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To: llamaphlegm who wrote (23961)	10/30/1998 8:24:00 PM
From: llamaphlegm	Respond to of 164684

the future is now what barriers to entry what opportunity costs to comparison shopping ... a virtual mall, just like the real ones except these aggregate dozens of retailers of each type of product z.com click on shopping and knock yourself out. Friday October 30, 5:33 pm Eastern Time Company Press Release SOURCE: Z.Com Z.Com Shopping Guide Showcases Hundreds of Online Stores SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Z.Com today announced the debut of the Z.Com Holiday Shopping Guide (http://Z.Com). Hundreds of stores selling merchandise online are listed in over 40 categories. The guide includes stores selling books, clothing, computers, music, sporting goods and thousands of other items. ''As web commerce grows, people need an easy way to find what they are looking for,'' said Jeff Gold, CEO of Z.Com. ''Our Holiday Shopping Guide makes it easy for people to find everything they need in one place.'' The Holiday Shopping Guide is built into Z.Com and over 1500 Z.Com affiliated radio station web sites known as the World Network. Z.Com also includes easy access to shopping guides from other online services including Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO - news), Excite Inc. (Nasdaq: XCIT - news), America Online Inc. (NYSE: AOL - news), and HotBot by Lycos Inc. (Nasdaq: LCOS - news). In order to ensure that holiday packages arrive on time, Z.Com features integrated tracking of packages shipped by Federal Express from FDX Corp. [NYSE:FDX - news], Airborne Express from Airborne Freight Corp. [NYSE:ABF - news], United Parcel Service, and the U.S. Postal Service. For shoppers who are not sure of someone's address, Z.Com has established a relationship with Switchboard by Banyan Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: BNYN - news) to provide directory assistance including street addresses and zip codes. Z.Com is the latest project from high-tech entrepreneur Gold. Prior to launching Z.Com, Gold founded several other successful internet businesses including FM Net, Musictown, Go Chat!, and Go.Com. The Walt Disney Co. [NYSE:DIS - news] acquired the Go.Com domain from Gold earlier this year for a joint venture with Infoseek Corp [Nasdaq:SEEK - news]. Advertising is sold by MediaRep (http://www.mediarep.com), the new ad sales division of Z.Com, providing services similar to those offered by DoubleClick Inc. [Nasdaq:DCLK - news] and 24/7 Media Inc. Custom Z.Com versions of Communicator and Navigator products, from Netscape Communications Corp. [Nasdaq:NSCP - news], are available for free download. Z.Com also functions well with Internet Explorer from Microsoft Corp. [Nasdaq:MSFT - news], and is fully compatible with browsers running on Macintosh and iMac computers from Apple Computer Inc [Nasdaq:AAPL - news]. About Z.Com Z.Com is a service of A Lasting Impression Music Corp., a California corporation. A Lasting Impression was founded by Jeff Gold in 1991 and has offices in Atlanta and the San Francisco Bay Area. NOTE: Z.Com, Z.Com World Network, MediaRep, Go Chat!, Z Chat, FM Net, Cyberlearn, Barnaby 2000, and Musictown are trademarks of A Lasting Impression Music Corp. Other company and product names herein