providing on-line directory services to help locate places, organizations, people, phone numbers, physical addresses, electronic mail addresses, businesses, and computer network home pages; providing a wide range of general-interest information by means of a global computer network; searching and retrieving information, computer network sites, and resources located on computer networks for others; computer services, namely, providing multiple-user access to computer networks for the electronic transmission of various data, communications, documents, and personal and professional information; providing on-line interactive computer software for managing, viewing, and editing information such as address books, event scheduling, and other personal and professional contact information; providing on-line computer software for managing, viewing and editing information such as inventory-control spreadsheets, delivery orders, and business accounting information; providing an interactive computer database featuring automatically updating address book, personal planner, date reminder, travel planner, and alumni and professional group links, by means of a global computer network; providing an interactive computer database to track purchases, payments, and deliveries of items purchased on-line; association services, namely providing opportunities for exchange of information and conversation regarding a wide variety of topics by means of live events, mailed information, telecast information, product reviews, educational programs, and interaction on a global computer network; database aggregation, integration, and management services; on-line marketing and advertising of goods and services by means of a global computer network; providing an on-line searchable ordering guide for locating, organizing, and presenting goods and services of other on-line merchants; providing an on-line searchable database for the sale of goods and services of others; dissemination of advertising for others by means of an on-line electronic communications network; providing access to on-line directories, indices and searchable databases relating to a variety of information and data available on a global computer network; computerized searching, ordering and on-line retail and wholesale distributorship services featuring general merchandise and general consumer goods; on-line retail sales services via a global computer network; retail store services.