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First PhotoShow Developer Launched!

Just a few days after launching our new developer tools the first site to integrate PhotoShow went live today. Tribbit is a very cool site that enables collaborative tributes. This first to market example is an "instashow" implementation, so there is no discreet PhotoShow authoring in the site (yet). Any photos that get posted to the tribute are pulled together and fed into the PhotoShow. Here is an example.

This is a super easy and fun way to collaboratively create a PhotoShow that you can then post to any site you want or order a DVD of. That is pretty cool. Mad props to the Tribbit team for a fast and very cool integration of PhotoShow into their new exciting and emotive service. What are you going to pay a tribute to?

New PhotoShow Developer Tools

This week we launched new developer tools!

You can learn more and see a demo at http://developer.photoshow.com. We have two primary tools that were released this week:

1) PhotoShow authoring widget that anyone can put in their web site. Here is a screen shot of it:

2) We are also letting developers automatically create PhotoShows from a defined set of photos, such as all of a particular user’s photos or all images tagged with a certain word. These "instashows" are created automatically and can then be edited to the end users preferences afterwards.

Some very cool things about these tools are:

Pull photos from anywhere: People can pull photos their already have on that site, from their PC or from a web URL.

Share your show anywhere you want: After making a show the creator can publish it to that site, post it on any blog or social media site, buy a PhotoShow DVD or even broadcast it to cable TV with our PhotoShowTV service.

We look forward to seeing PhotoShow creation showing up on social mediasites that want to add multimedia sharing, photo sites that want to offer our DVD service and cable broadband portals so that their users can create shows to broadcast to TV. As always, it will be amazing to see all the cool uses that people come up with for integrating PhotoShow into their service.