AhaPlanet.com Launches New Multi-Cultural Experience Benefiting Multi-Lingual Users and Community Groups

The AhaPlanet Internet experience includes an Internet gateway that aggregates useful and relevant web content for growing ethnic online communities. Information is organized in an easy to use manner and can be viewed in-your-language at a click of a button.

(San Francisco, CA) -- July 21, 2001 - AhaPlanet.com announced today the launch of its new Internet experience, which is intended for use by multi-cultural users, social institutions and not-for-profit organizations that are widely recognized as members of the digital divide." One of the special features of the new portal is an instant translation service that is available to guests of AhaPlanet.com at no charge.

An AhaPlanet.com guest can click on any of the eight language flag icons found at the top of the home page and enjoy instant translation of the home page and its links into the selected language," said Nancy Hom, one of the founders of AhaPlanet.com. AhaPlanet.com offers our multi-cultural guests a rich online experience, and will be invaluable for new Internet users who are more comfortable in their native language."

AhaPlanet.com organizes useful service information in one location in an ad-free, family safe environment. Some of the special features available to AhaPlanet.com guests are:

Translation-on-the-fly -- Guests can click on one of eight language translation options: Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, French, Italian, and German. All information that is linked through AhaPlanet.com is immediately shown in the selected language.

Advertising-free Environment --Guests to AhaPlanet.com will not be subjected to the typical barrage of pop-up and banner ads that are common to other portals. AhaPlanet.com is designed to provide an easy, intelligent, comfortable, user-friendly Internet experience for its guests.

Family-Safe Search and Content --AhaPlanet.com is designed to provide a family-safe experience for its guests, including the young ones. Even the search function is filtered to provide only family-safe responses.

Useful Info, Organized Intelligently -- AhaPlanet.coms tagline, Let Us Do the Linking" underscores the Companys commitment to presenting a useful, relevant Internet experience to its Guests. Pertinent hot links direct the Guest to a page deep within a Web site, so the Guest of AhaPlanet.com will significantly reduce the time spent searching for relevant information. Guests can perform important tasks at the click of a button - such as register to vote, fill out immigration forms, take a GED exam or start a business, among many other options.

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Useful Net Tools for the Whole Family -- AhaPlanet.com will enable guests to send free email messages to cell phones or pagers, get up-to-the minute traffic reports and even obtain an affordable computer for under a dollar a day. By year-end 2001, AhaPlanet.com will also begin offering a low-cost Internet service to not-for-profit organizations, community centers and multi-ethnic users.

AhaPlanet.com is a business with a social conscience, targeted to serve a vast multi-cultural, multi-lingual audience which is underserved on the Information Superhighway," said David Amar, entrepreneur and co-founder of AhaPlanet.com. We are social entrepreneurs -- properly serving people while running a New Economy business the old fashioned way."

About AhaPlanet.com

AhaPlanet.com is an Internet company founded by partners Nancy Hom and David Amar in Benicia, California in January 2001. Built to provide a relevant Internet experience to multi-cultural audiences, social groups and not-for-profit organizations that are common to the much-discussed digital divide," the AhaPlanet.com Internet experience organizes useful information onto one location, offering translation to eight languages at the click of a button and hot links to socially relevant Web pages. AhaPlanet also offers Targeted Translation Services that bundle language translation services with targeted added-value links. For additional information on AhaPlanet.com, visit the Web site at www.ahaplanet.com or call 707-747-0200 or email info@ahaplanet.com

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AhaPlanet Press Room (415) 661-2609 or Info@ahaplanet.com

836B Southampton Road Ste. 355 • Benicia, CA 94510 • 707.747.0200