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How exciting!
Photobucket.com  has been nominated for a UK Website of the Year award in the Best video sharing site.

1. UK�s "Best video sharing site 2006" based on the website with the highest average scores on navigation, content and design.

2. UK�s "Most popular video sharing site 2006" awarded to the site with the highest amount of votes.   

We hope you'll vote for Photobucket.com  for this awesome award.

About the Website of the Year   

"Website of the Year 2006" is a pan-European people's-choice award initiative by online market research agency Metrixlab and supported by Nielsen//Netratings (Industry Partner) and various local Media Partners (TechCrunch, Markarina, Comunitzione, Bajo La Linea, TrabajarsInConexion, Rhizm.de and Das E-Business Weblog by Martin Rll).

Last year the Website of the Year attracted over 1.5 million unique visitors and the election was broadly supported by various well know websites (Zylom, MTV, Virgin, Neckermann, Otto etcetera.)

Winners will be announced in national media (print & web), on the websites of our media partners and allowed to publish the award on their website for one year.

Vote for Photobucket.com and you might win some cool prizes! Go! Do it today!

San Antonio News - Users, money shifting to participatory 'Web 2.0'

Users, money shifting to participatory 'Web 2.0'
L.A. Lorek, San Antonio News-Express

The new breed of Internet companies and online services revolve around people.

The Pew report points to Photobucket, a socially integrated photo service that requires users to upload, share and tag their photos as an example of a Web 2.0 company. It labels Kodakgallery, a traditional online photo site, as a Web 1.0 company. It also calls Wikipedia, an interactive encyclopedia, a Web 2.0 company, compared to Encarta Encyclopedia, another Web 1.0 company. The Web 2.0 companies are growing online traffic much more quickly than the traditional companies, according to the report.

More at:

http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/stories/MYSA101006.01E.Web.2683b61.html

Clickz - Pew Zeroes in on 'Web 2.0,' Sort Of

October 6, 2006
Pew Zeroes in on 'Web 2.0,' Sort Of

Enid Burns, Click Z Networks

Sites embracing such concepts allow users to share their ideas through text, photo, video and audio. The report offers up Photobucket, where users can upload, tag, share and comment on photos, as one example of such a site. Photobucket's traffic has steadily increased, while "1.0" site Kodakgallery has idled.

More at:

http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3623620

The Inferno Widget - Fun Stuff

Do you like spooky? We like spooky.

As always, we're working uber hard to make fun things happen for our users and in the most recent update we've added on a few new widgets for you to use.

Here's my favorite.
It's called Inferno

And the images are those that I took from a Zombie Flash Mob attack in downtown San Francisco a few weeks back.

The Inferno widget comes in 3 dimensions:
120x120 250x250 500x500

For our free account users you can add up to 10 images to an inferno widget to publish and share.

For our pro account users, you can add up to 50 images to an inferno widget to publish and share.

To create a widget look for this button on your account album.

From there you can manage your existing widgets or create a new one in the inferno style or in any of the other available styles that we currently offer.

I think it's kind of fun.
So in the spirit of Spooky

"Boo."

MJ - Photobucket Marketing

International Business Times - Photo and Real Estate Sites Lead European Internet Visits

Photo and Real Estate Sites Lead European Internet Visits
By Daniel Jacobs, International Business Times
NEW YORK (International Business Times) - Europeans are visiting more photo and real-estate websites a study released on Thursday reveals.

Traffic to real-estate related websites in Europe grew by 11 percent in August, research firm comScore Networks reports, garnering 34 million unique visitors. The German website, ImmobilienScout24 led the pack, with 3.8 million unique visitors representing 18 percent growth.

"As consumers increasingly turn to the Internet in their real estate research process to view properties, check mortgage rates and calculate loan payments, their Internet behavior can be expected to become a leading indicator of overall macro-economic trends in the residential housing market," said Bob Ivins, managing director, comScore Europe.

The report also finds that traffic to the photo related websites rose 5 percent to 60 million unique visitors for August. Imageshak, a U.K based site, increased 10 percent to lead the catagorey with 13 million visitors, while Flikr, the number two site, drew 6.5 million visits.

"As Europeans sought to share their best summer pictures, Photobucket.com and Pbase.com achieved the highest growth rates, increasing 15 percent and 18 percent, respectively versus the prior month," the firm stated.

Red Herring - What the $#@! Is Web 2.0?

October 5, 2006
What the $#@! Is Web 2.0?

Whatever it is, it’s growing fast. A new report attempts to define the vague buzzword.
A. DeMonte, Red Herring

 

Most Internet startups these days claim to be the next Web 2.0 hit. Some startups, confident they’ve moved one step beyond the social web, define themselves as “Web 2.1” companies. One hapless would-be visionary even claimed his plan was so grand that it was “Web 3.0.”

 

All of which begs the question: what the heck is Web 2.0? Non-Profit The Pew Internet Project tried to answer that question Thursday with the release of a report titled “Riding the Waves of Web 2.0: More than a buzzword, but still not easily defined.”

Coined by Dale Dougherty and made popular by O’Reilly Media in 2004, the term defined the wide umbrella of the blogs, wikis and social networking sites that made up the “participatory web.”

 

“That the term has enjoyed such a constant morphing of meaning and interpretation is, in many ways, the clearest sign of usefulness,” says the report, which argues there is “little consensus about where 1.0 ends and 2.0 begins.”

 

Web 2.0 vs. Web 1.0

 

The report looks at how online activity during the time known as Web 1.0 differed from that of Web 2.0, using data from market research group Hitwise to support its findings.

 

For example, the growth of the Kodak Easy Share gallery, an online photo-sharing site the report authors consider “traditional,” has flatlined. Meanwhile, “Web 2.0” site Photobucket made strong gains. Likewise, user-edited Wikipedia has gained ground, while Encarta is losing out.

 

More at:

 

http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=19007&hed=What+the+%24%23%40!+is+Web+2.0%3F&sector=Industries&subsector=InternetAndServices

Photobucket Mugs!

Photobucket's got some great partners and one of our favorites that we've worked with for a while is Qoop!

We're really excited that now all our users can create fun mugs from their images - both photos and graphics!

So, for example, if you had an icon or logo of a mochi ball team of assassin ninjas that you wanted to turn into a mug, you could do that today!  If you wanted to put a silly picture of your friends and family on a beer stein, it would be totally easy!

Don't forget, if you're a Photobucket Pro Account user, you get 10% off of all your Photobucket goods.

Prints/Posters/Books/Cards/Calendars/Hats/Tee shirts and now Mugs!