Dropico is a brand new service that allows you to drag and drop pictures from multiple social networks rapidly and seamlessly, without the need to upload photos and other imagery to each of them separately.
Have any pictures stored on your TwitPic account that you want to share with your Facebook Friends, or want to bring a couple of your Flickr shots to your MySpace account? Just log on to Dropico, log into the services you use and start dragging and dropping.
Dropico is currently in private beta, but 1,000 TechCrunch readers can try out the service via this link.
Personally, I tend to simply send pictures to my Posterous account by e-mail and auto-distribute them to my blog, Flickr and Facebook account, but I can see why people might be interested in giving Dropico a whirl. It’s an easy way of organizing media across multiple social networks, but aside from that it’s also a decent media uploading service since it also allows you to fetch pictures from your computer or from any web page. Once you’ve imported images on Dropico, you can distribute them to your social network(s) of choice all in one interface.
Dropico currently works with Facebook, MySpace, Photobucket, Bebo, Twitter, Flickr and Picasa. In the near future, the Israeli startup behind the service intends to add more services to the fray, and also make it easier for users to drag and drop other media like videos across social networks. There’s also an API in the works.
The startup is currently operating on some $150k from its founders and some angel investors, but is currently talking to other investors about a bigger round.
(Via Orli)
I will definitely use this!
Brilliant. I thought about working on a project of a similar nature over a year ago. Bought some domain names in case i wanted to work on it, but never felt motivated enough to do so. Plus I found MySpace’s API didn’t provide for uploading pictures. An issue that this application appears to still deal with. You can copy pictures from Myspace albums to other services, but trying to copy to Myspace does nothing.
I hope they do well, & maybe i’ll find something useful to do w/ those domains or let em expire.
You cannot drag entire albums! Bit of a pain!
drag&drop support for albums will be available soon …
Awesome!!! Its a fantastic tool!!!
I tried it and its great!!
You must try this !!!
*****5 STARS*****
looks and feels great but works slow.
Got inside, uploaded the images, now what? where do we register? can anyone enlighten me ?
you don’t register for Dropico, you just connect to the social networks you do use and it will open new frames for each within the service interface.
Thanks Robin, and then what? once I close the window it gets lost, isn’t it? How do I keep getting back, or is it a one time experience?
No login? But it asks you to import an image from a link. Site must be getting hammered.
I’m wondering why the company chose to accompany that video with the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack
Not sure why I am not able to access this site.
site is online NOW.
Thank you, Sagi. Tried it and love it!
I am not able to access the site either.
Neat! definitely need this one. Checking…
Very nice – worked well when I tried it out. I like the interface.
Nice job Dropico.
I am definitely going to go and try it .
Hmm. Err mssge for Flickr auth. Maybe too many users right now? The no registration thing is cool but confusing.
i got an error message from flickr at first too… just closed it the popup and tried and again and it worked fine.
No login, drag and drop rich media files, called drop.io, er … dropico. Where have I seen this before?
I tend to like pictures because I’m lousy with words. This will be so handy. BTW the site is working for me!
Kinda neat. I think it’s still easier to use something like pixelpipe to push/syndicate to all the usual destinations.
CG
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pretty cool.
i was a little surprised at the “no login”… especially as there is a private beta for “1,000 TechCrunch readers“. After 1,000 tries they’re just gonna turn it off? That’s kinda weird.
This BETA release presents the basic idea of Dropico Platform , we didn’t release what we have under final stages of development.
Once we’ll launch (soon), additional features & applications that sits on the platform will make Dropico an application you use often.
Honestly, I was here an hour ago, and I didn’t even see the new button. Blue isn’t exactly a standout color either. I’m hoping that the friendfeed acquisition solves a lot of the problems you mention here, too.
This was meant for another post here, but this is the one I was referring to. If you can delete these, please do! BTW, Dropico is awesome. I used it shortly after reading this, and it worked great!
Amazing .. thanks guys for making it really easy.. wont be a long process of selecting an image and then uploading it .. well good for lazy ppl like me …
Cheers,
Daina
Doesn’t work with my Flickr or MySpace account. Did list my Facebook albums.
Try http://divisatech.com if you want to move albums of photos and videos from Flickr to Facebook
work well for me. superb idea