August
We started PicMe Photo Sharing a few years ago and have had a blast building the service. We have demoed for Walt Mossberg, TechCrunch, and top executives at Apple, Google, Microsoft and other technology companies. We built a product that I’m proud of, a product that integrated with services like Picasa, Facebook and Flickr. In a climate where everyone was building web apps we decided to set our own course and build a desktop client. It was a fun ride but we’ve decided to move on.
Over the last year and a half Raizlabs has focused more on the mobile space. We’ve started building iPhone applications and related mobile services. At this time we have decided to stop work on Pic.Me Photo Sharing. For existing customers we’re going to keep the service running for the foreseeable future. Anyone who paid for a premium account will continue to have a premium account.
All aspects and technology of PicMe and it’s IP are for sale. This includes our 3D stacks technology, client/cloud storage and sharing infrastructure. Interested parties can contact us at support@raizlabs.com.
September
San Fransisco, CA 2008 – Raizlabs has launched a new version of Pic.Me Photo Sharing that is more reliable and faster than ever. Pic.Me continues to evolve as the fastest way to view, share and interact with large collections of images. The software works on personal photo collections as well as enterprise image libraries. Pic.Me’s flexible plugin architecture allows the new version of the software to interact with online services such as Picasa, Flickr and Facebook, and also allows customization for integration with enterprise image servers.
Raizlabs will be demonstrating its technology in the Techcrunch 50 demo pit on Tuesday.
PicMe Photo Sharing works with Microsoft Windows © computers and is available for free at http://pic.me. An email registration is required. Users can also upgrade to a basic paid account for $9.95/year allowing them to share 5000 original quality images. A higher end account is also available for $24.95/year, and this allows sharing of 15,000 images. For Apple and Linux users a basic web application is available for viewing shared photos. The software is available today from: http://pic.me.
About Raizlabs
Founded in 1997 by Gregory Raiz, a leader in user interface design and technology the company is a lab for creating new and inovative designs and technology. Raizlabs provides creative solutions in design and software to companies worldwide.
About TechCrunch50
Founded in 2007 by leading technology blog TechCrunch and entrepreneur Jason Calacanis, the TechCrunch50 conference provides a platform for early-stage, and frequently unfunded, companies to launch for the first time to the technology industry’s most influential venture capitalists, corporations, angel investors, fellow entrepreneurs and the international media. Companies are selected to participate exclusively on merit. TechCrunch50 is supported by corporate sponsors Google, Microsoft, MySpace, Salesforce, MSN Money, Symantec, Thomson Reuters and Yahoo!, as well as venture capital firms including Sequoia Capital, Mayfield Fund, Clearstone Venture Partners, Charles River Ventures, Founders Fund, Perkins Coie and Fenwick & West.
August
We’re excited that we recently got a brand new website name for our photo sharing product. It’s easier to type and hopfully easier to remember. From now on you can just visit Pic.Me.
Just five letters. Clean, simple, elegant. We love our new name, we hope you do to.
June
PicMe Photo Sharing is different from many other photo sharing services in that we take extra measures to keep your photos private and secure.
Any photos that are on the PicMe Photo Sharing service are private by default. We don’t have a website where you can browse everyone’s photos. We don’t have pages that can be indexed by Google. Your photos are only shared with the people you want. Unauthorized users won’t have access to your images.
When you share a photo with PicMe Photo Sharing this is done in a secure way. Your images are copied to our secure server using a combination of secure keys, password authentication and permissions. We make the upload fast because it goes straight from the PicMe application into our secure file storage archive and database.
When you share a photo with someone only the person you share with will have access to that image. Only users that have been shared a file will be able to see it. If you share through the PicMe service your images will not show up on a public web-page.
Note: If you share to a services such as Flickr, Picasa or Facebook your images will usually be publicly available.
When an image is shared through PicMe we do this in a secure way. We also send an email to the recipient with a secure certificate for the photos. This allows the recipient to view the sent photos from our online website. These images are available only as screen quality images for the recipient of the image message. We further protect these images from right-click saving on the web.
For subscribers to our service we allow the recipient access to the high-quality original image files. Other users won’t be able to see your images. This makes PicMe a secure way to transfer or share large images files in a secure way between people.
April
Raizlabs, Boston MA – Did you know that the ink used in personal photo printers costs as much as $8000 per gallon? Many of today’s modern desktop inkjet printers sell cartridges that cost $30 or more and only provide 15ml of ink. The new version of PicMe Photo Sharing introduces one-step photo ordering, making it easy to order high quality prints at home for a low price right.
The new functionality bridges the gap between the ease of desktop printing and the complexity of online ordering. The new software will allow you to order prints from any photo in your own collection or any photo that has been shared to you. In addition the software also allows you to order photos from any plug-in that’s enabled through PicMe Photo Sharing including Flickr, Picasa and Facebook.
PicMe Photo Sharing provides a unique one step checkout process allowing you to quickly place orders at an affordable price and ship your photos around the world.
“A lot of people don’t realize that printing 4×6 prints at home can cost upwards of $.60 each. PicMe Photo Sharing prints cost just $0.19 each and shipping will be under $2 for most orders.” said Raizlabs founder Gregory Raiz.
Traditionally if you wanted to share a large collection of photos such as wedding photos you would have to get them all printed. With PicMe Photo Sharing you can share hundreds of photos with friends and family and they can choose what photos they want to print. The process is simple and produces great looking prints.
Once photos are ordered they are uploaded securely for fast printing. Orders usually arrive in about a week. Raizlabs, the makers of PicMe Photo Sharing, chose EZ-Prints as their photography lab partner. EZ-Prints has been a leader in online photo printing, and has partnered with many other online photo services. PicMe Photo Sharing can now bring the quality of their printing solution to photos ordered right from your desktop.
PicMe Photo Sharing uses a unique one page checkout making it quick to get the prints you want with no hassle. The initial release supports 4×6, 5×7, 8×10, 9×12, Wallet prints as well as premium luster paper. The PicMe Photo Sharing software is free to use and allows people to easily share large collections with friends and family. Premium versions of the software are also available for as low as $9.95/year.
PicMe Photo Sharing is a product of Raizlabs Corporation and has been designed from the outset to be a simple and friendly photo product for non-technical individuals. The software is available from http://picme.raizlabs.com
February
PicMe Photo Sharing today released a minor update to it’s photo sharing product line to enable support for Google’s Picasa Web Albums. Picasa is the third online provider now supported by PicMe Photo Sharing adding to the previous support for Flickr by Yahoo and Facebook. The new update is made available for free and will auto-upgrade any existing users of the software.
The new online service provider makes it easy to move photos between all three online service providers. Photo collections can be moved easily uploaded and downloaded between Flickr, Facebook, Google Picasa and the built in PicMe Photo Sharing service. The new service makes it very easy to upload entire photo collections and works seamlessly with the rest of the PicMe Photo Sharing product.
Companies looking to create additional plug-ins for PicMe Photo Sharing can contact Raizlabs for additional information.
February
Las Vegas PMA 2008 – Raizlabs has released PicMe Photo Sharing 2, a free photo application that makes it easy to share photos directly with friends, upload images to websites and organize a lifetime of memories.
The new version of PicMe Photo Sharing is the fastest way to view and share photos with friends. It uses a patent pending 3D view that can display hundreds of thousands of photos in physical stacks. This allows users to browse collections of images very quickly by flipping through photos. Unlike most programs that use grids or folders to display collections PicMe displays each collection as a stack of photos. This unique technology allows for quick navigation through large collections of photos.
PicMe Photo Sharing includes tools to allow for basic adjustments to photos such as rotating and adding captions. “We want to put the focus back on the picture. Instead of the software behaving like a digital darkroom, we put the emphasis on viewing and sharing images.” said Gregory Raiz, founder of Raizlabs. Unlike other photo management programs, PicMe Photo Sharing emphasizes the ease of digital photo sharing. The tool makes it easy to invite friends, create groups and share stacks of images with people right from your desktop.
PicMe Photo Sharing is a desktop application so it can do many things that websites can’t. Currently a lot of people use email to share photos and there are a number of problems that make this cumbersome. When using email to share, people must compose a message, address it to your friend, search their computer for photos and attach one image at a time. When the message is received it can clog up the recipient’s Inbox and it can also be difficult to view the photos. PicMe automates this entire process. Simply drag and drop a stack of photos on an icon of a friend. The software will then automatically upload the images for easy viewing and send an email notifying your friend of new pictures. This makes it easy to share entire collections of images, not just one or two.
The new version of PicMe Photo Sharing also works with electronic devices and media such as digital cameras, digital picture frames, USB thumb drives and photo CD’s allowing you to import photos from your device or media directly to your computer. When importing photos from cameras or media, PicMe Photo Sharing will help organize the photos into stacks. The software will recognize pictures that were taken on different days, and stack them accordingly. Holiday photos won’t get mixed up with birthday photos. In addition to helping users import photos from their cameras, PicMe Photo Sharing also allows users to update their photo frames with new photos shared to them from other users or online services.
PicMe Photo Sharing not only allows you to share with friends, groups and digital photo frames but it also allows you to share with online services. The new version has additional plug-in support and allows users to view friends and contacts in services such as Flickr and Facebook. This means that you can view stacks of photos and collections of images from existing online libraries. Each plug-in allows you to see the friends and contacts associated with that service and easily browse and view collections of photos that you care about. There is no other application that can go from Camera, to computer and then to online services and friends as easily as PicMe Photo Sharing.
PicMe Photo Sharing works with Microsoft Windows © computers and is available for free at http://picme.raizlabs.com. An email registration is required. Users can also upgrade to a basic paid account for $9.95/year allowing them to share 5000 original quality images. A higher end account is also available for $24.95/year, and this allows sharing of 15,000 images. For Apple and Linux users a basic web application is available for viewing shared photos. The software is available today from: http://picme.raizlabs.com.
Raizlabs, the makers of PicMe Photo Sharing released the new version of their software at PMA2008, a worldwide conference of photo products in Las Vegas. Raizlabs will be demonstrating the product this week on the convention floor in booth U246. Press Images are available here: http://picme.raizlabs.com/press.html
January
Later this month Raizlabs will be in Las Vegas to release the next version of our revolutionary PicMe photo sharing product. PicMe Photo Sharing will get a major upgrade resulting in a number of new features. PMA2008 is the worlds largest photography conference and expo.
Our new software will continue to make it easier for people to share, view and discover 1000’s of images right from their desktop. The new version adds the ability to work with hardware devices including digital cameras and photo frames as well as improving the core functionality of sharing and viewing photos on your own computer. PicMe is the easiest and fastest way to share photos right from your desktop.
Significant improvements have been made to the plug-in system creating a one-of-a-kind photo experience working with services like Flickr and Facebook.
Come see us at PMA in Las Vegas. We’ll be in booth U246
October
We’re happy to announce that we have a web version of PicMe released. The web version of PicMe allow you to see the photos that have been shared quickly and easily from a web-browser. You can now share photos with users on a Mac PC or whatever. The web version allows you to see all your contacts and share photos that you have received.
The web version of PicMe makes use of the 3D stacks interface allow ou to easily see large collections of photos and quickly scroll through those collections.
The web version like the desktop version is free to use for the first 200 photos and is just $9.95/year for 5000 images. The software is free to try online. Signup for PicMe then head over to our 3D web gallery.
The web version is built in Adobe Flex giving us a dynamic and interactive user experience. Images are all displayed at high quality resolution of 1024×768 giving you a high quality viewing experience every time.
September
We had a couple hours of unscheduled downtime yesterday while we upgraded our servers. Sorry about that. The new servers should be much faster for viewing photos, logging-in, sharing and other server interactions. Not to worry all your photos and memories are perfectly safe and secure and there’s nothing you need to do. You get a free performance boost so enjoy.