Pixagogo API

So you've got this great application or service that you want to build on top of the Pixagogo Platform?  Go to the brand new tools section , request your personale API key and off you go!

Please be aware that this is new to us... we will be making changes over the next weeks and months and you probably shouldn't build mission criticial applications with the Pixagogo API.

Have fun!  Feedback and the results of your hard work are always welcome. Hey, you might even get listed in our tools section and become famous.

The first application is a Pixagogo Screen Saver.   This application allows you to turn one of your albums in to a slide show screen saver.  You can download the Screen Saver from the tools page and edit the screen saver settings from the Windows Display Property window (right click on your desktop, select properties and click on the screen saver tab).

Photo Maps released

After test driving the Photo Maps service, we've integrated our geotagging service in the standard Pixagogo offering: on the album lay-out page you can select your photos and add geo coordinates to your photos.

It's really simple to create a Photo Map:

1. Select an album;
2. Go to the album lay-out page of that album;
3. Select the photos you want to geo label;
4. Add geo coordinates (you can find them by clicking on the "find on map" button, browse to the location and hit the "use coordinates" button);
5. Click on the "view Photo map link".

A small globe will appear under the photos that you've labeled with geo coordinates.

You can turn every Pixagogo photo album in to a Photo Map: you just have to add "maps/" to the album link:

This (http://www.pixagogo.com/2110365858) is a Photo Album of a "Paris Shopping trip".  You want to see a few photos on a photo map of Paris?  Go to this Photo Map (or to this link http://www.pixagogo.com/maps/2110365858).

Click on one of the photos to browse the geo labeled photos on the map.

Your albums on your website

We're test driving a brand new feature: a small piece of javascript code that you can include in the html of your website:

<script language="javascript" src="http://www.pixagogo.com/tools/albumcontent.aspx?pin=9161305191"></script>

Replace the album pin with the unique number of one of your albums.

This code will display your album in your website with your header and your stylesheets.

You can customize (background, width, description, title, ...) your album in the Pixagogo interface.  All these settings (1 exception: paging) will come through: so if you want a 500 pixels wide album with a black background: simply change your album layout and settings in your Pixagogo studio and voila! your website will display your photos 500 pixels wide and with a black background under your websites headers, footers and sidebars.

Please note that this is a test service subject to improvements and changes.  We will officially release this new feature during the next weeks.

You can find an example here.

Your feedback is much appreciated on the Pixagogo user forum.

Photo Sticker

Do you have a website, personal web page or a blog? Why not add your Pixagogo photos to your website!

Adding your Pixagogo photos to your website is as easy as counting to 3:
1) Go to the album lay-out page;
2) Copy the Sticker code;
3) Paste the Sticker code in your website's html.

You can easily customize your Sticker for horizontal or vertical use: simply change the rows and columns to easily fit your website's design  (Don't forget to change the frame sizes).

Check out this Photo Sticker:

Source: Ducati Motorcycles photo album

photo labeling made easy

We changed / improved  the flow for labeling (a.k.a tagging) your photos.

Select your photos in the timeline or on the album lay-out page and add labels by typing your comma seperated labels in the label box.

Your newly added labels will appear in the "Your Labels" Cloud on the right side of your screen. You can click on one of your labels to show all photos with that particular label.

Photos of Public Gallery albums that are labeled will appear in the label gallery. 

Suggestions for improvements are always welcomed on the Pixagogo support forum.

Photo Maps: Google Earth Feed

We've added a Google Earth feed (KML) to the Pixagogo Photo Maps label gallery.

With this label feed, Google Earth users can view the photos of that particular label in Google Earth.

Once you've downloaded and installed the Google Earth application, you only have to click on the little Google Earth button and... Google Earth will start-up and it will zoom in on the photos.

Do you have Google Earth (download)?  Click on the above button and fly to Rome!

Coming soon... KML feeds on every Photo Map.

Benvenuto su Pixagogo!

Benvenuto su Pixagogo, ora in Italiano!! Siamo orgogliosi di poter offrire i nostri servizi alle persone di lingua italiana. Speriamo tu possa divertirti nel caricare le tue foto e nel condividerle con famiglia ed amici. E ricorda: puoi provare Pixagogo completamente gratis per 15 giorni!

RSS feeds update

We upgraded our RSS feeds to full fledged PhotoFeeds!

A PhotoFeed is a RSS 2.0 feed with image enclosures. A photofeed provides a standard and easy way to reference a list of images with a title, a date and a description. It can be used as the input of any program/service that works with images.

If you wonder how to use PhotoFeeds...

Coming soon... Photo Maps

Pixagogo Photo Maps will be launched very soon!  I wish I could start sharing some screenshots... Unfortunately, you 'll have to wait for the the official beta release next week.

I can tell you this: Pixagogo Photo Maps will be a cool mixture of Pixagogo Photos, Google Maps and... YOUR WEBSITE or WEBLOG!  And the best part is: it will be absolutely free... you don't even have to register.

Creating a map is be really simple:

1. choose a title and description,
2. upload photos,
3. add labels and geocodes (don't worry Pixagogo will even provide the tools),
4. create and start sharing your Photo Map

Pixagogo users will be able to create a Photo Map from their existing albums without having to upload their photos!

We will even provide ready made html code: simply copy-paste the code into your web page or blog.

Label Gallery

We released the Pixagogo label gallery this week. From now on, we will show the labeled photos of public gallery albums in the Label Gallery.

The digital photos in this gallery are organized according to the labels (tags or keywords) that the Pixagogo users have applied to their photos. You can check out the most popular labels or look for a particular label by clicking on the letters. The size of the label name will get bigger as more users apply the label to their photos.

You can find additional info on how to label your digital photos on the help pages.

Remarks or suggestions are always welcomed on the Pixagogo user forum

Bem vindo ao Pixagogo em português!

Bem vindo ao Pixagogo em português! Estamos muito orgulhosos de oferecer nossos serviços à comunidade lusófona. Esperamos que você se divirta enviando e partilhando suas fotos com familiares e amigos. Lembre-se que é possível testar o serviço completo gratuitamente por um período de 15 dias.

Pixagogo for pocket PC

Good news for Pixagogo users with a Pocket PC: Pixagogo is now available in a lean and mean stripped down beta mode for our wireless users.  Viewing and sharing your photos on your PDA has never been so easy.

Screenshot of the slideshow viewer:

Screenshot of the slideshow viewer:

Browse with your PDA to the Pixagogo website, a personal gallery or an album and we will take it from there!

¡Bienvenido a Pixagogo en español!

¡Bienvenido a Pixagogo en español! Estamos muy orgullosos de ofrecerle nuestros servicios a la comunidad hispano parlante. Esperamos que te diviertas subiendo tus fotos y compartiéndolas con familiares y amigos. ¡Recuerda que puedes utilizar el servicio completo de Pixagogo gratis por 15 días!

Translation:
Welcome to Pixagogo, now in Spanish! We are very proud to be able to offer our services to the Spanish-speaking community. We hope you enjoy uploading your pictures and sharing them with family and friends. And remember, you can try out Pixagogo completely free for 15 days!

Pixagogo Publisher

Good news for those of you that have a Pixagogo account and a website or a weblog: we released our Pixagogo Publisher in beta last week.

With a Pixagogo Publisher you can add a photo stream and a really nice slideshow to your website or blog.  You can find some show cases here.

You can create a Pixagogo Publisher by selecting an album on your album overview page and hitting the direct link button.  A custom piece of javascript code will be automatically created for you.

Label your photos

Today we released Pixagogo labels: a new way to filter your photos in your time line: add labels (AKA "tags" or "keywords") to your photos and sort your photos.  Just select the labels you want to view and the relevant photos will appear in your photo time line.

In the near future we will also release a brand new photo gallery (in addition to our existing public album gallery) based upon the labels added by our users of public albums.

Suggestions for improvements are always welcomed on the Pixagogo support forum or  by  contact sheet.

Full Screen slide show in Firefox

We released a fix for our numerous firefox users.  As of today our firefox users can enjoy all the benefits of our unique full screen slideshow.  If nothing happens in your firefox browser when you click on the "full screen" link, please make sure to allow pop-ups on Pixagogo.com

Albums much faster

We've been busy upgrading our service.  As a result your online photo albums appear even faster then they used to do.

One click and your friends and family will see your digital photos faster than they can blink their eyes.

Try it out with one of the public albums in the Pixagogo photo gallery.

Do you want to test drive Pixagogo for free? Start here

Pixagogo Address Book

Pixagogo is all about sharing your digital photos.  Once you've uploaded your digital photos and customized your on line albums, you want to share these on line photo albums with your family and friends.

By introducing the Pixagogo address book we want to facilitate the sharing experience: you only have to type your email addresses once (you can even copy/paste a comma separated list) and Pixagogo will store your addresses.  Next time you share an album or you send  an e-card, you do not have to type those email addresses again.  You simply select your contacts in your Pixagogo address book. 

You can even create groups, making sharing your digital photos even more easy!

Check out the Pixagogo address book in your Pixagogo account or on the share page of any album.  You will fin your address book behind the "to", "cc" or "bcc" button on your share album or send e-card page.

Pixagogo Pro

Introducing a "Pro" version has been a discussion for a while now: we know there is interest, we just can't quantify it. So we've decided on a way to at least get it started!

It looks like the most urgent requirements for professionals have to do with the fixed and prominent branding of the Pixagogo album pages. In other words: "Have the Option for the User to Completely replaces the maskhead layout and Pixagogo logo, with his/her own. Maybe with a small text credit line or contact info saying Gallery by Pixagogo", or something along this line.

This is something which we have done on a project basis before. But we are prepared to turn it into a standard offering starting today. Based on your HTML page or at least graphic elements we would provide you with a custom layout for your album, according to YOUR specification, with just a small "Powered by Pixagogo" reference on the bottom.

We would be glad to work with you to develop the full feature set for Pro within a reasonable time frame.

For such a service, the following features have been under discussion at some time or other: (disclaimer: no commitments here yet - not everything has been fully analysed)

• unbranding/rebranding the album html

• running the album HTML as a frame in another web site

• removing the Pixagogo.com watermark from directly linked pictures

• support for named albums and/or other redirected domain names

• support for (optional, protected) download of full-resolution originals by correspondents

• support for setting individual prices on ordered photo prints, as well as adding promotional photo prints to any order from one of your albums

• separate professional gallery and listing on the Pixagogo web site

• individual email and phone support

• [your ideas go here...]

A yearly subscription to Pixagogo Pro would cost 249 euro incl. VAT. We are sincerely interested in any reactions, and we're looking forward to your subscriptions!

For more information, contact joris dot winters at hypertrust dot com.

Improved Watermarking released

Today we've released our improved watermarking.  The "absolute" font size setting is replaced with a font size relative to the width of the picture, with options S,  M and L.  In addition you can edit the horizontal and vertical alignment of your watermark text.

You can edit your watermark text on the album settings page of your online photo albums.  The watermark text will appear on every digital photo of the photo album.

Existing watermarks will be replaced by a standard watermark with medium fontsize placed in the middel of the digital photo.

New album templates

We always seek to improve our templates and to add to our selection of album templates. Today we proudly announce two brand new and very stylish album templates:

 

Black

Titanium

You can choose from 12 different album templates on the album settings page. 

If you want to change your album template, you have to select select one of your albums on the album overview page in your Pixagogo account and then click on the album settings button in the toolbar.  On the settings album page you then click the "Templates..." button in the Template settings frame and then you select the template you like most. 

Your album template is changed! It's as simple as that!

Do you want to test drive Pixagogo for free? Start here

Christmas E-card templates

Perhaps you’ve already discovered the Pixagogo E-cards. We now also offer two Christmas E-cards. With Pixagogo E-cards you don’t have to spend a fortune on stamps for mailing out all those Christmas cards to family and friends. You can simply send them your own photo as a Christmas-themed E-card!

Search at the Rescue

Well, strictly spoken, maybe these aren't "new" features. They've been with us for a couple months now. But they definitely could use some more exposure.

I'm talking about the Search feature, both in your own albums overview page as in the public Photo Gallery.

1. login to your account, and on the albums overview page, type a search string into the search box on the floating toolbar and hit the Enter key (or click the Search button); unlike Google, it will match any partial or complete word in the title or description of an album: "embe" will find "September" for instance. If you have an albums page with about 200 albums, like I do, this is  much faster than scrolling to get to the one you're looking for - so much that I find myself using it all the time now.

2. In the public gallery, click the Search button (on the right of "Categories"), then enter a search string in the search box on top of the complete list of public albums and click the rectangular Search button next to it.

New album templates available

New Xmas templates for your online photo albums.  Share your Xmas photos in style with these very "hohoho" designs!

                                                

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

                                                                      

Album Description

Today, we released an upgrade of the Album settings page:  from now on you can customize your album description. Thanks to our new html editor you can personalize your albums even more. Try it out!

 

                                                                        If you would like to change the name of an existing album, please go to the album settings page of your album.  In the Album description text box you can create and customize your text.  You can even add a web link to your album description. 

Don't forget to click the "Apply settings" button to save your changes once you are finished.

Improved watermark coming soon...

Currently under development based on specifications of our users on the Pixagogo support forum...

Check out http://www.pixagogo.be/8236075100 to get an idea of what is coming. The "absolute" font size setting will be replaced with a font size relative to the width of the picture, with options XS, S, M, L, XL.

Other options may be introduced at a later stage (color, font choice etc.).

Album customizing & re-branding

Believe it or not, but aside from being an elegant way to share your photos and safeguard your life's digital memories, Pixagogo sometimes wears a business suit, too!

The entire Pixagogo album and site structure is designed for being rapidly localized, customized, re-branded and managed projectwise according to the wishes of business customers and partners.

Over the past six months Pixagogo has hosted thousands of photos for many business partners.  Look at a few interesting examples of custom albums: Stella Artois, Antwerp Photography Museum, Cornetto (Ola),Scarlet, Netwerk magazine and many others...

Whether you are in hi-tech, fast-moving consumer goods or banking, you should consider the sheer marketing power of associating your brand with the personal memories of those whose attention you seek!

Pixagogo Sales will gladly provide you with more details.

Account log in: much faster!

Intensive users with many photos and many albums: thanks for your patience!

This morning we've released a "open heart surgery" update of our account structure. Aside from memory and CPU savings on the Pixagogo side, the main difference for Pixagogo users will be the DRAMATICALLY shorter login times.

Creative Commons Licences

      

Do you want people to redistribute your photos, as long as they give you credit?

Is it OK for people to send your photos around to friends, so long as they don't make money off them? Provided they don't alter them, say, by changing the color, or cropping them?

Pixagogo has teamed up with Creative Commons to provide an interface to select your (free!) Creative Commons licenses telling the world how they can distribute or re-use your photos and albums.

Offering your work under a Creative Commons license does NOT mean giving up your copyright. It means offering some of your rights to any taker, and only on certain conditions.

Licenses Explained

Creative Commons is a non-profit organization that offers free tools. You can help Creative Commons to become a leading force in re-shaping the creative and educational landscape on the Net. Support the Commons.

Mac OS X Uploader now available!

Mac OS X users, start your virtual machines!

After a series of beta versions, the Pixagogo Uploader  for OS X 10.2 and higher is now available as a production version. It is built in Java and closely modeled after the PC uploader which has always gotten favorable feedback from the Pixagogo user community.

You can now drag and drop large sets of photos or even whole folders....

Download the Pixagogo Uploader for Mac OS X here.

Free photo e-cards!

An e-card sporting one of your own digital photos is a very fun way to surprise anyone. With Pixagogo you can send carefully selected e-cards framing your own pictures. 

Pixagogo users simply login and start sending E-cards from their timeline our album lay-out page.

If you do not have a Pixagogo account you can send an e-card with one of our selected photos or take a free trial subscription and upload as many photos as you want!

Start sending those photo e-cards!