Live From ISPCON! Best and Brightest of Internet Flock to Baltimore for Informative Speakers and Exciting Exhibits

BALTIMORE, Md. - ISPCON, the leading event for wired and wireless ISPs, kicked off to a great start on Tuesday as industry luminaries spoke to packed rooms in five instructive and profitable session tracks, the first of two keynote sessions received excellent response and the exhibit hall opened its doors. ISPCON Spring 2006 is being held in the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, MD, and will continue through Thursday, May 18.

To begin the day, speakers from a variety of aspects of the Internet held general sessions on a number of topics including dial-up, Ethernet, SARBOX, wireless, Exchange hosting services, VoIP and CLEC strategies. The general sessions are split into five tracks including: Access, Services, Strategy, Operations and Business. The first round of sessions has had extremely positive feedback and the remaining speakers are sure to maintain that momentum in the remaining two days of the conference.

The opening keynote session, entitled "Muni Networks: Partnering for Affordable Broadband," was delivered by Bill Tolpegin, vice president, corporate development and planning, municipal networks division of Earthlink Inc., and Raghu Rau, senior vice president, global marketing and strategy, Motorola Networks. These two industry leaders discussed their own partnership in municipal wi-fi, and how the Internet industry can collaboratively drive the use of wireless networks and affordable broadband. The second keynote is titled "Neutrality Reality" and will be delivered by David S. Isenberg, principal of isen.com LLC. In what is sure to be a profoundly enlightening and entertaining keynote, Mr. Isenberg will address what lies ahead for the Internet industry and economy as the issue of network neutrality looms.

The exhibit hall opened at 3:00 p.m. with the energetic buzz of over 70 exhibitors from all facets of the industry. Corporate host Motorola, who also sponsored the ISPCONNECT attendee communication system, displayed prominently in the center of the room. Other exhibitors included everyone.net, Verio, PEER 1, Sendmail Inc., Mirapoint Inc., Tucows Inc., Hostopia and Web Host Industry Review, among many others.

Jo Ann Reinhorn, associate director at AT&T Wholesale, said of the first day of ISPCON, "It's been great. I've been very impressed with how the show has gone. Everything has run so smoothly."

ISPCON Managing Director Jon Price concurs. "The show has gotten off to a great start and I think that it will only get better from here," said Price. "This year's theme is 'On your mark, get set, Succeed.' This event is about sharing stories and strategies, collaborating for success collectively as an industry. I'm looking forward to seeing the final two days continue to exemplify that idea and more success stories are written at ISPCON."

To learn more about ISPCON, please visit www.ispcon.com.

About ISPCON:

ISPCON (www.ispcon.com) is co-produced by The Golden Group and Jupitermedia Corp. (Nasdaq:JUPM). Media sponsors for the event include ISP-Planet.com (www.isp-planet.com) The List: ISP (www.thelist.com), ISP-Lists (www.isp-lists.com) and internet.com (www.internet.com).

About The Golden Group:

Founded in 2002, The Golden Group (www.thegoldengroup.net) is a trade conference and event management business with headquarters in Golden, CO, and offices in northern California. The business was built on the notion that conferences should be profound and intuitive gatherings for market communities to exchange ideas, build relationships and gain knowledge with a significant return on investment. ISPCON, the definitive event for wired and wireless ISPs, is a cornerstone event driven by these highly regarded qualities that has served the ever-evolving global ISP community for over a decade. The company recently launched INBOX -- The Email Event (www.inboxevent.com), which is scheduled for its fourth event May 31 - June 1, 2006 in San Jose, CA.

About Jupitermedia Corporation

Jupitermedia Corporation (Nasdaq: JUPM) (www.jupitermedia.com), headquartered in Darien, CT, is a leading global provider of original information and images for information technology, business and creative professionals. Jupitermedia includes Jupiterimages, one of the leading images companies in the world with over 7.0 million images online serving creative professionals with brands like BananaStock, Brand X, FoodPix, Botanica, Nonstock, The Beauty Archive, IFA Bilderteam, Comstock Images, Creatas Images, PictureQuest, Liquid Library, Thinkstock Images, Thinkstock Footage, Bigshot Media, Goodshoot, ITStockFree, Stock Image, Pixland, Photos.com, Ablestock.com, PhotoObjects.net, Clipart.com, FlashFoundry.com and AnimationFactory.com. The online media division of Jupitermedia is JupiterWeb, which operates four distinct online networks: internet.com and EarthWeb.com for IT and business professionals; DevX.com for developers; and Graphics.com for creative professionals. JupiterWeb properties include more than 150 Web sites and over 150 e-mail newsletters that are viewed by over 20 million users and generate over 350 million page views monthly.