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Nettaxi Announces Affiliation With Lycos, Inc. to Launch Personalized My Nettaxi Start Page
My Nettaxi To Feature Personalized Start-Page, With Search and Shopping Features from Lycos.com and HotBot.com
CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 12, 1999-- Nettaxi, Inc. (NASDAQ OTC BB: NTXY - news), a premiere commerce enabled community and portal web site with more than 80 million monthly page views, today announced an affiliation with Lycos, Inc. (NASDAQ: LCOS - news), the second most visited hub on the Internet, to offer personalized start pages, called My Nettaxi, from its portal site www.nettaxi.com. Lycos is providing its suite of Web applications including search, comprehensive directories, personal homepages, e-mail, communities and popular shopping functions in the form of a co-branded personal start-page. My Nettaxi enables citizens to customize their start pages with information such as news, stock prices, weather, sports scores, TV listings and more, from Lycos.com and HotBot. The result is a truly personalized web experience for each Nettaxi citizen.
''The power of the Internet is that each of us can tailor information and its delivery to fit our needs,'' said Dean Rositano, president, Nettaxi. ''Our affiliations with Lycos and HotBot will enable Nettaxi citizens to change the look of their start pages depending on their interests or information requirements.''
Citizens will find My Nettaxi start pages easy to customize, change and use. Clear and simple instructions direct citizens to select the content they would like to see on their start pages and then to personalize the information. For example, a citizen can select sports scores content and identify a sport in general or a specific team. In addition to information such as news, stock prices and weather, citizens can add links to favorite sites and to Nettaxi community services. A Contacts feature provides citizens access to a self-updating address book, a calendar and a reminder service. This feature interfaces with Personal Information Managers like the Palm Pilot to provide access to updated information anywhere and at any time.
The My Nettaxi customizable start page is available at nettaxi.com.
About Lycos, Inc.
Founded in 1995, Lycos, Inc. (NASDAQ: LCOS - news) is a leading Web media company and owner of the Lycos Network, the second most visited hub on the Internet, reaching 48.8 percent of Web users. The Lycos Network is a unified set of Web sites that attracts a diverse audience by offering a variety of services, including leading Web navigation resources, homepage building and other Web community services and a comprehensive shopping center. The Lycos Network is composed of premium sites: Lycos.com, Tripod, WhoWhere, Angelfire, MailCity, HotBot, HotWired, Wired News, Webmonkey and Suck.com. Lycos.com (http://www.lycos.com), ''Your Personal Internet Guide,'' is dedicated to helping each individual user locate, retrieve and manage information tailored to his or her personal interests. Headquartered near Boston in Waltham, Mass., Lycos, Inc. is a global Internet leader with a major presence throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia.
On February 8, 1999, Lycos, Inc. entered into agreements with USA Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: USAI - news) and Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch, Inc. (NASDQQ: TMCS). Under the agreements TMCS, Lycos and USAi's Home Shopping Network, Ticketmaster and Internet Shopping Network/First Auction will be combined to form a company to be named USA/Lycos Interactive Networks, Inc. The formation of USA/Lycos is subject to the approval of the Lycos stockholders and customary regulatory approvals.
About Nettaxi, Inc. (http://ww.nettaxi.com)
Nettaxi, Inc., with headquarters in Campbell, Calif., is a premier commerce enabled community and portal web site. Through its web site at www.nettaxi.com and its connected CD-ROM product, ''Internet The City,'' Nettaxi provides access to topic specific, personalized content and services such as search features, free e-mail and personal home pages.
Nettaxi's various communities provide citizens access to news, search engines, arts and entertainment information, government records, financial data, educational materials and sports information. Nettaxi is the first online community to use the eCHARGE transaction system (http://www.echarge.com) in conjunction with e-commerce, allowing consumers to charge online purchases to their monthly telephone bills rather than to credit cards. Nettaxi also allows its premium citizens access to e-charge as a billing option. This affiliation with eCharge provides Nettaxi with a competitive advantage over other publicly traded web communities, such as theglobe.com, Inc. (NASDAQ N-Mkt.: TGLO) located at theglobe.com and GeoCities, Inc. (NASDAQ N-Mkt.: GCTY) located at geocities.com.
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