BestCalls.com Partners With iSyndicate to Bring Investor Conference Calls to Over 120,000 Web Sites.

LOS GATOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 7, 1999--

Agreement to Provide Millions of Individual Investors with Convenient

Access to Earnings Conference Calls

BestCalls.com, the Internet's leading investor event directory, and iSyndicate, the leader in Web content syndication, today announced an important content distribution agreement that will introduce millions of individual investors to the earnings conference calls of publicly held companies. The agreement will allow 120,000 iSyndicate affiliate Web sites to have access to numerous content feeds based upon BestCalls.com's calendar of investor conference calls, management interviews and other investor events.

"We are pleased to be announcing this partnership," said Joel Maske president and CEO of iSyndicate. "Investor conference calls are an important research tool for any serious investor and iSyndicate is committed to offering the best content available on the Web."

Under the terms of the agreement, iSyndicate will distribute BestCalls.com's content through a variety of syndication models.

iSyndicate will offer the ability to integrate the BestCalls.com conference call search box as well as BestCalls.com's proprietary BestCalls Indexes(TM), which measure the conference call popularity of public companies to affiliate sites free of charge. In addition, iSyndicate will be able to license BestCalls.com's complete conference call scheduling content into iSyndicate client web sites, including event dates and times, phone numbers, passcodes, and webcast addresses.

"The primary mission of BestCalls.com is to open earnings conference calls to all investors," said Mark Coker, founder and president of BestCalls.com, based in Los Gatos, California. "Through this agreement with iSyndicate, millions of individual investors will now have convenient access to the investor event schedules of hundreds of publicly traded companies."

BestCalls.com Industry's Leading Investor Event Directory

BestCalls.com has earned widespread recognition for the depth and breadth of its investor event directory service. On July 19, 1999, Barron's named BestCalls.com the Internet's number one conference call site, and on September 13, Forbes magazine named BestCalls.com among the Internet's best sources for fundamental research information. And in the November/December issue of Online Investor magazine, the editors named BestCalls.com a "Blue Chip Pick" in the research tools category.

In the past six months, BestCalls.com has listed over 1,300 earnings conference call schedules for many of America's most widely followed companies, such as Intel Yahoo, EMC, Sun Microsystems, CMGI, E

rade, 3Com, Home Depot and Walt Disney Company.

     About iSyndicate (http://www.isyndicate.com)

     iSyndicate, the Internet Content Marketplace, is the leading
provider of dynamic and relevant Web content designed to help drive
commerce and build community on the Internet. Today, the company
aggregates, packages, integrates and delivers a breadth of content
including audio, video, animations, interactive games, comics and
weather from more than 500 trusted sources including Reuters NewMedia,
Time, Salon, Fortune, CNET, The Associated Press, RollingStone.com and
CBS SportsLine, all in real-time. This content is delivered by
iSyndicate to more than 120,000 affiliated web sites, including Yahoo!
GeoCities, Xoom.com, Citibank, Netscape, Clairol, PeopleSoft,
Nintendo, Nortel and NationsBank. iSyndicate supports the ICE
(Information & Content Exchange) standard based on XML among a variety
of others for all of its content.
     iSyndicate is based in San Francisco and is backed by leading
venture capital firms Scripps Ventures and Labrador Ventures;
investment bank Hambrecht & Quist; Internet leaders Infospace.com and
Vignette Corporation; and individual investors.

     About BestCalls.com

     Founded in 1998, privately-held BestCalls.com operates a free
online directory of investor event schedules. The site, known as "The
TV Guide of Investor Conference Calls," helps investors conveniently
access the conference call schedules of hundreds of publicly traded
companies, and provides investors free automatic email notifications
of the conference call schedules they specify. To become a free
BestCalls.com member, go to http://www.bestcalls.com/join.
BestCalls.com can be reached on the Internet at
http://www.bestcalls.com, by phone at 408.358.9540, by fax at
408.358.1921, via email at [e-mail], and via postal mail at
15951 Los Gatos Blvd., Ste. 16, Los Gatos, Calif., 95032.