TYSONS CORNER, Va.-December 18, 2000 - Editors at Yahoo! Internet Life, one of today's leading Internet publications, have named Multicity.com, an open global network offering online multilingual communications products and services for consumers and businesses, the winner of the best chat room product on the Internet for 2001 (www.multicity.com). Savvy Internet users turn to Yahoo! Internet Life's January issue each year to learn about the top Web sites in a wide range of categories including entertainment and sports, health and fitness, and travel and recreation.

Multicity.com's free MultiChat(TM) product was highlighted in the "computing and the net" category for its instant translation capability, a unique functionality that distinguishes the Multicity tool from other chat tools. The instant translation technology immediately translates chat room text conversations across six different languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian. The translated text appears directly within the chat window.

"We are very excited and honored to receive this recognition from such a highly regarded publication," said Alain Hanash, CEO of Multicity.com. "This validates our technology and core mission, which is to use the unlimited international communication potential of the Internet to promote multicultural business and social interaction globally. Multicity.com's chat technology provides consumers and businesses with a truly collaborative, multilingual communications platform, which can significantly lower the barriers to cross-cultural communication throughout the world."

Highly customizable, the chat room's graphical user interface is available in many languages. Chat room participants can select a language of their choice, post a message in their native tongue and instantly view the same message translated into a different language. Multiple users speaking different languages can communicate simultaneously. In addition, this chat tool with instant translation can be sent directly to anyone with an E-mail address through Multicity.com's In-the-Box(TM) technology, which enables the recipients to open their inboxes and immediately join a live, interactive conversation with all the other chat room participants.

Multicity.com's Web-enabled multilingual product suite also includes message boards and Web polls, which can be delivered to people through In-the-Box technology. These products allow users to discuss and register their opinions on any topic with people worldwide in their native languages.

To read Yahoo! Internet Life's full review of MultiChat, please visit: http://www.zdnet.com/yil/content/mag/0101/100best_net9.html.

About Multicity
Multicity.com, located in Tysons Corner,