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Dateable.Com Launch Signals New Source for All Things Romantic on the Web

Personal Lifestyle Portal Site Launches In Time for Valentine’s Day

Washington, D.C., January 11, 1999 – A new portal site whose motto is "relate, date, and mate", Dateable.Com (www.dateable.com) offers a comprehensive and full community experience for its visitors, embracing every sector of the population in search of romantic fulfillment, information, adventure, or just plain fun. The site is designed on a central hub model by which an impressive array of romance/relationship-oriented resources and services are offered, including advice columns, free user editorials, contests, games, sweepstakes, even free Web-page design services for individuals wishing to promote an event. Dateable.com also delivers a comprehensive database of personal-oriented Web sites on a wide variety of topics.

"The Internet has enormous potential to pull people together through shared interests and passions, but it can also be an extremely isolating medium," said Jennifer Klein, a veteran Web designer who created Dateable.Com to fill what she saw as "a disturbing gap in the volume and quality of personal lifestyle resources presently available on the Web." Klein added, "the personal sites currently out there are specialized in terms of their content and their audience. I wanted to see a central, inclusive, shared community that reflects and represents the real cross-section of people online today – singles, couples, straight and gay – who are seeking vehicles for anonymous self-expression, and tools for information and enlightenment. So I built one."

Exploding Power of the Internet
Dateable.Com arrives on the cyber-scene as measures of the Internet’s human impact and related usage are skyrocketing. A recent survey conducted by market research Company, Ovum, predicted that the number of people with Internet access worldwide will quadruple by 2005. In its report titled "Internet Market Forecasts: Global Internet Growth 1998-2005," Ovum forecasts 206 million dial-up connections and 17.5 million permanent connections in the year 2005. It’s clear that the Internet has become an important staple of modern life. According to a domestic study on user trends conducted by Roper Starch and AOL, 77 percent of American Internet users say that having Internet access has improved their lives. Further, 44 percent described the Net as an essential part of their lives. American women are also taking their place online: According to the Consumer Internet Economy study from Jupiter Communications, the female portion of the online population will gradually grow toward the national average of 51.2 percent. Jupiter estimates that females will make up 44 percent of the total online audience by 2000, and 45.1 percent by 2002.

About Dateable.Com (www.dateable.com)
Dateable.Com is a portal site dedicated to all things personal and relationship-oriented on the Internet. It is an interactive online community whose revenue stream is supported mainly through advertising and partnership alliances. For more information on sales or programming, call Jennifer Klein 215-540-5831 or email sales@dateable.com.