KoffeePhoto Hits the Heights in Photo Storing Capabilities

A free KoffeePhoto account puts your photo sharing concerns to rest

Looking for a safe place to store your photo haring images? KoffeePhoto has the security you seek. Want a handy desktop utility for organizing and sharing your photos? Or an easy method for ordering prints? You can get it all -- and more -- at KoffeePhoto.

Coffee, tea -- or KoffeePhoto?

KoffeePhoto is a photo-sharing site that was launched in late 2006 by KoffeeWare, a company that has provided online photo services for businesses since 2005. Unlike many other photo sharing sites, KoffeePhoto is software that you download to your desktop to organize your photo sharing images for storing.

At your leisure, you can organize your prized photos into albums using the software. When you're done, your albums are stored online on the KoffeePhoto network. Every album in your photo sharing collection gets its own web page for your visitors to view.

When you send an email notification to your contacts, the software automatically inserts the correct link to the album of your choice.

When the recipient opens the email, a full-screen slide show begins, complete with music. When the show is over, he or she can download and install the free KoffeePhoto software for easy access to your photos.

Your photos are safe on the KoffeePhoto network

If you're looking for a secure place to back up your photos, KoffeePhoto provides terrific security. What's more, you can easily access your secured collection whenever you wish. If your computer crashes, KoffeePhoto can retrieve your entire photo gallery quickly and easily.

While a free photo sharing account comes with plenty of features to suit your needs, a paid account gives you unlimited server storage space.

Microblogging made easy

Every photo you store on KoffeePhoto gets its own microblog. If you don't know what a microblog is, you're not alone. Basically, microblogging allows you and your viewers to comment and chat about photos. This feature makes photo sharing truly interactive and certainly much more fun.

User-friendly

KoffeePhoto is the ideal solution for easily organizing, backing up and sharing photos, both on your computer and on the Internet. The software is highly user-friendly.

You simply let it search your computer and create a list of your photos. Once the search is complete, go through your collection and delete, sort and organize your favorite photos as you wish to store them on the KoffeePhoto network. You can be certain your photos are protected from the elements as well as the ravages of time.

This system is at the apex of the popular photo storing and photo sharing frenzy. It's easy, convenient, user friendly, and safe. In your search for the right photo sharing option, be sure to check out KoffeePhoto.

Yahoo Shuts Down Mash, 0-4 On Social Networking

First came 360, launched in 2005 as an early attempt to get Yahoo into social networking, was unceremoniously shut down earlier this year. In 2006 Yahoo was unable to close a transaction with Facebook, despite being willing to pay up to $1.62 billion. Nor could they pull the trigger on a $1 billion Bebo deal (Bebo went to AOL for $850 million). Now Yahoo has shut down Mash, which launched less than a year ago and is best known for sporting a Darth Vader playing guitar and eating a banana image when it was in private beta.

Today,Yahoo emailed users notice that Mash will be shutting down on September 29, 2008.

Fifthtime’s a charm they say (right?). Let’s hope the next grand strategy works out better than the first four.

Meanwhile,Yahoo Mash joins the deadpool.

Courtesy: TechCrunch

Zeep Mobile API Gives Site Owners Free SMS… With a Hitch

So you run a website and really like the social software that enables your visitors to interact with things you produce. But you want to take that connection with the crowd to a more mobile position. Perhaps you’d like some sort of arrangement which allows interested parties to send and receive messages to and from your domain, and preferably something that costs you no financial investment to establish. Enter, Zeep Mobile.

What Zeep provides, in short, is an API. Pretty much any developer can implement the API, and do so freely and easily. With “no volume restrictions,” either. How it works is fairly simple.

Everything operates via a five-digit SMS code: 88147. This is used for messages sent out to users of websites and vice versa. The entry of a “website prefix” helps direct inbound communications. And Zeep is said to be able to connect with “all major carriers in the US,” so it’s bound to work for most who fancy the bridge it provides. The only outstanding concern is the cost to receive SMS messages. In the case of site owners, that’s mostly a non-issue. For site users, however, that’s a hurdle that some just won’t jump. Mobile phone users in international reaches may be the beneficiaries of a free-receive promise from their respective carriers, but here in the US, carriers tend to refuse any differentiation between the ins and the outs.

Zeep’sinfluence obviously can only stretch so far, so one will have to take a glass-half-full approach to this. Inasmuch as Zeep serves its first list of clients - website owners - there will be ample cheers for no-pay.

That “free” designation, mind you, has a bit of a condition attached to it. Yes, Zeep’s API is free to use, technically speaking. But that real-world use of the service will work hand-in-hand with something the company calls Zeep Media. That’s where advertisers enter the fold. Zeep states that developers utilizing the API will glean metadata pertaining to SMS-based interaction for the purpose of establishing “an accurate profile of each subscriber’s interests.” It explains to prospective advertisers that this ensures that spots are “always displayed to the right customers.” In other words, “highly targetable campaigns.”

Now,there’s nothing quite so conniving or deceptive about that. Targeting of that sort occurs in many scenarios today. But it is nonetheless good for websites and their creators or managers to keep this in mind when considering an SMS platform to infuse into their operations. I suspect a good portion of Zeep users won’t mind the ads much. Their presence, after all, is only going to increase with time. Still, it won’t taste good to everyone, so it is only appropriate to note.

Courtesy: Mashable