Webb Interactive Services, Inc. Announces Retirement of CEO

Business Wire, Sept 29, 2004

DENVER -- Webb Interactive Services, Inc. (OTCBB:WEBB) today announced that William R. Cullen has resigned as CEO and CFO and as a director of the company. Mr. Cullen has served as Webb's CEO/CFO during its transition from an operating to a holding company and the development of Jabber, Inc., Webb's 43%-owned subsidiary, into a leading developer and marketer of real-time communications software and instant messaging (IM) solutions. The Webb Board of Directors thanks Bill for his many years of service and wishes him well in his retirement.

About Jabber, Inc.

Jabber, Inc. is the developer of Jabber XCP, an XMPP-based commercial software platform for building enterprise- and carrier-grade presence-enabled services and instant messaging systems. Jabber XCP is in use by more than four million licensed users, representing hundreds of organizations worldwide. Jabber, Inc., a Network Computing Magazine "2004 Company to Watch," counts France Telecom, Hewlett-Packard, EDS, BellSouth, Lehman Brothers, Sony Corporation, CapWIN, Netsize, AT&T, and Juniper Networks amongst its customers. Jabber, Inc.'s investors include France Telecom (NYSE:FTE - News), Intel Capital, Intel's strategic investing arm, and Webb Interactive Services, Inc. (OTCBB:WEBB - News). Please see www.jabber.com for more information.

XMPP is a real-time communications protocol, which allows people, devices and applications to instantly communicate and exchange streaming XML data, based upon dynamic presence and availability information. The Jabber Software Foundation (JSF) estimates that there are ten million worldwide users of XMPP with more than 260,000 XMPP-based presence servers downloaded globally. The JSF also notes that its growing user base exceeds that of ICQ's by several million.

About Webb Interactive Services, Inc.

Webb Interactive Services, located in Denver, Colorado, is an investor in Jabber, Inc., a developer of the world's most widely used open platform for extensible instant messaging and presence management applications. Founded by and initially financed by Webb, Jabber's investors also include France Telecom Technology Investissements and Intel Capital. For more information on the Company, please visit www.webb.net.