Press about Marc Fest and his online services

"SUNRISE SNAPSHOT"
Miami Herald (pdf)
April 15, 2006

"Sun Salutations"
Sun-Sentinel
April 11, 2006

"Smart Start"
Hiddencity.Net
April 10, 2006

"The estimable Marc Fest"
AndrewTobias.com
April 21, 2004

"The enterprising Mr. Fest"
ManchesterOnline.com
April 6, 2004

"More convenient than RSS feeds; more timely than Google alerts" [about Trackle.com]
NewMediaMusings.com
March 28, 2004

"Festing: Miami Beach's Marc Fest has developed quite a network of Web tools, which have a popular following." [about Trackle.com]
Miami Herald WeBlog
March 22, 2004

"Marc Fest Introduces Trackle Web Service"
ResearchBuzz.com
March 3, 2004

"But now, you can set yourself up to be trackled, as well" [about Trackle.com]
AndrewTobias.com
February 25, 2004

Web site of the Day [about OurNotePad.com]
BBC Radio 2, England
Feb 25, 2004

"Site helps you remember friends" [about MagicMinder.com]
Detroit Free Press
February 12, 2004

Marc Fest's list of "Idiomatic Domains"
New York Times
August 28, 2003

"True Stories and Magic Mail" [about MagicMinder.com]
New York Times
July 17, 2003

"A look at myHerald.com"
Poynter Online
May 6, 2003

"Extremely simple to use"
Computer Active (UK) Magazine Site of the Fortnight
April 15, 2003

"Organize your life ... digitally!" [about OnlineHomeBase.com]
News 9 San Antonio
April 18, 2003

"A momentous discovery." [about OnlineHomeBase.com]
Billings Gazette
May 27, 2003

"I love this site because it's so useful."
Angela Booth, Contributing Writer, Netdummy.com
March 18, 2003

"A rather nifty tool" [about OnlineHomeBase.com]
Larry Chase's Web Digest for Marketers
March 13, 2003

"The wonderful thing about this service is that you don't have to click your way through dozens of mysterious menus and fill out endless fields." [about OnlineHomeBase.com]
Digital-E.biz
Feb 14, 2003

"Internet site of the week" [about OnlineHomeBase.com
Bangkok Post
February 2003

"I do recommend you try OnlineHomeBase the next time you have tasks to track"
The High-Tech Texan / video
News 24 Houston (ABC affiliate)
Feb 12, 2003

OnlineHomeBase.com: "A simple way to manage your personal and professional affairs."
'Future Tense' with Jon Gordon, Minnesota Public Radio
February 6, 2003
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"OnlineHomeBase.com steps in"
New York Times
January 30, 2003

"I strongly recommend you try OnlineHomeBase the next time you have tasks to track."
Poynter Journalism Institute Web Tips Column
Sree Sreenivasan
Columbia Professor & Poynter Visiting Professor
January 21, 2003

"[OnlineHomeBase is]...easy to use"
The Guardian
January 16, 2003

OnlineHomeBase.com is your safe haven on the Web
Lockergnome.com
December 3, 2002

"Try out OnlineHomeBase.com"
Playboy Magazine
December 2002

Detroit Free Press
Onlinehomebase.com: "Works well."
June 16, 2002

Onlinehomebase.com: "An E-string Around Your Finger"
Andrewtobias.com
May 17, 2002

"In a high-tech world, the little guy survives, thrives."
South Florida Business Journal
USA, February 2002

"Best free stuff on the Web!"
CNN , United States
February 2002.

"Quickbrowse cleans up window clutter"
PC World Magazine, USA
February 2002

Custom tailored online news can be dangerous for society.
The Wall Street Journal
10/15/2001
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"A simple little jewel"
Online Journalism Review, USA
August 2001

"Try Quickbrowse"
PC World Magazine, USA
August 2001

"Quickbrowse to start charging"
Miami Herald, USA
8/15/2001

"Simple but brilliant."
Time Magazine / On Magazine
September 2001

"Quickbrowse will make your day."
New York Times
8/9/2001

"Getting On The Same Page"
Washington Post
USA, 6/22/2001
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"Get the Web Your Way"
Kiplinger.com
USA, 6/21/2001

"Try metabrowsing! "
Rotterdams Dagblad - Internet Top 5
Netherlands, 4/29/2001
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"Very useful and time-saving."
Tourbus.com Newsletter, USA
April 25, 2001

QuickLinks can lead ... to increased selling opportunities.
Office.com
4/24/2001
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"It can virtually eliminate "back and forthing" between a main site and ancillary pages."
Langa.com, USA
April 23, 2001
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"Make surfing easier."
JB and Sandy in the Morning, MIX 94.7 (Radio), Dallas, USA
April 20, 2001
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"Dot-com survivors offer advice."
Localbusiness.com, USA
April 19, 2001
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"Saves Surfers a lot of time."
Syracuse Post Standard, USA
April 18, 2001

"A clever tool"
TechTV, USA
April 4, 2001

"Make browsing easier [...] one of our favorite sites"
Newsweek, USA
April 2, 2001 issue
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"A powerful offering"
Lexisone.com, USA
March 2001 issue
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"Indeed an excellent site."
Billings Gazette, USA
March 2001
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"Quick Hits - qbSearch.com lets you search through many [search engines] at once."
Playboy Magazine, "living online", page 39, USA
March 2001 issue

"Easy to use. Elegantly designed"
coworking.com, USA
02/06/2001
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"The focus is now on selling [Quickbrowse] technology to other companies"
Miami Herald, USA
01/29/2001
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"Simple (as most great things are)."
whatis.com, USA
02/2001
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"Take a look at qbSearch."
Yahoo Internet Life, USA
02/2001
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"Quickbrowse lets you pick your sites of interest."
stuffmagazine.com, USA
01/15/2001

"2000 Search Engine Watch Awards. Honorable Mention Best Metasearch Engine for qbSearch"
www.searchenginewatch.com, USA
01/31/2001
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Al Ryadh, Saudi Arabia
02/01/2001
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"When it comes to the possibilities, no one beats Quickbrowse."
dedigitalerevolutie.nl, Netherlands
01/04/2001

"An ingenious trick."
STERN Magazine, Germany (6.74   million readers)
01/04/2001

"The most popular metabrowser that started it all"
CNet, USA
December 18, 2000
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"Combine your favorite sites."
Access Magazine, USA (8 million readers)
12/12/2000
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"Reduces loading and waiting times enormously."
Die Woche, Germany
12/08/2000
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"Why did noone else think of this before?"
Deutschland Funk National Public Radio, Germany
12/03/2000
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"This is a beautiful service."
The Hindu, India
11/09/2000
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"Quickbrowse is easier to use, easier to like."
rediff.com, India
11/05/2000
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Site of the Day
"It's amazing how much time you can save."
b105fm, Australia
11/03/2000
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"The idea is definitely revolutionary."
Supereva Magazine, Italy
10/30/2000

"Quickbrowse is an all-you-can-eat content buffet. [...] The info gluton in me loves to dig in."
PC World Magazine, USA
10/27/2000
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"HOT SITE"
KTLA TV, Los Angeles
"Kurt, the Cyberguy", syndicated TV show
(reaches 46 million TV homes)
10/23/2000

Cool Site of the Week.
"REALLY cool"
About.com, USA
10/20/2000
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"Quickbrowse.com can alleviate the hassle."
Futurecompany Magazine, New Zealand
October 20, 2000

"4 Stars - Very Good"
www.Apple.com
10/12/2000

CoolSiteofTheDay.com, USA
10/12/2000
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Site of the Day. "A real novelty."
LeTemps.ch, Switzerland
10/2000

"Quickbrowse lets you combine and fetch Web pages you frequently read into one long page."
New York Times, Navigator
10/2000
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"Spiffy."
Lockergnome.com, USA
10/2000

. "Very useful."
Sion.com, Argentina
October 2000

"A real convenience. The simplest."
Telegraph, UK
9/2000
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"The first and perhaps still the slickest metabrowser is Quickbrowse."
Airsdirectory.com, USA
9/2000
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"Quickbrowse is the first and, for now, the most effective metabrowser."
Guissani.com, USA
9/2000
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"Quickbrowse is just that - a quicker way to browse the web"
Fast Company Magazine, USA
9/2000
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Quickbrowse used to circumvent Web censorship in Arab countries
Azzaman, Daily Arab Newspaper
9/2000
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Lengthen your Day
Ecommerce-guide.com, USA
8/30/2000
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Interview with Quickbrowse Founder Marc Fest
The Korea Times, South Korea
8/3/2000
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"Probably the best metabrowser is Quickbrowse."
La Republica, Italy
7/2000

"Nothing beats Quickbrowse.com!"
Time.com  Digital, USA
7/19/2000

"Quickbrowse is the best!"
Il Giornale, Italy
6/26/2000
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"This is so cool!"
coachwyatt.com, USA
6/23/2000
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"Visit quickbrowse.com to combine several Web sites into a single, quick view page."
Lucent Technologies Today (internal newsletter), USA
6/21/2000

"A simple, helpful tool that you'll no doubt need at some point."
Searchenginewatch.com, USA
6/16/2000

"An idea with tremendous value utility."
Business Line, India
6/14/2000
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"No Metabrowser can challenge Quickbrowse yet"
Tempo, Indonesia
6/13/2000
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"When it comes to custom design, Metabrowsing sites are threatening to sweep away portals"
Haaretz, Israel
6/13/2000
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"Web site of the day"
PCMike
6/9/2000
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"Best site for your daily news fix"
Detroit Free Press
5/28/2000
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Dave Farrell
"I love it."
Syndicated Columnist
(Montgomery Advertiser, The Sioux City Journal, Knoxville News Sentinel, Arabnews et.al)
5/28/2000

"The Master of all Metabrowsers"
Die Woche, Germany
5/26/2000

The most popular form of metabrowsing was invented by a news correspondent in Miami.
Sonntagszeitung, Switzerland
5/21/2000

. "Just group them together and search away."
InternetProspector.org, USA
May 2000

. "Interesting."
VirtualChase.com, USA
May 2000

Walt Mossberg writes:
MY FAVORITE of the early metabrowsers, and the simplest, is called Quickbrowse.
The Wall Street Journal
5/18/2000

"A powerful metabrowser."
The Independent , England
5/15/2000

Metabrowsing stitches together information from multiple Web sites and presents it as one source. [...] A great example is Quickbrowse. [...] Like many great ideas it started at the beach.
Netsurfer.com , United States
5/9/2000

"Hot surfing idea began as a beach escape. [...] In addition to Quickbrowse.com, at least a half-dozen other companies are offering metabrowsing services, with varying degrees of customizability."
The Sun Sentinel, Ft. Lauderdale , United States
5/7/2000

"So how exactly did Fest transform Quickbrowse from a simple program into a promising enterprise, inventing a new category of web tool dabbed the 'metabrowser' in the process?"
The Advocate , United States
4/25/2000

"Don't just browse the web - metabrowse!"
CNN , United States
4/24/2000

"Bohnett is pushing Fest to act fast because Quickbrowse now has competitors in what is becoming known as the field of  'metabrowsers'.''
Miami Herald , United States
4/12/2000 

"Fest has developed a new way to move around for surfers tired of clicking. Called 'metabrowsing', it has caused a furor in the USA and has already found imitators."
Berliner Morgenpost , Germany
3/29/2000

A great solution"
El Mundo ,Spain
3/27/2000

"Metabrowsers let surfers select whatever content they want from anywhere on the Web and gather it all on one site. [...] Quickbrowse is the simplest of the bunch."
Industry Standard,United States
3/17/2000

"First it was metasearching. [...] Now it is metabrowsing. [It's] the brainchild of freelance journalist Marc Fest."
New Zealand Herald , New Zeland
3/17/2000

"The term 'Metabrowser' is beginning to catch on for this product."
Neue Zuericher Zeitung , Switzerland
3/17/2000

"Quickbrowse means navigating faster."
ibrujula.com , Spain
3/3/2000

"Specific to you, as a person"
ZDTV, Surf Guru [Video]
3/1/2000

"Quickbrowse could very well revolutionize the way we browse the web."
Cool Tool of the Week
Traffick.com, USA
2/14/2000
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"Metabrowsing is changing the way we view the web. [...] Quickbrowse's metabrowsing offering is probably the easiest to grasp and therefore has a high chance of public acceptance."
Traffic.com , United States
2/14/2000

"Very easy to use."
El Comercio, Lima, Peru
2/8/2000
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"Probably the most convenient and fastest way to surf the web."
Brian Kim
The Johns Hopkins University Newsletter, USA
2/3/2000

"Saves much time."
LaVanguardia, Barcelona, Spain
1/27/2000

"No more typing in URLs. No more bookmarks."
Wall Street Journal, USA
1/20/2000

"Ingenious"
Yahoo! Internet Life, USA .
1/2/2000

"Simple but ingenious."
Dirk Engelhardt
Berliner Zeitung, Germany.
12/28/1999

"A real treat for media lovers."
Eddie Lennon
Business & Finance, Ireland.
11/25/1999

"Techies generate buzz with web-reading discovery"
John Dorschner
Miami Herald, United States
11/24/1999

A great idea."
Paul Gilster
News & Observer, Raleigh, NC, USA
11/15/1999

"Truly innovative"
Top Sites. The Best of the Web.
US News and World Report,United States
11/15/1999

"The Mother of all Browser Windows is a Hit."
Joseph Gallivan
New York Post, USA
11/1/1999

"Quickbrowse.com might be right up there with the light bulb."
Jim Regan
Christian Science Monitor, USA
10/21/1999

"It's a time saver."
Jeff Porter
Arkansas Democrat Gazette, USA
10/4/1999

"[...] something that is actually useful. [...] Quickbrowse is good acquisition bait."
Alex Gove
Red Herring, USA
9/18/1999

"Quickbrowse is definitely worth a look."
Chris Sherman
About.com, USA
8/10/1999

"...start using Quickbrowse."
Mark Frauenfelder
Playboy Magazine, USA
8/1/1999

"Time saver"
Detroit Free Press , United States
6/13/1999

"As easy to use as a Web-based email account such as Hotmail."
Michael Cunningham
Irish Times, Ireland
3/29/1999

a [...] "very useful site" 
Tony Waltham
Bangkok Post, Thailand 
3/3/1999

"Highly recommended"
Canandian Social Research Links
Canada
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"Worth it"
Richclickings.com
USA

"Eliminates superfluous results"
Yahoo.com France

"The possiblities are endless."
... "Quickbrowse will definitely save you time and make your life easier."
Winplanet.com, USA
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"A Net gain in time."
Colorado Springs Gazette, USA

"A cool application."
Briefme.com, USA.

"A neat new site."
Richard Longhurst
Daily Telegraph, UK

"The most fantastic personalized website around."
Charles Foster
Sunday Tribune, Ireland

. "Everybody praises Quickbrowse."
Michael Lenz
Eurogay.de, Germany

. "Use Quickbrowse as your portal"
Andrew Tobias
AndrewTobias.com, USA

. "A killer service that's hard to beat."
Chris Pirillo
Lockergnome.com, USA

. "Saving an awful lot of time."
Weekly Bookmarkz, USA

. "Highly useful. Unlike anything we've ever seen."
TheFreeSite.com, USA