In The News

Coral Gables, FL (Nov. 10, 2005)
Terra Networks Introduces Free Blogsphere with Templates, Resources and Search

Terra Networks unveiled a blogosphere, today, designed to encourage their audience to express their point-of-view in a very fashionable, high tech manner via blogs. The blog homepage, http://blog.terra.com, offers more than 20 different channels for participants around the world to design, maintain, read and post blogs. Blogsite topics include politics, business, technology, fashion, sports and music. Terra.com is one of the first web sites to embrace this new technology. This is one of the first blog platforms in Spanish and English on any Internet portal and the first bilingual service available on Terra Networks. Unique features include: the ability to search historical blog content, popular blogs are featured prominently and templates that enable individual customization.

“Terra.com strives to provide our users with a variety of communication channels, which
started with providing free email service years ago. The addition of our new blogging service
reinforces our efforts to provide our audience a comfortable, interactive environment where
they can consume relevant content and be active participants on our site,” stated Fernando
Rodriguez, CEO for Terra Networks.

According to Wikipedia.com, blogs themselves are instances of a particular formatting choice,
whereas the blogosphere is a social phenomenon. What differentiates blogs from web pages
or forums is that blogs can be part of a shifting Internet-wide social network formed by twoway
links between different blogs: You link to my interesting articles and I'll link to your
interesting articles1.

Blogging has been one of the fastest growing uses of the Internet. Pew Internet & American
Life reports a new weblog is created every 5.8 seconds. That roughly translates into 15,000
new blogs every day2. Terra.com’s blogosphere promotes the discussion and interaction of
issues affecting modern society. Students and faculty create blogs to improve frequent
communication on relevant issues.

“Many university students are tired of being fed the news,” said Yesenia Llamas, a graduating
senior at the University of Texas at San Antonio. “We would rather create our own, or read
blogs as they tend to be more real. I want to know what people are thinking, saying and
doing.”

Terra Networks allows users across the globe to form online communities based on common
interest via blogs. One characteristic of the Terra.com audience is to live in extended
communities since their immediate family may be located distantly. Blogs are a natural way to
expand social reach online based on common interest. To participate within Terra’s growing
blog family, register on Terra.com.

About Terra Networks S.A.

Terra Networks is a global Internet group with a presence in the U.S. and Latin America. The group operates some of the most popular Web sites in the United States, Spain and Latin America, and is the largest access provider in Spain and Latin America.

Terra.com is the U.S. Hispanic arm of the Terra Networks group providing portal and value-added services to Spanish speaking users in the U.S. Terra is a leader in the U.S. Hispanic online market according to comScore Media Metrix and Nielsen/NetRatings.