Last week Google opened up Photovine for everyone with an iOS device. The service combined Instagram with something similar to Color, and it looked fairly promising. Now Google has announced that the service will be cut off just a week after opening to the public. Photovine will join all other products made by the Slide more »

Google’s Photovine is finally open to anyone who wants to join in, assuming you have an iOS device. The photo sharing app is somewhere between Instagram and Color, and was made by the Slide team which Google acquired last year. To get Photovine all you need to do now is download the app and sign more »

A couple of days ago, some folks discovered a new Google-owned site called Photovine.com. There was nothing yet on the site then except for a link to a support page and a brief description of what the site is all about. What’s interesting here is that the site shows what appears to be a new more »

Path, the app that let’s you share photos with up to 50 of your closest friends is finally coming to Android. The app has come to the Android Market as a public beta that anyone can use and test. Path for Android is just like the one you’d find on iOS, it let’s you share more »

In case you missed it, Twitter today announced it’s new image sharing features. The part you also could have missed is where those images will be stored if you upload them via Twitter. When the new image sharing capability launches for all Twitter users, each image will be hosted by Photobucket. Just so you never more »

Twitter is reportedly a short time away from launching its own photo sharing service, according to a report from TechCrunch. An official Twitter photo sharing service will go a long way in helping Twitter gain even more control over its product. This move can also discourage other companies from developing their own photo services.

Who still maintains a Flickr free or pro account? I do. I’ve been maintaining these Flickr PRO account for 4 years now. If you’re like me, you’d be glad to know that the Flickr folks has introduced a nifty little feature, particularly for making our Flickr experience “more social.” It’s aptly called – People You more »

Love peppering your Facebook page with photos but hate the one at a time upload system? It seems the folks at Facebook have heard your cry because now they’ve opened up a new route for you to post your images. Now you can simply email photos and video to your customized email upload address and begin adding to your mobile image collection.

When it comes to sharing pictures, the iPhone has lots of apps to handle that. Every other phone already has MMS to send photos to friends. Microsoft, a small start-up out of Redmond with a market cap of only $174B, is prepping its “My Phone” service.

The service, the name of which appears to be a “The Simpsons” reference, is supposed to take pictures from your Windows Mobile phone and send it to a Microsoft server. Then you or a friend can go to a Microsoft site and see the pictures. You will even have the ability to do some photo editing on the site.

Microsoft is offering 200MB of storage. It is widely believed that Microsoft founder Bill Gates said that “640k ought to be enough for anybody.” 200MB seems like a ton of storage, then. However, compared to most other services, 200MB is a paltry amount of space.

The service is still in beta, so there will probably be some changes before it is officially rolled out.

Remember back in the old days when you had to take pictures with film, then get it processed, and then finally order prints? Nowadays, you can press a few buttons on your cell phone, and your friend across the country can receive your picture. You can even upload digital pictures from your camera onto your computer for safekeeping, and then order prints with ease.

The Consumer Electronics Association sponsored a study called, Digital Imaging: A Focus on Sharing. In one part of their study, they found that 65% of all consumers are happy with the options that they have in sharing photos, protecting photos, and backing them up.