Tag archive: Photobucket

When we learned Waddle about a month ago, our first thought was, “Why do we need another photo-sharing app?” We already have Instagram, Huddle, Hipster, Path, PicPlz, Lighbox, Photobucket – the list goes on and on. And that doesn't include the wide number of other apps for which photo-sharing is just one part; this includes social networks like Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus and Facebook.  Fortunately for us all, Waddle… Read More

A woman in Salinas, California was looking through the pictures in her Photobucket account recently when a photo appeared of a man that somehow looked familiar. Then it dawned on her. It was the face of the alleged thief that had snatched her phone only a few days earlier. The accused man, Korey Heess, hadn’t realized that the Photobucket app on the woman’s phone was set to automatically upload photos to her online account. According to an IDG… Read More

Announced during June of this year, Twitter rolled out the ability to upload photos to all users today. When users log into the Web version of Twitter, they will be greeted with a prompt that directs users to click the new camera icon underneath the messaging box to choose a photo to upload. Twitter has put a 3MB limit on the size of photos and photos immediately appear in thumbnail mode before a user completes the message. The user also has… Read More

Image- and video-sharing service Photobucket announced today its launch of Snapbucket, a mobile app that allows users to edit and publish photos taken from their smartphone. Similar to the increasingly popular Instagram photo-sharing app, Snapbucket lets users “personalize” their photos by applying a variety of wacky filters, effects, vignettes, and frames, in an attempt to make their photos look more interesting. “Our users… Read More

Signing into Flickr, you’re greeted by the opportunity to personalize your profile, upload some photos, and connect with your various friends also using Flickr. Next are thumbnails of your “photostream,” a list of your contacts and their pictures, as well as invitations to share your photos on Twitter and visit the site’s blog. That’s a lot of stuff. Stuff that Min.us wants to get rid of. Min.us is a startup site that offers photo hosting.… Read More

Photo- and video-sharing site Photobucket has joined the long list of Web-based services that have opened their programming APIs so third party developers can create applications that leverage Photobucket's content and millions-strong online community. Photobucket has launched a new developer site for documentation and supporting materials, and announced list of initial developers including Adobe, AOL, SnapVine, and RockYou, and the… Read More

It seems like every digital camera and computer operating system comes with some sort of image editor these days, but that doesn't mean photo fans have access to image editing tools anytime they need them—like, say, at an Internet cafe, someone else's computers or (we won't tell!) posting images from work. So photo sharing sites have been keen to add Web-based image editing capabilities to their services, and… Read More

After a technical tiff last month which saw popular social networking site MySpace blocking access to some ad-supported content hosted on Photobucket, MySpace parent company announced today it is acquiring Photobucket for an undisclosed amount. A pending deal has been rumored for several weeks, in part because so much of Photobucket's traffic is linked to MySpace, with markt research firm Hitwise recently estimating some 60 percent of… Read More

Although an official agreement has yet to be announced, reports from Reuters and elsewhere have social networking site MySpace in a preliminary deal to acquire photo sharing service Photobucket for around $250 million. Photobucket is primarily an image and video hosting service, acting as a media repository for users who want to share their content via other sites, most notable MySpace but also including FaceBook, Bebo, Xanga, and… Read More

Online media hosting company Photobucket has announced a limited beta trial of lightweight online video editing tools from Adobe. The video editing tools are offered as a Flash-based application built with Adobe Flex, and aims to offer video editing capabilities Adobe first brought to market with Premier. The online tools offer a simplified, consumer-oriented interface enabling users to combine images and video with captions, bubbles,… Read More

Launched in 2003, Photobucket has quickly become one of the largest photo and media sharing sites on the web, delivering content to more than 200,000 different websites, including the likes of eBay, Craigslist, MySpace and more. According to comScores metrics, Photobucket is one of the top 50 most visited websites with more than 15 million monthly unique visitors; two times larger than Yahoo! Photos. “I’m excited… Read More