IT'S COMMUNITY SERVICE!! Plain and simple...Seattle FilmWorks Gives Users
Free Photo Scanning and Online Publishing
PR Newswire - December 16, 1998 08:16
Excite Customers Can Now Receive Both Traditional and Online Photos
Via Seattle FilmWorks
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., and SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 16
/PRNewswire/ -- Excite, Inc. (Nasdaq: XCIT) and Seattle FilmWorks
(Nasdaq: FOTO) today announced an agreement to give Excite users free
photo scanning and Web posting when they purchase film processing from
Seattle FilmWorks. Saving the consumer the time and money it costs to
scan photographs for the Web, the service is available immediately to
Excite users.
In addition to receiving their prints via the mail, when Excite users process
their film through Seattle FilmWorks (SFW), their photos can also be
digitally scanned and made available to them via the Web at no additional
cost. Seattle FilmWorks provides mail order photofinishing and digital
imaging services to more than 1.8 million customers annually.
"Photos are one of the most popular parts of the online community
experience," said Joe Kraus, senior vice-president and co-founder, Excite,
Inc. "But putting photos online is usually an extra step and sometimes a
scary one for those not too familiar with the Web. Now Excite users have
access to an easy way of getting those photos online we're doing it for them
with Seattle FilmWorks, scanning the photos for the consumer and
providing a free and easy place to store them."
"Since we introduced Pictures on Disk(TM) and PhotoMail(TM), our
efforts to promote photo computing have focused on enabling customers to
use the Web to share their photos with friends and family," said Gary
Christophersen, CEO, Seattle FilmWorks, Inc. "Enabling our customers to
share their photos in Excite's community service is an important step
toward achieving this goal."
Publish Photos Online With no Extra Work
When consumers send in their film for processing by SFW, they can
indicate that they would also like the photos in a digital format. For Excite
users, SFW will scan the photos and archive them in a private area on the
Web at no additional cost. Consumers will then be able to view their
photos privately and can put them in an Excite Community photo album.
Consumers can also learn through a simple process how to set up their own
private or public Excite Community for their photos if they don't already
have an Excite Community of their own.
Excite Community Service
Excite Communities is Excite's revolutionary community service launched in
August of 1998. Excite Communities integrates a combination of online
community and publishing tools never before offered together such as
photo albums, group calendars, and group address books to let consumers
create customized Internet communities quickly and easily. The first service
of its kind on the Web, the service lets members determine the focus of
their community and decide whether the content can be viewed by the
public or just the members of the community.
About Seattle FilmWorks
Seattle FilmWorks is a leading mail order photofinisher serving more than
1.8 million customers annually. SFW has been an industry leader in
providing digital images on floppy disk or CD (Pictures on Disk). In
addition, SFW was also a leader in providing digital images over the
Internet via its PhotoMail Internet delivery service. Based in Seattle, SFW
was founded in 1976. More information is available at
www.filmworks.com or by calling 800-FILMWORKS. |
