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Freewebs launches application set to transform photo-sharing experience

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Freewebs launched a powerful new photo product with enhanced capabilities to serve the increasing use of digital pictures. The most recent addition to the site’s innovative ”Site Builder” is set to transform the photo sharing experience. Freewebs users will not only be able to create and maintain multiple albums, but they’ll be able to do it in an easier and more dynamic manner.

Freewebs.com users will now be able to make their websites more exciting by uploading countless photos, organized into multiple albums, complete with titles, captions and visitor comments. For an optimal viewing experience, Freewebs has partnered with Cooliris, Inc. to add PicLens support. This enables pictures to be viewed in a beautiful Flash-based slideshow via PicLens Lite, or a full-screen 3D environment for users who download the PicLens extension.

Originally posted on March 6, 2008 @ 4:34 am

The Knot unveils first annual The Know Real Wedding Awards

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The Knot announced the launch of the first annual The Knot Real Wedding Awards—the first-of-its-kind social network and showcase of the best real weddings across America. This groundbreaking, interactive contest connects the site’s massive audience of recent brides with its millions of brides-to-be.

The Knot Real Wedding Awards invites recently married couples and top wedding photographers, videographers, and wedding planners from all 50 states to upload photos, videos, and personal wedding websites from their 2007 weddings to a gallery on TheKnot.com.

The fun online application allows couples and wedding professionals to showcase extraordinary ceremonies, receptions, flowers, design details, personalized websites, and more creative ideas. It also provides inspiration for the millions of soon-to-be brides logging on to TheKnot.com each day.

All weddings are available at www.theknot.com/realweddingawards, where editors of The Knot, real brides, and wedding enthusiasts can vote for their favorites.

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Originally posted on March 5, 2008 @ 11:13 am

Stockxpert.com announces new microstock royalty-free footage offering

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stockxpert.pngJupitermedia Corporation’s Stockxpert.com, the royalty-free stock photography community, has expanded its product offerings and now includes premium royalty-free footage which are available in the most popular file resolutions and file formats and at prices to fit all budgets. File formats include both standard and high definition video as well as Flash video to appeal to Web designers. Stockxpert.com now enables footage buyers to purchase the clips they need for their creative projects for as little as $10 at the lowest resolution to $50 for 1080 HD. Stockxpert.com’s powerful footage search engine with 16 search categories and over 150 sub-categories makes finding the right clip fast and easy. Stockxpert.com offers one of the fastest and easiest ways to upload files and encourages members of the creative community to submit their footage for consideration to be sold on the site.

Originally posted on February 26, 2008 @ 11:03 am

Sex scandal in China forced actor to leave the showbiz indefinitely

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edison-chen.gifOne of the sure-fire ways to vex the always watchful Great Firewall of China is an Internet sex scandal involving its famous celebrities in Hong Kong.

This might be one of the reasons, aside from public castigation, why popular actor and hip-hop artist Edison Chen apologized to the public and vowed to leave the show business indefinitely. But for perverts, he’s the sex god of China these days.

In case you don’t know, Chen was in the movie The Grudge 2 with Sarah Michelle Gellar. Ok, never mind. Back to the main issue.

According to Chen, those 1,300 sex and sexually suggestive photos of 6 famous celebrities were stolen when he went to a computer repair shop to fix his lustful laptop. It was later uploaded on the Net by one of the shop’s crew.

To date, this scandal has led to 10 arrests for distributing explicit photos – a big deal if you’re in China since pornography is a mortal sin there. China even censured its local search engine Baidu.com for allegedly helping spread these photos.

Then again, 1,300 private photos? Wow!

Originally posted on February 21, 2008 @ 11:35 am

GyPSii, Shanghai Rannuo, China Unicom to launch mobile-location services for 2008 Olympic Games

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GyPSii has partnered with Shanghai Rannuo and China Unicom to launch its GyPSii service during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

The GyPSii service combines social networking, mobile, location and web 2.0 technologies to offer China Unicom users a seamless mobile lifestyle experience. It will allow users to create pictures, video and blogs centered on all things Olympic while using their existing camera phone. GyPSii users can capture their special moments during the Olympic games, upload the content to their personal space and share it with friends, family and communities. The users can also search other GyPSii User Generated Content (UGC), people and points of interest and get maps and directions to their location – all from their mobile phone.

The GyPSii service will be available to Unicom users in March 2008 at yypsii.com.cn.

Originally posted on February 20, 2008 @ 10:36 am