Share is a next generation social media sharing service that offers a comprehensive, integrated solution for people to organize, share, and republish all their personal media.

The Share service will continue to offer a great media sharing experience without any major interruptions. As a result of the acquisition, members can continue to expect ongoing updates that will further enhance their media sharing experience.

We will continue to support current customers and the Share service will continue its operations as before in the near term. In the long-term, the service will continue to evolve to serve the needs of all of its users.

Your media is both secure and protected. The Nokia relationship allows Share to keep upgrading its service. All your channels and settings have been saved - you'll enjoy the site in the way you always have.

Your Share account ID and upload limits will not be affected at this time – you can upload media and share your media in the same way as you did prior to the acquisition.

Yes.

The Share service will continue to operate without any major interruptions. Certain individual features – in-place online video playback, entering location information, and maps – will be temporarily unavailable for a short period as we make adjustments to the site in the coming weeks. Members will receive notice of any potential additional changes via the home page, the Share blog and email.

We decided to switch out our video transcoding technology (how original videos are converted to a format suitable for online playback). In order to effect the switchover we had to remove the prior components. We will resume online video playback as soon as possible. All of the original videos are still retained in your Share account. Until online video playback is available, you and other viewers of your videos will receive a link to download the original. The original can be played if the necessary player is installed on the desktop or mobile device.

We decided to switch out the technology we use for geo-related features and expect the ability to enter new location tags and display maps to reappear shortly. Any prior location tags already entered into Share are still there.

Not necessarily. As before, media files can be downloaded from the Share mobile site to your phone and then may be playable if your phone has the necessary installed players. Over time look for more seamless playback of Share media on mobile devices.

Yes. Share is available from PCs and Macs at http://share.ovi.com. In addition, any mobile device capable of sending email can upload media to Ovi Share. Mobile devices with an XHTML-based browser can access Share at http://share.ovi.com/mobile.

Share's terms of service provides that in the event of an acquisition, member account info and media will be assumed by the acquiring party. You may delete your account at any time.

Share has always been an international service with members from countries all over the world. As part of Nokia, it will be able to even better serve customers throughout the world.

Detailed plans for growth of the Share service are not yet decided. But we expect that Share will be available in multiple languages in the future.

For the foreseeable future Share's name will stay. As we grow Share into a global service we may decide on a name that is more suitable. If, at a future date, the name were to change, all our members will be notified in advance. Potential branding changes will not effect the security of members’ media.

We plan to develop Share’s current offering further in order to increasingly provide customers with seamless universal access to their personal media and richer experiences with social media.

At this time, it’s too early to speculate on the future Nokia/Share offering. We will provide more details of the Nokia/Share media sharing experience in the first half of 2008.

No. The terms of service have remained unchanged for now, except to substitute the Nokia Inc name in place of Share Inc. You do not need to accept the terms again.

No. However, as part of the acquisition, we have made one minor change to the Share privacy policy. This change is to allow Share data to reside on servers outside the US, in order to accommodate the global nature of our business.

Yes. We do plan to offer paid accounts in the future. The specific features and policies of paid accounts are still under discussion. We will also continue to offer a free level of service.

No. Guidelines for user conduct are covered in the Share Terms of Service. For the near future the guidelines will remain unchanged.

No. Guideline for user conduct and content appropriateness are covered in the Share Terms of Service. For the near future the guidelines will remain unchanged.

No. For the near future your Share photos may be printed by using the printing features already available on the Share service. It is too early to discuss concrete plans for integration with other printing services.

To accommodate our planned growth, we will be moving our offices to a new location on the “Eastside” (the tech corridor area east of downtown Seattle). See our jobs page for the latest open positions and employment information.

Detailed plans are under discussion but you can expect to see significant growth in order to provide a comprehensive service reaching millions of customers worldwide.

Share realized that it shared the same long term vision for personal media and communities as Nokia. There is a practical limit to how much of that vision Share could achieve as a small company on its own. As a part of Nokia, Share will be able to realize its dream of a providing a service that allows people to caputure and enjoy their personal media on mobile devices, desktop computers, in living rooms, and all the other places that are important to them.

The terms of the acquisition are confidential, including the purchase price.