EnjoyMyMedia Introduces First Personal Broadcasting Service for Family and Friends
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June 26th, 2007
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EnjoyMyMedia today announced the world’s first personal broadcasting service: its free, beta Private Netcasting™ system. EnjoyMyMedia enables consumers to conveniently and securely broadcast personal multimedia—photos, videos, audio, documents or any other file—over the Internet in private, secure channels. Private Netcasting turns the act of saving a file into a way to stay connected, and is the safest and simplest way to keep friends and family updated—not just with ad hoc, special occasion occurrences, but with ongoing, everyday life.
EnjoyMyMedia is the first consumer-friendly technology that transforms PC folders into broadcast channels. EnjoyMyMedia users simply save any file to a folder, and the files are automatically shared with invited family and friends, who do not need to install any software. Subscribers access the passwordprotected channels throughMy Yahoo, iGoogle, My AOL, Microsoft Vista’s Sidebar, Facebook, current Internet browsers or any other RSS-compliant system.
The digital media market has been focused on sharing with the world in a one-to-many model, including distributing to a consumer’s 1,000 “closest friends” on a social networking site, or video sharing with total strangers. Today’s media sharing options of blogs, photo-printing sites and video-distribution sites have ignored people who just want to share with their actual friends and family, and require timeconsuming manual file uploads and tedious arrangement into albums. Additionally, consumers’ critical concerns with controlling access to their personal media have been secondary to the site’s desire to attract mass audiences by showing content to everyone. Because of these hassles and privacy concerns, nearly three-quarters (74 percent) of Americans have never shared media online (Pew Internet & American Life Project). Most of the other 26 percent still use e-mail despite its spam-filter and file-size limitations.
“Everyone wants to send and receive personal media,” said Keith Loris, president, CEO and co-founder of EnjoyMyMedia. “Because there has been no simple, safe way to do so over the Internet, digital media sharing has been limited to the technically savvy. Families and time-strapped consumers need an alternative that is automatic, simple and protects the privacy of their personal media. That’s what we’ve created: EnjoyMyMedia brings the communication power of broadcasting to everyone. If you can save a file or click a link, you can use EnjoyMyMedia.”
“I am constantly documenting everything my boys do, and for a long time I’ve wanted to share these experiences, but I’ve been very worried about protecting my family’s privacy,” said Leila Dillon, who started using the Private Netcasting service this year. “Whether it be video from soccer games or karate competitions, photos from family vacations, or the latest art school project, I love how just saving a file
becomes a way to safely keep in touch. Everyone, from my technophobic parents and in-laws to my neighbors and friends, appreciates how easy EnjoyMyMedia is to use.”
Bringing Personal Broadcasting to Everyone
EnjoyMyMedia’s patent-pending technology provides consumers with the following benefits:
- Privacy and Security: Users invite subscribers, such as family and friends, who are the only people who can access a channel’s password-protected media. Traditional sites force a trade-off between security and convenience, but EnjoyMyMedia enables both.
- Convenience for Users: After a simple download and installation, users simply save files to a folder associated with the channel, and links are automatically fed to the subscriber. Any time a file is saved or edited, the channel’s links are automatically updated. Any type of file can be securely shared in a channel, including online media such as YouTube videos and online music.
- Convenience for Subscribers: Subscribers do not have to seek out their friend or family members’ updates on multiple Web sites. Instead, it automatically comes to them in convenient, well-visited places: a personalized homepage such as My Yahoo or My AOL, a social networking site, in Microsoft Vista’s Sidebar, or aWeb browser bookmark. Anyone with Internet access can receive Private Netcasting channels, on their computer or mobile device. The subscriber does not need to install anything; everyone online today can easily receive EnjoyMyMedia channels.
- Organization: Users can easily arrange the sequence of their shared media to tell a story or to have themost recent appear noticeably on top. They can create separate channels by audience, such as a Joke Channel for friends, a Hobby Channel for other enthusiasts and a Family Channel for the extended family.
- Unlimited Sharing: Consumers can share an unlimited amount of personal media with their subscribers, overcoming the size limitations of alternative systems. Subscribers always will get the most popular and newest content “On Demand,” even if the user’s PC is turned off.
- Feedback Mechanisms Consistent with Web 2.0: Each media item has its own discussion thread enabling focused communication between the user and all channel subscribers. Users can review a channel’s “Ratings” which tracks how many times a media item has been viewed or commented upon, to help them learn which are most popular for future personal broadcasts.
Pricing & Availability
Private Netcasting ™ is available now, free to both users and subscribers. To learn more or try the service, go to www.EnjoyMyMedia.com.
About EnjoyMyMedia
EnjoyMyMedia’s personal broadcasting system provides the safest, simplest way to stay regularly connected to family and friends. The Company’s free Private Netcasting™ system broadcasts personal multimedia—photos, videos, audio, documents or any other file—over the Internet in live, private channels only available to friends and family. EnjoyMyMedia ensures privacy while removing the timeconsuming, manual tasks previously associated with sharing media. Users simply save files and their authorized subscribers just click links. Subscribers can automatically receive the media on or in My Yahoo, iGoogle, My AOL, Microsoft Vista’s Sidebar, Facebook, current Internet browsers or any other RSS-compliant system. EnjoyMyMedia makes simple, private media-sharing a reality for everyone—not just with ad hoc, special occasion occurrences, but with ongoing, everyday life.
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