June 21, 2006 A Photo-Sharing Web Site Offers New Services By Walter S. Mossberg and Katherine Boehret
Sharing digital photos online can be easily done using a Web site like Kodak EasyShare Gallery or Shutterfly to store the images for online viewing. These sites are usually rather basic, with a focus on allowing friends and family to see your digital images. And they generally work well -- permitting others to look through your photos in a slideshow format, buy prints or gift items, and even make comments about the images. But most of these photo Web sites don't offer you the chance to design handsome layouts for your photos, nor do they offer simple on-screen editing options that work with the ease of a software program. This week, we reviewed the beta (or pre-release) version of a new photo-sharing Web site called Tabblo ( www.tabblo.com), from Boston-based Tabblo Inc., that will be officially released on June 30. Tabblo differs from other Web-based sharing sites. It's a so-called "Web 2.0" service, meaning it functions like a software application, offering features like dragging and dropping and editing all on the same Web page, without the annoying constant reloading that characterizes so many photo sites. Tabblo also puts special emphasis on presentation, allowing you to arrange your photos in collages and designs with descriptions, rather than as straightforward slideshows, so as to add a little flair and style to your photos. The company calls these photo montages "tabblos." If you really like the tabblo that you create, you can order high-quality printed posters of them in 11x17 inches for $10, or 8.5x11 inches for $8. We've been playing with Tabblo for the past week, arranging digital shots into collages -- some with text descriptions and some without. Katie made a tabblo of pictures from a friend's graduation party, and Walt made one of photos from the Journal's recent "D: All Things Digital" technology conference. ... http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/solution-20060621.html Reply with a "Thank you" if you liked this post. _____________________________ MEDIANEWS mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
