72photos On The Web
72photos has been recently featured on sites around the web.
Here’s a quick roundup:
30 Brilliant Photo Editors – Visit 72photos on Instant Shift
YXZ.se Design Inspiration – Visit 72photos on css.yzx.se
CSS Creme – Visit 72photos on CSS Creme
CSS Vault – Visit 72photos on CSS Vault
Techpp – Visit 72photos on Techpp
And many, many more. Keep spreading the word!
72Photos v2 to unveil Friday Jan 31st
Jon: “Wow Eric, that picture that you took last week is absolutely stunning. The detail and lighting were perfect.”
Eric: “Thanks. I took that with my new Cannon Rebel XT that I got for Christmas.”
Jon: “I’ve always wondered what equipment people use to take some shots I’ve seen on 72Photos.”
Eric: “Well then I think you would be glad to know that you can. With 72Photos new Camera Profiler you can see the make and model of the camera used to take the picture, as well as see other photos taken by the same camera uploaded to the 72Photos community by different members.”
Introducing Camera Profiler. An exclusive new tool to the 72Photos image hosting community that allows you and our viewers to locate other great photos taken by the same camera make and model the photo was taken with. Camera Profiler is accessible from any picture preview page and from within your personal 72Photos account. As an extra bonus we’ve taken it one step further by showing you hot accessories that will spice up your camera as well as your love for photography
In addition to our exclusive new feature, you’ll see some visual appearance changes to the user dashboard as well as the new “connections” section that allows you to monitor and control all aspects of your comments and messages. In this case a picture is worth a thousand words… so let’s take a peak:
Notes of interest:
The new release includes patches to known/report bugs including:
- Problems with uploading images via Adobe Flash Player 9
- importing images from third party software without first uploading an image directly to 72Photos
72Photos is now compatible with the following web browsers:
- Internet Explorer 7
- Firefox 3
72Photos featured in new PixelPipe application
Today we received exciting news from our new friends over at PixelPipe.com. They have developed a new free application that uses our API to upload pictures directly to your 72Photos account and other specified “pipes”.
You’re probably asking yourself, what the heck is a “Pipe”? A Pipe is a destination for your media. For example, you can specify your 72Photos, myspace, flickr, facebook and other services as destinations for your media. You can even enter custom pipes for your own personal blogs.
So what does this mean for you? Simply put, you can upload your media to a single location and have it disbursed to all your favorite social networking sites including 72! They even have a mobile version for the iPhone that allows you to take pics with your phone and instantly share them with your favorite sites!
PixelPipe operates on Windows, OS X, Linux and Mobile platforms. For more information about their application visit their blog.
Screenshot of PixelPipe on the iPhone:
This would probably be a good time to remind our members that we have a slew of plugins that connect your pictures with your own sites.
72photos on Twitter
Though we’ve been hard at work behind the scenes on 72photos, blog posts and updates have been incredibly scarce lately.
The incredible amount of things in the works for 72photos are truly innovating and exciting which will be coming to a browser near you in the not-so distant future.
Since we seem to be holding out and making larger blog posts instead of more periodical posts, I’ve decided to setup a twitter for 72photos, where you can (unobtrusively) keep track of the progress of our development.
Follow us: http://twitter.com/72photos
We promise the wait will be worth while!
Updates Galore!
Hello fellow 72 users! Hope your doing well. It may seem we’ve been lacking in the blogging area lately, but I promise that will profoundly change after this incredible update.
We’ve been working extremely hard on fine-tuning and integrating tons of exciting new features for members over the past few weeks, features that will greatly increase the overall usability of 72photos and encourage communication between users. These features in question have finally materialized and have been released today.
I’ll spare the more technical details and jump right to the list of features/changes included in this months update:
Flickr / Picasa Importing
We’re extremely happy to introduce our long awaiting Flickr and Picasa importing features. The new Flickr importing feature not only allows you to import all your public & private flickr photos, but also has the ability to import your photo sets (automatically creating 72photo galleries for them!). But wait! It gets better. We’ve also included a “Merge” option you can select during import to grab photos from your flickr account that you may have added after your initial import. Picasa importing has also been added. We’re still working on ways to accommodate very large flickr and picasa imports, so if you happen to get timed out, you can re-run the import with the merge option to continue where you left off. Pretty nifty, eh?Configure 72photos Wizard
We’ve developed a new wizard to help you setup your basic account information in 4 easy steps. For new users, this “Wizard” will popup on your first login and for current members you can access the wizard via the “Configure 72photos” on the left side of your dashboard.User Messaging
Send personal messages to your friends and other users on 72photos with the new messaging system. Messages support embedded photos so you can show your friends that cool photo you saw on 72. Messages work in “conversation” form to make having a message with multiple people a breeze and to keep your inbox organized.Find / Invite Friends
Find out if your email contacts are already on 72photos and automatically add them as your friend or invite them if their not with the friend finder feature. Located at the bottom left of every page in your dashboard (Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo currently supported).Updated Profile Photo Selector
You now have the ability to crop your profile photo in any way. Your original photo is always saved giving you the ability to re-crop at anytime.There’s much more to these updates then I’ve included in this post, so in order to help everyone maximize their 72photos account, we’ll be posting periodic updates over the next few weeks elaborating on certain areas of the system.
How about that for an update? Let us know what you think!
