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The NetGuide Awards: Innovation on the Net
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FIRST NETGUIDE AWARDS DECLARES "POWER TO THE PEOPLE"

NetGuide Calls on Internet Users to Vote for Their Favorite Sites And Chat About Their Picks

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10, 1997 -- The first NetGuide Awards' People's Choice voting officially opens tonight at midnight. Web surfers can log on to www.netguide.com/awards to vote in nine different People's Choice categories. Votes will be accepted until midnight (PST) Friday, Feb. 21. The NetGuide Awards, sponsored by Legacy Software, honor the most innovative and interesting Internet products and Web sites worldwide. Winners will be announced at the awards show on March 13 at the El Rey Theater in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, voters can debate their choices on the NetGuide Live site via Legacy's Passport2 Participate Chat Software.

The nine People's Choice categories include:

Best Educational Site
Best Children's Site
Best Gaming Site
Most Entertaining Site
Site with Greatest Social Impact
Best Internet Service Provider
Best Commercial Online Service
Best Live Event Online
Best Personal Site

Nearly 4,000 nominations covering 28 categories were submitted to the site during January; 19 will be evaluated by a diverse panel of judges. You can chat away about this year's nominations on the NetGuide Live site or on America Online (keyword: NetGuide).

"Given the interactive nature of the Internet, we wanted to involve the entire community in the selection process," said Beth Haggerty, publishing director of CMP's Internet Media Group, which includes NetGuide magazine and NetGuide Live. "The mix of professional and popular judging should accurately reflect the best work in the Internet arena."

Legacy Software, Inc. (NASDAQ/LGCY), a sponsor of the first NetGuide Awards, creates consumer software products for the "edutainment" CD-ROM market (including the current hit, "Emergency Room") and develops online activities and games for the rapidly expanding Internet arena. The company's proprietary Passport2 Participate Chat software is available to host events on the Passport2 Network, or can be licensed for use on other servers, as is being done with NetGuide Live. Recently, the company used Passport2 software to create a chat environment for the People's Choice Awards.

NetGuide magazine, published by CMP Media Inc., is the leading monthly magazine for users of the Internet and online services. Building off the magazine's reputation for expert information and quality delivery, CMP launched the first true online guide to the Internet, NetGuide Live (www.netguide.com) last year.

CMP Media Inc., now in its 26th year of uninterrupted growth, is the only provider of publishing, marketing and information services to cover the entire spectrum of the high-technology market -- the builders, sellers, and users of technology. With sales of $418 million in 1996, CMP has marked a quarter of a century of success with an average growth of 20 percent. CMP is also the creator of First-TV (www.first-tv.com), the Internet's first 24-hour TV/video network.

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Press Contacts:

Andrea Salkin
KillerApp Communications
213/938-7600
asalkin@kappcomm.com

Denise Walpole
NetGuide Live
212/592-8476
dwalpole@cmp.com

Ken Talley
Legacy Software
310/823-2423
ktalley@legacysoft.com




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