Do you share photographs with friends and family on Facebook? With over 127 million members in the United States alone, Facebook is the leader in social networking, and more pictures than ever are at your fingertips.
It has become much easier to let everyone see your photos by simply posting them to your profile. However, spending one or two hours poring over someone else's photo albums (or your own) looking for the pictures you want to see can be frustrating. Be frustrated no more: Pixable Photofeeds, which debuted for Facebook users on Jan. 11, promises to make finding photos easier and more productive.
Pixable Photofeeds is an application that sorts and categorizes pictures, as well as "learning" how you look at photos and keeping track of updates and comments from friends. This "WonderRank" technology analyzes the photos you look at and sorts them, allowing you to browse by category or owner and rank them, making your favorite photographs easier to find.
The latest photos, as well as the most popular, are grouped together, and if someone is tagged in a picture, searching for their name will give you all of them, no matter whose profile they are stored under.
Keeping track of friends is simple; Pixable can notify you when they comment on or are tagged in a photo, or when they upload new ones. Using an interface that is symmetrical and easy to navigate, thumbnails are paged through to find what you are looking for.
It's obviously a new application, so more features are sure to follow, but it is a solid concept and already makes keeping track of your friends photos more fun.
Being the most popular social network on the web, more than 750 million photos were uploaded on Facebook over New Year's weekend alone, so keeping track of the photographs you want to see is becoming increasingly more difficult and time consuming.
With seemingly everyone having a picture phone or Web camera, the trend toward "picture networking" is sure to increase. Composing photobooks, videos and mosaics are also some of the things that can be done with this new tool.
Pixable Photofeeds is certainly an application whose time has come, and it promises to be at the forefront of this networking trend.
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