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To: Kurt Goebel who wrote (2314)	6/17/1998 12:28:00 PM
From: Mark Oliver	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10081

It's always fascinating to watch the bid ask and volumes. We are seeing serious volume, over 2 million shares traded in the first 2 hours. Looked like a lot of selling at the open took the initial price trend down. Lots of selling at 13 3/4 seemed to be filled from somewhere as the prices was really steady. Then, a short move up followed by a decline to the days lows. So, it would seem like there is a lot of selling going on, but the stock is really holding up pretty well. I'm not really seeing any big blocks, but maybe I missed it as I'm not using level 2. Seems like it should be hard for traders to watch a small stock like GMGC when big companies like Ford offered such good opportunities this morning. Fascinating. Don't know what it means, except that maybe when the short term profit taking drys up, we might end the day on the upside. It is really exciting going into the annual meeting on Monday. Ihope they give us something to come home with. Anyway, I bought some more shares this morning. Hope that's not a contrary indicator. Regards, Mark

To: Kurt Goebel who wrote (2314)	6/18/1998 3:53:00 AM
From: franco nuvoloni	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10081

Kurt, I am not so sure about that. Don't be too distracted by the 3d stuff. This is an intelligent agent and on the web site you can see what kind of tasks this agent will perform, from screening the internet to reminding important appointments, to acting as customer support, salesman or whatever in the e-commerce. Look at this quote from CBS market watch <IBM (IBM) is ready to ship its ViaVoice 98 at the end of the month. The voice recognition software will retail at $49.95 at the low end and rise up to $149 for dictation with menu navigation commands. The software supports Windows.> Look at how much more you need to pay for the ViaVoice with menu navigation commands over the simple version. And reading the licensing agreement 3d planet just recently signed with IBM it looks like 3d planet's technology is the one to offer these enhanced capabilities. Here is another quote from 3d planet's web site <One day we will be able to speak to our computers and the computer will not only recognize our words, but it will understand what we are saying and react accordingly. This human/computer interaction is what we consider to be the future of computing. But for this future to become a reality there are quite a few technologies that need to be combined. These are: automatic speech recognition, speech synthesis, artificial intelligence, natural language understanding and realistic personalities. It's the combination of these technologies that we call the "intelligent agent".> I think the first sentence already explains that this is not just simply a talking head. It listens, understands and reacts accordingly, so it must do something for you. This is an intriguing thing here and unfortunately there is not very much info available right now, but it certainly deserves a closer look and a constant monitoring. Just my opinion, of course, Best wishes and good luck to us all, Frank