PALO ALTO, Calif. and PHILADELPHIA -- Facebook, a leading Internet social utility, and Ziddio.com, a national multiplatform user-generated video site recently launched by Comcast Interactive Media, announced a partnership that will allow Facebook users to create and share user-generated videos and give them the chance to become part of a new television series titled "Facebook Diaries."

Beginning in March, the companies will kickoff a program that includes contests asking users to submit short video segments about their lives. Throughout the contests, Facebook users will be encouraged to upload, view, share and rate the videos. Selected videos will be featured prominently online on Facebook and Ziddio.com and on television including Comcast's on demand service.

Submitted videos will also form the basis for the new television series, "Facebook Diaries," to be produced by R.J. Cutler, the Oscar-nominated, Emmy award-winning producer of TV shows including "American High" and "30 Days." Cutler will choose from the best submissions and weave them together to produce 10 half-hour episodes that will air online and on television.