Archive for the 'Online Photo Sharing' Category
Thursday, August 6th, 2009
The Rise of Netbooks
According to an article in ComputerWorld, it looks like netbook shipments this year could surpass 32.7 million units nearly doubling the number of units shipped in 2008. So why is this figure important to Tecagora and Snapact? The Snapact Photo Manager is a small download (just over 2 MB) and the install size is currently just under 6 MB! Most of the current netbooks in the market have 160 GB hard drives. Some are even available with solid state hard drives (up to 64 GB). Because Snapact Photo Manager has such a small footprint, when compared to other digital photo managers and viewers in the market, that’s a significant difference! All netbooks include USB ports and media card slots to upload photos from digital cameras (or media cards) to the netbook.
Netbooks are great because of their small size and portability with most weighing less than 3 lbs. Many netbooks are available with different screen sizes (ranging from 8” to 12.1” displays), come with webcams to stay connected via web/video chat, and are reasonably priced (ranging from $
If you’re looking for a simple and fast way to view, organize, and share your digital photos without having to give up too much hard drive space on your netbook, download Snapact Photo Manager and give it a try. The Snapact Social Networking Community is a great way to share your photos and stay connected with friends and family. If you don’t have a Snapact account yet, CLICK HERE to sign up for a free account.
Thursday, August 6th, 2009
July 2009 Site Visitor Stats for Snapact
Here is the list of the top 10 countries that visited Snapact in July 2009: 1) USA 2) Canada 3) Italy 4) China 5) Greece 6) Germany 7) South Korea 8) Brazil 9) United Kingdom 10) France.
Welcome China, Greece, and South Korea to the Snapact Top 10 Countries list.
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
Updated: Snapact Photo Sharing Community
A few hours ago, we released a small but visible update to the Snapact website. We tidied up some of the layout to make it cleaner and a little nicer to look at. The biggest visible change is the addition of ‘themes’. We currently have light and dark themes, which roughly equate to ‘white’ and ‘black’, respectively. Many people have professed a desire to see a lighter-colored version of the website for viewing their photos and true to our word, we have delivered.
Enjoy - we’re working on some more substantial improvements that will open many doors for new and existing users. Stay tuned!
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
Photo Sites Not Removing Deleted Photos?
There has been a fair amount of hype and concern in the news lately about photo sharing websites not removing photos that users have deleted.
User photographs can still be found on many social networking sites even after people have deleted them, Cambridge University researchers have said.
That quote is from a BBC article on the topic. The story has been picked up in blogs everywhere in social media circles. I’m glad to report that Snapact doesn’t fall victim to this shortcoming on the Snapact Photo Sharing Community. We actually have a regularly running program that discovers photos that users have removed and run the appropriate deletion routines.
Your photos will be removed from our permanent storage within a couple of minutes of your request. Your security and privacy are important to us, so enjoy Snapact knowing this information!
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
Breaking News: Snapact Photo Sharing Community Website Updated!
We’re happy to announce that the long awaited new release of the Snapact Community has been launched. It has been a number of months since we started working on revamping the old website.
We had a few minor hickups today during the launch activities, but what’s a launch without some excitement? We will dedicate a future blog posting to the changes made and how our infrastructure has been modified… but for now, we’re going to sit back and monitor things.
To see what’s happening surrounding Snapact, head on over to http://www.snapact.com/buzz/.
Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Website Overhaul Update
The team at Snapact has officially started to test and work out the kinks of the new Snapact Photo Sharing Online Community. It will take us some time to get it just how we want it, which has been based on both our observations of you, our users, as well as your direct feedback.
Once things stabilize, I’ll announce something a bit more specific about a time frame for public release.
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!
Saturday, January 24th, 2009
Update on Our Status and Twitter too!
Wow - it’s been a long time since there has been a new posting on the Snapact blog. With the holiday season and then jumping right back into website and application development, we’ve all been very busy. The new website implementation is coming along very well - it’s going to rock. It will make it far easier to implement new features and integrate with other websites.
The new website layout will feature a wider layout, with more intuitive navigation - it will be far more community oriented as well, meaning it will be easier to interact with other users, explore other photos, ask questions, get feedback and more. If you’re into digital photography, Snapact will help you learn how to shoot better. If you’re simply into sharing photos with family and friends, Snapact will give your photo sharing a shot of adrenaline. We can’t wait.
It’s a little earlier to start talking about timeframes, unfortunately. There are still a few unknowns - but it’s coming, and it will be big.
Oh, a couple of weeks ago, we started tweeting on Twitter here http://twitter.com/snapact. Follow us!
Saturday, November 8th, 2008
Top Ten Snapact Countries
- United States
- Japan
- Canada
- France
- China
- United Kingdom
- South Korea
- India
- Brazil
- Italy
Due to the recent French review of Snapact, France has shot up in the rolling 1 month Top Ten listings of countries that are interested in and using the Snapact Photo Sharing Community (and by association, the Snapact Photo Manager). Merci, la monde française!
Interest and use from users in China is also growing rapidly. This has all gotten us very excited for the potential of worldwide opportunities!
Monday, November 3rd, 2008
First Snapact 1.1 Review: in French This Time
A Swiss software website by the name libellules.ch has, in record time, posted a French review of the Snapact Photo Manager 1.1 - this new version of Snapact was released mere HOURS before this review was posted. Here is a quick quote from the review (translated to English):
“[The Snapact Photo Manager 1.1] proposes to create albums, with a system of tags, descriptions, keywords and ratings (5 stars). The interface is very worked and the creation or manipulation of albums is quick and simple. Similarly, viewing the images is fast and well, taking advantage of the mouse wheel. A search engine is integrated (top right) to quickly find your lost pictures.”
Later, the following is mentioned:
“The developers have set up a community to share photos online. The program can synchronize the contents of albums with an online service (free but not compulsory to use [Snapact]), which allows private use: the user chooses who can see or not see his photos.” - Falkra from libellules.ch, English translation
It is important to note that Snapact as a whole, as a system, is not just the Snapact Photo Manager, although we appreciate if people wish to use only that aspect of the system. We would love people to see the value in sharing their photos - their memories - online with family and friends. Privacy options let you do just that with comfort. Sign up for your own free Snapact online photo sharing account today!
Oh, there’s even a comment from a user of how they decided to uninstall ACDSee in favour of the Snapact Photo Manager 1.1 - high praise!
Thank you for the kind words, Falkra from libellules.ch!
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