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We're loving Dalmation slideshows on Photobucket

Who doesn't love their puppy?

And what better way to show off your own puppy love than with the new 101 Dalmations Slideshow style that launched on Photobucket this week. Check it out.

To make one yourself, click on create slideshow in your album, pick images on the left, a style on the right and save. The 101 Dalmations Style from Disney is on the top.

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New, simpler slideshow creator ships today on Photobucket

Today, we released an upgrade to our popular slideshow creator. You can check it out on Photobucket of course.

With this upgrade, Photobucket’s goal is to make what is already a very simple approach to creating slideshows even easier.

Highlights of the upgrade:

• 20 new slideshow frames and styles have been added from our friends at Flektor (http://www.flektor.com/)
• Slideshow frames/styles are listed in an icon bar on the right side of the slideshow creator, allowing you to preview styles.
• If you have a free Photobucket account, you'll now be able to add more images per slideshow (up to 30). If you have a Pro account, you can add up to 50 images per slideshow.
• All styles will support titles and captions allowing you to tell a story within each slideshow

Thanks for checking it out

New Valentines Day Slideshow Launches Today

Just in time for Love Day ... check out this new Slideshow style. Check out the Slideshow Creator in your album, and use the "Hearts4" style.

Say "I Love You" in a Photobucket Remix -- Lots of New Styles

New hearts, love and kissable frames on Photobucket's Remix. Click "Create Remix" in your album. Here's a super quick sample showing just one of the many new border frames available:

But wait! There's more. Check out all the new styles and frames for yourself. If you haven't visited Remix in a while, you'll have fun with all the new stuff.

Here are some of the borders you can put around your pictures and videos:

Here are some of the pics you can drop on top of your remix:

Photobucket Launches Mobile Web Experience

Photobucket Goes Beyond the Desktop:
Leading Photo Site Launches Mobile Web Experience

Photobucket Mobile Recreates the Site’s Web-based
Uploading, Browsing and Searching Capabilities

PALO ALTO, Calif., January 15, 2008 – Photobucket, one of the Web’s most popular hubs for managing personal media, today announced the launch of Photobucket Mobile, giving its millions of users access to Photobucket features on web-enabled mobile devices. Users can access Photobucket Mobile by visiting http://m.photobucket.com on their mobile device.

Through Photobucket Mobile, users can:

• Browse existing personal and public Photobucket content directly from mobile devices
• Upload photos and videos to Photobucket from mobile devices
• Share photos and graphics with individuals via email from mobile devices
• Search Photobucket’s billions of photos and graphics
• View a variety of featured photos and images every day from the Photobucket Mobile Home page

The demand for Photobucket Mobile has steadily increased among its user base. An internal survey of thousands of Photobucket users conducted by Fox Interactive Media’s Research and Strategy Solutions in August 2007 found that 80 percent have a camera phone, 36 percent use the camera in their mobile phone every day and more than half (52 percent) have access to the Internet from their mobile phone.

“The growing demand for Photobucket Mobile proved to us that now was the perfect time to unveil a fully-functional mobile platform,” said Alex Welch, President of Photobucket. “Photobucket Mobile offers a great destination for our avid users to upload, search and share their digital media, wherever they are. As photo sharing continues to move beyond the desktop, our users look to share their digital life moments instantly. Recreating the Photobucket experience on a mobile platform is a critical part of meeting this need.”

Photobucket Launches on Your Mobile Phone

So now you don't have to be too far away from your Photobucket album. We have launched our "WAP" site. That's a tech-y term for a version of Photobucket.com that you can browse on your mobile phone.  To take a look, browse to this URL from your mobile phone: http://m.photobucket.com.

What you get on Photobucket Mobile: View photos in your album on Photobucket -- tell me how. Upload photos and videos from your camera phone -- tell me how. Share photos with friends via email -- tell me how. Search Photobucket's vast library for photos and graphics -- tell me how. View tagged photos and find related images -- tell me how. Browse our daily dose of fun images that we find for our Home page on Photobucket If you want to read more about Photobucket Mobile, go to http://photobucket.com/mobile.

You can visit our FAQ site for more detailed answers.

As always, we want to hear your feedback. Write to us at support(at)photobucket.com, or visit our forums http://forums.photobucket.com.

Oops! You searched to http://m.photobucket.com from your computer browser?

We all did that. At least fifty times. Simply click on the link "Non-mobile Photobucket.com" at the bottom of the screen. Or enter this URL: http://m.photobucket.com/?mobile=false and you'll be all set.

Photobucket will know to go to the right site if you're on a mobile device, however.

New Slideshow Styles on Photobucket

We've got some nice new slideshow styles for you to play with. Here are a few, but there are more in our slideshow creator. Login to your Photobucket account to take a look.

There are plenty more to play with. Just click "Create Slideshow" inside your album.

Growing Hearts Style (small size)

Instant Photos Style (small size)

Heart Together (small size)

Happy New Year from Photobucket!

Many, many good wishes for 2008 from Photobucket. We hope you all had a happy and restful holiday season.

We've had a busy couple of weeks here, keeping the Photobucket servers spinning over the holidays with all your photos and videos. It's always a busy time for us.

And now we are back to preparing for lots of good new stuff for the Photobucket site.

So we can tell you when new features are coming online, be sure to keep your email address up to date in your account options. We promise we won't bombard you with emails! We'll just let you know when there's something new we think you'll want to know about.

Check out account options to make sure you're all up to date:

(1) Edit your information to update your email address, change your password, or upgrade your account to Pro.

(2) Review your usage in the Account Dashboard.

(3) Edit your Album Settings to adjust how your album is viewed, and decide which links you want to show up.

(4) Your Mobile Settings provides the email address unique to your album. Use this email address to send photos direct to your album from your email system, or from your mobile phone.

For more information on any of these features, visit this Frequently Asked Questions area on the Photobucket site: http://photobucket.com/faq?catID=35

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.