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MySpace launches Photobucket integration into the MySpace Comments Editor

MySpace today launched a really useful Photobucket integration into their ever-popular Comments Editor on MySpace.com.

Here's how it works:

• Login to your MySpace profile and go post a comment on a friends profile.
• In the comments editor, click on “Add Image from Photobucket”, and you can log directly into your Photobucket album -- all without leaving MySpace.
• Browse your Photobucket album to find the image you want to post; click on the one you like and click the “Add image to comment” button.
• All without leaving MySpace!

You can also search on Photobucket for the perfect image to post to the comments area of your MySpace profile.

• Login to your MySpace profile and go post a comment on a friends profile.
• In the comments editor, click on “Add Image from Photobucket”, then search for whatever you like.
• Click on the image you want to add to the comment and click the “Add image to comment” button.
• This search box gives you instant access to the billions of images on Photobucket.

We're pretty excited about this, because we know how many of you love MySpace. We know you like to access Photobucket's Find Stuff area to get all the best icons to decorate your profile.

This terrific integration will just make it all that much easier.


About Photobucket's Media Plug-in

Back in June of 2007, we launched Media Plug-in 2.0 that integrated search directly our free image and video hosting plug-in. The Media Plug-in offers an easy way for developers of Web sites to tap into Photobucket's vast collection of media assets.  The Myspace team has used Photobucket's Media Plug-in to do this integration. Other sites have integrated the Media Plug-in too. You can see it, for example, at Slide and RockYou.

The Media Plug-in is freely available to any Web site developer wishing to leverage the power of Photobucket.  For details on how to get access to this free code, go to: http://photobucket.com/mediaplugin.

There is a simple wizard that allows a developer to pick up the code required to add the Media Plug-in to their site.

Improvements to Albums and Subalbums

Today we launched some improvements to the ways that Photobucket handles albums and subalbums.

Improvements include:

• Ability to set sub-albums "public" and "private" selectively
• More room to display album names in the left sidebar
• "Expand" and "collapse" feature to display more, or less, subalbum names for lists longer than 25 albums

Edit Album and Sub-Album Properties Click on the "edit" link at the top of your album sidebar to edit the album properties. You can: Rename your albums Delete albums Set some albums "public" (anyone can see without a password) or "private" (only those with a password can see that album). Make New Sub-Albums You can have many albums, and layers of sub-albums, on Photobucket. It's a good way to keep all your stuff organized. To make a new album, just enter the name at the bottom of the sidebar, and click "save." Expand and Collapse the Left Sidebar If you have more than 25 albums, use the "more" and "less" links to control how many of your albums show in the sidebar at once.

How to get great night-time photos of holiday lights

We've seen some great photos of night-time holiday lights on Photobucket. So we asked one of our favorite photographers, Scott Proposki, how to get those great shots. Because it's kinda hard. Here are his suggestions:

How to Get Great Night-Time Photos of Holiday Lights

You have an awesome digital camera, but you still can’t get good night-time photos. Sound familiar?

If so, you might want to try using a “tripod.” That’s, right, a tripod. Not an iPod. A tripod is a three-legged stand that will attach to most, if not all, digital cameras, to keep your camera from shaking, which it normally does when you hold it in your hand. If you look at the bottom of your camera, you will see a place to insert your tripod.

What does a tripod do? Basically, it helps keep your camera still, which is especially important during long exposures, like capturing holiday lighting displays. If you’re frustrated by those blurry, weird-looking photos, you know what I mean! 

You’re taking a long-exposure photo when you hold down the exposure button for longer than the usual split second. It may be for 10 seconds, a minute, or longer. Some cameras have AC adapters if you want to take long-exposure photos lasting more than six hours!  Check your brand and model for optional items.

You can create photos in the darkest night if you set your camera for a long exposure time, then mount the camera on a tripod and place it on solid, flat ground. By the way: Make sure you have charged batteries before you start. There is nothing more frustrating than taking photos with your new digital camera then having the batteries die!

For me, the best time to take photos is right after sunset. It’s perfect! The sky gives off this dark-blue background that makes even a so-so photo look good! At this time of year, it gets dark very quickly. So head out early, at least an hour before sunset, and plan out your route to the best lighting displays. And remember to back up your photos and post them on Photobucket. Half the joy of taking good photos is sharing them with family and friends. Enjoy!

Check out a few of my Holiday Lights at dusk and other fun photos in this slideshow of photos in my Photobucket account.

About Scott Proposki

Scott Proposki, creator of Photos In A Minute and www.photosinaminute.com, from Lawrence, MA, has created some of the most exciting trade show booths for clients such as National Geographic, The Gillette Company, Sports Illustrated, Warner Bros, HBO, Fox.com, and Microsoft.

To see other photos by Scott on Photobucket, go here:

http://s242.photobucket.com/albums/ff246/photosinaminute/?albumview=grid

New slideshow view for sharing launches today

Photobucket today launched two new "views" for sharing your photos on Photobucket. The two views are called: "Grid" and "Slideshow." They are pretty straightforward. 

Click on "Share Album" and choose whichever view you want to share with friends. The "Links" view is the regular, usual Photobucket view with links for copying HTML. THe "Grid" and "Slideshow" views just offer nice, friendly ways to share your albums of photos with your friends and family.

To switch your album to the new views look in the top right in your album:

This is what the "Slideshow" view of your album looks like:

This is what the "Grid" view of your album looks like:

There's still time to ship gifts to arrive Dec 24th

There's still time to order gifts to arrive by December 24th. To make it easy for you, here's a table giving you deadlines for shipping dates if you want your gift to arrive by December 24th.

Here's a table showing which products, the shipping method you should use, and the last possible date you can order those gifts in order to make the December 24th delivery date. You must order by noon Pacific Time, or 3pm Eastern Time on the date specified to make it in time.

Happy shopping! Click here to go to our store.

	USPS	DHL Ground	DHL 2 Day	DHL Next Day	DHL Worldwide**	Int'l Economy	Media Mail
Photo Prints	Dec 15	Dec 15	Dec 18	Dec 19	Dec 14	Too Late	N/A
Photo Books	Too Late	Too Late	Dec 17	Dec 18	Too Late	Too Late	Too Late
Hardbound Photo Books	Too Late	Too Late	Dec 14	Dec 15	Too Late	Too Late	Too Late
Calendars	Too Late	Too Late	Dec 17	Dec 18	Too Late	Too Late	N/A
Greeting Cards and Post Cards	Dec 14	Dec 14	Dec 17	Dec 18	Dec 14	Too Late	N/A
Posters	Dec 14	Dec 14	Dec 17	Dec 18	Dec 14	Too Late	N/A
Mugs, Shirts, Mousepads	Too Late	Too Late	Dec 17	Dec 18	Dec 14	Too Late	N/A
Wrapping Paper	Dec 14	Dec 14	Dec 19	Dec 20	Dec 14	Too Late	N/A
Puzzles, Keychains, Luggage tags, Stickers	Too Late	Too Late	Dec 14	Dec 15	Too Late	Too Late	N/A
Canvas Prints, Magnets	Dec 13	Dec 13	Dec 17	Dec 18	Dec 13	Too Late	N/A
CDs	Dec 14	Dec 14	Dec 17	Dec 19	Dec 14	Too Late	N/A
My Cards	Too Late	Too Late	Dec 16	Dec 17	Too Late	Too Late	N/A

Photobucket and The Nature Conservancy 'Go Green' This Holiday Season

We're honored to have teamed up with The Nature Conservancy for Forestry Conservation (http://www.nature.org) to encourage everyone to "go green" during this year’s holiday season.

We'll will donate 10 cents to The Nature Conservancy for every holiday greetings style slideshow created on Photobucket’s site. All you have to do is make and send a slideshow! We'll do the rest.

Sending a Photobucket slideshow is not only a quick way to share photos, but also an eco-friendly way to save paper during the holiday season.

Go to http://greengreetings.photobucket.com to read all the details.

Just upload your holiday photos, and choose one of our “Green Greetings” slideshow styles. You can share with friends and family by email, instant messenger or by posting the slideshows on your favorite social networking site, Web site or blog.

In addition to the Happy Holidays style above, we've got the following "green greetings" holiday styles:

Holiday Photo Greetings 'Go Green' with Photobucket and Nature Conservancy Slideshows

Contact:
Bryan Pope
LEWIS PR for Photobucket
415-992-4400
photobucket@lewispr.com

Holiday Photo Greetings 'Go Green' with Photobucket and Nature Conservancy Slideshows

For Every Holiday Style Slideshow Sent from Photobucket Between December 11th and December 25th, 10 Cents Goes to The Nature Conservancy for Forestry Conservation

PALO ALTO, Calif., December 12, 2007 – Photobucket (http://www.photobucket.com) one of the Web’s most popular hubs for managing personal media, has teamed up with The Nature Conservancy for Forestry Conservation (http://www.nature.org) to motivate its users to ‘go green’ during this year’s holiday season. Photobucket will donate 10 cents to The Nature Conservancy for every holiday greetings style slideshow created on Photobucket’s site.

If you love Photobucket, vote for us!

It's the Open Web Awards, with voting for your favorite photo sharing site. We'd love your vote. Please go to http://mashable.com/2007/12/10/owa-voting-photos/ and click on Photobucket.

It takes just a couple of seconds to vote, and no registration or anything like that is required.

The Open Web Awards is a distributed contest to find the best sites on the Web. We'd love to be one of them, so thanks for your vote.

Unusual new products in the Photobucket store

We just introduced some interesting new products into our Photobucket QOOP-powered store. There's still time to order these for the holidays, all printed with your photos.

Jigsaw Puzzles

Jigsaw puzzles are printed with your own photo, and come in wood, or on paper in a tin printed with your photo. They are very unusual. The wood puzzles are "FSC" (Forest Stewardship Council) certified. Click here to visit the puzzles in our store.

Wrapping Paper

We can print wrapping paper with your photos featured right on the paper. This is for a very special gift. Click here to visit wrapping paper in our store.

Audio Cards

These are folded "audio" greeting cards, not only printed with your own photo, but recorded with your own message (up to 10 seconds in length -- plenty of time for a holiday chorus). You can record and erase the message until you get it just right.  Click here to visit the greeting cards in our store.

Beautiful eStarling Digital Frame Works with Photobucket

This week we got to test drive the new eStarling Digital Frame from http://www.eStarling.com. This frame has some very nice features. It's easy to set up and use, and you can hook it up directly to your own Photobucket album. It'll automatically display all the photos from your albums.  You can even email photos to the frame!

Discount to Photobucket Users

eStarling is offering a $10 discount to all Photobucket users, so be sure to connect with them at http://www.estarling.com. When you checkout at eStarling.com, use the discount code PH06734523 to get the discount. You have to buy it at http://www.estarling.com to get the discount.

Otherwise, the frame is available at http://www.amazon.com. Click here to go directly to the listing on Amazon.

Photobucket Launches Digg Integration Featuring Popular Photos

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
Bryan Pope
LEWIS PR for Photobucket
415-992-4400
photobucket@lewispr.com

Photobucket Launches Digg Integration
Featuring Popular Photos

PALO ALTO, Calif., December 3, 2007 – Photobucket (http://photobucket.com), one of the Web’s most popular hubs for managing personal media, today announced an integration with Digg, the popular social media site that harnesses the collective wisdom of the world’s online audience to prioritize the overwhelming amount of content available on the Web. The integration coincides with the launch of Digg’s dedicated images section later today, giving millions of Photobucket users the ability to “Digg” photos on Photobucket.

Photobucket and Digg Bring Popular Rankings to Photos

Update as of 10pm PST: Channel on Photobucket is now live and working: go to http://photobucket.com/digg. Let's see what you digg on Photobucket!

We're announcing today a very special integration for Photobucket -- with the popular community site Digg at http://digg.com.

As part of this integration, the following new features are being added to Photobucket:

• Photobucket Digg buttons -- Digg buttons will be added to all photos in the public "Find Stuff" tab (http://photobucket.com/findstuff) on Photobucket, allowing Photobucket members to submit content to Digg.
• A Digg Channel on Photobucket -- A dedicated Digg channel will be added today under a "Popular" section within the "Find Stuff" tab on Photobucket.  "Popular" will rank the most "Dugg" Photobucket images.
• Photobucket on Digg -- the Digg site will link back to Photobucket's Digg channel, to display the most popular images as voted by the Digg community.

Digg is also making their own announcement today of a dedicated photos section of their site. We're delighted to be part of this announcement.

The Digg Channel on Photobucket

Click on "Find Stuff" in Photobucket's top blue bar. Underneath "Find Stuff" you'll see a new category called "Popular". You'll find the most popular images there. http://photobucket.com/digg.

New to Digg?

If you haven't used Digg before, you'll have to register. But it's quick and easy. And once you have, Digg your favorite images on Photobucket. They'll bubble to the top of the Photobucket Digg Channel (if other Photobucket members agree with your choice!).

We're looking forward to seeing how you Digg, what you Digg, and what you think of this feature. So, as always, let us know through our feedback email pbfeedback@photobucket.com.

Announcing Photobucket on TiVo® HD

We're so excited about this announcement. We're all huge TiVo® fans over here at Photobucket, and now you can view all your Photobucket pics right on your TV screen through TiVo.

TiVo announced today the launch of their photo service, with Photobucket as an important part of that launch.  Go here on the TiVo site for more details: http://tivo.com/photobucket.

See your own Photobucket photos on your TV

Anyone who owns a TiVo Series3™ and TiVo HD box will be able to login to their Photobucket albums and see all their photos in high resolution. It's a great way for you to share your photos with friends and families from the comfort of your living room couch. We've tried it out ourselves at Photobucket, and it really works!

See your friends' Photobucket photos on your TV

And if your family members have TiVo Series3 or TiVo HD, tell them your username on Photobucket and they'll be able to see your public photos too. It's a great way to have far distant friends and families enjoy your photos -- including those who don't always get to see your photos on their computer.

Search Photobucket's huge library of photos

And finally, you can enter a search term into the TiVo using their famous 'peanut shaped' remote, and bring up whatever results come back from Photobucket's billions of photos. Endless hours of amusement. Guaranteed.

Special offer just for Photobucket

So if this is the service that tips you over to get a TiVo, they've put together a special offer just for Photobucket users. Go to http://www.tivo.com/photobucketoffer for all the details. This special offer is administered only by TiVo, so they'll be able to give you all the help you need.

Go here to read more about this announcement on the TiVo site: http://tivo.com/photobucket.

Go here to read our FAQs on the Photobucket site:

http://photobucket.com/faq?catID=58&catSelected=f&topicID=591

Holiday Card Designs from Photobucket's Store

Before you buy your holiday cards this year, be sure to check out the cards in Photobucket's store. Nice designs, and at a great price. Here's the "frosty the snowman" style. You can write whatever you like on the right side, with choices on colors and fonts.

There are winter-y, Christmas, and Hannukah styles to choose from: Click here to see them all.

Right now, you can buy them in 4x8 photo cards.  Later this week, the 5x7 folded cards will be coming online.

And the prices? Here they are:

Photo cards start at $0.99 for just one, and then go down to $.50 if you're ordering 200 or more. Take 20% off if you buy this week.

Folded cards start at $1.99 for a single card with envelope, going down to $1.50 if you're buying 200 or more, with envelopes. Take 20% off if you buy this week.

And they're all printed on the very best, top-of-the-line digital presses. We don't think you'll be disappointed in the results.

Comparison shoppers: be sure to check out the shipping fees

Our prices at our QOOP-powered store are absolutely competitive. But so are our shipping prices.  When you're checking around for the best prices for your holiday cards this year, please don't forget to compare shipping costs. They can be dramatically different from store to store.