Ex Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki and managing director of Garage Technology Ventures is one of the investors behind FilmLoop, a new photo sharing Website.
FilmLoop is a free desktop program that lets people drag and drop photos into a file, then view those pictures on the desktop, like they would a film reel. It continuously parades photos across the screen when it’s on.
The article goes on to explain FilmLoops proprietary difference, “Unique to the service is people’s ability to share and edit photos in the loop. Users can invite friends to view their photos, and once those friends have downloaded the FilmLoop Player, they too can add related comments, pictures or Web links to the file, so they’re visible to all in real time. Users can also broadcast photos to anyone on the Web who wants to subscribe to that film loop, or “looplet.”
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FilmLoop, a Palo Alto, CA company has released a new photosharing Website, FilmLoop. FilmLoop’s marketing mantra is, “FilmLoop is how photo-sharing should be done. It pushes pictures to people (via the desktop) instead of pushing people to their pictures.”
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BubbleShare, a Toronto-based online photo sharing is scoring very positive marks across the Internet for its intuitive ease of use. Photo critics claim BubbleShare’s interface design team really had their act together because the sites usability is so straight forward that even first time users don’t get confused.
One highlight is BubbleShare allows users to upload photos without registration. There is a tour linked from the home page, but you really don’t need it - just start uploading photos the rest is really easy to figure out.
Another feature BubbleShare has that other photosharing sites don’t have but should is a multi-uploader tool that allows user to upload many photos at once. According to the folks over at Techcrunch the only thing that BubbleShare is missing is photo tagging and tag search.
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Online photo sharing sites are a big deal these days. Online shoppers have lots of sites to choose from so site owners must take care to provide outstanding service so shoppers return. Sony’s ImageStation has had a rocky road so far as indicated by complaints posted at Photographic Review. Here is a recent excerpt. “Sony Imagestation’s online site has to be the worst site on the web for getting products with pictures on them. THE WORST! They Customer service is non existent. their online help is not helpful. Getting their 800 customer service is difficult. I finally had to get snotty with online help to get the number. I ordered mugs. They arrived broken. They promised to get them to me by a certain date… they didn’t. When i called them they just repeated a stock response three times… no matter what question i asked.”
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Online Photo Sharing is a BIG deal these days. and as CNET writes: “If your goal is to get your pictures into an online album quickly and easily, these sites can accommodate you. Some of them also offer handy special features such as sending images to and from camera phones. We rated the sites on how easy and efficient they made the process of uploading and managing photos and how pleasant and intuitive we think the viewer experience will be for people who look at your photos.”
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DropShots Press Release:
DropShots.com Releases Its Innovative Service to Help Families Stay Connected and Share Life Experiences
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 14 /PRNewswire/ — DropShots.com announces its service to help friends and families stay connected through photos, videos, and conversations. DropShots is the result of a three year study out of University of California, San Diego on how to improve human interaction and strengthen the emotional bonds between people via advanced technology. Once a prototype under the name of JussPress.com, DropShots is the commercialization of this service now available to the general public. Already, DropShots hosts over 1.5 million photos and 100,000 video clips, and by word of mouth alone is growing at a monthly rate of over 35 percent.
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Press Release:
HP to acquire European online photo service PIXACO
Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, Calif., USA, signed a definitive agreement to acquire bilderservice.de GmbH, Jena, Germany, which operates PIXACO — a leading online photo services and products site in Europe.
The acquisition of the privately-held company will enable HP to rapidly extend the reach of its online photo services throughout Europe, building on the purchase of Snapfish earlier this year. HP plans to extend many of its Snapfish capabilities to the PIXACO service — bringing European customers greater choices for printing, sharing, and storing their photos.
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Shutterbook Press Release:
Shutterbook Reinvents Online Photo Sharing; New Online Photo Sharing Service Gives Flickr a Run For Its Money By Offering A Multiple Photo Uploader, High-Res Photo Storage, Intuitive Photo Tagging And Complete Password Protection
Shutterbook (www.shutterbook.com), the latest and most intuitive online photo sharing service, today announced its inception with the launch of a new premium service that gives consumers considerably more than just the ability to upload photos to a website. Aiming to stand out from the over-saturated market full of cumbersome and non user-friendly photo sharing services, Shutterbook gives its customers a myriad of features, including a completely password protected photo sharing experience, a multiple photo Uploader application, 20GB of high resolution photo storage, unique tagging capabilities, a robust online community and an easy-to-use customized slideshow tool complete with your favorite music. Shutterbook, founded by interactive designers/developers Dzuy Linh and Trent Hamilton, developed the service to help consumers re-experience the fun, ease and excitement of creating online scrapbooks for sharing.
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