Monday, July 24, 2000 1:36 PM

Interest!ALERT And Nando Media Partner To Offer Free News And Affiliate Content Service; Real Time ASP News Service Pays Sites To Offer News

    Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

    FOLSOM, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 24, 2000--Interest!ALERT today announced the availability of a new ASP service that allows sites to select news content by topic, incorporate it into their sites and be paid affiliate fees for visitors who view news.
    There are two primary offerings which both pay affiliate fees. A free "News Headlines, Summaries and Stock Quotes and Stock News" service and a logo co-branded service. Prices for a site to brand personalized news with their logos start at less than $200 a month.
    In addition to News, Entertainment, Health and Sports coverage provided by Nando Media, the interactive media division of The McClatchy Company (NYSE:MNI), Interest!ALERT also provides syndicated content and links from sources such as iSyndicate, Rolling Stone, Dr. Koop and others.
    "The primary attraction of the Interest!ALERT offering is that sites can incorporate news or news headline services in a couple of minutes and receive affiliate fees ," stated Karan Eriksson, president of Interest!ALERT. "We offer an entry level free News headline and summary service that pays affiliate fees up through extensive, branded, personalized content engine services that scale to millions of users."
    "The second major attraction is being able to brand news with your look and feel at a price that any site can afford," said Eriksson. "Branding, coupled with our affiliate fees, allows sites to make money right away." Competitive news branded offerings start at $3000 a month or more and do not offer affiliate programs or an easy to hookup ASP service.
    "Nando Media has offered the Interest!ALERT personalized news and email services for years and has thousands of customers," said James Green, president and publisher of Nando Media. "This new Interest!ALERT ASP service, provides a way for us to continue to extend the Nando Media brand and to reach new customers."
    The ASP Interest!ALERT Free News service with affiliate program is available immediately at http://interestalert.com. Interest!ALERT personalized news and email delivery is also available to visitors of Nando Media at http://www.nandotimes.com/tools/.

    About Nando Media

    Nando Media is the interactive media division of The McClatchy Company, with corporate headquarters in Sacramento, Calif. (USA). McClatchy publishes 11 daily and 12 non-daily newspapers including the Minneapolis (MN) Star Tribune, the Sacramento (CA) Bee, The Anchorage (AK) Daily News, The Tacoma (WA) News-Tribune and The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
    Nando Media is a pioneer in Web-based publishing and a leader in providing continuously updated news and information on its products and across many affiliate web sites. Located in Raleigh, N.C. (USA), Nando began publishing news on the Web in July 1994. It draws its information from a variety of sources, including Agence France Presse, AP, SportsTicker, Tribune Media service and others.

    About Interest!ALERT

    Interest!ALERT, part of the CP Software Group in Folsom, Calif., is a developer of intelligent text recognition software. Interest!ALERT has developed partnerships with leading online content providers, World Wide Web search and retrieval vendors and Internet Systems Integrators to fulfill the vision of personalizing the Internet.

    Note to Editors: Interest!ALERT is a trademark of Interest!ALERT

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    CONTACT: Interest!ALERT
             Karan Eriksson, 916/985-4445, ext. 232
             karane@uniplex.com
                or
             Nando Media
             James Green, 919/836-5700
             jgreen@nandomedia.com

    KEYWORD: CALIFORNIA
    INDUSTRY KEYWORD: INTERNET PUBLISHING SOFTWARE MARKETING AGREEMENTS