Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

New Snapact Website Progress Update

It’s been a while since I’ve given an update about our progress on the Snapact website overhaul, so… here we go:

• Basic layout changes are done.   The view will be wider, focusing more on 1024-width displays compared to the current 800-width displays.  This means more screen “real estate” to show off your photos.
• User feed notifications are reimplemented to be more flexible - you won’t notice a difference too much, in theory, but now…
• … Community feed notifications are done.  This is new. You will now be able to see, on one page, what your friends/connections have been up to on Snapact.
• Increase in upload speeds from the Snapact Photo Manager to the Snapact Photo Sharing Community!  This is a big one.
• A more visible use of photo tags (in a proper multi-sized ‘cloud’ format).  Community pages will expose community-wide tags and profile pages will show user-specific photo tags (if any).  This is a good way to get your photos noticed - if that’s your thing.
• Importing contacts.  You will be able to add your contacts from popular online email services to Snapact.  Once imported…
• … You can easily share your photos, albums and profile with your Snapact contacts (your friends and family) - even if they’re not Snapact users themselves.  Of course, it might be nice if they started using Snapact too!

There are more details, but that should be enough to whet people’s appetites.  We’re looking to start our formal (internal) testing by the end of February, so that means within a few weeks, it will be live for all to use!

Once released, you’ll be seeing many new additions over time that enable you to do what you want with your photos - most being suggested by users like you.  Making it easy to add new functionality to the Snapact Photo Sharing Community is the biggest reason for the architecture switch.

Final note: you can follow Snapact on Twitter, don’t forget!