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Featured Product of PC Music & Video Magazine "The popularity of digital media means that you're almost certain to want to share files with friends and relatives. The trouble is that often photos & video files are too big for email and using conventional file sharing services mean that your files are open to anyone. EnjoyMyMedia is a clever system that allows you to share your files only with specified individuals in a safe & secure way. You can specify particular files and folders to be shared and you can even set times when the media will be available. You then email your friends with a personalized invitation and they can log in to view your channel. The shared media can be viewed in a browser program, via social networking sites or even on a Wii games console, so it doesn't matter if your friends don't have PCs. They get thumbnail previews of the media so that they can easily choose which files to view. You can share any type of file, though EnjoyMyMedia is particularly suited to pictures, videos and audio. It's a great way of sharing photos of an event such as a wedding, a holiday or a party.
In order to use the program you have to set up an account by registering on the program's web site, this is free for the basic service with a 200MB on-demand media limit and is supported by advertising. A premium service is available for a fee if you want to take things further. This offers more on-demand storage and no adverts from US$4.99 (around £2.50) a month." [ see the issue ] |
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"EnjoyMyMedia offers families and friends a way to share their personal content with other members, and do so easily and securely. There are many options available online that do this, but EnjoyMyMedia focuses on simplicity... Now you may be wondering why not just email this stuff to whomever? Well, you can do that, but the problem is that you run the risk of bogging down the recipient’s inbox and it’s not entirely safe. Only EnjoyMyMedia members you specifically invite can view content you share using their service; uninvited strangers can not. The ways they can offer users to view the content is unique, too. Netcasting is their way of distributing such content in channels. With a simple installation of a program they offer for free, you then have the ability to browse your computer for the files you want to share with others. When you’re ready to share, just send your recipients and email containing a link to view the content. They’ll become subscribers at that point. The neat thing is that they don’t need to download anything to view the content. They just choose their preferred method of delivery and they can sit back and enjoy what you send them in a way they want to." [ read the review ] |
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"This week I talk about a product that I'm really excited about. It's EnjoyMyMedia and I think it provides a wonderful way for both new and experienced users to share photos and more with no muss and no fuss. Whether you're a computer professional or a brand new user, EnjoyMyMedia is the perfect program for sharing your media with friends and family." About the reviewer: Michael E. Callahan is regarded as the world's leading expert on shareware. In an average year Michael evaluates 10,000 programs. Since 1982 he has evaluated over 230,000 software and hardware products. Mr. Callahan began evaluating software online in 1982 and is the Manager of Editorial Content on Tucows.com. |
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Alyssa Dver, the National Director & Family Safety Expert for The Center to Prevent Lost Children, interviews one of EnjoyMyMedia's co-founders on safe ways mom's can share personal media online: "PhotoPhobic? Sharing digital photos safely" "Are you scared to use photo services such as Flickr or Shutterfly because you think your family will be literally exposed? Keith Loris discusses precautions moms should take when using the Internet to share photos, videos and other digital files. Keith talks about the potential risks and benefits of using these services. He’ll also gives tips for using these and other services safely to keep both your photos and loved ones protected!" |
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"My Friend Flickr? The photos you post on the Web might get more viewers than you think" "A friend of mine ... has long had the habit of posting photos of her children on Flickr, the photo-sharing site, for others to see.... one day she found that a candid photo of her six-month old son receiving toilet training had been marked as "favorite" by someone she didn't know. When she checked the person's album of favorites, she found her son's portrait among a host of adult-oriented photos and those of nude children. She was livid ...She's warned all her Flickr friends, many of whom confessed to her they hadn't considered the implications of posting their photos ... If you use services like Flickr, then you should think very hard about each picture of your child you post. Consider your online album as the equivalent of leaving the treasured family album on a public bench for every passer-by to thumb through ... You may want to consider photo-sharing Web sites with higher fences. EnjoyMyMedia (enjoymymedia.com), for example, takes a different approach by turning the computer folders where you store your photos into what it calls "personal broadcasting channels" that not only take the hassle out of uploading photos but also restrict access to those family and friends to whom you have issued passwords. Boston-based CEO Keith Loris sees his service as the antithesis of the Web 2.0 mantra of "share everything with everyone": "I am not interested in my 15-year-old daughter's photos, videos, etc. appearing all over the Net," he says. "I want it to be really easy for my dad, college roommate, best friend, etc. to enjoy them, but I want it to be impossible for anyone else." |
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"The Bytes That Bind" "Here, our favorite high-tech ways to stay connected, manage a hectic household, and more. PHOTO/VIDEO SERVICES EnjoyMyMedia.com [ read the article ] |
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"EnjoyMyMedia Launches with New Video, Scanning Features" "This week the company officially launched the service, and added a few features that weren’t there in August—including the ability to watch Flash versions of large video files ... and the ability to scan print items and transmit them with a single click. EnjoyMyMedia CEO Keith Loris calls this latter feature “a small technical thing,” but says it’s illustrative of the company’s philosophy. “We do not view our mission as file-sharing; we’re trying to help you share your personal life, and a lot of people’s personal lives are not digital,” Loris says. “If you have a desktop scanner, this lets you scan a piece of paper right into your channel, whether it’s the portrait of Grandma on the wall or the picture your kid drew at preschool.” The Flash feature is another useful enhancement to the service. If you’re trying to share an hour-long video of your daughter’s ballet recital, Loris points out, you don’t want to make viewers wait while their computers download a one gigabyte file. EnjoyMyMedia transcodes MP4, MPEG, and other video formats into Flash. The file then starts playing in a subscriber’s browser immediately, regardless of the size of the original file ... “It makes long videos really usable for casual Internet users for the first time,” Loris says. |
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"EnjoyMyMedia lets you create a personal broadcast channel for displaying media that friends and family can access." "You can upload any file type, and it will be saved in the channel of your choice. It looks as if there are no public channels, so all content remains private and will be shared with only those you’ve specified. RSS options let your friends and family know when there’s new content to check out, and a few other automated tools, such as updates, and automatic Flash video converter, and one-click scan options for copying documents and other printed material makes file-sharing just a bit easier. What’s also helpful about this particular type of network is the fact that your subscribers (friends & family) won't need to download the software in order to access and view your media." |
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"EnjoyMyMedia has, today, announced the launch of their new "Personal Broadcasting System" "The application (once installed) makes it very easy for sharing digital media with your friends and family. I could see installing this on my mom's computer rather than having her try to navigate flickr or AOL Photos." |
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"EnjoyMyMedia Partners to Grow User Base" "Private Netcasting company EnjoyMyMedia is partnering with Got2Know as part of an effort to forge distribution agreements with business partners. EnjoyMyMedia creates personalized media streams enabling people to share videos and pictures through the Internet by using a Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed. EnjoyMyMedia is opening its service up to businesses that want to target their media content to users on specific sites that accept RSS feeds ... to push out their materials." |
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"Internet Media Sharing That’s As Simple as Turning on a TV" "The Web now has any number of tools to help you create and broadcast your own personal multimedia channel. I’ve tested several .... But all of these services suffer from what I’ll call a high “geek quotient” that will probably limit their adoption. The guys at EnjoyMyMedia ... have been working on what they call a “brain-dead-easy” media-sharing system that mainstream netizens can use to broadcast their photos, videos, audio files, and other files to friends and family members without learning a line of code. ... EnjoyMyMedia’s software masks the details behind a truly easy-to-master interface and a familiar television metaphor revolving around “transmitters” and “receivers.” “My 72-year-old dad is a target customer for this, and if you asked him what a blog or a social-networking site is, he would not have a clue,” says Keith Loris, EnjoyMyMedia’s president and CEO. “But if you say I’m going to have a transmitter on my PC and you’ll have a receiver with my channel, he gets it right away, because he watches TV." By making media-sharing so simple, they hope to attract a user base of average families—the kind of people who exchange birthday-party photo prints as a matter of course, but wouldn’t be likely to sit down and spend several hours uploading digital photos to a site like Flickr." |
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"Investors to Web Start-Ups: Where's the Advertising?" "Today, there's nothing more fashionable than having an ads-driven model," says Mr. Kelman, 36 years old ... Mr. Kelman's experience is one of many like it as venture capitalists increasingly advise consumer-focused tech start-ups to follow the same business model: online advertising. Chief executives of Web start-ups such as EnjoyMyMedia Corp. and Cake Financial Corp. say they have also recently faced tough questions from venture firms over their business models that don't rely [exclusively] on advertising income. Photo-and-video service EnjoyMyMedia runs a few ads but mainly offers a paid [premium level] service; Cake Financial plans to charge customers fees for investment services. Internet-advertising revenue reached nearly $17 billion last year ... Still, most of that money remains concentrated on a few large sites, raising questions about whether thousands of start-ups can snag a significant piece of that pie and grow into large-enough companies that could actually make money for their investors." |
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"I have recently found a good alternative way to share photos, video, and other media with family and friends. It is called Enjoymymedia and it’s what I consider a really a simple to use and effective site. Using this website you are allowed to secretly allocate photos, videos, and documents with/without family and friends who are not at ease with photo-sharing site log-ins or interested in signing up on several photo sites or social networks. This site is made for people who are not geeks, computer or internet experts, but show interest in sharing. So, basically anyone can use and enjoy Media sharing at EnjoyMyMedia.com. It is very simple to use and it’s also very easy to sign up and set up a channel, as it requires only ... three minutes. In my opinion you can now just use this service which allows you to view your photo or video album without any hassle." |
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"The Nintendo Wii is not only for kids, but for a traditional family looking for a good time. EnjoyMyMedia wants to add upon that by announcing that it’s broadcasting system will make enhancements to put exclusive channels on the Nintendo Wii. To those unaware of what EnjoyMyMedia is, the system allows people to broadcast personal media such as videos, audio, documents and photos over the internet through private channels. This enables family members and close friends to seek these medias without the hassle of a stranger eaves dropping. Now, you can view these channels straight off your television and from your Wii if current suscribers click the Wii icon on EnjoyMyMedia’s official website. So you can now enjoy personal moments for the luxery of your living room recliner." |
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"US firm EnjoyMyMedia has announced enhancements to its personal broadcasting system that enable consumers to (send) media to a Nintendo Wii games console in the living room, rather than being confined to the home office. Wii owners can now take advantage of a streamlined subscription process: authorised subscribers click a Wii icon at EnjoyMyMedia.com to add a “Favourite” to the Wii Internet Channel, and can then view EnjoyMyMedia channels from the living room. “Personal media sharing has previously been stuck in the home office,” said Keith Loris, President, CEO and co-founder of EnjoyMyMedia. “With EnjoyMyMedia and the Wii, families can now view personal media, with all its emotional appeal, in the comfort of the living room.” |
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EnjoyMyMedia.com is "a password protected digital media
sharing site geared for families which lets you privately share
all media types online with only your friends/family. So you
can digitally share things like your vacation pictures, videos
of your child's soccer game or dance recital, and even scans
of your scrapbooking projects etc. [ read the review ] |
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"At the moment, consumers can post content on sites such as YouTube.com, where everyone from friends to total strangers can gawk at their photos and videos. But EnjoyMyMedia thinks there's a "huge unmet void" for consumers who only want to share their content with a tight circle of family and friends, and the company believes it has figured out a feasible way to fill that void. With EnjoyMyMedia, consumers can share personal files such as photos, videos, and audio content in "live, private Internet channels;" to ensure privacy, the content is password protected. According to the company, its approach is so simple that even grandparents and people not technically proficient can use it, and one result is that a consumer can personally net-cast "the big and little moments in life," but net-cast it only to a tightly controlled list of people whom he or she cares about." |
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Business section, first page: "EnjoyMyMedia yesterday introduced the world's first personal broadcasting service: its free, beta Private Netcasting™ system. EnjoyMyMedia enables consumers to conveniently an securely broadcast personal multi-media--photos, videos, audio, documents or any other file--over the Internet in private, secure channels." |
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"EnjoyMyMedia is essentially a combination of Flickr and YouTube, though you share your files directly from your computer. By placing your content in a folder specified on your computer, you can instantly create your own broadcast channel... While marketing the sharing aspect of the software, EnjoyMyMedia also would suffice as a means of place shifting your video, audio, and picture files... One cool feature of EnjoyMyMedia is the ability to sequence how your media is viewed. You can create the order of videos, pictures, or music shown online. Upcoming versions of the software is expected to allow friends to ‘produce’ movies from your content as well. |
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"EnjoyMyMedia is rolling out an online system which lets its users save any file to a folder on a computer connected to the Internet. Saved files are shared automatically through private, secure channels with invited others who do not need to install any software to access the files. The password protected channels are accessed through My Yahoo, iGoogle, My AOL, Microsoft Vista’s Sidebar, Facebook, current Internet browsers or any other RSS-compliant system. There’s also a social element with the EnjoyMyMedia system. 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. ..." |
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" 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..." |
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“The basic idea is that EnjoyMyMedia allows you to stream content to select users right from your computer. I have a ton of content that is of interest to only a small number of people and I don’t necessarily want to post it all publicly. I also don’t want to have to ask friends and family to sign up for accounts on a bunch of different services so this seemed like a good solution … I was really impressed by these guys (after a conversation). The idea is good and the execution is clean and simple.” [ read the post ] |
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Jan 17, 2007 "The main difference between alternatives such as Flickr and YouTube is that you share your files directly from your own pc and you do not have to spend hours uploading your complete collection ... Enjoymymedia offers a simple way to share files with people
who are not [ read the review ] |
