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To: Francis Gaskins who wrote (15)	6/22/1998 8:23:00 PM
From: Steve Smith	Respond to of 316

cbs.marketwatch.com " The ultimate portal site? GeoCities offers users a virtual home Latest I P.O.nder columns By Darren Chervitz, CBS MarketWatch Last update: 12:25 PM June 22, 1998 DALLAS (CBS.MW) -- While nearly every Internet content company is trying to develop the ultimate portal site, IPO hopeful GeoCities has come up with a concept that sounds even more compelling: Home. In less than three years, GeoCities has created an online community approaching 2 million members, according to the company's prospectus. The members, or Homesteaders as they're called, create their own Web pages in one of GeoCities' 40 thematically organized neighborhoods. (People still brave enough to call themselves liberals, for instance, would likely set up shop on one of the blocks in the politically active Capitol Hill neighborhood). "