idealab! Venture Expands Reach of First Free Intranet Portal Solution

Boston, Mass. (December 13, 1999) - Intranets.com (www.intranets.com), developer of the world's first free intranet portal, today announced the launch of its Affiliate Program to provide online companies the opportunity to earn a five dollar commission each time one of their customers links to Intranets.com and registers for a free, personalized intranet. In just the first week of the program, nearly 600 affiliates have registered to participate. "To encourage visitor loyalty, Web communities are constantly looking for unique services to add value to their sites. But for many companies, creating these custom services is often cost- or resource-prohibitive. We hope to help our Affiliate partners overcome that hurdle, by providing Affiliates with free access to our value-added service," said Rick Faulk, vice president of marketing, Intranets.com. "It really is a win-win for us all. By offering our free service to their online customers, Affiliates can earn incremental revenues for themselves while enhancing their customers' online experience. And Intranets.com benefits by leveraging the reach of existing third-party Web communities."

Managed by Be Free, Inc., Intranets.com's Affiliate Program provides partners with around-the-clock technical support, custom links and banner advertisements, and easy-to-use reporting tools to track and detail success of the program. The program is free to affiliates.

Intranets.com is the premier provider of free intranet portal solutions for the small- to medium- business market. The company's solution provides organizations with everything they need to quickly and easily create their own intranet - from must-have collaboration applications and custom news, to personalized vendor services. The Intranets.com business applications enable organizations to enhance and automate core business functions such as managing documents, publishing community announcements, maintaining users' contact information, and creating community event calendars. Since Intranets.com launched its free intranet portal service, an impressive 60,000 small businesses and groups have registered for their own custom intranet.

To learn more about becoming an Intranets.com Affiliate partner visit our Affiliate Site, or contact Lisa Wilson-Wirth, eMarketing manager, Intranets.com, at affiliates@intranets.com.

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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