TYSONS CORNER, Va.-December 13, 2001-Multicity®, a provider of hosted communications products that enable businesses and consumers to create online communities, today announced that Multicity's instant translation-enabled MultiChat® product has been selected as a finalist in the Software & Information Industry Association's (SIIA) 2002 Codie Awards, which showcases the top products and services in the high-tech world. MultiChat was selected as one of the best products in the field of Internet-based communication and collaboration tools.

The chat product is a component of Multicity's flagship offering, Minicity Suite™ 2.0, which is a fully customizable package of hosted multilingual communications products for businesses and organizations that also includes message boards, instant messaging and Web polls. The Minicity Suite enables clients to create online communities on their Web sites that facilitate visitors' interaction with their products and services, which increases the length and frequency of visits, potential sales and overall site traffic.

"The Codie Awards finalists are the best of the best our creative and innovative industry has produced in the past year," said Ken Wasch, SIIA president. "The Codie Awards represent peer recognition of excellence. We congratulate all of the developers, designers and programmers that have had a hand in bringing such outstanding work to the market."

"We are honored to join the select group of finalists for such a prestigious award," said Multicity CEO Alain Hanash. "With the growing internationalization of Internet users, corporations face the twin challenges of communicating with a global customer audience and establishing a compelling online identity that is crucial to attracting and retaining their most valuable customers. Multicity's chat product anchors an integrated communications product suite that directly addresses and solves this two-fold business problem."

Additional information on the Codie Awards program is available at: www.siia.net/codies2002/default.html.

About Multicity
Multicity empowers the world to meet and communicate on the Internet. Multicity's hosted communications products enable businesses and consumers from around the world to interact, convene, collaborate and create instant virtual communities. Available in up to 17 different languages, Multicity's Web-based product suite includes chat rooms, instant messaging and message boards (each of which has an integrated instant translation capability) and Web polls. Multicity facilitates the exchange of ideas through its live, linked global network of more than 600,000 registered users of Multicity's communications products. Multicity is located in Tysons Corner, Virginia. For more information, visit www.multicity.com.

About the Software & Information Industry Association
The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) is the principal trade association of the software and digital content industry. SIIA provides global services in government relations, business development, corporate education and intellectual property protection to more than 800 leading software and information companies. For further information, visit www.siia.net.

Multicity is a registered trademark of Multicity, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.