PhotoRem represents a very interesting alternative for services like Flickr, YouTube or Picassa; providing a central place for us to store photos, videos and documents completely free.
PhotoRem also includes an application to edit your photos directly online, avoiding installing special software locally, editing it and then uploading it again. Other feature included is the possibility to create a slideshow with your images.
The files supported for video are: Flv, Mov and MP4; and the type of documents supported: PDF, DOC and XLS. Also PhotoRem is social network friendly, uploaded files can easily be shared via Facebook, Twitter, etc.
You a big digital picture frame fan? It never caught on in my house. Speaking as the purveyor of technology for my home, it honestly never caught my eye. I think the novelty of it is interesting, but it seems like a lot of money for something that can essentially exist on a social network of photo site. I guess I’m not one for photos, but it seems like market for these types of devices has grown. More recently we’ve seen a transition from the standard photo frames that typically need to have photos uploaded to them via a USB connection, to the photo frames that can update wirelessly.
The Vizit is one example of a “smart” digital photo frame. I use the word “smart” loosely as I’ve seen other devices that may not be photo frames do a lot more and yet function in the same way. Nevertheless if you’re just looking for the frame, the Vizit offers an always on data connection – to the AT&T network – to send the photos you have or take to the device via email, mms, or via the vizitme.com website. As an added bonus users will be able to interact with the touch screen surface to manipulate the flow of the photos by going forward or backwards to quickly see what’s been stored.
Vizit Smart Digital Photo Frame
The Vizit comes in with a pricey $280 price tag. While it might seem competitive, there’s always another device that can serve not only as a device to share photos, but also run a variety of apps, but we’ll leave that decision between Vizit and unmentioned device to you.
Tumblr is a very simple blogging platform in which users can make a blog in minutes. Tumblr is the perfect tool for users who want to have a blog with photos, videos, and other content embedded, but simply hasn’t got the time or the will to struggle with a complex blogging platform.
How is this working out for them? Well, according to the neat infographic which they’ve sent us (see below), their traffic and user base is growing fast, and they’ve recently hit some major milestones.
Yahoo has confirmed that is has purchased a small start-up located in San Francisco in order to add better photo functionality to their Web Mail. The company which has been bought out is called Xoopit and is an emerging contender in the photo sharing world. The service allows users to share photos easily on a host of different sites such as Flickr and Facebook by taking them from their e-mail inboxes.
On the company blog, Bryan Lamkin, the senior vice-president said:
“ Why is this such a big deal? Yahoo! Mail is actually home to one of the largest online photo repositories in the world. And every day, millions of you use Yahoo! Mail as your primary way to share the photos of important moments in your lives. While social networks and community sites are great for sharing photos with everyone you know, we realize it’s not for everyone or every occasion. For many, email is still best for sharing photos among a more select group of friends or family. And now we’re making it all that much easier for you.”
Xoopit seems over the moon with the new deal. They have updated their homepage screaming Yahoo! everywhere. On their company blog they said that “the Xoopit team today sees this acquisition as an exceptional path for us in achieving our vision. Over the last few months, we have left every conversation with the Yahoo! team thinking that together we can wow the world”
The specific financial deal has not been revealed but it is estimated to be in the region of $20 million. That amount of money is no chump change for a new group of start-up creators who will hopefully go on to create even better websites and services in the future.
