Under the agreement TVGrid.Com becomes the exclusive TV listings content provider to both OneZero Media's GetWild.com and Compaq's AltaVista Internet Guide. Through the partnership a customized TV listing solution for AltaVista and OneZero Media is featured within AltaVista's Entertainment channel and GetWild.com.

AltaVista and GetWild.com users now have easy access to TVGrid.Com's superior TV listing product. TVGrid.Com offers the most comprehensive, accurate and up-to-date listings and channel line-ups available. The site features up to six weeks of listings and exact channel lineups for more than 57,000 U.S. ZIP codes and nearly 1 million Canadian postal codes. TVGrid.Com also offers an e-mail reminder service, built-in links to show-specific content, advanced search capabilities, and personalization options for users. Future integration will include relevant television listings highlighted in AltaVista search results.

"Being selected as the exclusive TV listing partner by leading Internet brands such as AltaVista and OneZero Media firmly validates that our TVGrid.Com product is superior to the others," said Stewart Ugelow, TVGrid.Com CEO. "Our integrated turnkey solution is the best option available for any Web site looking to add the best television listings to its offerings and position itself for the convergence of television and the Internet."

AltaVista, the most powerful and useful guide to the internet, is one of the top destinations on the Web. GetWild.com is the companion Web site to the CBS/Eyemark television show, "The Wild Wild Web," and the exclusive co-producer and content provider to AltaVista's Entertainment channel.

"We examined the different options for TV listings and none had the comprehensive and up-to-date information that TVGrid.com has," said Alan Chebot, CEO of OneZero Media. "As we continue to grow, we will look for partnerships with similar growing brands."

Compaq's AltaVista is the most powerful and useful guide to the Internet. A forerunner in Web search technology, AltaVista is setting new standards, from indexing the entire Internet to providing the Web's first instant language translation capabilities. With an extensive line-up of innovative content and services, AltaVista is one of the top destinations on the Web. For more information, visit AltaVista's flagship site located at http://www.altavista.com

OneZero Media, Inc. is a leading producer of transmedia programming that utilizes the unique strengths of the Internet and television to create meaningful electronic commerce revenue opportunities. It specializes in building both television and Internet content around traditional entertainment categories such as music, film, pop culture and sports, creating one of the largest point of purchase selling opportunities on the Web. The company is based in Boston, MA.

"Wild Wild Web" is a 30-minute weekly entertainment show about the Internet, produced by OneZero Media and distributed by CBS/Eyemark, Inc. for syndication in 148 markets in the U.S. Currently the show airs in 88 percent of the U.S. Television market, reaching 85 million U.S. households, and 2 million viewers per week.

TVGrid.com is a division of Student Net Publishing LLC, which was founded by college students at Yale and Columbia Universities in 1995 and is backed by MediaOne Group (NYSE: UMG). TVGrid.Com features up to six weeks of listings and exact channel lineups for more than 57,000 U.S. ZIP codes and nearly 1 million Canadian postal codes, making it the most comprehensive and accurate personalized television listings service on the Internet. TVGrid.Com is available at http://www.tvgrid.com and distributed through partnerships with Web sites including Compaq's AltaVista Internet Guide (NYSE: CPQ) and MediaOne's high-speed Internet access service MediaOne Express.

Sometimes, Tom Rielly gets so overwhelmed by the endless struggle with his e-mail in-box that he has to get up from the computer and just breathe. “I take an e-mail time out, by getting up and moving away from my screen,” said Rielly, the chairman and CEO of the Web site PlanetOut. Though the first thing he does in the morning is check his e-mail, and though he deals with it “20 or 30 times a day,” Rielly said he feels like he never really gets a handle on the digital flood. “It’s kind of a sport for me to see if I can keep my e-mail basket empty,” he said. “It’s a losing battle, like playing Tetris, sort of like spinning plates. At some point they fall down.” Keeping those plates spinning is part of the challenge of the Internet age. For those who get a lot of it, managing e-mail can become an obsession.

“I don’t juggle my e-mail, I stagger under it,” said Barry Golson, the editor-in-chief of Yahoo Internet Life magazine. “Though I’ve noticed a certain status-y competition among people about how much e-mail they get — you know, like discussions about whose cell phone is smaller.” Perhaps a more productive competition would be one for most innovative e-mail management strategy.

Stewart Ugelow, the 22-year-old co-founder of the Web site Student.net, could win the “most unwired” award. He has copies of all his e-mail routed to a pager. “It really has saved me from having to compulsively check my e-mail,” he said. “I’m in airports, I see people toting their laptops, and I don’t have to wait for any of that — I do a triage and pull out the pager when I have a minute.” Only the first 250 characters of each message get through to the beeper, he said, but that’s enough to get a flavor of what the e-mail is about — and to determine whether it needs an immediate response via phone. Less urgent messages can wait until Ugelow returns to the office. Responding via two-way pager would be “overkill,” he said. Another way Ugelow manages the flow of mail is by having two different e-mail addresses. One is for mailing lists and Web sites that require registration; the other is “restricted to people.” Only the “people” messages get forwarded to his pager. “I get 10 to 20 messages on my people account each day, and most of those I have to return,” he said. “I get upwards of a hundred on the other, but I know they’re not as important.”

Most people seem to use the “trash” approach to reading their mail. Golson systematically roots through his in-box, deleting the fat: any obvious spam, anything forwarded, anything resembling a public-relations pitch. Then he sorts through the legitimate stuff.

Filters are a godsend for many. A feature in most e-mail programs, filters can automatically sort, discard or forward incoming messages using criteria specified by the user. There are those, however, who suffer fear of deletion. Bryce Jasmer, a senior system engineer at a large web company who handles a thousand pieces of e-mail a day, said it took some time to get over the worry that the complex system of filters he uses to sort through his mail might inadvertently throw out or misplace something important.

Jasmer uses a special program that a friend wrote to manage the hundreds of pieces of mail he gets each day at his “six or seven” e-mail addresses, which all flow into one central box. “My filter file is a hundred lines long at least,” he said.

Filtering could be Henry Bar-Levav’s middle name. His desk at the Manhattan design firm he founded, Oven Digital, is the picture of the modern, paperless office; on it sit two neat laptops and not much else.

Bar-Levav mans his e-mail throughout the day as if he were an air-traffic controller keeping close watch over incoming and outgoing planes — and in a sense he is, routing information to his staff from the corner of a giant loft.

In order to organize all of the e-mail that crosses his virtual desktop, Bar-Levav keeps a labyrinth of electronic in-boxes. As messages come in, a phalanx of filters routes them to specific mailboxes. He also uses different colors to highlight the priority or sender of various messages. All of this correspondence would consume countless file folders and file cabinets if it weren’t electronic.

The absence of paper throughout Oven Digital’s office makes Bar-Levav proud; to him, it’s what working in the digital age is all about. Embracing the paperless office is something only younger workers do easily, said Lisa Kanarek, a professional organizer. An inherent mistrust of digital storage fuels a behavior she frequently encounters in her clients: the printing out and physical filing of e-mail messages. In particular, she remembers sifting through the material and digital clutter of one particular client and finding a printed copy of a company-wide e-mail message granting employees an extra day off the previous Christmas — housed in its very own manila folder. “How much time and effort did it waste to do that?” she marveled.

Through the partnership, Student.Com's award-winning college content, tools and services will be integrated into and prominently featured within Excite's Career & Education channel. Students using Excite will have easy access to Student.Com's editorial content including college and university news, sports and campus information.

"Students, more than any other demographic, instinctively turn to the Web as a search tool in all facets of their lives," said Stewart Ugelow, CEO of Student Net Publishing. "Working with Excite, we will be able to reach an increasing number of students, specifically those who are already looking for the content and tools we offer at Student.Com."

"At Excite, we create targeted communities of interest," said Joe Kraus, Senior Vice-President and Co-founder, Excite, Inc. "This partnership with Student.Com will give student-users of Excite easy access to the best editorial and most useful tools and services available for college students online."

In addition to the content alliance, the relationship will also include joint on-campus marketing initiatives.

Student Net Publishing LLC, was founded by students at Yale and Columbia universities in 1995 to provide college students with high-quality online content. Today, it is a leading Internet publishing company led by a highly-regarded management team and backed by US WEST Media Group. The company derives revenues from multiple sources including advertising, electronic commerce, and content syndication.

The company's award-winning Web site, Student.Com, is the first independent site with original daily content that serves all aspects of college life, produced by journalists who know what students want.

Through the partnership, a co-branded area on Student.Com will be developed where students can search for apartments, moving equipment and storage facilities both in the United States and internationally.

The co-branded area will be launched in conjunction with Student.Com’s “Get Set For Summer” guide, an informational section about how to find a job, rent an apartment, and keep in touch with friends for free. The guide includes articles on “Moving Made Easy,” finding the perfect place to rent and the need for renter’s insurance.

“Students often change apartments more than once each year,” said Stewart Ugelow, founder and CEO of Student Net Publishing. “This partnership with Rent.Net gives Student.Com members the best tools available to find apartments and storage space faster and more efficiently directly through Student.Com.”

“With Rent.Net’s expansive database representing millions of rental units, Student.Com members will be able to find off-campus living options and storage space for the summer,” said Phil Marcus, president of Rent.Net. “Graduating students relocating to another city or state will also be able to search for an apartment right at Student.Com.”

Student Net Publishing LLC, was founded by students at Yale and Columbia universities in 1995 to provide college students with high-quality online content. Today, it is a leading Internet publishing company led by a highly-regarded management team and backed by US WEST Media Group. The company derives revenues from multiple sources including advertising, electronic commerce, and content syndication.

The company’s award-winning Web site, Student.Com, is the first independent site with original daily content that serves all aspects of college life, produced by journalists who know what students want.

San Francisco-based Rent Net, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cendant Corp., represents rental properties in more than 2,500 North American cities in the U.S. and Canada. Found at www.rent.net, Rent Net provides consumers free, unlimited access to comprehensive listings with text, photos, floor plans and location maps. As of April 1, 1998, Rent Net received over 2,300,000 monthly user-sessions and is the most-visited apartment and relocation site on the Web. In addition, PC Magazine has recognized the company as the best source for online apartment information for the second year in a row.

“This alliance provides our members with the most comprehensive and dependable source for exchanging information with prospective employers. With graduation approaching fast, the demand for these tools is high,” said Stewart Ugelow, founder and CEO of Student Net Publishing. “JobDirect.com specializes in internships and entry-level positions for recent college graduates, making it a natural choice for a job-search partner.”

With JobDirect’s unique interactive-matching technology, employers such as Sun Microsystems, Sears, The Peace Corps, Random House and Price Waterhouse can easily pinpoint qualified Student.Com members using the co-branded service to fill open positions. Student.Com members can also respond to postings directly online.

“Student.Com’s content and format is the highest quality in the category, and the site addresses the key areas of interest for students — including career and job related topics — making them a perfect partner for us,” said Rob Ford, President of JobDirect.com. “Once students become active on our database, they basically can kick back and let the jobs find them.”

In addition to the co-branded service at Student.Com, the relationship will also include joint on-campus marketing initiatives — through JobDirect’s JobDrive nationwide.

Student Net Publishing LLC, was founded by students at Yale and Columbia universities in 1995 to provide college students with high-quality online content. Today, it is a leading Internet publishing company led by a highly-regarded management team and backed by US WEST Media Group. The company derives revenues from multiple sources including advertising, electronic commerce, and content syndication.

The company’s award-winning Web site, Student.Com, is the first independent site with original daily content that serves all aspects of college life, produced by journalists who know what students want.

JobDirect.com is the leading Internet job resource for students. JobDirect.com’s database technology connects entry-level, internship, and MBA job-seekers with the opportunities they want. Every 24 hours, the database matches job openings with qualified candidates and e-mails students the details regarding each match.

JobDirect.com provides a database solution to companies, improving their efficiency and results in college recruiting. Connecting to JobDirect’s database, companies conduct customized searches for qualified candidates, view completed resumes, track the status of candidates in process and receive statistical and other analysis relating to their college level recruiting practices. Students put their resume information on the database for free.

Zip2 will integrate Student.Com’s award winning content into its comprehensive, dynamic local content which is distributed through its nationwide network of 152 online newspapers. Visitors to the Zip2 site searching for student or college related keywords will also be directed to Student.Com content. Student.Com members will now have access to Zip2’s city guide/directory and mapping services.

“With this strategic partnership, Student.Com continues to solidify its position as a leader in its category by providing its members with the highest quality content and services,” said Stewart Ugelow, Student Net CEO and founder. “Now Student.Com offers its members the mapping solutions they need to navigate a Spring Break vacation, plan a last minute road-trip, or send directions to an out of town visitor.”

Student Net Publishing LLC, was founded by students at Yale and Columbia universities in 1995 to provide college students with high-quality online content. Today, it is a leading Internet publishing company led by a highly-regarded management team. The company derives revenue from multiple sources including advertising, electronic commerce, and content syndication.

Its award-winning Web site, Student.Com, is the first independent site with original daily content that serves all aspects of college life, produced by journalists who know what students want.

Founded in 1995, Zip2 Corporation is the consumer technology leader in the local content space. Zip2 develops City Guides, Real Estate and Auto Guides, and a Business Directory for local markets around the country. The company’s local sales and marketing teams work with its network of local media companies to facilitate local sales of online advertising and build revenue for its local city guides. Zip2’s 152-strong partners include The New York Times, Knight-Ridder, Landmark Communications, Morris Communications, McClatchy Newspapers, Central Newspapers, and newspapers in the Hearst, Times Mirror, Scripps Howard, Media General, Pulitzer Publishing and Freedom Communications chains. Based in Mountain View, CA, Zip2 is located on the Internet at http://www.zip2.com.

MediaOne is the broadband services arm of US West Media Group (NYSE: UMG). MediaOne Express is the company's high-speed Internet access service that provides access to the Internet at speeds 50 times faster than conventional telephone dial-up services.

"By using our integrated turnkey solution, any online destination can bring their users the most comprehensive and up-to-date TV listings in a customizable, free and easy-to-use experience," said Stewart Ugelow, CEO and founder of Student Net Publishing. "Whether you want to know whether ER will be a re-run or plan a weekend movie marathon, TVGrid.Com technology brings users all the answers they need to make decisions about what's worth watching."

Powered by TVGrid.Com, MediaOne SearchTV combines comprehensive and accurate listings with advanced search capabilities, a built-in e-mail reminder system, zip code channel mapping technology, an easily personalized interface, and built-in show specific content and context. With just a few clicks, users can read reviews of movies from the nation's leading newspapers or search for relevant Web sites.

For example, a parent can easily search for shows featuring age-appropriate content, while sports fans can map out the game schedule for their favorite teams and set-up an e-mail reminder service so they won't forget to tune in.

"MediaOne is committed to providing our broadband customers with the latest technology to help simplify their lives and enhance their viewing experience. MediaOne Search TV is an innovative service that ties together our Internet and Cable TV offering enabling our customers to navigate through the many programming choices available to them," said Will Richmond, vice president of business development for MediaOne.

Student Net Publishing LLC, was founded by students at Yale and Columbia universities in 1995 to provide college students with high-quality online content. Today, it is a leading Internet publishing company led by a highly-regarded management team. The company derives revenue from multiple sources including advertising, electronic commerce, and content syndication.

Its award-winning Web site, Student.Com, is the first independent site with original daily content that serves all aspects of college life, produced by journalists who know what students want.

MediaOne, a unit of US West Media Group (NYSE: UMG), is the nation's leading broadband services company, providing more than 5 million subscribers in 19 states with entertainment, information, and communications services. US West Media is involved in domestic and international cable and telephony, wireless communications, and directory and information services. For 1996, Media Group reported proportionate pro forma revenues of $8.1 billion.

Media Group is one of two major groups that make up US West, a company in the connections business, helping customers share information, entertainment, and communications services in local markets worldwide. US West's other major group, US West Communications, provides telecommunications services in 14 states.

There's a saying in many of the newsrooms that I've worked in: "Every time we run an obituary, we've lost a subscriber."

The reason, of course, is that people my age are not reading newspapers anymore.

I realize many of you are still developing your online strategies, but in an effort to keep things from repeating themselves, I'd like to talk to you today about your future users and a phenomenon you may not be aware of.

There are currently 14.4 million two-year and four-year college students in the United States. And that number is projected to grow to 19.2 million in the year 2000.

The most important piece of advice I can give you is go visit a college campus and get to know these people. Because there is no better focus group for what the future holds than a college campus today.

Inspired by widely available grant money and student demand, colleges are racing to connect every dorm room to the Internet. College students have high speed connections and often receive their access for free. They don't have to tie up a phone line; fight with their spouse or their kids for use of the computer; or worry about their boss looking over their shoulder. Plus, they use the Internet 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.

While they read fewer newspapers, listen to less radio, and watch less television, college students use the Internet more than any other demographic group.

While college students make up just five percent of the U.S. population, at least one in every five Internet users is a college student.

Indeed, 85 percent of college students are projected to use the Internet at least once this semester, 62 percent at least once per week, and 50 percent will use it every single day.

All told, college students will spend 70 million hours online this week alone.

And it's not hard to see why.

Online discussion groups are replacing face-to-face sessions with professors. Classwork is assigned and submitted online. Already, students are using the web to find out what's for dinner, what's showing on campus, how the football team did, and what the weather forecast is.

And best of all, why bother picking up the phone to call Mom & Dad when you can ask for more money by e-mail?

Yet for all their numbers online, college students are dramatically underserved by today's online content offerings. Our company is working to fill that void.

We publish a site called Student.Com that combines the writing of the nation's top collegiate journalists with innovative uses of Internet technology to create a comprehensive, in-depth site devoted to college life. Many of the lessons we've learned will be applicable to you in your efforts.

Our site currently has four main concentrations:

1. A daily newsmagazine written by college journalists from around the country. We cover everything from financial aid policies to new movies and music to how to brew beer in your dorm room. If you're 21 or over, of course.

2. Community enabling features that help to facilitate interaction between our members. Among the most popular is "Yenta, the Student.Com matchmaker." An early version of Yenta allowed users to indicate whether they were a "prince" or a "princess" and whether they were searching for a "prince," a "princess," or an &quot artist formerly known as Prince."

3. Information services that help students to organize their lives. For instance, our site is the only place on the Internet where you can search television listings for up to six weeks and get e-mail reminders before a show airs.

4. Entertaining interactive features like the "Rejectomatic" which sends fake rejection letters to your friends. If any of you were rejected for the position of "coffee filtration technician," that was us — and we're sorry.

Over time, college students will get their news from us, meet new friends through us, buy their course books through us — and maybe even land a White House internship through us.

So what does this mean to you? A number of things:

1. Be ready for a world when your site is "always on."

College graduates will be a driving force in the deployment of broadband Internet access to the home. News cycles will increasingly have less meaning.

2. Allow users to shape their own experience and help them manage their lives.

How many of you are putting school lunch menus into databases that will let parents know when a meal their child won't eat is being served?

Or what about geomapping your crime reports so users can see where the dangerous parts in their neighborhoods are?

Or what about something simple, like letting users post the locations of pot holes and street signs that need fixing?

3. Experiment with story forms and conventions.

You're not going to attract young readers by doing the same types of writing as in your print editions.

4. Build context into whatever you do.

Give people access to the tools they need to make the decisions in their lives.

Finally, I'd like to leave you with one thought: For all the bells and whistles, the Internet is still at its heart a medium of words. If we as an industry can get college students to read online, there just may be hope for newspapers yet.

“This story tells the truth about Ritalin abuse, that for some college students, it has become as popular as Coca Cola and coffee as a study aid,” said Chris Johnson, Student.Com managing editor.

Ritalin is the brand name for methylphenidate, a prescription drug manufactured by Novartis that helps to alleviate the symptoms of Attention Deficit Disorder.

The Student.Com article, written by University of Wisconsin at Madison sophomore Chris Tennant and based on interviews with dozens of students across the country, reveals:

* A “black market” for obtaining Ritalin without a prescription has developed on some campuses. “People will pay $5 or $6 for one pill,” says a sophomore at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn.

* To increase its potency, some students have started to crush Ritalin pills and sniff the drug like cocaine.

* Health officials are growing concerned about Ritalin abuse on campus. The director of university health services at Harvard University says that he is “sure” students at Harvard abuse Ritalin.

* Novartis sent information to several hundred thousand doctors and pharmacies last spring alerting them to “incidents of improper use and abuse” of Ritalin.

The article is available on the Student.Com Web site (http://www.student.com).

Student Net Publishing LLC was founded by six students at Yale and Columbia universities in 1995 to provide college students with high-quality online content. Today it is a leading Internet publishing company, led by a highly regarded management team and backed by US WEST Media Group.

The company publishes Student.Com (http://www.student.com), a critically-acclaimed Web site that combines the writing of the nation’s top collegiate journalists with some of the most innovative uses of Internet technology to create a comprehensive, in-depth site devoted to college life.

Through the partnership, college students living in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Jacksonville, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Portland, Seattle and the Twin Cities now have available a wide range of local entertainment, information and communications tools tailored to them. Users can participate in online campus discussions with fellow students, or link to their college newspaper to find out about the latest campus events. For a study break, the localized version of TVGrid (http://divein.tvgrid.com), a feature which creates customized television schedules, helps plan a night of entertainment. Or, access DiveIn’s comprehensive calendar of events to find out what’s happening around town.

Student.Com helps students stay connected with each other. Find the perfect date for the next social through “Yenta, the Matchmaker,” one of the site’s more popular features. Mom complaining you never call or write? Send her an e-mail through Mom-o-Matic, an electronic form letter that is easily personalized. Stay in touch with old friends at nearly 500 schools through a network of over 200,000 student homepages.

Users can easily toggle back and forth between DiveIn and Student.Com to collect the most useful information from each service. Through DiveIn users can find out more about what’s happening in city sports, entertainment, news, and more.

“Student.Com is a great addition to DiveIn’s broad range of content,” says DiveIn marketing director Kelly Ruebel. “Many college students are new to the city, living away from home for the first time. Together, DiveIn and Student.Com provide information about what’s happening at school and in the new city they are living in.”

“Now, Student.Com is the only major college life site to offer local information and content,” said Stewart Ugelow, CEO and founder of Student Net Publishing LLC. “We are always striving to be one step ahead and offer students what they really want, and this partnership with DiveIn brings our new localized content to more students.”

Student.Com is the first independent site with original daily content that serves all aspects of college life, produced by journalists who know what students want.

Student Net Publishing LLC was founded by students at Yale and Columbia universities in 1995 to provide college students with high quality online content. Today, it is the leading Internet publishing company led by a highly regarded management team. The company derives revenues from multiple sources including advertising, electronic commerce and content syndication.

Launched last April in ten U.S. cities (Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Jacksonville, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Portland, Seattle and the Twin Cities) DiveIn is a one-stop resource for everything from local news, weather and TV listings, to tips on parenting and education, from restaurant listings to an extensive calendar of events.

DiveIn is a free Web service from U S WEST Interactive, a unit of U S WEST Media Group. U S Media Group (NYSE: UMG), one of America’s largest broadband communications companies, is involved in domestic and international cable and telephony, wireless communications and directory and information services. For 1996, U S WEST Media Group had proportionate pro forma revenue of $8.1 billion.

Each of Student.Com’s 45,000-plus members will receive a $25 credit from Northern Light. Using a co-branded Northern Light/Student.Com Web page, Student.Com members can use this credit to access information quickly and easily on any topic from the Web and from Northern Light’s Special Collection of over 2,900 books, magazines, databases, and newswires.

“Through a promotional program with Student.Com, Northern Light will reach tens of thousands of students, a demographic with a voracious appetite for information,” said David Seuss, Northern Light CEO. “Student.Com members can now get quality research information online right from the World Wide Web. Student.Com is a site that resonates with students, providing compelling content of high quality.”

Stewart Ugelow, CEO of Student Net Publishing, said “Northern Light is one of the best information sources on the Web for students in need of relevant, reliable, organized, inexpensive, information fast. Student.Com members will clearly benefit from Northern Light; this partnership will aid them in their late-night term-paper research and in their general pursuit of knowledge.”

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Northern Light, the world’s first research engine, enables users to search the entire World Wide Web and its Special Collection of two million articles from over 2,900 publications–including business and trade publications, magazines, newspapers, newswires, academic journals, and more–not available from any other search engine. Results are prioritized by best match and sorted into Custom Search Folders, which are generated on the fly, to help users narrow their searches. Northern Light’s business model is based on users purchasing Special Collection articles on a pay-per-document basis for a typical cost of one dollar per article. Subscriptions are also available. All searching, Web documents, and premium document summaries are free. Northern Light Technology LLC, headquartered in Cambridge MA, introduced its research engine in August 1997.

Student Net Publishing LLC, was founded by students at Yale and Columbia universities in 1995 to provide college students with high-quality online content. Today it is a leading Internet publishing company led by a highly-regarded management team and backed by U S WEST Media Group. Its award-winning Web site, Student.Com (http://www.student.com) , is the first independent site with original daily content that serves all aspects of college life, produced by journalists who know what students want.