Harry Potter Pilots New Online Storytelling Technology -- Thousands of Fans Collaborate on New Script

NEW YORK, NY October 30, 2003 - Everyone remembers the old game where a group of people who sit in a circle, a traditional campfire, in turn, put a line into a coherent story. FanLib (tm), a patent-pending technology from the New York-based My2Centences LLC, adds scale and vote for the "classical" narrative "chain game, increasing the potential size of the circle in the thousands and beyond. "It's American Idol, for stories and scripts." Says Chris Williams, CEO My2Centences "and co-founder. For the first event to use FanLib, My2Centences collaboration with Harry Potter fan-site for the launch of the project SnitchSeeker.com Potter (http://www.ThePotterProject.com), a contest that allows fans of Harry Potter, together creating an original adventure based on the young wizard. With little promotion, "the event has already attracted over 5500 players that have left more than 12,000 sets and reviews. Each week, fans are invited to submit a scene from" the week of the mission. "The mission is a brief summary posted by the moderator that describes what will happen in the fan-written scene. Players vote on the scene until the end of the week, is a single scene that is selected and added to the script in progress. Then there is a new mission posted and the process repeated until the narrative reaches The End. "If you think it sounds pretty simple, FanLib chief architect David B. Williams insists, "The best ideas ever, but rarely is." Williams, who has spent the last two and a half years of development of web-based technology, says: "A game of narrative chain is one thing. A game of storytelling with the chain of the spectrum, is another animal altogether. In particular, if To make it easy and fun for the audience of AOL. "Williams explains how FanLib includes advanced features such as" dynamic group of candidates "to keep the elections fair and manageable, automatic formatting of scene is easy to read format, script, abstract graphic scene called "Specials" that can be acquired quickly by the voters, and "robust tool for management" that allows the head FanLib keep all players and the comments got out of hand. FanLib is partly inspired by "fan fiction", or "fanfic," a spontaneous movement on the Internet where fans of an existing entertainment property write original stories about their favorite characters. "We aim to make the fan fiction that Netscape did for the Internet." Says CEO Chris Williams. "Promote the super hit and is part of the mainstream." My2Centences trying to revive the market for FanLib take straight to Hollywood. In fact, they are represented by high-power-agent Mark Ströman, a veteran of Fox and Endeavor, and founder of Mobile Marketing Partner. For producers and distributors of entertainment features script, "FanLib is the best of both worlds." Chris proclaims. "It gives them the opportunity to ride the reality talent show by adding elements in a dramatic series. And besides being a great promotional tool, encourages reading, writing and creative expression." Hollywood is not a place completely foreign to Williams. In addition to developing FanLib, producing My2Centences films. His latest, "A Good Night to Die," premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival this year. In the long term looks My2Centences many applications for its technology, ranging from a broad base of consumers to events that the Potter project, training programs, as well as a purely recreational pastime with friends or families - no fire needed. My2Centences LLC is an established entertainment and technology company based in Tribeca, New York. Contact: David B. Williams, 917-553-1968