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About the Yahoo! Mail integration with Photobucket

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.) 

Share with Thumbnails and Links

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!

Search Photobucket and Add to Yahoo! Mail

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 launches a new application for Yahoo! Mail

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.

New stats dashboard launches on Photobucket

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.

Share directly to Twitter from inside Photobucket with Twitgoo

Thanks to our fabulous team working on Twitgoo at Photobucket -- a sharing service for photos on Twitter.

Add Photobucket to your Facebook Newsfeed

It's easy to add Photobucket to your Newsfeed on Facebook. Click the "settings" button beneath the "What's on your mind?" text field. Choose Photobucket, and enter your Photobucket account name.  Your account has to be public for this to work.

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/

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.

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.

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:

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:

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.

A photo for every person on the planet at Photobucket!

We passed a pretty cool milestone this weekend -- we now have more than 7 Billion images stored on Photobucket. A wise person pointed out to me this weekend that's pretty much a photo for every person on the planet!

New update to our Photobucket Firefox extension available today

We have a new update to the Firefox extension for Photobucket that we launched mid January this year.  This new version fixes a few bugs of various types. And it also has a new settings dialog box that lets you select the location for your personal album uploads, and set up group albums as a target for uploads.

Photobucket honors Black History Month and 50th anniversary of Motown!

Photobucket has teamed up with Motown Records to celebrate Black History Month, with a special category in Find Stuff on Photobucket and a Motown 50 Group Album.

Motown50 Group Album Go to http://photobucket.com/motown50 and upload all the things you love about Motown. Black History Month Channel Go to http://photobucket.com/images/black%20history/. Check out some of the cool special photos.

Personalize your chat with XAT!

We love how you can use XAT  to create  fun chat box for your web page, or profile page on Facebook or MySpace using your Photobucket  images as the background or as your avatar.  Invite your friends or make new ones –there are thousands of chatters online in hundreds of different groups.  Best of all it’s free.  Go ahead and make one today.

Photobucket comes to Facebook with "My Photobucket" app -- brand new!

We have a brand new app for Facebook that brings Photobucket goodness right into Facebook. It's pretty simple, but very powerful.

When you install the app, you get: A sidebar display of your newest Photobucket photos (see left) All your newest photos displayed in a nice big window on Facebook (see pics below) -- your friends can browse your photos Access to all your friends' Photobucket photos (if they've also installed the app) Access to all those nice little links that Photobucket is so great at -- from inside Facebook Easy one-click posting of your Photobucket stuff on Facebook It's easy to install. Go here: http://apps.facebook.com/pbphotos/

NOTE! Only photos that are marked as "public" on Photobucket will be visible. If you've password protected your album, or just some sub-albums, those photos will not be visible on Facebook.

Go to the discussion board on the Facebook Photobucket page, and let us know what you think.

Let us know what you think, and see below for some more screenshots.

Your Photobucket photos appear right on Photobucket. You and your friends can browse them.

If you have multiple albums on Photobucket, those appear too. (So long as they are public.)

Your My Photobucket Friends list includes all your friends who have also installed the My Photobucket app. You can browse their Photobucket photos.

New size and new price for myfotowall on Photobucket

myfotowall is one of the more recent features added to Photobucket. The folks at myfotowall call it "personalised wall décor." You can use it to arrange either 9 or 18 of your favorite photos to create a unique myfotowall to hang on your wall.