Legendary Livewire Community Reborn; Early Internet Pioneer Relaunches Community Using Five Across' Drag-and-Drop Web Publishing Technology.

SAN JOSE, Calif. and PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Announced today at the AlwaysOn 2005 Conference, Boulevards New Media, Inc., a leading operator of city guides on the Internet, will re-launch its pioneering Livewire(TM) community using Five Across' web publishing technology.

Located at www.livewire.com, the new beta service enables users to create rich-content websites and blogs with ease, as well as build community and instant-message one other. Users will be able to build websites and share files simply by dragging and dropping their content files onto the Five Across-powered Livewire(TM) application. The web pages can contain blogs, digital photographs, movies, spreadsheets, audio files or other multimedia assets.

Boulevards New Media operates a global network of more than 100 city guides that includes LosAngeles.com, SanFrancisco.com, Dallas.com, Houston.com, StLouis.com, Seattle.com and Philadelphia.com. A Boulevards subsidiary operates the MrMovieTimes.com network of 61 locally-focused movie information sites.

Livewire was launched in 1993 by Virtual Valley Inc., a Boulevards sister company, and quickly became Silicon Valley's version of the famous web community, "The Well." Livewire hosted lively discussions of topical issues and offered community members integrated email, chat and forum-creation tools. The free service, accessed through dial-up modems and later the Internet, was based on early net technology. As the HTML browser became the standard, Boulevards was unable to replicate the Livewire experience using available web tools, and the service was retired to enable Boulevards to concentrate on other web activities.

"We've waited a decade for the Web to reach this point," Boulevards CEO Dan Pulcrano said. "New 'Web 2.0' tools like Five Across' client applications finally allow us to recapture the intuitive experience and lively communications environment of the original Livewire community."

"Using Five Across' technology, Livewire participants will be able to build their own websites without having to learn HTML or navigate convoluted file directories to upload files. It's easy, fun and instantaneous, which is the experience Livewire strives to deliver," Pulcrano added.

"We are pleased that our technology will enable Boulevards to build a next-generation online community as they originally envisioned when they launched Livewire, back when the Internet was still in its infancy," said Peter Karnig, VP of Business Development at Five Across.

For more information or to participate in this new service, please visit http://livewire.com.

About Five Across

Founded in 2003, Five Across provides a web publishing and blogging service combined with advanced communication and collaboration software that makes it easy for business and personal computer users to publish and share information. Five Across is based in Palo Alto, Calif., and backed by leading investors Adobe Ventures and Granite Ventures. http://www.fiveacross.com/.

About Boulevards New Media Inc.

Founded in 1994, Boulevards created some of the Web's first city guides and today operates more than 100 destination information sites at "city.com" URLs such as SanFrancisco.com. Its MrMovieTimes.com network provides a fast and friendly way for people to access movie times and purchase tickets at easy-to-remember URLs like BostonMovieTimes.com. Boulevards is a privately-held subsidiary of San Jose, California-based Metro Newspapers.

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