TYSONS CORNER, VA August 16, 2000 - Multicity, Inc., an open global network offering free, online multilingual communications tools and services, today announced an Element partnership with Homestead.com, a leading resource for building free Web sites, to add Multicity.com's voting booth tool to Homestead's diverse group of Elements for Web site creators to drag-and-drop onto their Web sites. Through the agreement, Homestead® will include Multicity.com's voting booth tool on the Homestead Element palette. Homestead has over 6 million members creating Web sites ranging from family sites to small business sites.

"The Element partnership with Multicity benefits both Homestead members and visitors because of the flexibility of its technology. Multicity.com's voting booth capability is a valuable addition to the Homestead Elements available for Web site creators," said Michael Geller, vice president of strategic partnerships at Homestead.com. "The agreement allows us to provide our members with a polling resource that is suitable for a wide variety of purposes."

"We are proud to have an agreement with Homestead to provide a versatile tool that will further increase the resources offered by Homestead," said Alain Hanash, Multicity.com's CEO. "At the same time, through this Element partnership, Multicity gains exposure to the millions of people each day visiting Homestead to either build or enhance a Web site."

Multicity.com's polling tool as well as the company's message boards and instant translation-enabled chat rooms can be sent to anyone via E-mail through Multicity.com's In-the-Box(TM) technology. Multicity.com's free product suite, which is available in multiple languages, also includes instant messaging and profile matching.

These products, which can be added to a Web site or corporate intranet, allow users to instantly communicate and interact with people around the world in their native languages.

About Homestead.com
Homestead.com integrates and distributes Internet content, services and technologies to enable individuals and small businesses to create feature-rich Web sites. Homestead has over 6 million registered members. Homestead enables members to communicate with friends and family, meet people around the world, and operate small businesses online. Members can easily build personalized Web sites from Homestead's palette of customizable, 'drag-and-drop' Elements. Homestead currently offers more than 150 of these pre-programmed Elements that include everything from basics such as text boxes, buttons and photos to dynamic features including chat rooms and e-commerce payment processing. Homestead allows its Element partners to reach a targeted audience and provides its numerous co-brand partners with a complete Web site building platform. Based in Menlo Park, Calif., the company has more than 130 employees.

Homestead is available at www.homestead.com and through co-brand sites such as Dell, USATODAY.com, Juno, CollegeClub.com and many others.

About Multicity.com
Multicity.com is empowering worldwide communication through the development of multilingual product suites. Available in a growing number of international languages for consumers and businesses, Multicity.com's diverse range of Web-enabled products and services include chat rooms, message boards, voting booths, match profiling, instant translation, and instant messaging. Multicity.com also has created the ⁿNetwork^sm, a decentralized glo