"I am constantly faced with the dilemma of how to best keep my extended family in the loop... But I would prefer not to have the entire web be “in the know” about what my family is up to; I really only want that information to be consumed by my close friends and family... Enter Sampa. Their hosted solution is an attractive option for both the content creator and end user alike." -- GigaOm - Jason Harris (link)

"Three months after Sampa launched a new version of its family Web site service, the Bellevue venture is powering nearly 100,000 sites." -- Seattle Times - Brier Dudley (link)

"When we covered the slate of companies helping people chronicle family stories and milestones, we left out a quiet but excellent Redmond, Washington startup called Sampa. The reason we left them out is that we’ve had some difficulty in categorizing them. In many ways Sampa is a blog platform with a focus on privacy features, like Vox. But we’ve also compared them to easy site creation tools like Weebly, Synthasite and Jimdo. The hodge-podge of features results in a really compelling hang-out for families to tell their stories, celebrate weddings and births, and share photos and family tree information. It’s a good site, and one of many startups that are doing a lot on very little capital." -- TechCrunch - Michael Arrington (link)

"Sampa Corp. -- which offers free family-oriented Web sites -- says it plans to pass 100,000 customer Web sites later this month." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer - John Cook (link)

"Is Sampa Seattle's little startup that could? The company started out offering simple personalized Web pages and then sharpened its focus on the family market, where it found traction building sites where families can stay connected and share photos." -- Seattle Times - Brier Dudley (link)

"Website creation service Sampa is getting more vertical. This appears to be somewhat of an extension from the family tree-building tool that Sampa released last year, especially given the interactive functions that Sampa did include previously... The biggest factor that makes this different from Sampa’s overall service is the ability to keep it private from the rest of the world. Liken it to a private scrapbook that you can share with the kids, and the grandparents." -- Mashable - Kristen Nicole (link)

"Sampa, a Redmond, Wash.-based company offering a family networking service, has gotten a $1 million investment from more than 10 investors." -- VentureBeat - Tanja Aitamurto (link)

"Sampa is a site that lets you create your own web page. It’s recently relaunched with a new design and a new focus on letting users have more control over what information they share online, and with whom it is shared–branded as being able to create 'Personal Private Networks.'” -- Mashable - Kristen Nicole (link)

"Make your own website with Sampa, a surprisingly powerful WYSWIG web design tool... This is a great solution for anyone with a minimum of coding and/or design experience that wants to publish a very professional-looking site." -- Lifehacker - Wendy Boswell (link)

"Marcelo Calbucci, a one-time Microsoft engineer, suffered the fate of many tech-savvy people: Family members counted on him for their computing needs, including building Web sites. After going through the process a few times, he hit upon a business idea: Calbucci started building software that will let people create Web sites themselves without digging through the dirty details of HTML." -- CNET - Martin LaMonica (link)