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Baby Breakout Star Contest on Photobucket -- down to the finalists

You can see the Baby Breakout Start contest finalists on Photobucket here.  As soon as our wonderful teams have sorted through all the necessary and boring paperwork, we'll be able to announce the winner. But in the meantime, look at those cute kids!

Photobucket introduces mobile photo application for Ovi store by Nokia

Free Mobile Photo Application Available Worldwide

San Francisco, Calif. – June 1, 2009 —Photobucket (http://photobucket.com), the Web’s premier standalone photo and video-sharing site, today announced the availability of a free Nokia-compatible Photobucket mobile photo application inside Ovi Store by Nokia.  This mobile application grants Nokia customers worldwide easy access to images on Photobucket as well access to personal Photobucket albums. It is now available for download from Ovi Store at store.ovi.com.

Photobucket and Fox invite Fans of "GLEE" to showcase their Gold Star Potential at Photobucket.com/Glee

Online Contest Ends June 5
Winner Receives Trip for Two to Teen Choice 2009

Los Angeles, Calif. and San Francisco, Calif. – May 28, 2009 — Fans of FOX’s new comedy GLEE have one more week to enter the “Show Us Your Gold Star Potential” contest. Whether you’re a singer, painter, dancer or musician, FOX and Photobucket invite you to reveal your Gold Star potential by submitting a photo or video showcasing your talents to http://photobucket.com/glee. Winners will be chosen by a panel of judges from FOX, and judging criteria will be based on multiple factors, including creativity and originality.

How to make a grunge effect collage on Photobucket

The more we use the built-in scrapbook tool from Scrapblog on Photobucket, the more we find new stuff.  We just had fun making a grunge-effect collage using the Scrapblog tools.

Photobucket is a Webware 100 winner!

We are honored to be a Webware 100 winner! The Webware 100 awards from CNET shows the top 100 Web apps in 10 categories voted to be the best of the best by Webware readers and users of the apps themselves. Almost 630,000 votes were cast to determine this year's 100 best Web 2.0 apps. Thanks to everyone who voted for Photobucket! We really appreciate the nod.  Go here to see the awards.

Photobucket launches Twitgoo, a dedicated media-sharing site built exclusively for Twitter users

Integration with Top Twitter API Partners Including Picnik, DestroyTwitter and Intercasting 

San Francisco, Calif. – May 19, 2009 – Photobucket, the Web’s premier standalone photo and video-sharing site, today announced the launch of Twitgoo (http://twitgoo.com), a new media-sharing site for Twitter.  Twitgoo users can now tweet photos from a computer, a mobile device or directly from either Photobucket or Tinypic with an easy-to-use, one-click feature.  Twitgoo is already fully integrated with the top Twitter-related applications -- Picnik, Seesmic Desktop, Twitterberry, DestroyTwitter, Intercasting, Spaz and many others -- to ensure a seamless user experience and broad accessibility across Web, PC, and mobile platforms. 

Spoiler alert: Photobucket users "call" American Idol winner

Last year, David Cook had significantly more searches on Photobucket than David Archuleta.  Our users "called" it.  So we decided to do the same search stats check this year.

And the winner? Adam Lambert. Five times as many searches as Kris Allen.

See Adam Lambert content on Photobucket here.

See Kris Allen content on Photobucket here.

You know we love them both. Actually all of them.

Great ideas for celebrating the end of the school year on Photobucket

The end of the school year is approaching. We have so many great things you can do to remember the school year on Photobucket. Here are some ideas:

Teacher Gifts

• Have your class parents upload their favorite photos from the year to a Group Album on Photobucket
• Gather the photos together into a printed Scrapbook for the teacher. It'll cost less than $40, and it'll be a wonderful gift she or he can keep forever.

Go here to start a Group Album: http://photobucket.com/groupalbums/
Go here to make a Scrapbook: http://photobucket.com/scrapbooks

Photobucket teams up with #1 comedian and radio star Steve Harvey to celebrate Prom season

We love Steve Harvey, the "King" of comedy and fashion. Mr Harvey is known for his impeccable and undeniable style. And he wants to see YOUR style for the Prom!

Learn how to make a class memory book on Photobucket

Don't build one of those boring, all-the-same memory books at the end of this school year. 

Photobucket, in collaboration with the awesome people at Scrapblog, can help. Here's just a few pages that show designs for memory books. You can drag and drop to add your own photos easily. We have hundreds of styles to choose from. Then print them out as books or cards.

Can you help us? We need to hear from you ...

We have a very quick, three-minute survey for you. Tell us which features you use on Photobucket, and what's missing for you. This will really help us as we cook up new ideas. Thanks for your help.

Click here to step through the survey. There are only about 10 questions, so it won't take long. THANKS!

New stats dashboard launches on Photobucket

Today we launched a major new feature: a stats dashboard.  This dashboard measures how often your images and videos are viewed on other sites. So if you embed your media on other sites, you can measure its popularity.

Playing with cool pop art effects

This is interesting. Use "advanced options" on the Pop Art effect on the Photobucket image editor. You can selectively choose a focal area for the Pop Art effect, and play with fades. The results can be interesting.

Think you've got talent? Enter our GLEE contest for a chance to win a trip to the Teen Choice Awards!

A fun contest starts today on Photobucket. We're working with the people behind the terrific new show GLEE.  The cast of GLEE are inviting you to show them your Gold Star potential talent.  The lucky winner receives a trip for two to the Teen Choice Awards in Hollywood, with a chance to walk the red carpet with the stars, and an invitation to the VIP after-party.

Last minute Mother's Day ideas for free on Photobucket

It's Mother's Day in the USA on Sunday. Forgot a card? Send her something sweet from Photobucket. You can choose some nice pics. And you can make a scrapbook to email to her. Both are free, fun, and show your love.

Mom makes you feel more love -- make a slideshow on Photobucket

Here's a nice new slideshow style. We like the effects. Try it!

Asher Roth's official fan photo and video album on Photobucket

Party boy Asher Roth brings his own spin to his official Photobucket fan photo and video albums. New today. For all you Asher Roth fans -- join his album! He'll be checking out all the submissions himself.

How to turn a photo into an "old cartoon" on Photobucket

Click on "edit" next to any photo in your album on Photobucket to launch our built-in editor (powered by Fotoflexer).

How to make a pop art ink stamp effect on Photobucket

Here's how you make a pop art "ink stamp" effect with Photobucket's built-in Photobucket. This takes about a minute to do. Click on "edit" next to any photo in your album on Photobucket to launch our built-in editor (powered by Fotoflexer).

Eye-Fi Announces Video Support for Photobucket

Our friends at Eye-Fi today announced today that they will be supporting uploading video to Photobucket, as well as photos.  Eye-Fi provides very cool wireless memory cards which allow upload of photos and videos without needing to connect your camera. You just set up your camera to point to Photobucket, leave it on when you get home, and everything uploads automatically. It's incredibly simple and easy to do. Read Eye-Fi's press release here. Learn more about the Eye-Fi card here.