E-Commerce Relationship Provides Resources that Give Critical Communication and Productivity Boost

Boston, Mass. (November 9, 1999) - Intranets.com (www.intranets.com), developer of the world's first free intranet portal, today announced a private-label relationship with inc.com. Inc.com (www.inc.com) is a new Internet venture bringing the industry's most comprehensive, high-quality management resources for helping America's millions of small businesses succeed. Inc.com, which leverages Inc.'s brand equity earned through 20 years of experience, today announced that Intranets.com has been named an inc.com Solutions Provider.

Under the auspices of Intranets.com's new private label partner program, inc.com is redistributing a fully functional, self-branded version of the Intranets.com intranet solution to its own customer base. This relationship enables inc.com to offer real value to its small business customers, by helping them boost productivity through interactive communication and availability of relevant resources.

Inc.com empowers its users by aggregating best-of-breed content, in part through relationships with a hand-picked number of companies that contribute a selection of the industry's most pragmatic solutions for business management. Inc.com is able to deliver a range of broad, deep solutions through a rigorous process of due diligence and recommendation. Only through participation in this process can inc.com's Solutions Providers earn the prestigious Click of ApprovalÔ trademark.

"Intranets.com adds significant value to the inc.com customer experience and helps to differentiate inc.com within a highly competitive online marketplace," said Paige Arnof-Fenn, vice president of marketing, inc.com. "The Intranets.com private label solution provides our customers with easy access to an important, first-of-its-kind business tool. As a valuable addition to our inc.com Solutions Provider program, Intranets.com helps small businesses meet their biggest resource challenges of time, money and management expertise."

In a related announcement today, Intranets.com, an idealab! venture, officially launched its private label partner program, by which online companies such as inc.com will benefit from increased site traffic, improved stickiness, and shared revenue streams generated by advertising and e-commerce transactions.

Intranets.com launched its free intranet service just 90 days ago, and has since seen an impressive 45,000 registrations from small businesses and groups. Intranets.com expects the private label partner program to increase site registrations while providing an additional source of revenue and level of awareness for the company.

"Expanding our reach with strategic partnerships is a major component of our business model. inc.com's expertise and focus on small business is a natural fit for us," said Rick Faulk, vice president of marketing for Intranets.com. "With our private label program, we are looking futuristically at ways to expand our reach while providing companies such as inc.com an opportunity to add breadth and depth to their online offerings."

To register for a free intranet portal, or to learn more about partnering with Intranets.com, visit www.intranets.com.

About Inc.comA privately-held venture headquartered in Charlestown, Mass., inc.com fills a marketplace need as the first stop for small businesses seeking the most comprehensive, high-quality management information and resources on the Web. Dedicated to providing the finest information, advice, solutions, and community, inc.com leverages the equity of Inc., the widely-recognized brand of integrity among small businesses.

About Intranets.com
Intranets.com is the world's leading provider of on-demand collaboration services for small businesses or departments and groups inside large organizations. The company serves more than 350,000 users across 10,000 companies worldwide and offers a secure, web-based collaboration suite to share critical business information quickly and easily at any time from anywhere. Privately held and profitable, Intranets.com is led by an experienced team of software industry professionals who are committed to providing a secure, customizable, easy-to-deploy intranet solution supported by world-class customer service. Intranets.com is a PC Magazine "Editor's Choice" winner and is rated one of the world's "Top 25" leading service providers by ASPNews. The company has also been ranked by the Boston Business Journal as one of the fastest growing private companies in Massachusetts for two consecutive years. For more information or to take a FREE 30-day test drive, visit http://www.intranets.com/pr, e-mail corpsales@intranets.com or call 888-932-2600 or 781-565-6000.

About idealab!
idealab! (www.idealab.com ) identifies, creates and operates Internet businesses. Founded in March 1996 by Bill Gross, idealab! currently has approximately 50 businesses in various stages of development. idealab! generates ideas for new Internet businesses and creates, capitalizes and operates a separate company to conduct each new business. Actively participating in the on-going operations of its network companies through board representation, information sharing and facilitating collaboration among the companies, idealab! also recruits management to oversee the day-to-day operations allowing senior management to concentrate on executing the business plan. Additionally, idealab! provides each operating company with a full range of operational support services including office space and the accompanying network infrastructure, technology, graphic design, marketing, competitive research, legal, accounting and business development services. idealab! public companies include eToys (Nasdaq: ETYS), GoTo.com (Nasdaq: GOTO), CitySearch (TMCS), NetZero (Nasdaq: NZRO) and Tickets.com (Nasdaq: TIXX).

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