Ad serving, namely, placing advertisements on websites for others using specialized computer software; advertising and directory services, namely, promoting the services of others by providing a web page featuring links to the websites of others; on-line retail store services featuring physical and virtual merchandise for use by members of an online community in connection with a designated website featuring fictional characters; promoting and marketing the goods and services of others by daily deals; promoting the goods and services of others by providing a website featuring coupons, rebates, price-comparison information, product reviews, links to the retail websites of others, and discount information; promoting the goods and services of others by providing a website featuring an online virtual mall; promoting the goods and services of others by providing an interactive website where users can increase the current value of an online discount being offered by purchasing the goods and services associated with that discount in the form of an online coupon, voucher or gift card; promoting the goods and services of others by offering daily deals; providing a searchable on-line advertising website and guide featuring the goods and services of other vendors via the Internet; providing a searchable website featuring the goods and services of other vendors; providing a website featuring a list of items and services available for rent by others; providing a website featuring an online marketplace for exchanging goods and services with other users; providing a website featuring company profiles entrepreneurs can use to attract venture capital; providing a website featuring the ratings, reviews and recommendations posted by consumers on restaurants, food and wine for commercial purposes; providing a website for connecting sellers with buyers; providing an interactive real estate website which promotes housing and apartment properties through offering prospective tenants video walk throughs, property descriptions, text, price, location, maps and other information that would be influential to a prospective tenant in making a rental decision; providing an interactive website for users to review and rate Internet content, people, companies, products and/or services in exchange for points earned for promotional items consisting of coupons, rebates, discounts or special offerings on goods and/or services provided by website sponsors; providing an Internet website featuring news and information in the field of national and international politics; providing an Internet website portal featuring links to music-related merchandise for retail purposes; providing an Internet website portal featuring promotion and advertising for home service providers and product manufacturers; providing business information via a website; providing on-line web directory services featuring hyperlinks to the websites of others; provision of space on websites for advertising goods and services