CMG @Ventures adds PlanetAll to its investment portfolio.

ANDOVER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 26, 1997--CMG Information Services, Inc. (NASDAQ:CMGI) announced today it has invested in PlanetAll of Cambridge, MA. Led by co-founders Warren Adams, a Harvard Business School alumnus and former management consultant, and Brian Robertson, an MIT graduate and ON Technology veteran, PlanetAll (http://www.PlanetAll.com) was developed to help people get in touch and stay in touch with individuals and groups important to them.

"We're very excited to add PlanetAll to our network of Internet investments," stated CMG President and CEO David Wetherell, "PlanetAll has the potential to be one of the largest Internet communities, and as such will have great synergy with other companies in our portfolio such as GeoCities and Planet Direct."

PlanetAll, launched at the end of 1996, and named New Business of the Year in Cambridge, MA has quickly grown to over 100,000 members from over 100 countries. A free and completely private service, PlanetAll helps members build upon and renew their networks of friends and professional contacts. Via email, members are informed of address changes, contacts that are coming into town, upcoming birthdays, new PlanetAll members, and upcoming group events such as alumni gatherings. PlanetAll also helps members network through a unique "friends of friends" feature. To protect privacy, members give permission on an individual basis before their contact information is divulged to other members.

"People move around so often these days and are so busy that it is very easy to lose touch," explained co-founder Warren Adams, who has linked to hundreds of personal and professional contacts via PlanetAll. "I actually started PlanetAll to keep track of my own friends and colleagues. While living in London last year, I returned to the States for a college reunion and discovered that many of my college friends had been in London at the same time. Had we known it, we would certainly have seen each other. Once you link to someone in PlanetAll, you will never lose track of that person again."

To provide more value to its members, PlanetAll has forged partnerships with popular Web sites and services such as Four11, Mercury Mail, The Monster Board, InfoSeek, InfoSpace, Planet Direct, WhoWhere, Worldview/ITN, and 4th Network, with many more to be announced soon.

CMG Information Services, Inc. (NASDAQ:CMGI) invests in and integrates advanced Internet, interactive media and database management technologies. The company's @Ventures investment and development affiliate has a majority interest in Lycos Inc., Blaxxun Interactive (formerly Black Sun Interactive), and GeoCities, and significant investments in Ikonic Interactive, Inc., Vicinity Corporation, Silknet Software, Parable, LLC, and KOZ, Inc.

CONTACT: Guy Bradley Warren Adams

CMG @Ventures PlanetAll

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Bryan Scanlon

Schwartz Communications

617/684-0770

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