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Sampa in the press 2008-04-02 13:08:00 Quite a few online news sites and blogs have covered the launch and our funding. Check out the coverage: GigaOMTechCrunch Seattle Post-Intelligencer Seattle Times Mashable WebWare VentureBeat
Press Release: Sampa Revolutionizes Life Event Sharing on the Web 2008-04-02 12:49:00 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 Gros Read more:Press
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Sampa Gives the Gift of "Link Juice" 2007-12-12 15:26:08 Thousands of back links to be generated for popular charities Redmond, WA. (December 12, 2007) – Sampa Corporation, makers of the free website creation service that empowers consumers to build their own personal private networks, has automated the inclusion of charitable links for every site that is created including more than 35,000 websites built with Sampa. New Sampa customers select a charity to receive “link juice” from their new site during the sign up with the goal of increasing donations to that charity. “We wanted a way to figure out how to ‘give back’ so we made it as simple as one click to link to a charity,” said Paul Gross, CEO of Sampa Corporation. “Giving the gift of ‘link juice’ is sharing one of the web’s most val Read more:Juice
Use your site to help a charitable organization 2007-12-12 15:24:00 Today we are announcing a new feature on Sampa that allows you to easily select a charity to display a link to it on your site. This will help charities by providing a link directly to their donate page, and also help with their ranking on search engines. New users can select a charity during the sign up. If you already have a site or want to change your charity, click on "Administration Tools" on the sidebar, then "Configuration Panel" and select "Charity". You can select from: American Cancer Society American Red Cross Boys & Girls Clubs of America Humane Society of the United States Hydrocephalus Association International AIDS Vaccine Initiative Susan G. Komen for the Cure UNICEF We
Nominate Sampa for a Crunchies 2007-12-03 16:47:00 If you think Sampa is likely to succeed, click on the image below and nominate us as the company most likely to succeed. Read more:Nominate
Sampa coverage on TechCrunch 2007-11-14 19:37:58 We've just got some very positive coverage on TechCrunch
. They like what we are trying to be. So do we!
Let your friends upload pictures to your site 2007-10-29 12:33:00 Wouldn’t it be cool if your friends and family could upload pictures to your site?What if you all went to the same event, like a Thanksgiving party, and everybody took their own pictures. Wouldn't be great if they could easily upload to the photo album that you've created for that Thanksgiving? Now your visitors can upload pictures directly to your site without any hassle. They can use the website or send an email to the site. And you get to review and approve the pictures before they appear on the site. This service is great for family reunions, holiday parties, weddings, baby showers, or any event where multiple people are taking pictures that they want to share with the rest of the group. For your visitors
Five new templates to choose from 2007-10-29 11:59:19 We've added five new template sofr you to choose
from. Two of those to celebrate the new season of the year. They are: Autumn Lanterns Starry Sky Roses Wedding Rings Autumn Halftone Over the next few months you should expect dozens of new templates. If there is a specific one (or a style) that you would like, just let us know.
Major changes to the sign up / sign in at Sampa 2007-10-11 17:09:47 We are doing some major changes
to how users sign up to create a new Sampa site and how users sign in into their Design site. If you are having any problem with regards to that please let us know. Read more:Major
Help for Sampa site 2007-10-05 17:15:01 Finally we are providing some help content for Sampa site owners. We just release our new Help system on sampa.com: sampa.com/help We will be integrating it directly into your Sampa site to make it for a quick and easy way to search for assistance. We don't have much content yet, but we'll be working on it on the next few weeks and months.
Invite Friends & Family from your Yahoo, GMail and Hotmail account 2007-10-04 15:42:47 We've just added the option for you to easily import your online Address Book into your Sampa site and invite your friends and family to see your site. Different from a social network, when you invite friends and family, they will not be invited to Sampa, but just to your website and their emails are not shared and all messages they receive are on your behalf. We've added support for more than a dozen different email providers, including GMail, Yahoo
, Hotmail
, MSN, Windows Live, dot-Mac, AOL, Rediff, Lycos, Mail.com and more. You also have the option to import your address book from Outlook, Outlook Express, Entourage, Thunderbird and any other email applicat Read more:Invite
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Sampa sites blocked in China 2007-09-27 11:59:12 We found out through some of our Chinese customers that all Sampa sites have been blocked in China
. We don't know why and we don't know what to do to be unblocked. We'll investigate a possible solution, but it's unlikely that we can do anything unless the Chinese authorities remove us from their block list.
Let them upload their own picture on the Family Tree! 2007-08-30 11:55:10 You've built your Family
Tree and send the link to your Family and now you are bombarded with requests from them to add their picture, right? Not anymore. We just added the ability for site visitors to upload pictures to the family tree. Once they upload the picture you receive a notification that there are pending suggestions and you can approve or reject them. Try it out, it's fun.
New Sampa.com website 2007-08-24 16:07:17 We are very proud to announce the new Sampa.com website
that we just released. It looks lighter, cleaner and it has less text and noise to distract you. I hope you like it and let us know what you think: www.sampa.com
Sampa Lets You Create a Family Tree from Your Address Book 2007-08-16 14:11:00 We are thrilled to announce our new service: Family
Tree. Now you can add a family tree to your website. See the press release... Sampa Lets You Create a Family Tree from Your Address
Book New Release Highlights Sampa’s Focus on Family Websites Redmond, WA. (August 16, 2007) – Sampa Corporation, makers of the free website creation service for consumers to build their own personal private networks, launched an integrated family tree that can be created from an existing address book as part of their flagship free website service. The release of the family tree is the next major step in Sampa’s strategic direction to provide website solutions for people who want to build personal private networks amongst Read more:Address Book
How to change your Site/Blog Address (domain name)? 2007-08-05 14:13:08 We just released a new feature that allows you to easily change your Site Address
(a.k.a. Domain name). For example, if you created the site "baby-john.sampasite.com", but later you have another kid and don't want to create a different site, you can rename it to "john-and-jane.sampasite.com" But before you go ahead and change your site address, be warned of the following:If you change your site address, all links on other sites (including search engines) will not work anymore.If your friends and family have bookmarked your site, those bookmarks won't work anymore, so you must tell them about the new address.If you change your domain
address, you cannot revert to the old name for 2 hours at least.How to change your site address?Sign in to your Design sit
Use Windows Live Writer to create a blog post 2007-06-01 15:32:09 A few days ago we announced support for MetaWeblog, which is a protocol that allows you to edit your blog entries offline, using an editor, and publish them to your blog whenever you want. A few days ago Microsoft announced the Beta 2 version of Windows
Live Writer
, and we are happy to announce that Sampa is the first blogging platform (outside of Microsoft, of course) to fully support it -- even before it shipped! One of the cool features is that you can do a blog entry, like this one, add the pictures and they will automatically be uploaded to your site. To get going, you must first download and install the Windows Live Writer
from Enabling your blog is easy, j Read more:create
Edit your Blog offline 2007-05-30 19:25:47 Sampa now supports MetaWeblog for offline blog post editing, which means that you can now add content to your blog without having to sign in on the Design Site. We already allow you to add content via email and this is another way for you to have more freedom in your publishing. There is a list of software that allows you to publish your blog offline, including Ecto, BlogJet, Qumana and Windows Live Writer. Many more tools like that should be available in the near future. This is a new feature so it might have some issues. Let's us know if you are having problems. A known issue is that you cannot post pictures or other media content at the moment. We plan on adding that
Add Twango Media to your site 2007-05-30 19:24:10 One of the top requests we get from users is how to add video and audio into their website. We already had YouTube integration, but a lot of people didn't want to add their content to YouTube. Now we have a great solution: Twango. Twango is the best all-inclusive media management, sharing and hosting service there is. Not only you can upload your traditional media, like pictures, videos and audio files, but you can also upload more than 100 (!!!) different file formats, from Microsoft Word to PDF to PowerPoint and lots of other cool stuff. To integrate Twango with Sampa, follow these steps: Go to www.twango.com and create your account;Go to your Design Site and click on "Add My Twango Me
Create a Mother's Day Message on your Site 2007-05-11 12:31:59 If you either have your own Sampa site, or if you are going to get your mom a site for herself, you can easily create a message that she will certainly remember forever. Here are the steps to create a Mother Day Message
on your Homepage: Sign in to the Design Site;Click on “Edit Homepage”;Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on “+ Add Content” and select “Add Text/Image”On the Text Editor write your message. You win extra points if you add a picture of you and your Mom. Click Save and the new content will appear on the page.Now, click on “Menu” just above the new box and select “Display Rules”.Select “Only on the Site’s Homepage” and click Ok.Click “Save” at the top to save your Home page. &n
Get Your Mother a Web 2.0 Gift 2007-05-11 12:26:35 Sampa has an affordable and hip Mother’s Day gift for the modern mom: A Web 2.0 family website. Sampa has recently added many features to attract the “web-active mom" and make it easier for them to create websites to selective share family pictures and stories. Moms can have blogs, photo albums of their kids, pages for online scrapbooks and integration with Amazon Wish List that will certainly help them get what they want next year. Moms concerned about making pictures of the kids, or information about the family vacation plans publicly available on the Internet, can share them safely with friends and family. Contrary to other services, family members don’t have to join a social network to see the private cont
Password scam 2007-05-02 11:15:48 The Internet is a great place to do a lot of things. It is also a wild place, where anonymous people and cloaked sites can try to take advantage of good people. Recently we started seeing a lot of messages on behalf of Sampa telling people that their password has been reset and that they should click on a link if that is a mistake. It is a scam! You probably received the same kind of message from impersonators of PayPal, Bank of America, Hotmail, etc. Here is how you spot a real message from Sampa: The email is sent from "sampa @sampa.com" or on behalf of "sampa @sampa.com". All the links on the message point to your website address or to "sampa.com", but never to an I Read more:Password
Who is your muse? 2007-04-27 19:02:54 This is one of the most exciting features we have added to Sampa and it is called "My Muse". Did you ever stared a blank piece of paper waiting for some inspiration to come by so you could write a paper, a letter, an article, or, nowadays, a blog post? Your Muse just appeared to save you from a condition that affects millions of website owners known as BPS (Blank Page Syndrome). This is when you want to write something on your blog but don't know what to write about and your family and friends keep asking you why you haven't written anything lately. How this works? Just sign in to your Sampa site, and on the first column of the new Site Overview you'll find your Muse. By de
What is the best way to write a movie review? 2007-04-27 18:14:52 A few days ago we told you about our new Blog About a Book feature. Today we are announcing the Blog About a Movie. Same idea... You can choose from tens of thousands of movie
s searching Amazon.com database (from your own Sampa site) or by just clicking on one of the movie covers on your Muse. We take care of getting the actors, director, movie title, cover picture, etc. You just need to write the review
yourself. If you have a Sampa site, go try it out by yourself. It is under your Muse or click on your blog to see the options.
What is the best way to write a book review? 2007-04-13 16:59:38 That's easy -- use Sampa! We have enhanced our blogging feature by providing you a nicer way to review
a book, and we call this feature, appropriately, Blog About a Book. You can choose from millions of books that we surface by searching Amazon.com. With just a click, you'll have the Title, Author, Cover and much more so you can create a great blog post when you review the books that you have read. This is much better than writing a book review
on Amazon (or on another site) because it stays on your site, with you. To make it even better, now when you sign in into the Design Site you are greeted with the list of
Site Overview gets an overhaul! 2007-04-13 16:51:00 If you have signed in to your Sampa site on the last few hours you probably have noticed the change. It is big. No... It is huge. We just released a brand new Site Overview
page, which is the first page you see when you sign in to your Design Site. Before, the old Site Overview was ugly plain and it provided you with only a few of useful things you could do despite the fact that it showed you a lot of information. The new Site Overview (screenshot) is clean, organized, has a nice layout to it and we have made sure that the top activities that you do on the site are just 1-click away, like Upload a Picture, Add a Blog Entry, Add a Page and Edit your profile. And for those of you that are addicted to stats, it
Want more screen real estate for your site? 2007-04-13 16:47:00 We are happy to announce that we converted 10 of our templates to support a wider width. Now you can choose if your templates are optimized for 800x600 resolution or 1024x768. You can find out which templates support large width by clicking on Change Template on the Site Overview, and looking at the "Widths" properrty of each template under the template author's name. Some templates now will work better if you have a 3-column layout, since you have more space to add content. The templates that support wider widths are: Minimalist Round Minimalist Elegance FV 5 Block Simplistic Baby 1 Music Sports 2 Ribbon After you selec Read more:screen
Change to default "Author" for blog posts 2007-04-11 12:56:31 Now, by default, the Author
of your blog posts
will be the full name of the person signed in to Sampa. Before it was just the first name. If you like the old behavior, of using just the first name, you can click on your Blog (on the Sidebar), click on the Configuration tab and click on Blog Preferences. This page has an option to use the "Full name of the user" or "First Name of the user" for new blog posts. You still can change the Author name at will for any blog post. Read more:Change
Add Wedding Registry, Baby Registry or Wishlist to your site 2007-04-10 14:55:33 Last week we gave a hint at what was coming and this feature is for all of those that are getting married, having a child (or multiple) or just want to put together a wish list for their birthday. Now you can easily integrate your Amazon.com wish lists, baby registry and wedding registry directly into your Sampa site. Your visitors will be able to browse the list of products that you want and with a single click they are sent to Amazon.com to purchase it for you. If you want to add an Amazon wish list or registry to your site, you must first go to Amazon.com and create one. How to create an Amazon Wish List: Go to www.amazon.com ;At the header, mouse over "Your Lists" and once the po Read more:Registry
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