Photobucket, one of the web’s most visited sites and home to billions of photos, is introducing a new feature dubbed “Group Albums”. The feature will allow multiple friends to add their photos and videos to a shared album, which can be password protected and moderated by the Group’s owner. Group Albums aren’t currently active on the site - Photobucket expects to have them live by Wednesday morning.
Group Albums will support sharing via emailed invitations and RSS feeds, and will allow an album’s contents to be presented in a slideshow. Each album will have a maximum size of 1GB.
The feature will be handy for many Photobucket users, but it’s hardly novel. Similar features have been on social networking sites like Facebook for years.
Interesting, because I don’t even use Photobucket, been stuck on Imageshack, Flickr, and freeimagehosting but guess Album groups is a good move.. I guess?
(just think there might have been a better feature that they might have missed that might have been more valuable to the site.)
Simple concept made useful, applause!
Aside from facebook, what other sites offer “Group Albums”? I know about Flickr groups. Anything else out there?
We did this 3 weeks before
. English-Version is coming soon.
FotoKong is coming soon! It will allow unlimited number of Photo uploads free of charge, and won’t have restrictions like Flickr, Photobucket or ImageShack !
Group sharing is the next big thing in online video/photo/image albums.
It is infact the application of Web based Desktop sharing and window sharing to video/photo applications.
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Not very innovative… just 1GB for shared? Just shows they don’t have a plan beyond advertising on public pageviews. A shame really, having acquired a photo sharing site and not knowing what to do with it except integrate it into a vast network of page views.
Mitchell, a group site for photos has been one of the features of
http://ourdoings.com/
for a long time. It’s easy to cross-post photos of your doings between a personal site and a group site.
What’s next? Cut and paste press releases? You gonna write interesting stuff for us, Jason?