Real-time Weblog Monitoring of Republican Convention and Election News Now Available

NEW YORK, NY - August 25, 2004 - The PubSub Sidebar is a web-browser add-in that instantly delivers personalized, relevant news and commentary right to your desktop. Unprecedented, real-time monitoring of over 3 million Weblogs is available for the first time to those who seek the very latest political news and commentary.

Deploying Internet-scale, exceptionally high-speed "matching" technology previously only available to national security agencies, PubSub Concepts, Inc. (www.pubsub.com), has created the PubSub Sidebar -- a free Internet Explorer Add-In similar to the well known Search and History bars found in Microsoft's web-browser. The PubSub Sidebar uses XMPP Instant Messaging technology to directly connect users' web-browsers to the Internet debate on candidates, issues and events as well as to the full range of subjects discussed in Weblogs.

The PubSub Sidebar sits conveniently inside an Internet Explorer web-browser and displays instant alerts whenever new Weblog entries are published which contain user selected keywords or phrases such as "John Kerry", "George Bush" or "Kerry AND Vietnam". This free service is easy to download and install (see: www.pubsub.com/sidebar), and eliminates the need to constantly check and re-check for newly updated information.

PubSub Concepts (www.pubsub.com), the leading provider of Internet-Scale Publish/Subscribe systems, is well-known in the Weblog community for its free matching service. PubSub constantly monitors millions of weblogs for newly published items and matches them against users' personalized queries in real time. PubSub.com and the PubSub Sidebar together form a powerful election news monitoring service, combining the features of news feeds, clipping services and search engines while adding the extraordinary element of real-time information capture and discovery.

On the eve of the Republican National Convention in New York City, the PubSub Sidebar meets the often expressed need for real-time information about the convention and the run up to the election. The PubSub Sidebar comes with several carefully predefined queries for election related content. Users can easily create personalized queries and customize the PubSub Sidebar. The service is free and users need not provide personal information to use it.

"This tool will allow political enthusiasts and journalists to watch what's being said in near real-time at the RNC" said Bob Wyman, PubSub's CTO and co-founder. "The technology, because it matches instantly on personalized search terms, will find and connect users with relevant content the moment it's published."

The PubSub Sidebar is available at https://www.pubsub.com/sidebar.

PubSub.com is a free matching service that continuously reads over 3 million weblogs, over 50,000 newsgroups and all SEC Edgar Filings to instantly alert users whenever items of interest appear. This unique, real-time notification service is made possible by PubSub's proprietary matching technology. Every day, the company's servers perform billions of matches of requests against newly published items.

PubSub's service is based on a new internet-scale matching engine designed to complement traditional search engines. Unlike traditional search engines which search documents collected in the past, PubSub's matching engine "searches the future" by continuously matching users' queries against newly published content and instantly notifying users whenever matches occur.

PubSub Concepts is a New York-based company founded in 2002. The company develops internet-scale Publish/Subscribe systems and plans a series of product releases, extending the search capabilities of this unique technology.

For more information, please visit https://www.pubsub.com or email us at corporate@pubsub.com.