Lycos Unveils Personal Guide: Revolutionary Lifestyle Management Tool

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Lycos, a leading new generation online service, has unveiled the "Personal Guide", a groundbreaking service that empowers users to personalize Web content, organize their daily lives, and leverage online communities. This innovative tool aims to transform the way people interact with the Internet, providing a single, easy-to-use Web start page that integrates a wide range of services and features. With the Personal Guide, users can customize and manage their online experience, access personalized news, entertainment, and sports, and build their own personal home pages.

Key Takeaways:

  • Lycos Personal Guide is a free, comprehensive service that allows users to personalize Web content, organize their daily lives, and leverage online communities.
  • The service integrates tripwire personal home pages, email, chat, message boards, news, and information, as well as a contacts manager and Home Page Manager.
  • Personal Guide provides users with dozens of customizable, up-to-the-minute news and feature delivery options, including unique contact management technology and services provided by PlanetAll.
  • Lycos has invested $2.5 million in stock in PlanetAll and licenses its technology for the contact management features.
  • The service includes an address book that is self-populating, self-updating, and universally accessible, with periodic emails summarizing contacts' address changes or other news.
  • Personal Guide also includes networking tools to expand users' contacts, which automatically update Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) or Personal Information Managers (PIMs) with fresh contact information.
  • The service integrates personalized Internet content with personal home page publishing, enabling users to build Web sites to express their individual interests and exchange information with others.
  • Lycos has acquired Tripod, Inc., an online community and host of personal Web pages, and pledged to provide its users with rich integration of Tripod content.

Statistics:

  • Lycos Personal Guide is a free service.
  • $2.5 million in stock was invested in PlanetAll.
  • The service integrates a wide range of features, including tripwire personal home pages, email, chat, message boards, news, and information, as well as a contacts manager and Home Page Manager.
  • There are dozens of customizable, up-to-the-minute news and feature delivery options available through Personal Guide.
  • The service has integrated contact management technology and services provided by PlanetAll.

Sources:

  • April 13, 1998 -- NEW Lycos "Personal Guide" Delivers Innovative Lifestyle Management Tools (Lycos, Inc.)
  • Lycos, Inc. (NASDAQ: LCOS) today unveiled the latest evolution of its New Generation Online Service (Lycos, Inc.)
  • Lycos Personal Guide (Lycos, Inc.)
  • PlanetAll (PlanetAll)
  • Tripod, Inc. (Tripod, Inc.)
  • Lycos, Inc. (http://www.lycos.com)