Photobucket has teamed up with the new Microsoft Silverlight technology
to deliver a cool new way to browse photos. When you are checking out photos in our Find Stuff area, look for the "Try Visual Search" link in the lower left to get started. Type in any term you want
and discover thousands of images! Try it out here!
User Friendly Search Integration Encourages Sharing and Facilitates Image Discovery
San Francisco, Calif. – date, 2009 – Photobucket (http://photobucket.com), the Web’s premier standalone photo and video-sharing site, today launched Photobucket Visual Search, a new and compelling way for users to browse photos and videos on Photobucket. Leveraging Microsoft’s Silverlight technology, Windows Live Services and Photobucket’s Open API platform, Photobucket Visual Search presents search results in an easy-to-browse interface that delivers an enhanced search experience for Photobucket’s more than 80 million users worldwide.
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Native Integration Enables Easy, One Click Uploads to Photobucket.com
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. – June 8, 2009 – Photobucket (http://photobucket.com), the Web’s premier standalone photo and video-sharing site, today announced the availability of a native photo upload solution for the new Palm® Pre™ phone. As a pre-installed photo upload partner, Photobucket lets Palm Pre users easily send photos taken on their mobile device to a Photobucket album without having to download an application. Users just take a picture and tap on the Photobucket entry to send the picture to their Photobucket account.(1)
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This was something fun I did today. Use Scrapblog to create a custom background for your Twitter profile. Scrapblog is utterly amazing. We think you'll have fun.
Here's how:
Once you've saved your Scrapblog, go to the folder on Photobucket that is called "scrapblog-name of your scrapbook". You'll find a static JPG. Grab that and save-as to your desktop so you can upload it to Twitter. (There should be an easier way, huh?)
The trick for Twitter backgrounds is:
Here's the one I made for myself. Not very cool or grungy, but I like it because the pictures mean something to me. To see it in place on my Twitter go here: http://twitter.com/bigchiefalice.
Scrapblog has also used Scrapblog for their own Twitter background -- it's much better than mine. http://twitter.com/scrapblog.
Here's what it looks like in Twitter:
The Photobucket application on Yahoo! Mail that launches today, June 5th 2009, allows existing Photobucket users to log into their Photobucket account directly from Yahoo! Mail, and choose any number of photos to share with their friends and family by Yahoo! Mail.
How to get access to Photobucket's Yahoo! Mail app?
Go here: http://overview.mail.yahoo.com/applications. Enter your Yahoo! email address. Apparently that's the only way to get access. We understand you also have to upgrade to the new Yahoo! email to be app-compatible.
The best thing about the application is that when photos are included in the email, they are not sent as attachments. (Sending photos as attachments slows down email transmission and forces the recipient to figure out how to open and view the attachments.)
With the Photobucket application for Yahoo! Mail, recipients receive a thumbnail version of the photo, and a link to the full size photo. Clicking the link takes the recipient directly to the photo on Photobucket’s site, where they can view, share and, if they want, comment on the photo. A very simple and friendly experience that anyone, even the lowest tech email user, can enjoy!
In addition to adding photos from personal Photobucket albums, Yahoo! Mail users can search Photobucket’s huge repository of varied photo content to find a photo that perfectly suits a mood or subject. And not just photos! Photobucket has more than 7.5 billion photos and images of all types - funny images, quotes and sayings, animated GIFs, drawings, artwork, celebrity photos, and more.
With the Photobucket application for Yahoo! Mail, a Yahoo! Mail user doesn’t have to be a Photobucket user to search and share photos and images by Yahoo! Mail. They can just install the application, and browse and share for free.
What’s next? At Photobucket we are committed to improving and enhancing our entire product set based on our user feedback and experience. We’re looking forward to seeing how Photobucket’s application for Yahoo! Mail is used, how users respond, and we’ll look for ways to transparently expose our rich and interesting feature set such as photo editing, scrapbooking and group albums, to Yahoo! Mail users.
Photobucket Media Alert
WHO: Photobucket (http://photobucket.com), the Web’s premier standalone photo and video-sharing site, and Yahoo! Mail
WHAT: Photobucket’s new application, developed by Photobucket using the Yahoo! Mail application platform, allows users of new Yahoo! Mail in the U.S. to access and share photos via Photobucket.
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You can see the Baby Breakout Start contest finalists on Photobucket here. As soon as our wonderful teams have sorted through all the necessary and boring paperwork, we'll be able to announce the winner. But in the meantime, look at those cute kids!
Free Mobile Photo Application Available Worldwide
San Francisco, Calif. – June 1, 2009 —Photobucket (http://photobucket.com), the Web’s premier standalone photo and video-sharing site, today announced the availability of a free Nokia-compatible Photobucket mobile photo application inside Ovi Store by Nokia. This mobile application grants Nokia customers worldwide easy access to images on Photobucket as well access to personal Photobucket albums. It is now available for download from Ovi Store at store.ovi.com.
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Online Contest Ends June 5
Winner Receives Trip for Two to Teen Choice 2009
Los Angeles, Calif. and San Francisco, Calif. – May 28, 2009 — Fans of FOX’s new comedy GLEE have one more week to enter the “Show Us Your Gold Star Potential” contest. Whether you’re a singer, painter, dancer or musician, FOX and Photobucket invite you to reveal your Gold Star potential by submitting a photo or video showcasing your talents to http://photobucket.com/glee. Winners will be chosen by a panel of judges from FOX, and judging criteria will be based on multiple factors, including creativity and originality.
The more we use the built-in scrapbook tool from Scrapblog on Photobucket, the more we find new stuff. We just had fun making a grunge-effect collage using the Scrapblog tools.
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We are honored to be a Webware 100 winner! The Webware 100 awards from CNET shows the top 100 Web apps in 10 categories voted to be the best of the best by Webware readers and users of the apps themselves. Almost 630,000 votes were cast to determine this year's 100 best Web 2.0 apps. Thanks to everyone who voted for Photobucket! We really appreciate the nod. Go here to see the awards.
San Francisco, Calif. – May 19, 2009 – Photobucket, the Web’s premier standalone photo and video-sharing site, today announced the launch of Twitgoo (http://twitgoo.com), a new media-sharing site for Twitter. Twitgoo users can now tweet photos from a computer, a mobile device or directly from either Photobucket or Tinypic with an easy-to-use, one-click feature. Twitgoo is already fully integrated with the top Twitter-related applications -- Picnik, Seesmic Desktop, Twitterberry, DestroyTwitter, Intercasting, Spaz and many others -- to ensure a seamless user experience and broad accessibility across Web, PC, and mobile platforms.
Last year, David Cook had significantly more searches on Photobucket than David Archuleta. Our users "called" it. So we decided to do the same search stats check this year.
And the winner? Adam Lambert. Five times as many searches as Kris Allen.
See Adam Lambert content on Photobucket here.
See Kris Allen content on Photobucket here.
You know we love them both. Actually all of them.
The end of the school year is approaching. We have so many great things you can do to remember the school year on Photobucket. Here are some ideas:
Go here to start a Group Album: http://photobucket.com/groupalbums/
Go here to make a Scrapbook: http://photobucket.com/scrapbooks
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We love Steve Harvey, the "King" of comedy and fashion. Mr Harvey is known for his impeccable and undeniable style. And he wants to see YOUR style for the Prom!
Don't build one of those boring, all-the-same memory books at the end of this school year.
Photobucket, in collaboration with the awesome people at Scrapblog, can help. Here's just a few pages that show designs for memory books. You can drag and drop to add your own photos easily. We have hundreds of styles to choose from. Then print them out as books or cards.
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We have a very quick, three-minute survey for you. Tell us which features you use on Photobucket, and what's missing for you. This will really help us as we cook up new ideas. Thanks for your help.
Click here to step through the survey. There are only about 10 questions, so it won't take long. THANKS!
Today we launched a major new feature: a stats dashboard. This dashboard measures how often your images and videos are viewed on other sites. So if you embed your media on other sites, you can measure its popularity.
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This is interesting. Use "advanced options" on the Pop Art effect on the Photobucket image editor. You can selectively choose a focal area for the Pop Art effect, and play with fades. The results can be interesting.
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A fun contest starts today on Photobucket. We're working with the people behind the terrific new show GLEE. The cast of GLEE are inviting you to show them your Gold Star potential talent. The lucky winner receives a trip for two to the Teen Choice Awards in Hollywood, with a chance to walk the red carpet with the stars, and an invitation to the VIP after-party. |
