Some of our users have been asking us to add Photobucket and MySpace to our list of web sites that we connect to. Well, the reason for it is pretty simple, those sites currently don’t have a public API (Application Programming Interface) for us to use. So until they provide one, or allow us to use it, you wouldn’t be seeing them in our list of available services you can connect to.
Currently, the list of services that you can connect to are 23, Facebook, Flickr and Webshots. Imageshack will be available soon as well. You can always check our Connect page for the list of all available services.
Some may wonder what is the advantage of connecting to these services from our web site as opposed to uploading your pictures from a computer or for any reason at all.
- Well, for starters, it means that you don’t have to be on your personal computer to physically access your pictures.
- Also, it reduces the hassle of having to download the pictures if they are on a web site or our site, then to upload them again (or you can simply import the picture using its URL).
Then, once you’re finished editing your pictures or creating a collage or creating an animation, you can save the new picture directly to your account (No download necessary!). This works really simple as well, once your connected to one of the services, and you select “Save” from the toolbar, the option always appears to save directly to your account (or album) on the connected service whether it be Flickr, Facebook, Webshots, etc.
If you run a photo sharing/hosting web site and would like our users to connect to your service, we’ll set up the necessary stuff on our side once you provide an API for us to use. Just drop us a note and we’ll try to make it happen.
We’ll be launching our own Public API soon as well so you can definitely look out for that, it’s going to be really interesting to see how you developers and external applications use and interact with our API given access to the core features of our site.
We’ll be talking more about this and some other stuff really soon so stay tuned!