Excite@Home Expands Video Broadband Applications With My Videos.

VideoShare's Technology Enables Users to Create and Send Videos

With Excite Bluemountain.com Electronic Cards

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Oct. 9 /PRNewswire/ --

Excite@Home (Nasdaq: ATHM), the leader in broadband, today announced the expansion of its video broadband applications with a new content area called, My Videos (http://videoshare.bluemountain.com). My Videos gives users of Excite Bluemountain.com (www.bluemountain.com) can now quickly and easily create, store and send personal electronic video greeting cards. In addition, Excite Inbox (http://inbox.excite.com) users will be able to use the My Videos service to send their own personalized video message. The introduction of My Videos is part of Excite@Home's continuing commitment to provide users with innovative broadband tools while opening up various possibilities for communication on the Internet.

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Excite@Home has teamed up with VideoShare to empower users with the tools to easily create and send electronic video greeting cards or video email to family, friends and business associates. Available via Excite Bluemountain.com or from a link in Excite Inbox, users can download the Video Producer, a free program that will enable them to import video from a webcam, camcorder or other existing digital files and store them in easy-to-use online folder kept in a personalized "My Videos" page. In just a few minutes, a family can record their baby's first steps and send it to grandparents. Users that don't have the ability to create their own video and want to try out the feature can simply select from a variety of stock video cards and send them as a video electronic card or message.

"Continuing our commitment to provide users with innovative broadband tools, Excite@Home is providing our users with a video tool that will open new doors to communicating on the Internet," said Mark Rinella, general manager and vice president of Excite's Bluemountain.com. "We are always looking for new products that will provide our users with a unique experience that will help them maintain personal relationships from adding voice messages to a comprehensive print center and now this new feature of sending personal video electronic greetings only enhances that further."

MY VIDEOS

The new Excite Bluemountain.com My Videos area will have a simple interface that will allow users to create, store and send personal videos quickly and easily. After completing the creation of personal videos, users will be able to store their videos in their personal My Videos area as well as send them as an Excite Bluemountian.com video electronic card. Recipients simply click on a link to have the personal video streamed onto their desktop. Excite Inbox users will have access to My Videos through a strategic link that is placed within the Inbox property.

My Videos is powered by VideoShare, a leading provider of the first fully integrated system for easily producing, hosting and viewing video on the Web. VideoShare enables businesses and consumers to create and add video to all of their web-based communication tools.

"VideoShare's technology is designed to give any site the ability to offer a variety of personal streaming video options to its users," said Gad Liwerant, president and CEO of VideoShare. "This partnership with Excite@Home further strengthens our leadership position in providing a large community of Internet users with the necessary tools to create, host and send streaming video. By offering its members an easy and effective way to create personal videos, Excite@Home will help build an online community of richer communications, through interactive video and audio communication that is enhanced through its broadband capabilities."

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Excite@Home users will be able to create personal video emails or electronic greeting cards at http://inbox.excite.com or www.bluemountain.com. Users have 10MB of free storage in their personalized My Videos area. My Videos provides robust support for all major video input devices and file formats to create exciting, multi-dimensional personal videos.

ABOUT EXCITE@HOME

Excite@Home (Nasdaq: ATHM) is the leader in broadband, offering residential and commercial broadband services, with a global footprint of 105(1) million homes under long-term cable and DSL contract. Excite@Home offers consumers broadband services over cable-modem, DSL and other 'last-mile' connections and businesses high-speed commercial services. Excite@Home has over 30(1) million cable franchise homes under contract outside of North America and localized versions of the Excite service in 10 leading international markets.

(1) Effective upon the closing of Excite Chello.

Excite@Home, @Home, Excite and the "@" stylized logo are trademarks of At Home Corporation and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.

ABOUT VIDEOSHARE, INC.

VideoShare, Inc. is a leading end-to-end application service provider (ASP) enabling end-users to create and add video to all their Web-based communications. By offering a complete set of patent-pending tools, technologies, back-end infrastructure, and applications for easily producing, storing and viewing video on the Web, the company allows users to share video messages as quickly as they send email today. For the first time, individual users can easily create and send video messages to friends and family, and business can rapidly and cost-effectively communicate with their customers. The company is privately held and based in Watertown, Mass. For more information, visit www.videoshare.com.

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