February 9, 2000: Northern Light to Form Marketing Alliance with OneFamily.com

Cambridge, MA, February 9, 2000: Northern Light Technology, Incorporated, a leading Internet search engine, today announced a marketing alliance with OneFamily.com, a new family portal focusing on community, content and commerce. Under its Enterprise Account Program, Northern Light will provide OneFamily.com's national sales force with access to its Special Collection, one of the most robust information sources on the Internet. The companies are also investigating other mutual areas of cooperation.

Jeffrey Cooper, Northern Light Technology, Incorporated CFO noted "It is exciting to watch a promising new company like OneFamily.com start on the road to success. We are pleased to be providing their sales force with the tools that will contribute to that success and we look forward to expanding our relationship in the future."

"This relationship provides OneFamily.com with a remarkable resource," said Carol Fitzgerald, President and Co-Founder of OneFamily.com. "We feel privileged to be working with a company that places such value on easily delivering information to people who need to make critical decisions about work and life."

Northern Light's Enterprise Accounts allow corporations, libraries and other organizations to provide access for all employees to the Northern Light service. Unlike many of the older, traditional online information services, Northern Light is entirely Web-based so no specialized hardware or access to a proprietary communications network are required. Enterprise Account customers have full-access to the Northern Light Special Collection, an online business library containing more than 15 million full-text articles from 6,100 trusted journals, books, magazines, newswires, and reference sources.

About Northern Light

Northern Light Technology, Incorporated, headquartered in Cambridge, MA was founded in 1996 by a seasoned team of librarians, software engineers, and information industry professionals who recognized the need to fill a void left by other search engines and online research services. The company first introduced its research engine NorthernLight.com NLResearch.com for businesses and researchers), in August 1997. Recognized as an industry leader, Northern Light has received multiple Editors' Choice awards for superior search capabilities from PC Magazine. Northern Light was also recently acknowledged by the Nielsen/Net Ratings service as one of the fastest growing sites on the Internet. Today, Northern Light's search engine is the world's most powerful, indexing more the 210 million Web pages as well as over 15 million articles from over 6,100 premium full-text sources previously available only to subscribers of expensive online services.

About OneFamily.com

OneFamily.com, headquartered in Littleton, CO., is a company focused on uniting family, work and community life into a powerful business-to-business model that reflects the human and business sides of today's society. The Company is creating an on-line and off-line business community and family portal at (www.onefamily.com) that will enhance the lives of families and the communities they live in by enabling family-oriented buyers and sellers to easily interact and engage in on-line commerce. OneFamily.com will connect families, small businesses and non-profit organizations and help them improve their businesses and communities through content, Web-based tools and on-line support. A national sales network based in local communities will help enroll families, small businesses, non-profits and service organizations into OneFamily.com and provide the invaluable "human touch" needed to build long-lasting customer satisfaction and retention.