Intel's GatherRound.com^SM Becomes First Photo-Sharing Web Site To Let Users Create 360 Degree Photo Panoramas

LOS ANGELES, April 4, 2000 - Intel Corporation announced today that its photo-sharing Web site, GatherRound.com, has expanded its capability and is the first photo Web site to offer photo panoramas. The new function allows GatherRound.com members to create their own 360 degree photos, an ideal application for creating and viewing vacation vistas, building interiors, landscaping scenes and images of fun events. The site also now incorporates photo gift items such as Photo Post-it* Cubes, coffee mugs, T-shirts and photo puzzles.

GatherRound.com members create panorama photos using a special version of MGI PhotoVista software, which is available for free download from the site. In a few, easy steps, members can transform pictures into a seamless panorama, simplifying a task that previously needed the skill of a Web developer. The panoramas can then be uploaded and viewed in a GatherRound.com album.

"With the addition of this innovative panorama technology, GatherRound.com members now have even more ways to enhance their picture-sharing experience," said Lorie Wigle, general manager, Intel Internet Imaging Services. "Our primary goal with GatherRound.com continues to be creating an innovative Web site that helps consumers easily share their pictures with family and friends."

In addition to creating panoramas, GatherRound.com members can now purchase photo gifts, including Photo Post-it* Cubes, photo puzzles, mouse pads, coffee mugs, and T-shirts, that feature their favorite panoramas or pictures. The GatherRound.com Gift Shop is enabled by iPrint.com, a leading online provider of professional print and private-labeled print technology services focused on the business market.

Intel also plans to incorporate MGI's recently-introduced PhotoSpace technologies on GatherRound.com later this year. Among the features offered will be the ability for GatherRound.com members to combine their personal pictures with cool and fun images and templates to create and print picture projects such as greeting cards, birth announcements and party invitations.

To see a sample panorama album, go to www.gatherround.com.

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