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Smilebox released its desktop media client for Mac users today. The Flash-based tool can be used to compile digital slideshows, postcards, scrapbooks, and other arrangements for sharing photos and videos with friends and family.
Playing with Smilebox is a bit like browsing the greeting card aisle at your local supermarket. The template designs are either tasteful or tacky, depending on your aesthetic sensibilities. But they’re certainly not beautiful. The available audio overlays are also pleasant enough but not terribly exciting (fortunately paying users can upload their own tracks).
Smilebox is a freemium service: subscribers enjoy the extra music tracks, full-screen capabilities, and respite from advertisements kept from stingy basic users.
I’d like to see Smilebox develop a completely in-browser producer tool (it’s based in Flash anyway – can it be that hard to port over?), and allow its creations to play within the actual embed, as is the case with other widget companies (Slide, etc). If you click on my photo boat above, you’ll see a new window pop up.
The Redmond-based company raised $7 million last fall and has accrued $12 million overall so far.
Cool!
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It’s cool but somehow I think people would prefer to just see the pictures by their self without all the animation.
Hmmm
$12M doesn’t buy much these days. If all the rest of the templates are anything like that one then this company should sink fast.
twelve….
million….
*shakes head*
So this is Slide.com for soccer moms?
I’m laughing at your image choices……
According to the TC post RE their funding, one can embed these on FB and Vox.
Seconding Calum, what does this company need all the capital for?
Print on demand > inventory/ assets?
BizDev?
OTOH, if their eventualyl profitable large VC just means the founders get small piece of pie.
I can’t get it to run Everytime I launch it, it tells me it needs to download the latest version of Flash. I have now downloaded the latest version of Flash about 17 times. I can’t get to the part where the program opens????
well that was very cool, as a mac user i will download this asap.
It’s nice to see new apps for mac
I’m not 100% sold on this one yet.
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