OurStory Selects VideoEgg to Make Video an Essential Part of Life-Storytelling

OurStory Selects VideoEgg to Make Video an Essential Part of Life-Storytelling

Simple Web-based Video Publishing Makes it Easy to Enrich Life Stories with Video from Any Source

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 11 /PRNewswire/ -- OurStory, the leading online service for the collaborative capture, sharing and preservation of life stories, today announced that it has partnered with VideoEgg to make it easy for OurStory members to enhance their life story collections by adding videos uploaded from digital camcorders, digital cameras, Webcams and mobile phones, or by adding video tape or film footage converted to digital files.

OurStory gives circles of family and friends an easy, fun and rewarding way to capture their life stories, as well as the stories of parents, grandparents, children, friends and other important people in their lives. With the integrated VideoEgg service, storytellers have a convenient new way to add the latest video from a vacation, record an interview with a grandparent or upload the latest milestone movie clip in a child's life. Converting 8mm movies, VHS tapes and other movie formats to digital is easy to do through services, including drug-store photo departments, making it simple for anyone add footage to OurStory using VideoEgg.

"For three generations our customers have been recording and sharing the important moments of their lives in movies -- from film to VHS to 8mm and now in new digital formats," said Andy Halliday, founder and CEO of OurStory. "We help users combine video with shared recollections, comments and photos in one, easy-to-access story collection. With its simple interface and compatibility across all the key video formats, VideoEgg allows us to give OurStory customers a place to re-live and share the special events and everyday moments captured on video."

"VideoEgg and OurStory provide a perfect blend of technology and purpose," said Kevin Sladek, Co-Founder of VideoEgg. "OurStory is the most powerful platform for multimedia storytelling, and VideoEgg makes it easy for OurStory customers of all ages to incorporate their important video recordings with their stories. With more ways than ever to capture video, the use of personal videos for storytelling will grow dramatically, and VideoEgg will ensure it remains a painless, error-free process."

The combination of OurStory and VideoEgg with a plug-in Webcam, or with a built-in Webcam included in many of the latest computers, creates a whole new way of communicating with friends and family. OurStory members can simply click to record themselves as they tell a story, answer a question, state their point of view or acknowledge someone they love, and just as easily deliver that video message to select circles of family and friends. Integrated Webcams make it one-click easy for users to privately record a short video message about, for example, what they felt the moment their first infant was born -- in their own words. OurStory helps create that message, share it with privacy, and preserve it online for the child's legacy.

OurStory is changing the face of social networks by appealing to a broader audience with the benefits they need to embrace this powerful medium: convenience, choice and control. Users connect with family and friends to collect anecdotes, events and personal perspectives -- all the moments and memories that together make up the story of their lives. Each user profile features a personal timeline that automatically organizes entries, photos and videos, along with comments from others. Users can choose whether to have the collection of their stories guided by an email Q&A process started at the website, or to write stories as they recall them free form. Each user decides whether each individual entry will be publicly shared, selectively shared or kept private. A user's individual collection can be shared online, through email with family and friends or preserved in heirloom-quality books, or on DVDs.

About OurStory

OurStory is leading the next wave of social media with a new online service focused on collaborative life storytelling. The service provides an easy and rewarding way for circles of family and friends to collect, share, preserve and publish the important stories from life's journey. OurStory is led by a seasoned team of professionals with visionary leadership and deep experience in web-based consumer services, e-commerce and social networking to bring the benefits of social media to a broad consumer audience. The company is backed by venture funding from El Dorado Ventures, Venrock Associates and Benhamou Global Ventures. For more information, visit www.OurStory.com.

About VideoEgg

VideoEgg offers web-based video publishing solutions which make it easy to for internet users to encode, upload, host and watch video. Its flagship product, the VideoEgg Publisher, is a small website plug-in that makes it easy for end-users to capture, edit, encode, and post digital video online. A "universal adapter" that captures directly from hundreds of devices and reads dozens of formats, the VideoEgg Publisher allows internet users to painlessly publish video in a format that anyone can watch without worrying about player compatibilities, encoding settings, or extra software. For more information, visit: http://www.videoegg.com/ .

Contacts:
Janet Ball Andrea Cousens
OurStory Eastwick Communications
(650) 691-1711 (650) 480-4058
janet@wisdomark.comandrea@eastwick.com

Source: OurStory

CONTACT: Janet Ball of OurStory, +1-650-691-1711, or
janet@wisdomark.com; or Andrea Cousens of Eastwick Communications,
+1-650-480-4058, or andrea@eastwick.com, for OurStory

Web site: http://www.ourstory.com/

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