Family History site arcalife is pretty tickled about their new technology “Life Cube”… so much so that to encourage you to check it out, they are holding a contest until December 1st and giving away $500 to the grand winner, AND $50 each to the first 5 people who comment on the winner’s brilliance (via Facebook or Twitter). Sounds like I’m entering a contest.

And it’s pretty easy to sign up, put together something fabulous in a Life Cube and share and post your creation: 1. Sign up to a free basic membership with arcalife. 2. Import and upload your favourite photos and a video (text over top is optional). 3. Share your link on either Twitter or Facebook (and let arcalife know you’ve done so). You can also sign in and build your Cube via Facebook.

Read arcalife’s post with the more official and precise contest details and to check out other examples of published Life Cubes.

arcalife is a new online family community where you can store all of your life’s greatest memories, photos, videos, events and moments, while connecting with your family, searching your family genealogy and creating a recorded history for future generations.

arcalife.com is currently in Beta and has a long list of new features, additions and improvements coming very soon. Some of the highlights of the arcalife experience come in a few dynamic ways to showcase your life in several really creative features. One of the coolest tools is called “Time Capsule”. As a member you can store, or “lock away”, memories, wisdom, or anything at all for someone of a future generation to discover. Another neat item is the multi-media “Life Cube”: load up your favourite photos or a specific time line of life photos and view the 3-dimensional animation. (You know that whole Sesame Street segment, “This is the story of your life”? A HUGE fan favourite. “Life Cube” entertains and gives you that same warm and fuzzy feeling.)

arcalife is the brain-child of Vancouver-based entrepreneur, Paul Taylor, and is pieced together by his savvy development team who cranked out what you see now in mere months – there’s plenty more greatness down the road.

Why is arcalife a step well beyond some of its currently more known competitors?

• The Integration piece enables users to pull content from favourite networks online, making content creation easy and seamless. You can import photos from your Facebook collection into arcalife – importing content from Flickr, YouTube and mySpace is soon to follow.
• Engaging Unique Features: ‘Time Capsule’ and ‘Life Cube’ bring your memories to life… even after you’re long gone!
• A secure family community network that brings genealogy into the mainstream – you can search your family history and create a dynamic family tree to share with your loved ones.
• It’s completely free! But if you need to access more storage space or require greater flexibility there are different levels of paid membership to suit your needs.

A quick and easy pop-up exemplifying ways to use arcalife.

Check out arcalife.com and read more about arcalife on Killer Start-ups.

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