March 15, 2000

Soliloquy Debuts at Esther Dyson's PC Forum Conference

Soliloquy, a New York-based E-commerce Infrastructure Company, Made Its Debut at This Year's PC Forum in Scottsdale, AZ, Hosted by Esther Dyson

Catherine Winchester, Soliloquy's President and CEO, presented the company's latest products and business strategy to a packed audience. Fellow speakers included Steve Ballmer (Pres. and CEO, Microsoft), George Bell (Pres. and CEO, Excite@Home), Michael Bloomberg (CEO and Founder, Bloomberg Financial Markets), Shelly Lazarus (Chairman and CEO, Ogilvy and Mather Worldwide), Mary Meeker (Managing Director, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter), Kevin O'Connor (CEO and Co-founder, DoubleClick), Ted Waitt (Chairman and Co-founder, Gateway) and Mark Walsh (Pres. and CEO, VerticalNet).

Soliloquy was one of just thirteen companies selected to present to over 650 of the Internet industry's luminaries from around the world. The audience included top venture capitalists, Internet CEOs, industry analysts, and members of the press.

Catherine Winchester, CEO and President of Soliloquy, delivered a short "soliloquy on Soliloquy" in Elizabethan garb to all 650 Forum attendees, followed by two in-depth break-out sessions on the details of Soliloquy's strategy.

Soliloquy creates next-generation interfaces that humanize e-commerce by making on-line shopping conversational and interactive. Soliloquy's Experts allow shoppers to have intelligent two-way dialogues with Web sites using their own words. The natural language technology feels like talking to a live person who is a world-class expert on the topic, and has comprehensive knowledge of all products. Soliloquy's product line includes the Notebook Expert™, Desktop Expert™ and Printer Expert™. Customers and partners include Hewlett-Packard, Acer, CNET Data Services, My Simon, Net Perceptions, RU4, iMediation, and Linkshare.

About Soliloquy

Founded by Catherine Winchester in mid-1997 in New York, Soliloquy is at the forefront of the next generation of web infrastructure technology. Soliloquy creates natural language interfaces that humanize e-commerce by making the online shopping experience conversational and interactive. Soliloquy's natural language products allow shoppers to hold intelligent two-way dialogues with web sites by typing (or speaking) using their own words. Communicating with Soliloquy's Experts feels like chatting with a live person — except that the Experts have total knowledge of all products and are available 24/7 at a fraction of the cost.