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To: Jim Cash who wrote (50)	12/16/1998 12:29:00 PM
From: MoneyMade	Respond to of 73

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.