Sunday, June 24, 2007

Photorgy Uploads Images with an AIM Bot

Photorgy is a photo-sharing site that launched its public beta earlier this year. The premise of the site is to enable anyone to share photos using nothing more than your AOL Instant Messenger.

Send photos to photorgy, and they’ll be displayed on your profile. Images go to a general folder, where you can organize them into albums later on. This organization feature uses drag-n-drop functionality, and works for your user photo and your Favorites section that shows along the right side of your profile. Photorgy uses an AIM bot to upload your images, and this can be extended to a larger group of friends looking to contribute to one photo album. You can upload an entire folder as well.

It’s important to note that you can’t use the Pictures tool on newer versions of AIM. There’s also no way to send photos directly to an album on Photorgy–you’ll have to send them to the general folder to be sorted out later. I also think it’s somewhat limiting that the only way to register and upload photos is by using AIM. Many of the Photorgy’s features are similar to Flickr, and this is definitely the market it’s after. Photorgy is pretty good about letting users know that its service can be used for image hosting, taking a direct stab at gaining
Photobucket’s demographic.

Source:
www.mashable.com

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