The two companies were included in Yahoo! Internet Life's 100 Best Sites for 2001, where Multicity was recognized for "Best Chat" and Homestead was recognized for "Best Free Web Pages." Highlighting the Multicity chat room's instant translation capability, the award noted, "…Multicity provides instant translation in six languages, right in the chat window…" Emphasizing the user friendliness and versatility of Homestead's Web site building technology, the award stated, "No other page-building hub comes close…"

"In forming relationships with companies like Multicity, Homestead continues to bring the 'best of the Web' to members when building a Web site," said Michael Geller, vice president of strategic partnerships at Homestead. "The addition of Multicity.com's chat product to the Homestead Element palette ensures that our members are able to communicate with individuals through their Web site utilizing one of the best chat technologies available."

"The opportunity to offer our chat product to Homestead's millions of members enables Multicity to further increase the recognition and distribution of our award-winning technology," said Multicity CEO Alain Hanash. "Their selection of our tool is another significant validation for the technological leadership of Multicity.com's products."

Multicity.com's chat and Web polling products also can be sent to a virtually unlimited number of people via E-mail through Multicity.com's patent-pending In-the-Box™ technology. For example, a user can create a live chat room and send it to all the people on an E-mail list. The recipients can open their E-mail and instantly join the live interactive discussion in the chat room or even forward it to any number of other people.

Global Network
Homestead Web site creators that 'drag-and-drop' Multicity chat rooms onto their Web sites also have the option of connecting their chat rooms to Multicity.com's nNetworksm, an international network comprised of globally distributed sites using Multicity.com's multilingual communications products. Since Multicity hosts the chat rooms on its server network, chat users can immediately jump from one chat room to another by simply clicking the "active chats" button. Through this capability, chat participants can experience the global multicultural diversity of Multicity.com's network. With nearly 600,000 registered users of Multicity.com's products, at any one time there are thousands of people chatting on the Multicity network. Homestead members that incorporate the Multicity chat tool into their Web sites can now potentially attract many new visitors by simply being part of Multicity.com's nNetworksm.

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 9 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 100 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.

About Multicity.com
Multicity.com, located in Tysons Corner, Va., is empowering worldwide communication through the development of multilingual product suites. Available in a growing number of international languages for consumers and businesses, Mu