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Twitpic is trying to stay afloat now that its bread-and-butter business is being threatened by other services and even Twitter features and has unveiled an iPhone app to go along with the online service. The app is designed to make it easy to share a photo to Twitter, but also comes with a photo editor, courtesy of A... |
8 May 2012
10:41 GMT |
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Flickr may not be the hottest thing around, but it's all that Yahoo's got at the moment. And, while the photo-sharing herds have moved on to greener pastures (maybe it's all the colored filters that make them seem so) like Instagram, there are still plenty of people using Flickr.
And if you're se... |
26 April 2012
09:50 GMT |
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A new flavor of the Instagram for Android application is now available for download, only one week following the official launch of the software. The new Instagram for Android 1.0.4 brings along a series of fixes for tablet users, while also resolving an issue with Instagram photos not appearing in gallery. Addit... |
11 April 2012
03:05 GMT |
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Instagram for Android became available for download roughly a day ago, and the application has already hit the 1 million downloads mark. The app was put up in Google’s Play Store, which reports over one million installs at the moment, thus confirming the success that most people were already expecting for it ... |
4 April 2012
08:20 GMT |
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Instagram is one of the most appealing ways to share photos with the loved ones straight from the mobile phone in your hand, and is now available on Android.
The mobile software was available only on iOS before, where it became widely popular, and its developers decided to bring it to Android as well.
The applica... |
4 April 2012
02:27 GMT |
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Aviary has been around for a few years, but has made a very successful move only last year when it introduced a mobile photo editing API and SDK. It enabled app makers to integrate photo editing features into their apps without having to develop them themselves.
Already, 10 million photos are edited on mobile device... |
18 January 2012
06:41 GMT |
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Aviary, a startup that's developing a split personality, is now powering two million photo edits per week. This comes after a previous record of one million edits, reached just one month ago.
Powering this growth is Aviary's increasingly popular API and the increasingly popular apps that use it, especially... |
28 December 2011
08:33 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson launched some appealing Android-based mobile phones during the ongoing year, and the company seems determined to make them even better. Following the release of the new Android 2.3.4 OS for these smartphones, the company put in place vscreens.com, offering an easier way for users to share photos on big... |
20 November 2011
05:31 GMT |
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One of the appealing features that Nokia's first Windows Phone arrives on shelves with its the social networking integration, which offers users the possibility to easily stay on top of what is happening on Facebook or Twitter, and also to update statuses or share content with their friends while on the go.
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11 November 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Nokia's MeeGo-based N9 has a lot to offer to its users, and the Finnish handset vendor is keen on showing to the world what the device is capable of.
We already had a look a video that explained the manner in which users could connect to the Internet from their MeeGo devices, and a new one is available for y... |
11 October 2011
15:41 GMT |
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Flickr has announced that it now houses more than 200 million photos published under a Creative Commons license, which enables viewers to freely distribute, copy and even modify or use commercially in some cases, the images. This makes Flickr the largest source for Creative Commons (CC) licensed photography on the w... |
6 October 2011
08:06 GMT |
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Owners of handsets running under Google's Android operating system now have the option to download and install the official Flickr application on their devices. The new software was just made available through the Android Market for Android 2.1 and newer devices, with features that include the ability to share... |
29 September 2011
04:00 GMT |
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Adobe is taking a shot at the latest 'photo sharing' app craze. With Instagram and co. getting millions of users, Adobe perhaps thought it'd cash in on the trend as well, so it's launching a photo sharing app, for Apple users at first.
But Adobe Carousel, as it's called, is not your ordina... |
8 September 2011
10:51 GMT |
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There may be a lot of websites and services offering to store your photos online, but there seems to be plenty of room for everyone. While, in terms of sheer numbers, Facebook is untouchable, when it comes to dedicated sites the competition is tighter.
Photobucket, one of the biggest stand-alone photo sharing site... |
29 August 2011
10:01 GMT |
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If you can't buy them, beat them, is a popular motto in Silicon Valley and big companies like Google and Facebook often end up doing just that. Case in point, Instagram, which Facebook tried to acquire but was rejected, according to a report.
So Facebook did the next best thing and started working on building... |
25 August 2011
06:11 GMT |
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The Google-acquired Photovine has been updated for iPhone and iPad with a few enhancements, such as a new open signup system, ties to Facebook and Twitter, SMS email invites, and more.“Photovine is a fun way to learn more about your friends, meet new people, and share your world like never before,” accord... |
18 August 2011
11:31 GMT |
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Twitter has rolled out its photo sharing feature, which it unveiled a couple of months ago. Twitter has confirmed that all users can now attach images to their tweets directly. The feature is only available on the main, desktop site, but it's coming to the Twitter mobile apps soon."All users can now easily share... |
10 August 2011
04:54 GMT |
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Flickr has announced an impressive milestone, just as competitor (to a degree) Instagram revealed some of its latest numbers. There are now six billion images hosted on Flickr, the six billionth being added earlier this week.
That's a lot of photos, though Flickr has been at it for quite a few years now. In a... |
5 August 2011
08:44 GMT |
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Twitter is said to be very close to launching its very own photo-sharing/URL shortener service. Now, anyone who wants to share an image on the site can choose from the myriad of services that have developed around it, but an official app could be a big move for the site.Considering that it hasn't been shy about ... |
31 May 2011
04:20 GMT |
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Due to the rise and rise of Twitter, its dedicated photo sharing Twitpic also got a lot of attention, and following a scandal related to them selling users' pictures, they have updated their Terms of Service (ToS) to reassure members that this is not the case.
It was recently revealed that their previous ToS... |
12 May 2011
01:34 GMT |
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Designed by former Apple employee Bill Nguyen, the man behind Lala.com, Color is a new ambitious project that aims to get people to share photos with one another whenever they’re in close proximity running the app. Albeit rather intrusive, the app warns that you share the information at your own risk. “... |
25 March 2011
05:08 GMT |
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Google has a nice little surprise for Picasa Web users. While Google still hasn't gotten around to upgrading the amount of free storage they get and they still have to cope with the paltry 1 GB of free storage Google has been offering from the get go, small photos and relatively short videos no longer count towa... |
28 February 2011
09:38 GMT |
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The Picasa team is making a small but welcomed change to the way Picasa Web Albums handles geo-tagged photos. Until now, you had to option to either show your visitors the location of all geo-tagged photos or none. Now, Picasa is enabling users to customize access at the album level. "For some of you, many of your me... |
16 February 2011
06:06 GMT |
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Photos are one of the biggest draws for Facebook, despite all the talk about connections, social graphs and what have you. People like to view their friends' photos and they love to upload their own. Yet, until very recently, the photo section of the site left much to be desired. Last year, Facebook said this wi... |
10 February 2011
07:12 GMT |
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4chan, Christopher Poole's first creation, may not be to everyone's liking, to say the least, but its popularity with a certain, rather large, number of people is undeniable. Now Poole, aka "moot," thinks he can strike again with Canvas, a new photo sharing site built around some of the things that make 4ch... |
1 February 2011
06:31 GMT |
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Facebook is really playing in a league of its own so any stats from the mammoth social network will be impressive at this point. Its photos feature has been one of the most popular sections of the site since its launch and it's now set a new usage records as 750 million photos were uploaded over the New Year... |
4 January 2011
04:37 GMT |
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In a time when new services and products rely on being viral to get as many users as possible as soon as possible, Path, a new photo sharing service, is going against the grain with a model that actually makes it hard to share photos with too many people. In fact, that's the whole appeal of the service, it wants... |
15 November 2010
07:16 GMT |
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Panoramio attracts a special breed of photography buffs, those who like to travel, even if its from behind the laptop screen. The geo-photo sharing community site has been running a series of contests, one each month, to surface the best photos uploaded to the site. Now it's spicing things up a bit with the perf... |
2 November 2010
11:09 GMT |
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Flickr is one of the most popular photo sharing sites out there, and it has been for years, but it's far from being the largest. That title goes to Facebook, but Flickr has some milestone of its own to brag about, apparently the site has just got its 5 billionth photo. According to the Media Culpa blog, the site... |
18 September 2010
09:08 GMT |
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Google is very much a web company, it values web apps above else. But in a few cases, it does concede that a desktop app proves useful, as it does with Picasa. The Picasa desktop client has just been updated to Picasa 3.8 bringing quite a few new, interesting features as well as work under the hood. "Today, we releas... |
18 August 2010
10:17 GMT |
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Flickr is now rolling out its revamped photo page to everyone after several weeks of testing. The new page is a major overhaul and packed full of new or improved features. Some of the most noticeable are the larger photos and better navigation. The new page will now be available to all Flickr users. “After a fe... |
4 August 2010
04:02 GMT |
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Google’s Picasa photo sharing service may seen as more of a place to store your vacation albums than to showcase your latest photographic masterpiece, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t great works to be found on the site. The Picasa team is working to dispel this notion and has recently held a... |
3 August 2010
06:46 GMT |
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Yahoo has been getting very friendly with Facebook lately. It has just rolled out a deeper integration with the social network on Yahoo Mail and plenty of its other properties. And now Flickr, owned by Yahoo, is getting some Facebook love as well. The photo-sharing site now enables users to post their photos on Faceb... |
10 June 2010
07:20 GMT |
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Nokia Image Exchange, the experimental solution released for users of a Nokia handset and aimed at making the browsing and sharing of images a fun and easy activity, has just received a new maintenance update. According to the development team, the image gallery has seen a series of fixes for bugs and issues it was ... |
14 April 2010
08:35 GMT |
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Google's photo-sharing and -hosting service, Picasa, is one of the most popular and feature-rich out there. Still, it has been suffering from a number of annoying issues and limitations, made even more so by the fact that Google has taken its sweet time fixing them. Luckily for power users, Google has finally l... |
6 April 2010
05:48 GMT |
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Facebook has decided that its 400 million or so users deserve to see a little more of their friends or even of themselves. Quite literally. New photos uploaded to Facebook will now be precisely 116 pixels wider, as the size limit increased from 604 to 720 pixels, an almost 20-percent increase if you want to have clea... |
3 March 2010
05:46 GMT |
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The guys over at Nokia Beta Labs announced today the release of new beta clients for Nokia Image Exchange, which come with extended functionality when compared to the previously released flavors. According to the developing team, the new beta clients for Nokia Image Exchange will offer users the possibility to add p... |
26 February 2010
10:33 GMT |
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Facebook is the biggest photo-sharing, or rather photo-hosting site in the world easily surpassing dedicated sites like Flickr, Picasa or Photobucket. With 400 million users, the social network can conquer a market even if it isn't actually competing in it. However, the photo management, specifically the upload... |
6 February 2010
04:27 GMT |
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Picasa hasn't been able to take on Flickr's coolness factor, which it managed to retain to a certain degree even after being acquired by Yahoo, but Google's photo sharing service has it's own strengths and what it lacks in charm it makes up in smartness. Most recently, developers have taken advan... |
28 December 2009
04:54 GMT |
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Facebook has just announced that it’s launching a new photo uploader, which should greatly improve stability but also the performance of the tool. The new tool is being released for testing purposes for the time being and is available in Facebook Prototypes, the social network's testing grounds. The &ldqu... |
19 November 2009
06:01 GMT |
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Facebook is at heart a social network but the services and products that have developed around it can be impressive on their own. For example the social network can be considered the world's largest photo hosting site and there are over 20 billion photos on Facebook at the moment. Now Flickr is looking to steal ... |
22 October 2009
09:49 GMT |
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Flickr has unveiled a new feature that should have been a long time going. Called Flicker Galleries, the feature allows users to create a group of up to 18 public photos or videos from any other one on the site. This is a great way of showing off the works one particularly likes, grouped around a common theme, and so... |
15 September 2009
06:14 GMT |
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Google has just added a seemingly small but very important feature to its online photo sharing site Picasa, allowing users to collaborate and share photos from multiple sources in the same album. This feature could come in handy on any number of occasions and users can have the photos from an event or a trip all in o... |
21 August 2009
06:33 GMT |
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Photos are a big part of the Facebook experience and the photo sharing service is one of the most used features on the site. There are already a number of ways to upload those photos to the site either directly or from mobile devices or remote locations using MMS or Facebook apps for Blackberry, iPhone or other devic... |
23 July 2009
04:59 GMT |
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The layoffs at Fox Interactive Media, News Corp's digital media arm, continue after the massive demissions at MySpace, owned by News Corp, US and international offices. Photo-sharing and hosting site Photobucket, also part of FIM, is feeling the heat, as one-third of the company's 120 employees have been fi... |
26 June 2009
10:08 GMT |
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Flickr is introducing a new sharing option called Flickr Twitter Beta, which will allow users to automatically notify their friends via Twitter every time they upload a photo. This only works for email uploads for now but it may be because Flickr is experimenting with the feature before introducing it on a larger sca... |
13 June 2009
06:40 GMT |
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Fotopedia, the online photo sharing and organizing service, has been in private beta for a couple of months and was revealed as a read-only preview last week with a “coming in a few days” promise. Now the promise has been honored and the service is finally available to the public. The brainchild of Jean-M... |
11 June 2009
03:58 GMT |
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Picasa, the photo sharing and organizing service from Google, hasn't been a Flickr killer, but then again it wasn't intended to be. It has grown quite a bit and has been adopted by a lot of people looking for an easy way to post and manage photos online, and the search giant continues to improve the service... |
5 June 2009
03:59 GMT |
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Fotonauts, a desktop photo application that lets users upload, organize, share and tag their photos, has launched a preview version of its upcoming photo sharing site Fotopedia. They say the full service and the client will be available in a few days but in the meantime users are encouraged to explore the site in cur... |
1 June 2009
06:50 GMT |
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Yahoo's photo sharing service Flickr has just rolled out a brand new feature, which makes sharing photos, videos, groups and sets a piece of cake. In fact, the improvement is actually a button, namely the "Share this" button, which lets registered users share the content mentioned above with a single click. Obvi... |
23 April 2008
02:46 GMT |
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