London, Thursday 4th January 2001 Yahoo! Invites allow you to send personalised email invitations, track your RSVPs, keep your guests in-the-loop, provide maps and directions to your event, post pictures and more.

Start your party online! Create and customise your own personalised party page on Yahoo! Invites where you can provide details including date, time and location. To really jazz up your invite you can add your own picture or one from our gallery of images, then choose a colour scheme to liven things up even more.

Once your invite has been sent to your guest list, via email, you can manage your responses as your event approaches. It’s easy to view a quick summary of RSVPs - who is attending, not attending or undecided – by sorting guests by name or attending status. You can add more guests at any time if you’re looking to keep up the numbers. Your guests can also place their own RSVP comments, which you can view to see what people think.

Get your guests involved: create an open dialogue on the Yahoo! Invites message board so everyone can share plans and comments, allow guests to see the guest list and who has responded, allow guests to invite additional guests to the event or to send individual emails to other guests, and check out which guests are online when you are.

Stay on top of your Yahoo! Invites by adding Yahoo! Invites events to your personal Yahoo! Calendar with one click. You can also access all of your Yahoo! Invites, both sent and received, from one place - automatic when you use your Yahoo! ID.

You can add a picture to your invite in a number of ways: either by uploading a picture from your computer’s hard drive, pointing to a Photo on the Web, selecting a picture from the Yahoo! Gallery or selecting a picture from your Yahoo! Photos Albums. If you want to send directions to your attendees but get lost in your own home, why not attach a map to make it easy?

“Yahoo! Invites is the perfect tool for organising any event whether it’s a birthday party, wedding, weekend break, dinner party or business meeting.” Said John Webb, Product Manager of Yahoo! UK & Ireland, “It’s ideal for sending out invites, tracking responses and keeping guests up-to-date.”

Please visit www.yahoo.co.uk/invites

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About Yahoo! Invites:

Yahoo! Invites allow you to send personalised email invitations, track your RSVPs, keep your guests in-the-loop, provide maps and directions to your event, post pictures and more.

Create and customise your own personalised event page on Yahoo! Invites where you can provide details including date, time and location. You can customise your invite by adding a picture or map, and choosing a colour scheme.

Once your invite has been sent to your guest list, via email, you can manage your responses as your event approaches. It’s easy to view a quick summary of RSVPs - who is attending, not attending or undecided – by sorting guests by name or attending status. You can also add more guests at any time if you’re looking to keep up the numbers. Your guests can also place their own RSVP comments, which you can view.

About Yahoo! UK & Ireland:

Yahoo! UK & Ireland provides commerce, communication and media services to meet the needs of local consumers. This includes world leading communication services such as Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger and Yahoo! Mobile; community products such as Yahoo! Clubs and Yahoo! Geocities; rich content such as Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Sport and commerce services such as Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions.

Yahoo.co.uk is the most popular and most visited website in the UK & Ireland, generating over 411 million pageviews in October 2000 (ABC Electronic).

Yahoo! UK & Ireland is part of Yahoo! Inc, Yahoo! Inc. is a global Internet communications, commerce and media company that offers a comprehensive branded network of services to more than 166 million individuals each month worldwide. As the first online navigational guide to the Web, www.yahoo.com is the leading guide in terms of traffic, advertising, household and business user reach, and is one of the most recognised brands associated with the Internet. The company also provides online business services designed to enhance the Web presence of Yahoo!'s clients, including audio and video streaming, store hosting and management, and Web site tools and services. The company's global Web network includes 23 local World properties outside the United States. Yahoo! has offices in Europe, the Asia Pacific, Latin America, Canada and the United States, and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Yahoo! is a trademark of Yahoo! Inc.

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