USERPLANE PRESIDENT NAMED TO BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF IDEA OASIS

LOS ANGELES (March 22, 2004) – Userplane (www.userplane.com), a pioneer in applying Flash-based instant messaging to support live communications for Web-based communities, today announced that its president, Michael Jones, has joined the Board of Directors of IDEA OASIS, a new not-for-profit association for the online dating and social networking industries. Jones is also one of the founding members of the group.

The association will have its inaugural meeting on July 15, 2004 at the Internet Dating Conference in Nice, France. The founding board of IDEA OASIS -- the Internet Dating Executive Alliance/Online Association for Social Industry Standards – includes executives from both the online dating and social networking sectors.

The mission of the organization is to set ethical standards for member social networking sites, including protection of account privacy and verification of membership, among others. The association will provide value to its membership by facilitating information exchange among members, giving members access to its extensive information repository, helping members understand emerging technologies and their impact on the industry, and creating relationships for members with various third-party vendors, which will include services and products at discounted prices.

The association will ensure that its members have representation with lawmakers, and will promote ethical social networking and online dating management for members and to the general community at large.

“This is a great opportunity for us to work collaboratively for the good of the dating and online social networking industries,” said Jones. “Creating industry-wide ethical standards – and making a public declaration that each of our individual companies will live up to them – benefits everyone. It is an important step in maintaining the high level of integrity throughout our industries, and in setting apart those companies that have agreed to hold themselves to a higher standard of service and privacy. Through my role as a founding board member, and Userplane’s involvement as a member organization, we’re making a statement to our customers and partners that we’re committed to helping create the most favorable business climate possible – an especially important goal given the rapid growth of the online dating and social networking sectors.”

Userplane is the leading provider of video and audio instant messaging capabilities to the online dating community, with the Userplane Instant Communicator deployed at more than 50 dating sites. Social networking sites consist of webs of relationships that expand through conversations among people who share personal information and common interests, but who tend to be geographically distant.

Member sites will be given a unique and numbered IDEA OASIS logo to place on their Web sites to show their clients that participating companies are in full support of the standards and ethics that IDEA OASIS promotes. These standards will increase the level of trust that members of the public will have in member sites.

The need for an industry association emerged as a topic at the first Internet Dating Conference, held in Miami in January. In addition to Jones, other acting members of the IDEA OASIS Board of Directors include: