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Photobucket marks one year anniversary of open API platform

Leading Software Partners Developing Innovative Applications for Photo and Video Sharing Using Photobucket’s API Platform 

San Francisco, Calif. – March 31, 2009 – Today, Photobucket (http://photobucket.com),  the Web’s premier standalone photo and video-sharing site, celebrates the one-year anniversary of the opening of its API platform, a cornerstone of Photobucket’s commitment to working with developers to deliver new experiences both on and off the Web. Now, with these third-party applications, Photobucket enables users to share their personal media in more ways than ever before.

Photobucket tops 55M worldwide unique visitors -- 22% increase over January!

One of the measures we have to watch at Photobucket is put out by comScore Media Metrix. They measure the number of unique visitors to a site worldwide, and in the world of 'making a business from a Web site,' those measures matter.

Updates to the free Photobucket Facebook app available today

We've added some nice new features to the free Photobucket Facebook app we call My Photobucket. This app lets your Facebook friends see all your public Photobucket photos on your Facebook profile. You can get this app here: http://apps.facebook.com/pbphotos/

Baby Breakout Star Contest on Photobucket

There's always something going on at Photobucket, and today it's the "Baby Breakout Star" contest, sponsored by Baby Einstein.

Update as of 6/2/2009: finalists have been chosen. You can see them here. There's all kinds of rather boring but necessary paperwork that needs to be done before the winner can be chosen. We'll announce as soon as that's done!

And the mobile news keeps coming ...

With more news about mobile coming out today, your Photobucket has the most comprehensive mobile offering of any photo and video sharing site. Your Photobucket works with more US carriers and mobile phone manufacturers than any other dedicated photo and video sharing site, and we're the only site with zero-click, one-click and on-deck upload for mobile phones.

Photobucket introduces instant photo uploader for T-Mobile phones

T-Mobile Customers Can Now Send Mobile Photos to Multiple Destinations Including Photobucket, Home PC and Email

San Francisco, Calif. -- March 18, 2009 — Photobucket (http://photobucket.com), the Web’s premiere standalone photo and video-sharing site, today announced the availability of an innovative mobile photo service exclusively for T-Mobile that enables users to send photos directly from mobile handsets to several destinations: a Photobucket album, a PC hard drive, or any an email address. 

Photobucket launches mobile application with Danger

Advanced Options Provide A Richer Photobucket Experience

San Francisco, Calif. -- March 19, 2009 — Photobucket (http://photobucket.com), the Web’s premiere standalone photo and video-sharing site, today announced the availability of a mobile Photobucket application exclusively for the T-Mobile Sidekick. Built in conjunction with Danger, Inc. a Microsoft subsidiary and software services provider for the mobile device, this feature-rich application enables users to access and interact with Photobucket media directly from anywhere. 

The new application provides users with the richest mobile experience to date.  Users upload photos and videos from their handset directly to their Photobucket album. From here, there are a number of options, including adding and editing titles, descriptions and tags, as well as rotating and resizing images. Additionally, users can:

• Create a Photobucket account 
• Log into Photobucket to access their albums  
• Browse and search images and videos on Photobucket
• Browse other users’ albums 
• Share images

 “Photobucket is thrilled to team up with Danger to bring subscribers the most comprehensive mobile application for Photobucket to date,” said Alex Welch, President of Photobucket.  “Photobucket is always seeking out ways to make photo sharing easier and more convenient and this collaboration enables our users to share and manage their photos easily while on the go.”

Great news for T-Mobile Sidekick fans on Photobucket!

Are you lucky enough to have a T-Mobile Sidekick? Great news today! Photobucket is launching a brand new mobile application that lets you: Log into your Photobucket album Upload photos and videos that you've taken directly to your Photobucket album Share your photos and videos with everyone you know Add titles, tags, descriptions to photos and videos on Photobucket Browse and search billions of fun photos and videos on Photobucket Browse your friends' albums on Photobucket

To learn more about the app, along with instructions on how to download, go to http://www.poweredbydanger.com/inthewild/news/38188

The application can be found on your T-Mobile Sidekick's Download Catalog.

This Photobucket application is available on the T-Mobile Sidekick LX, T-Mobile Sidekick Slide, and T-Mobile Sidekick.

The application will cost $1.99 to download, and will cost $1.99/month thereafter.

Happy St. Patrick's Day to everyone on Photobucket

To see more fun St P's day images, go here: http://photobucket.com/images/st%20patricks%20day/

Lady Gaga comes to Photobucket

All the coolest artists are coming to Photobucket. Last week, we hosted My Chemical Romance's official fan group album. That group album got more uploads in the first day than any we've ever launched! (More even than the Obama Inauguration group albums!)

Complete re-vamp of our "Share" feature launches today

We have updated our "Share" feature on Photobucket. There's lots that's new in this feature, so these blog posts will break it into chunks: The big bits in today's release:

Photobucket announces new, expanded photo and video-sharing features

Web’s Top Photo-Sharing Site Also Debuts New Mobile WAP Site

San Francisco, Calif. – MARCH 11, 2009 – Photobucket (http://photobucket.com), the Web’s premier stand-alone photo and video-sharing Web site, today launched a new, innovative set of features that expands the way users share photos and videos across multiple Web sites. By partnering with Gigya, whose technology has become the standard for connecting content with the social web, and leveraging its own open API platform, Photobucket now enables its more than 48 million unique monthly users worldwide* to utilize a simple point-and-click “share” interface to publish their photos and videos across more Web sites than any other stand-alone photo and video-sharing site.

Share a "live" slideshow of your newest photos AND videos!

Post a slideshow of your newest photos and videos on your blog, Web site or social network profile.

One-click post from Photobucket lots of popular sites

One-click post your photos, videos and slideshows to your favorite email, popular sites, blogs and the most popular social networks

Version 2.0 of our WAP site for Photobucket launches today

The first release of our WAP site was just a little over a year ago. A new version comes out today, with new stuff including:

How many quotes and sayings could there be?

On Photobucket, millions. There are new ones every day. Check out our Quotes and Sayings Group Album. We read them every day! Keep them coming!

My Chemical Romance comes to Photobucket

My Chemical Romance just launched their official Group Album on Photobucket. Upload your fan photos, your concert photos, you in your best MCR t-shirt. They'll be watching the album!

Blur edges -- another cool new feature on Photobucket's image editor

Here are some other cool effects on Photobucket's image editor. Click on Edit Image next to any image in your album and have fun with all the special effects. There are lots of glittery new tricks available.

How to make glitter text on Photobucket's image editor

Sometimes we miss cool improvements on even our most popular features -- I just found a really nice glitter text editor in our Image Editor (powered by FotoFlexer) on Photobucket.

Announcing the Photobucket 1 year anniversary contest for our API

It's been almost a year since we opened up our fabulous Photobucket API to the developer community at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco in April 2008. Since then, we've had thousands of great developers sign up to use our API ... more of who is doing what will be announced at Web 2.0.  There's some great stuff to talk about.