In the old days of film-based photos and movies, creating, developing, and reprinting media was so inconvenient and expensive, we didn't routinely share copies with friends and family. Now, with all the new digital devices we have in our homes -- cameras, camcorders, scanners and multi-function machines, digital video recorders -- copying media is no longer the problem. Today's problem is too little time and too much inconvenience.
It takes time to organize all the media files on your computer. And after you've selected the ones you want to share, it is tedious to email photos (their size causes lots of problems) and you really cant email videos at all. And those media-sharing Web sites are so Nineties - do they really think you don't lead a multi-media life so that supporting only one type of media (photo-only, video-only, text/blog-only) is ok with you and your friends? (See how EnjoyMyMedia compares to photo or video sharing Web sites.)
And what about the other media that also records and documents your and your family's life: scans of your daughter's drawings, copies of your son's A+ paper (a MS Word document), the first program you created in your Intro to Computer class, etc. Don't these casual but cumulatively important media help provide a fuller, more complete picture of your life? Now for the first time, thanks to EnjoyMyMedia, you can easily Netcast them too.
Below you see an example Family Channel, from the fictitious Smith Family. Notice how there are photos, videos, audio recordings, links to Web pages and lots of other media (some on the Broadcaster's computer, some on the Web).
While a given EnjoyMyMedia Channel is always the same, how it appears varies by Receiver. On the left you see how the Smith Family Channel is displayed on Google's personalized home page while on the right you see how it is appears on My Yahoo. Yahoo provides a nice preview of photos right on the My Yahoo page while on Google you can click the column headings to sort the list and items less than 24 hours old are noticeably bold. See more examples. For the technically curious, Yahoo & MSN Receivers are RSS Readers while Google's is a Gadget (aka Widget).
