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Picnik.com offers photo editing tools through Photobucket’s Open API

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picnik-feature.jpgPicnik has launched its Photobucket integration. Using Photobucket’s just-released API, Picnik provides Photobucket’s nearly 40 million users with its popular photo editing tools, special effects, unique shapes, customized fonts and frames – all from where their photos are already stored.

With this API integration, Picnik users can now bridge seamlessly with Photobucket to edit and enhance their digital photos. Picnik users will have a Photobucket ‘tab’ placed within Picnik.com, have the ability to create a Photobucket specific album, view and edit all their Photobucket images and save their “Picniked” photos back to Photobucket — all without ever having to leave the page.

The Photobucket API now enables all developers, including Picnik, to create applications that let users access their Photobucket photos and videos from environments outside Photobucket.com. Since the Photobucket API works on any device with an Internet connection, those environments might include other Web sites, Web applications, desktop applications, browser plug-ins, mobile phones, home-entertainment systems, digital photo frames and digital cameras.

Originally posted on April 22, 2008 @ 5:16 pm

Flickr adds video to its community

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flickr.pngFlickr has launched video sharing. Flickr pro members can now upload personal video clips and share them with friends, family and the world. The new enhancement is helping to advance Yahoo!’s goal to become the leading starting point on the Web by offering an even more engaging and relevant service for sharing, exploring and discovering digital imagery.

The new video uploading feature will support up to 90 seconds of personal video footage captured with the video function of any digital video recording device including still cameras, camcorders and camera phones. Video on Flickr gives members a glimpse into daily and extraordinary activities, from watching dogs play in a park to seeing someone climb Machu Picchu. Flickr members can organize and share videos just like they do photos; they can upload videos to their photostream along with their photos, and set their privacy settings for friends, family or the world to see. Videos will be moderated through a combination of Flickr team review, community review and automated abuse-spotting mechanisms.

Originally posted on April 9, 2008 @ 9:48 am

AT&T U-verse TV tunes into personalized channel of online photos via Flickr

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AT&T Inc. announced the launch of AT&T Online Photos from Flickr on AT&T U-verse TV. Customers can now simply and conveniently watch slide shows and browse their online photos from flickr.com right on their U-verse TV screens.

AT&T is the only video service provider to offer an integrated online photos channel, and U-verse TV and high speed Internet customers can enjoy this feature at no extra charge.

Customers can access their online photos by tuning to Channel 91 or from the U-verse TV menu. Customers will then select from their Flickr photo sets, which are automatically available from their master AT&T High Speed Internet account, and they can browse photos or start a slide show.

AT&T Online Photos from Flickr is the latest interactive feature added to U-verse TV. AT&T has also rolled out AT&T U-bar, which provides customizable weather, stock, sports and traffic information; Yellowpages.com TV, which lets customers easily search for local businesses and other information via their TV screen; and AT&T Yahoo! Games.

Originally posted on April 3, 2008 @ 11:10 am

PhotoShelter launches Flickr Import Tool

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PhotoShelter Inc. anounced the release of its Flickr Import Tool which enables photographers currently relying on Flickr for their photo sharing needs to quickly and easily upload their images to the PhotoShelter Personal Archive. The new tool makes copying images from a Flickr Pro-level account simple for photographers interested in having complete control over image storage, protection, distribution and sales. PhotoShelter Personal Archive offers state-of-the-art image security that prevents unauthorized viewing, downloads, and image theft, in addition to bulletproof storage and ecommerce capabilities.

To transfer a copy of their images to the PhotoShelter database, users simply log into their PhotoShelter Personal Archive account, select ‘Import from Flickr’ from the pull down menu and the Import Tool will upload the selected images to their PhotoShelter Personal Archive. Photographers can then create public, password-protected or private galleries to share with contacts. In addition to preventing unauthorized downloads, photographers can upload their personal watermark to overlay each image. Furthermore, photographers can keyword and price images for print, royalty-free and rights-managed sales. Any keywords or descriptions previously assigned to an image in Flickr will be automatically transferred with the image making it simple to graduate to selling images online. The Import Tool also enables reverse transfer of images from a PhotoShelter database, back into Flickr for users wishing to use Flickr’s photo sharing and community features.

Originally posted on March 6, 2008 @ 10:57 pm

Mochila introduces new photo slideshow widget for publishers

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mochila.jpgMochila has released its new ad-supported slideshow player, a widget that allows pre-created static or dynamic search related photos to be displayed in a 300x-pixel wide frame that can easily be embedded in any web page. The player will provide publishers with a customized application to feature the world’s best photos from other member organizations including Getty Images and the Associated Press. The widget application also provides monetization support for publishers with in-stream 300×250 rich media ad units, as well as attached fixed display and text ad units.

Mochila is already seeing adoption of the photo slideshow player from entertainment news sites that are constantly looking for the latest celebrity photos. Mochila members Egotastic.com and CelebrityBabyScoop.com are using the widget to give their users the best celebrity images from across the web. Member sites can access photos from various Mochila channels of content based on keyword or category criteria (e.g. a certain celebrity). Anytime the marketplace receives new photos that are tagged as being relevant for the criteria, the player dynamically updates the images onto a member site.

Originally posted on March 6, 2008 @ 10:00 am