Key Industry Players Including eBay, Le Monde interactif, ConSors Discount-Broker, Asahi Shimbun and Lastminute.com Create My Sidebar Tabs for Direct and Easy Access to Regional, Local Language Content

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. April 6, 2000 - Netscape Communications, a subsidiary of America Online, Inc. (NYSE: AOL) today announced the line up of leading international partners who have developed Tabs for My Sidebar, one of the key customization options of its revolutionary new browser, Netscape® 6. Through these partnerships, My Sidebar makes it easier and more convenient to access timely, same language information from top sites throughout the world.

Consumers can set up My Sidebar - which remains on the screen as long as the user is online. Located on the left side of the browser's interface, My Sidebar gives users a convenient place to keep the online functions and information they rely on most in one place, giving them the power to customize the Internet. Users can read the latest news, set up custom stock portfolios, check their Buddy List or Web Mail, track auctions or listen to music. Additionally, My Sidebar refreshes itself automatically to reflect updated news and information throughout the day making sure that access to the most up to date information is hassle free.

My Sidebar is completely open to any developer and is launching with nearly 500 tabs, some developed by Netscape and most by third parties. Some of the key international companies making their content available on the Sidebar include; multinational partners (eBay and lastminute.com); British partners (Interactive Investor International, Job Track Online and Stocktrade); German partners (ConSors Discount-Broker, Direkt Anlage Bank AG, investorworld, Ticket Online); French partners (alafolie.com and Le Monde interactif); Japanese partners (Arukikata Travel, Asahi Shimbun, Bargain America, Rakuten Inc. and Weather Eye); and a Canadian partner (Cyberworld). These international partnerships open the door to Netscape users all over the world by providing them access to a much wider range of local, language specific Web-based information.

"My Sidebar is yet another way for Netscape 6 users to customize the browser to fit their individual needs," said Jim Martin, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Netscape's Netcenter. "With the quality content our partners are providing via the Sidebar, we are giving users from around the world the convenience and accessibility they expect from the most customizable, convenient and connected browser."

"We believe My Sidebar is a great tool to allow us to present products and services to our customers on a continuing basis, and at the last minute. This approach is perfect for our business model," said Tom Virden, VP International for lastminute.com.

"Having my favorite web content constantly visible in my browser takes the idea of bookmarks one step further," said Achim Feige, Managing Director of ConSors Discount Broker AG. "My Sidebar matches the ConSors goal of maximizing customization and convenience for its customers."

"We feel that My Sidebar will be a very useful tool to the on-line reader of Le Monde," said Michael Boccacci, Director of Marketing, Le Monde interactif. "My Sidebar is a bookmark that keeps readers constantly connected to direct information."

Makoto Ogasawara, Technical Producer of Asahi.com said: "The Asahi.com My Sidebar Tab was very simple and easy to develop, yet it provides a great tool for those looking for easy access to the latest and most comprehensive news."

International My Sidebar Partners

eBay (US, UK, Germany, Japan)
The world's personal trading community, eBay pioneered person-to-person online trading. Founded in 1995, eBay has developed an efficient and entertaining trading site on the Web that is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. eBay has more than 10 million registered users and currently there are more than 4.4 million items listed for sale, in more than 4,300 categories. eBay has developed My Sidebar tabs for the US, UK, Germany, and Japan.

lastminute.com (UK, France, Germany and Sweden)
www.lastminute.com was launched in October 1998 and research published by MMXI Europe showed that lastminute.com was Britain's most visited travel web site, in that category, in January 2000. lastminute.com, underwritten by Morgan Stanley, went public in March 2000 and trades on the London Stock Exchange and Nasdaq: LMIN

United Kingdom:

Interactive Investor International plc
Recently floated on the London Stock Exchange and NASDAQ, Interactive Investor International is a leading UK internet personal financial service that aims to provide individuals with the capability to identify, compare, monitor and, where appropriate, buy and sell online a range of financial products and services.

JobTrack Online
JobTrack provides an easy to use yet comprehensive service to professionals looking for new career opportunities. With over 300 clients advertising their vacancies job seekers can always find the best selection of jobs available. JobTrack is a subsidiary of RexOnline, an AIM listed company specialising in IT and online recruitment Internet sites including JobTrack Online, JobMagic.net, Recruitment Exchange Online, RecruitIT'2000, and CTIjobs.co.uk.

Stocktrade
Stocktrade, the UK's first online broker, launched its real-time internet-based trading service in 1996. Pioneers of innovative technology, Stocktrade recently launched the UK's first voice-activated real-time quote system. Stocktrade's online dealing service offers streaming real-time prices, next day settlement, company news, graphs, analysis and fundamentals.

Germany:

ConSors Discount-Broker AG
ConSors has become the number one online financial service provider in Germany and Europe in terms of transactions. In 1999, ConSors forwarded 7.2 million orders for its approximately 200,000 customers. ConSors web pages are visited approximately 100 million times a month.

Direkt Anlage Bank AG
The DAB Finance Community, with a daily growth of approximately 900 members, is one of the largest and fastest-growing finance communities in Germany. It is a unique finance community which provides all the resources needed for successful trading, for example, realtime4free, a variety of research tools and "talk and more".

investorworld
Investorworld is Germany's first independent financial community. Investorworld covers all aspects of investing - stocks, funds, IPOs, portfolio management, etc. Investorworld's unique multi-media format (event, magazine, net, radio, TV) gives its members a distinct advantage.

Ticket Online
Ticket Online is the ticket market on the Internet where you can easily buy tickets for your most favorite opera, festival, theatre or sports club. Here you can choose from more than 4,000 events, increasing every day.

France:

Alafolie.com
Alafolie.com is Europe's (France, Germany, Italy) first and foremost wedding planning and personalizing service. Financed by Europe's most prestigious investors, Europ@web and Atlas, alafolie.com is also unique in its online / offline strategy, having just acquired France's leading wedding magazine and partnering with Europe's leading retailers.

Le Monde interactif
In a few months, the website www.lemonde.fr has become the French editorial site of reference. With a great number of partners--many of them leaders in varied fields--the website also offers a wide range of services to its 60,000 daily visitors, including archives, books, music, hardware, theater tickets, food and drink, package tours, and on-line auctions.

Japan:

Arukikata Travel, Diamond Big Company, Ltd.
The first bookable online travel site in Japan. The Diamond Group, is a large travel publisher in Japan, known for Chiku no Arukikata (GlobeTrotter Travel Guide), Japan's leading travel guidebook.

Asahi Shimbun
One of the most influential news sites in Japan, Asahi Shimbun is a total media company which publishes newspapers with a daily circulation of 8.3 million for its morning edition and 4.2 million for its evening edition, and publishes weekly, monthly and annual magazines. It started Asahi.com in August 1995 to extend its wing to online business.

Bargain America
One of the most popular American online shopping sites in Japan, Bargain America has marketed to Japan since October 1995 and has ranked among the Top 5 Online Merchants since 1996. (Nikkei Net Home Page Ranking) The site's popularity has been attributed to its wide range of American merchandise, much of which is difficult or expensive to obtain otherwise in Japan.

Rakuten, Inc.
Japan's Number One web site for shopping and online auctions. (Nikkei Net Home Page Ranking)

Weather Eye, CRC Research Institute, Inc.
CRC was the first in Japan to develop a system for evaluating and predicting weather phenomena in relatively small areas, named LOCALS. It submits data obtained from weather bureaus to rigorous analysis, meeting the needs of customers, such as private companies, agricultural and fishing organizations, and public agencies, for weather-related information.

Canada:

Cyberworld
Cyberworld International Corporation is dedicated to transforming the web into an interactive multimedia experience. Cyberworld compliments the Netscape viewing experience by offering an immersive 3D landscape for individuals, businesses, organizations, and communities of interests to build unique multidimensional web sites. Cyberworld's content partners include Universal Pictures, Stan Lee Media, ATI Technologies and the Discovery Channel.

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