AT&T and Yahoo! recently launched a photo-sharing service named, rather to the point, AT&T Yahoo! Photos, for subscribers to the companies’ jointly offered broadband service.
The move comes at a time when online photo service users are projected to grow from to 83 million by 2009, as broadband connectivity increases.
Just don’t post any photos you don’t want the National Security Agency to know about.
The new service is “desktop-like,” with features like photo-tagging, online “playlists” of photos stored in Smart Albums, and is integrated with other AT&T Yahoo! services like email, and instant messenger. It also allows users to order prints with the option of picking them up at local stores, shipping directly to the home, and ordering personalized photo gifts.
The companies are looking to capitalize on the Web 2.0 success, as social media grows online, and to bring tagging capabilities to the mass consumer audience, via the PC, and to mobile devices.
“The new community-based photo features – like photo-tagging – foster user interaction in ways that weren’t possible before for AT&T Yahoo! broadband customers,” said Kieran Nolan, vice president, AT&T Broadband.
“For example, as photo collections continue to grow, they can become more difficult to manage. With tagging, users can label photos – their own and those shared with them – making them easier to organize and find later. Features like these mean that customers can now exchange comments on shared pictures, add tags to help organize photos and rate them for simple searching.”
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