Posts Tagged ‘pictures’

The Gallery app that comes with Android does a good job of consolidating all of the picture files on your phone in one spot for you to view and manage, but of course most of us store pictures in many more places than just on our phones. JustPictures is a free Android app that provides [...]

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.

As you may know, I recently spent a week traveling around Lake Michigan, visiting family and friends. During my trip I took pictures and shared them instantly with family and friends on Facebook by using picplz. Of course, that only worked for my friends who are on Facebook, and while I could send pictures via [...]

These days kids are bouncing out of public schools with academic Web training. That means many of them know how to create Web pages, produce podcasts and manipulate photos. Many bloggers I have met are proficient on one thing, and that’s writing. They really have no interest in a lot of the other elements that make a blog successful, such as images.

Picreflect is a neat little Website that can add a new dimension to your blog. Actually, a new reflection. If you have 10 seconds and a digital photo, you can add a reflection. All you have to do is indicate the following: Read more

Let’s face it: even the best blogs usually have crappy pictures. In fairness, there are plenty valid reasons why:

1) Content creators often (mistakenly) treat images as an afterthought.
2) Bloggers don’t have time to track down corresponding pictures.
3) Tracking down free images is difficult.
4) Purchasing royalty-free images is expensive.

Startup PicApp is hoping to blow all of those reasons out of the water by giving bloggers a free and easy way to include high-quality images on their Websites. So what’s the catch? The embeddable Flash media photos have contextual advertising hidden behind them, with both PicApp and the stock photo providers getting a cut. Read more

Do you feel like the fun has been taken out of photo sharing at popular Websites like Shutterfly or Snapfish? PhotoFun certainly hopes so, as they launch with a mission to “Put Fun Back in Photo Sharing.” Read more