLab is developing a new class of information infrastructure technologies to streamline and personalize digital content delivery. Built on a configurable and rapidly deployable mathematical modeling system, Fizzylab's technologies enable companies to deliver highly relevant content to users on individual Web sites or across a network of sites. FizzyLab operates on an application service provider model, providing service via subscription directly to partner sites. Relevator(TM) is the first product in FizzyLab's intelligent information management platform. Fizzylab was founded in 1999 and is privately held. To learn more about FizzyLab, visit www.fizzylab.com or call 206-728-4282. SOURCE FizzyLab /CONTACT: Jennifer Amend, jennifer@barokas.com, or Howard Barokas, howard@barokas.com, both of Barokas Public Relations, 206-264-8220, for FizzyLab/ /Web site: fizzylab.com