providing a forum for business networking to facilitate business to business transactions and to allow participants to define their own custom networking searches, namely, providing online business information in the nature of customized recommendations for business opportunities based on input provided by the user; providing intelligent analysis of new business opportunities by introducing new potential customers and/or markets in which to sell goods or services, namely, business analysis of users' technologies and products to generate matches with companies having complementary technologies and products; providing trade show exhibitors with a lead-generation service which identifies qualified leads in the registered attendee community that the exhibiting company did not capture as visitors to its booth at the show

providing personalized websites via a global computer network to facilitate the exchange of business, financial and technology information on a wide variety of goods and services, namely, online electronic exchange of data stored in databases regarding information to enable users to identify profitable customers, markets and business deals via the internet