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Photobucket introduces visual search powered by Microsoft Silverlight

User Friendly Search Integration Encourages Sharing and Facilitates Image Discovery

San Francisco, Calif. – date, 2009 – Photobucket (http://photobucket.com), the Web’s premier standalone photo and video-sharing site, today launched Photobucket Visual Search, a new and compelling way for users to browse photos and videos on Photobucket. Leveraging Microsoft’s Silverlight technology, Windows Live Services and Photobucket’s Open API platform, Photobucket Visual Search presents search results in an easy-to-browse interface that delivers an enhanced search experience for Photobucket’s more than 80 million users worldwide. 

Photobucket introduces native photo upload solution for Palm Pre

Native Integration Enables Easy, One Click Uploads to Photobucket.com

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. – June 8, 2009 – Photobucket (http://photobucket.com), the Web’s premier standalone photo and video-sharing site, today announced the availability of a native photo upload solution for the new Palm® Pre™ phone.  As a pre-installed photo upload partner, Photobucket lets Palm Pre users easily send photos taken on their mobile device to a Photobucket album without having to download an application.  Users just take a picture and tap on the Photobucket entry to send the picture to their Photobucket account.(1)

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.

Photobucket introduces mobile photo application for Ovi store by Nokia

Free Mobile Photo Application Available Worldwide

San Francisco, Calif. – June 1, 2009 —Photobucket (http://photobucket.com), the Web’s premier standalone photo and video-sharing site, today announced the availability of a free Nokia-compatible Photobucket mobile photo application inside Ovi Store by Nokia.  This mobile application grants Nokia customers worldwide easy access to images on Photobucket as well access to personal Photobucket albums. It is now available for download from Ovi Store at store.ovi.com.

Photobucket and Fox invite Fans of "GLEE" to showcase their Gold Star Potential at Photobucket.com/Glee

Online Contest Ends June 5
Winner Receives Trip for Two to Teen Choice 2009

Los Angeles, Calif. and San Francisco, Calif. – May 28, 2009 — Fans of FOX’s new comedy GLEE have one more week to enter the “Show Us Your Gold Star Potential” contest. Whether you’re a singer, painter, dancer or musician, FOX and Photobucket invite you to reveal your Gold Star potential by submitting a photo or video showcasing your talents to http://photobucket.com/glee. Winners will be chosen by a panel of judges from FOX, and judging criteria will be based on multiple factors, including creativity and originality.

Photobucket is a Webware 100 winner!

We are honored to be a Webware 100 winner! The Webware 100 awards from CNET shows the top 100 Web apps in 10 categories voted to be the best of the best by Webware readers and users of the apps themselves. Almost 630,000 votes were cast to determine this year's 100 best Web 2.0 apps. Thanks to everyone who voted for Photobucket! We really appreciate the nod.  Go here to see the awards.

Photobucket launches Twitgoo, a dedicated media-sharing site built exclusively for Twitter users

Integration with Top Twitter API Partners Including Picnik, DestroyTwitter and Intercasting 

San Francisco, Calif. – May 19, 2009 – Photobucket, the Web’s premier standalone photo and video-sharing site, today announced the launch of Twitgoo (http://twitgoo.com), a new media-sharing site for Twitter.  Twitgoo users can now tweet photos from a computer, a mobile device or directly from either Photobucket or Tinypic with an easy-to-use, one-click feature.  Twitgoo is already fully integrated with the top Twitter-related applications -- Picnik, Seesmic Desktop, Twitterberry, DestroyTwitter, Intercasting, Spaz and many others -- to ensure a seamless user experience and broad accessibility across Web, PC, and mobile platforms. 

Eye-Fi Announces Video Support for Photobucket

Our friends at Eye-Fi today announced today that they will be supporting uploading video to Photobucket, as well as photos.  Eye-Fi provides very cool wireless memory cards which allow upload of photos and videos without needing to connect your camera. You just set up your camera to point to Photobucket, leave it on when you get home, and everything uploads automatically. It's incredibly simple and easy to do. Read Eye-Fi's press release here. Learn more about the Eye-Fi card here.

Photobucket Reveals the 12 Users Selected for Inclusion in the Official Obama Inaugural Book

Commemorative Book Showcases Inauguration Celebrations; More than 20,000 User-Generated Photos Submitted Online to Photobucket

San Francisco, Calif. – April 27, 2009 – Photobucket (http://photobucket.com), the Web’s premier standalone photo and video-sharing site, today celebrated President Barack Obama’s 100th day in office by announcing the 12 Photobucket users whose photos were selected for inclusion in the Official Barack Obama 2009 Presidential Inaugural Book.  This is the only official book project of the 2009 Inauguration, and was produced with the full support and cooperation of the 2009 Presidential Inaugural Committee. 
In January, Photobucket, Epicenter Communications and the Presidential Inauguration Committee invited everyday Americans to submit photos of their personal celebrations of President Obama’s Inauguration.  Of the more than 20,000 photos submitted to Photobucket, 12 users were selected to have their photos included in this large-format coffee table book, which is available today at http://obamaphotobook.com.  These amateur, high quality photos will stand proudly alongside images from some of world’s most experienced photographers.

See the 12 Photobucket users who were selected for inclusion in the official Obama inaugural book

In January 2009, Photobucket was selected as the official selected as the online photo destination for the Barack Obama 2009 Presidential Inaugural Book. Photobucket users were invited to submit their photographic experience of the Inauguration to a special Group Album on Photobucket, and thousands did so.

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.

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.”

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.

Kodak and Photobucket Team Up to Make Photo Sharing Even Better

Kodak’s Unique and High Quality Products Turn Photobucket Images Into Treasured Keepsakes

Emeryville, Calif. and San Francisco, Calif. –  March 4, 2009 – Kodak and Photobucket (http://photobucket.com) today announced an agreement that empowers Photobucket’s millions of users to turn images from their Photobucket account into tangible stories using KODAK Gallery products.  The alliance is intended to extend the Kodak brand to new audiences through Photobucket and the Fox Interactive Media network of media properties and to help Photobucket further monetize the photo sharing behavior of their users and the billions of images stored on their site.  

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!

Photobucket launches 'Find Stuff 2.0'

Find Stuff 2.0 on Photobucket enables users to search most popular, relevant content on Photobucket.com

See exclusive photos from the 2009 Presidential Inauguration on Photobucket

Photobucket has been selected as the online photo destination for the Barack Obama 2009 Presidential Inaugural Book.*

As part of this project, you can upload photos for inclusion in the Inaugural Book on Photobucket. You can also see amazing photos taken by an award-winning team of photographers with special access to Inauguration events. Below are links to the photographers sending photos to Photobucket as part of this project.

World-Renowned Presidential Photographers Team Up with All Americans to Produce Official Obama Inaugural Photo Book Project

Inaugural Photo Book Project to Include Work from Elite Photographers and – for the first time ever – Images Submitted Online by Americans Celebrating Obama Inauguration

Sausalito, Calif., January 16, 2009 – Epicenter Communications, an official licensee of the Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC), today announced details of the official inaugural photography book project, which will commemorate President-elect Barack Obama's upcoming inauguration.  The project will include images from some of the world’s most influential photographers and – for the first time ever – feature photos submitted online by everyday people documenting their personal celebrations of President-elect Obama’s inauguration festivities.