Dissemination of advertising for others via an on-line electronic communications network; promoting the goods and services of others by arranging for sponsors to affiliate their goods and services with particular web sites, with television and radio programs broadcast via a computer network and with special promotions featuring sponsor recommended network accessible interactive television programs, goods and services in a wide variety of fields; promoting the goods and services of others by preparing and placing advertisements in an electronic magazine accessed through a global computer network; providing business information, namely, marketing and demographic data; providing computerized on-line retail ordering services in the field of books, music, clothing, clothing accessories and collectibles; auctions and retail store services, available through computer communications and interactive television, in the fields of books, music, clothing and collectibles; and providing home shopping services in the fields of books, music, clothing and collectibles by means of television in combination with a global computer network; providing an on-line computer database of television accessible retail business and commercial business services

Broadcasting programs via a global computer network; providing on-line chat rooms for transmission of messages among computer and television users concerning a wide variety of general topics; providing to persons who access the global computer network through their television on-line electronic bulletin boards for transmission of messages among computer users concerning sponsor recommended network accessible television programs, goods and services in a wide variety of fields; providing multiple-user access to a global computer information network; providing telecommunications connections for providing to persons who access the global computer network through their televisions on-line computer databases

Electronic storage of user created content and user preferences for goods and services

Entertainment in the nature of on-going programs broadcast via a global computer network in the fields of sports, news, comedy, adventure, suspense and other matters of general interest to persons who access the global computer network through their televisions; radio and television programming on a global computer network; development and dissemination of educational materials of others in the fields of literacy, foreign language and other matters of general interest, namely, educational, commercial, entertainment, products, services and information of general use suitable for users accessing a network via a television, to persons who access the global computer network through their televisions; and providing computer games that may be accessed network-wide by network users; providing an on-line computer database in the field of entertainment and education, namely, news, personal stories, how-to, travel, on-line places to visit, links to other sites, link histories, user feedback and comment histories, celebrity information, entertainment magazines, drama, fine arts, and games

Computer services for persons who access the global computer network through their televisions; namely, providing search engines for obtaining data on a global computer network, creating and maintaining web sites for others; providing databases featuring general and local news, and information of interest to specific geographic areas; providing to persons who access the global computer network through their televisions on-line computer databases for text-editing and image manipulation utilities; providing on-line interactive magazines for general use and user created on-line interactive magazines to persons who access the global computer network through their televisions; providing temporary use of on-line non-downloadable software for creating, enhancing and publishing web pages and for graphics publishing, that may be accessed and operated from a global computer network