Want to get this silly column delivered to you every weekday at 6am?

No? OK, then, want to speed up your web surfing?

Here's a great new site I recommend not only because I own a little piece of it. And yes, of course, it's free with no immediate revenue prospects in sight -- but surely that alone makes it worth $100 million.

Anyway, it's www.quickbrowse.com . Basically, you tell it the sites you like to check out every day (or every whenever) ... Dilbert and the Miami Herald sports page and maybe the business sections of three papers plus Yahoo.

You can even "bookmark" that collection of pages, so you only have to tell Quickbrowse once.

So now you start your computer, click that bookmark, go off and make the coffee (or call your mother -- you know she'd love to hear from you), and when you come back, it's all there, on one long Masterpage. Just scroll down to see it all. No need to enter separate URLs and wait for each page, sloooooowwwwwly, to load.

And as you do run your eye down the Miami Herald headlines, say, you can click the stories you want to read -- bing-bing-bing. By the time you're done clicking them, at least the first one has been added to Your Masterpage ready to read, with the others following rapidly as you read the first.

Neat, no? This can save you a lot of time.

The other thing you can do is instruct Quickbrowse to e-mail the stuff you like to see on whatever schedule you'd like to see it.

If you use AOL, you may find the formatting doesn't work very well with this feature -- we’re trying to improve it. (And instead of Alt-Tabbing to jump instantly back to your Matserpage each time you click a link, with AOL you Ctrl-F6.) But try it.

For example, say you like to check out the cheap travel deals. Well, here's a site you should visit: www.webflyer.com/@deal/crdeals.cgi/crdealmain.htm . But you will find that the Domestic Airfare deals are updated at 3pm Mountain Standard Time every Wednesday. Who can remember that? Quickbrowse can! So what you'd do is go to the page that has the deals for your specific city and then cut-and-paste the URL (web address) for that page into Quickbrowse and have it e-mailed to you at 5:01pm Eastern Standard Time (do I have my time zones right?) every Wednesday.

Quickbrowse is young, so you may find it can't do everything exactly as described. And for sites that require your ID or password, it might take a little jiggering in the URL to get it to work automatically (we help you with that) . . . but check it out.

Amazingly, this new and unpublicized site somehow got discovered half a world away and was "site of the week" in the Bangkok Post a few weeks back, and got a great write-up in the Irish Times last week -- we truly are becoming a very small planet. Forget Esperanto. (Kids: that was once proposed as the universal language.) It's . . . Internet English. And aren't those of us who happen to have been born in English-speaking countries lucky sons of guns? Why, yes, we truly are.

Anyway, try Quickbrowse. And if you want to buy 1% of it for $1 million -- a bargain given its complete lack of revenues, profits or dividends (kids: stocks used to pay dividends, which investors used to use to pay the butler) -- just drop me a line.

Imagine if the music stopped every 30 seconds as you listened to your car radio and, to get the next 30 seconds, you had to reach down to punch a button on the radio console. And then wait 10 seconds. And then again, and again, and again.

Forget that!

Yet isn’t that sort of what you have to do now if you're searching with one of the 411 "white pages" directories on the web? I use the one on AOL. And it's terrific. Except that it only gives me 5 names at a time!

That's fine if I'm searching for Anton Shevarnadze in Iowa City.

But what if I'm searching for Michael Smith (or Mike Smith or M Smith) -- in New York?

Do you know how frustrating it is to have to click "next" after each five, and then finger-strum? (You're supposed to be reading all the ads, which is why they make it so slow, while you wait for the next five.) And then again for the next five? And the next?

My friend Marc has fixed all this. (It was actually his dog Looe's idea.)

Last month I directed your attention to a new site I have a stake in called Quickbrowse. It's still in a sort of beta phase, and if you all try it out at exactly the same time this morning it will slow to molasses. (We will shortly upgrade our server.) But BOY has it come a long way in a month.

It's now three things (soon to be four):

Quickbrowse - for surfing

Q-Search - for searching

Q-People - for finding Michael Smith in New York

Basically, all it really is is a simple tool for building one long -- sometimes very long -- web page that you can look at all at once without interruption.

The only sensible way to find Michael Smith in New York from now on (whether with the AOL people finder or any of several others) is by using Q-People as your portal to people-finders.

The only sensible way to search for information on Yahoo and Altavista and Lycos and the rest -- unless you actually like being interrupted after every 20 "matches" -- is by using Q-Search as your portal to seach engines.

And if you like to see the same set of web pages every morning -- Dilbert and the sports page from your local newspaper and the Wall Street Journal and, dare I even dream it, this column -- the only sensible way to do it is by using Quickbrowse as your portal.

(There's actually a lot more to Quickbrowse, as my April 6 column tried to explain. You can set it up to email you various "collections" of web pages at specific times each day or week. You can have it send you the special weekend airline deals a minute after they’re posted. You can turn "images off" for faster browsing. And there's an "Alt-Tab" trick -- Ctrl-F6 with AOL -- that's a total snap to use and makes reading on-line newspapers far more efficient.)

We have an interesting corporate structure with Quickbrowse. Looe basically calls the shots and sets the broad strategy. But, being a dog (and of indeterminate lineage), he does not write clean code. Marc does that. David feeds Looe (and cheers on Marc). I feed Marc and David (until we figure out the revenue model, which is presumably to lose an ever-increasing amount of money and watch our stock soar off into the stratosphere).

In the last column I suggested that, given our dim prospects for profits any time soon, we would be willing to sell 1% for $1 million. This was a joke. Three of you, undeterred, inquired about smaller shares.

But we are having fun building this, and encourage you to use it and provide your feedback -- to Looe (just click beneath his photo), not me.