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OurStory : The Place for Photographs and Memories When March comes around, families and friends tend to group together to talk about coming plans. Because at this time of year, graduations happen, family vacations are planned, weddings or anniversaries are celebrated. The management of OurStory , which is based in Mountain View, California thought this time as ripe and appropriate to launch its website for social networking. The site is intended for people who want to share with family and friends, their memorable moments, their past as well as their videos and photos. OurStory, which was launched on May 15, is designed to permit users to chronicle the past, present and future events of their lives . As an example, Halliday has his own page in the site where photos and audio clips from his World War II pilot father were shown off. The page also showed how Halliday's father ended up as a commercial jet pilot for Japan Airlines after the war. Halliday said that after the war, Japan was short of pilots making them hire Americans to fly their commercial airliners. Halliday also posted photos of his kids, among them two college-age young men, who have their own MySpace and FaceBook accounts. He said that OurStory has a different purpose from such sites. Halliday pointed out that his sons use services like MySpace and Facebook to present a picture of themselves that is clearly designed to make them stand out and be attractive to the opposite sex. They're looking to be connected to new people. They're trying to hook up. He said that OurStory, on the other hand, is tailored to maintain connections with people, who are mainstays in your lives. Halliday expects the site and its service to be quite popular among parents. Aside from the initial questions upon registration, OurStory also provides your with more questionnaires for easier recall of memories. They even have a decade pack, which is a database of 20th century information as well as some facts about the first six years of the 21st century. You could also find a Do You Remember When section in the site that asks you, your family and friends to answer questions on the events of fairly recent historical periods. Because OurStory focuses on collaboration, they make it a point to inform your designated circle of family and friends through email once you add on something to your page. By simply replying to the sent email, your family and friends could already give their own recollections of a story you posted or comment on a picture uploaded. Once you have signed up with OurStory there are privacy controls that permit you to define and control separately as many designated circles as you want. You can post stuffs just for yourself, for your family or for a specific group. This makes for flexible connection with groups of people who might not like what you share with other groups and vice-versa. Your college antics might not be appreciated by your family or your jokes about work might offend your colleagues, so you could designate separate circles for them. They will never be privy to what you share to other circles. You could avail of OurStory 's basic service for free, which provides you with a single profile and access to the My Story question pack. You could also avail of the premium service at $39.95 per year, which provides you with more questionnaire packs and other goodies. You will automatically be reverted back to free service without losing any data, once you cease subscription to the premium service. See the banner below
OurStory CEO Andy Halliday said their special purpose is to collect the great stories of our lives . We have a timeline that lets you collect stories and share them with everyone around you, illustrate them and archive them so it accumulates into the story of your life, Halliday added.
OurStory service is fashioned as a replacement for those shoe boxes, shelves and drawers where you store photos, videos, letters and even journals. The general idea is for you to add on these memorabilias and more as your life unravels, right into your page as soon as you sign up for the site's service. As a way to show you that they are interested for you to share your story on the site, they will ask a number of questions when you sign up for the service. These questions include where you attended high school, what were your favorite memories of swimming when you were a kid, what your first job was, and what your first car was, among others.