Intranets Ventures Into Integrated Shopping for Partners

BOSTON (September 11, 2000) - Intranets.com (www.intranets.com), the world's largest and fastest growing provider of Web-based intranets, today announced a strategic partnership with online marketplace Shoplet.com. The partnership allows Shoplet.com to deliver free, branded intranets to its small and medium size business customers.

Shoplet.com is a leading business-to-business and business-to-consumer e-marketplace with over 1.3 million subscribed users. It provides a single online destination where small and medium size businesses and individuals can choose from four million products and services, exchange valuable news, product and service information and access productivity tools.

"Partnering with Intranets.com is a key component of Shoplet.com's strategy to maintain and strengthen our relationships with our small and medium size business customers," said Tony Ellison, CEO of Internet Shopping Outlet. "Not only can Shoplet.com provide our most valuable customers with the best online shopping experience, but now we can offer them free communication and collaboration applications while building brand awareness and customer loyalty."

Intranets.com has moved increasingly toward developing intranet solutions for strategic partners such as Inc.com, Concentic Network Partners and Hello Direct. Intranets.com allows partners to deliver a branded intranet that brings applications such as document management, hosted e-mail and calendar scheduling to their customers as a revenue-generating, value-added service. Intranets.com's technology platform is easily and quickly customized to a partner's business objectives.

"This alliance is a continuance of our growth through highly strategic partnerships," said Steve Fischer, director of business development for Intranets.com. "Partnering with Shoplet.com brings us a whole new customer base by allowing Shoplet.com to integrate its shopping network into the Intranets.com's existing business applications."

For more information on partnering with Intranets.com, please contact Steve Fischer at 781-932-0960 or sfischer@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).

About Shoplet.com Shoplet.com is a leading business-to-business and business-to-consumer emarketplace with over 1.3 million subscribed users. It provides a single online destination where small and medium size businesses and individuals can choose from 4 million products and services, exchange valuable news, product and service information and access productivity tools. Privately-held Shoplet.com is based in New York, New York, with offices in Tel-Aviv. For more information, visit www.shoplet.com, e-mail press@shoplet.com or call 800-757-3015 or (212) 757-3015.

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For Intranets.com Contact:
Christina Cameron/ Karyn Ragonese
The Weber Group
(617) 520-7109 /(617) 520-7237
ccameron@webergroup.com
kragonese@webergroup.com

For Shoplet.com Contact: Joseph Loli
Shoplet.com
(212) 619-3383
Jloli@shoplet.com

 

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