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Voiceglo to Offer Internet Phone Service to More Than 23 Million Neopets Members

Users Now Able to Connect Worldwide Via Web and PC-Based Phone

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 2, 2004--Voiceglo (OTCBB:TGLO), a global, full-service Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications company, today announced a partnership with Neopets, Inc., owner and operator of http://www.neopets.com, the leading online global youth community, to provide its members with Voiceglo's innovative VoIP phone service.
Voiceglo to Offer Internet Phone Service to More Than 23 Million Neopets Members; Users Now Able to Connect Worldwide Via Web and PC-Based Phone

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 2, 2004--Voiceglo (OTCBB:TGLO), a global, full-service Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications company, today announced a partnership with Neopets, Inc., owner and operator of http://www.neopets.com, the leading online global youth community, to provide its members with Voiceglo's innovative VoIP phone service.

Neopets will integrate GloPhone, Voiceglo's Web and PC-based phone into its site content, thereby permitting site users to sign up directly for the phone product on http://www.neopets.com. GloPhone enables users to make and receive calls via the Internet from anywhere in the world, and offers many of the same calling features currently available through regular landline and wireless phones, such as conference calling, call waiting, caller ID, voice mail, missed call notification and buddy lists.

The partnership is beneficial to both companies as Voiceglo can leverage Neopets global reach and more than 7 billion page views per month, while expanding Neopets online offerings by bringing cutting-edge voice over Internet technology to its users.

"Our agreement with Neopets brings us an extraordinary opportunity to build long-term brand awareness and usage of Voiceglo's GloPhone service," said Edward Cespedes, president, Voiceglo. "This partnership brings VoIP to the world's largest and fastest growing online youth communities. Neopets users represent an ideal audience for Voiceglo - they are smart, savvy, and clearly appreciate advanced technology."

Rik Kinney, executive vice president of Neopets commented, "We're delighted with this new arrangement with Voiceglo. Our company is very selective about our partners and we have tremendous respect for the company and its remarkable GloPhone product."

The long-term contract runs through 2006 and includes a unique form of advertising created by Neopets called Immersive Advertising(R).

About Voiceglo

Headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Fla, Voiceglo (http://www.voiceglo.com) is a global full-service Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications company. Since its inception in 2002, Voiceglo has grown to provide telecommunications service to thousands of customers worldwide. Voiceglo is a subsidiary of theglobe.com (OTCBB:TGLO), founded by Michael S. Egan (founder of Alamo-Rent-a-Car and Certified Vacations) and Edward A. Cespedes, a former investment banker with J.P. Morgan. Voiceglo's strategy is to provide phone numbers to an unlimited number of consumers and business customers - whether free or paid - and for these customers to use their phone number on any Internet-enabled computer anywhere in the world to make local, long distance and international calls. Through its proprietary patent-pending technology, Voiceglo recently launched its award-winning GloPhone product (http://www.glophone.com), which provides a way for subscribers to call each other while online (i.e. peer-to-peer calling) - as well as call and receive calls via traditional landline or wireless phones via a broadband or dial-up connection.

About Neopets

The privately owned NeoPets, Inc. is a global media and entertainment company. Neopets.com, is consistently ranked among the top 10 "stickiest" sites on the Web by Nielsen//NetRatings, currently has over 23 million members and generates more than 7 billion page views per month worldwide. The company is headquartered in Glendale, California. For additional information, visit the Neopets(R) Web site at http://www.neopets.com or go to Neopets' online press kit at http://info.neopets.com/aboutus.

Safe Harbor

This press release includes forward-looking statements related to theglobe.com, inc. that involve risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, risks and uncertainties relating to integration of newly acquired businesses and assets, product delivery, product launch dates (particularly as they pertain to our Voiceglo services), the Internet, development and protection of technology, the management of growth, market acceptance of our Voiceglo VoIP products, our ability to compete successfully against established competitors with greater resources, the uncertainty of future governmental regulation (particularly as it pertains to the Internet and the provision of telephony services using the Internet) and other risks. These forward-looking statements are made in reliance on the "Safe Harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. For further information about these and other factors that could affect theglobe.com's future results and business plans, please see the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including in particular our Registration Statement, as amended on Form SB-2, and our Quarterly Report on Form 10-QSB for the quarter ended March 31, 2004. Copies of these filings are available online at http://www.sec.gov. Prospective investors are cautioned that forward-looking statements are not guarantees of performance. Actual results may differ materially and adversely from management expectations.

Contacts


Voiceglo, Fort Lauderdale
Michele Merrell, 954-525-4792
mmerrell@voiceglo.com
or
Neopets
Paul Nichols, 323-965-1990
pnichols@lippingroup.com

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