 | April 2nd, 2008 - by Marcelo Calbucci |
Simplicity, email integration and privacy enable secure family web sites.
Sampa Corporation announced today the immediate availability of a breakthrough free service to enable people to share life stories and photos with family and friends by creating a personal private place on the web. For the first time, a non-technical user can easily create a customizable website that combines multimedia blogging, photo albums and specialty features for families and babies such as a family tree or a baby countdown timer - all with the assurance that only family and friends can access it.
"Families have been searching for a simple and safe way to share their kids' daily triumphs without the pitfalls of emailing digital pictures or annoyances of social networking sites," said Paul Gross, CEO of Sampa. "A Sampa site provides a fun, secure and easy way for parents to tell a story with pictures and keep close friends and families members up to date."
Sampa makes it easy to share across generations and geography. "Since we moved to Boston, Sampa has been integral to how we share the latest stories of our kids and our experience here with our relatives and friends back in Portugal," said Sara Martins de Oliveira, a mom and a long-standing Sampa customer. "Every time they receive the Sampa mail regarding a new posting they run to see the latest news. It is amazing how it makes the distance shorter."
Since parents are a primary audience for Sampa, ease of personalization and privacy were key design goals. A Sampa site is created in 5 easy steps.
- Choose a name for your site
- Enter a few details about your baby or family
- Choose a design
- Upload a photo and customize your welcome message
- Easily invite your family and friends
Users will be up and running in 5 minutes or less with their own personal private place on the web to begin sharing stories and photos. The free service is available today at www.sampa.com.
Features and Benefits
Built-in Themes and Applications for a Personalized Website
Sampa features a broad array of themes to suit a wide variety of expression. Or you can upload a picture to create your own theme. Built-in features including a family tree, profiles, and personalized pages give authors a rich set of easy to use solutions for sharing their life events. These features let you create the perfect family or baby website in minutes.
Security Simplified and Engagement Guaranteed
Sampa sites are secure without creating complexity for readers. The site engages friends and family by sending an email whenever a new story or set of photos is uploaded. The email contains a personalized key for each reader to enter the site just by clicking on the link in email, so readers do not need to remember an arcane password or even know the site's web address. And patent pending security prevents the key from working if it is forwarded to someone else.
Integration with Popular Sites and Services
Sampa users can easily integrate content from across the web. Flickr photos and YouTube videos can be seamlessly viewed in a Sampa site so that you can have a single destination for all of your web content.