Merry Christmas: new version “Kumquat” has arrived!

We have the great pleasure to announce you that Kumquat is now online. We are really proud of what we have built based on your feedbacks. We hope that you will enjoy it. Better photo presentation, more organization and serendipity at the same time!

We have rethought the interface to make things simpler on Pictarine. Tell us what you think about it!

Timeline

Imagine your photos and your friends photos from your favorite services or devices: your computer, Facebook, Flickr, Google+, Instagram,… all in one timeline! Pictarine organizes for you all these photos: go back in time and live again your favorite moments, discover your friends last photos updates and interact with them. You can now also search for any photos: enter “wedding” and see instantaneously all the weddings’ photos from you and your close friends. Try this awesome experience right now!

Photo-sharing is changing on Pictarine

We are changing the way you share your photos on Pictarine. With your feedbacks, we have realized that zests were not fitting your needs. So we have removed the ability to create new zests. You can still enjoy and download your existing zests and your friends’ zests, accessible from the navigation menu. Thanks to your answers to the survey, we are working on new features regarding sharing. So stay tuned and if you have any request on this, feel free to email us at contact@pictarine.com

Photobucket, Shutterfly and MobyPicture on Pictarine

We got a lot of suggestions of photo services to integrate in Pictarine. Thank you so much!

New services

We have integrated Photobucket a huge photohosting service, Shutterfly a photoprinting service and Mobypicture a photosharing service that lets you share your photos with you favorite social sites. You now can enjoy all your photos in fullscreen slideshows on any browser including iPad and download your favorite photos on your computer with one click, to have a safe copy at home.

Vote for the next service

If you have photos on a service that we do not integrate yet, please suggest it by clicking on “Other photo service” on the “My Accounts” screen.

Behind the scene….

This week-end, Guillain, our Art Director came in Paris to design with us the next version of Pictarine “Kumquat”. This was a magical moment of creation, and we really enjoyed this time working on the new interface you will discover very soon. Kumquat will be about more organization and photo beauty. We are eager to show you that!

At the same time, we have improvised a photo studio at Le Camping, more on that very soon :)

As you may know, we have integrated the accelerator program Le Camping an awesome place with 11 others great startups. If you are nearby, come and have a coffee with us!

Congrats! You have pruned your Pictarine tree.

Two weeks ago, we sent you a survey to discover what you really like in Pictarine and the problems you encounter everyday with your photos. We received more than 500 answers from you, that was awesome! We have taken the time to read all your feedback and answer your questions individually. We have learned a lot from you, thank you so much.

Organization the next big thing

Most of you have the same big problem: you have too much photos and it is difficult to find easily the photos you really want to see at a given time. Pictarine already gets all your photos from everywhere. We now want to help you organize them. The first step is a beta feature we are launching today. Check it on Pictarine.com and try the new Search menu. Feel free to give us some feedback at contact@pictarine.com so this feature will really fit your needs.

You have amazing other ideas!

We are also working on your other needs like backup or mobile. We will show you amazing things in the coming months, so stay tuned!

Dropbox, 500px, Picplz, Live and all your photos comments

Today, Pictarine lets you enjoy all comments and likes of the photos of your services and welcomes four new services: Dropbox, 500px, Picplz and Windows Live.

All your photos comments in one place

While you enjoy on Pictarine your photos or your friends photos from Facebook, Instagram or any service, you surely want to know what your friends thought of them… Guest what, it is now possible, right in the Pictarine viewer, to enjoy all the comments and likes of every photos or albums. And as we wanted the experience to be awesome for you, we offer the possibility to publish your comments and likes right from Pictarine. So if you want to like a photo on Facebook or comment one on Instagram, just like or write your comment on Pictarine and we will automatically publish it for you on these services.

Of course you can enjoy and add comments and likes from you friends photos and tagged photos too. You can now access all the social part of your photos in one place directly in your browser or from your iPad and interact with your friends. We really think this is going to make things easier for you and that you will save time with Pictarine.

We make you even benefit of each service specificities, for example you can delete your comments on Flickr, Picplz, Instagram and Picasa and edit your comments on Flickr right from Pictarine.

Dropbox

We really love this service as it is so easy to use : as soon as you add photos to your local dropbox photos directory, all your photos are automatically uploaded on Dropbox service. So, connect your Dropbox account to Pictarine and you will get all your photos instantaneously. Just add your photos in your Dropbox Photo folder on your computer and they will be available in your Pictarine, so you can view and share them. It is now so easy to enjoy and share your photos with Dropbox and Pictarine together.

500px

If you are fond of photography, 500px is a great website with an awesome community. Pictarine will import automatically all your photos and your friends photos from all the categories. And of course you will see all the comments available on these photos.

Picplz

Picplz is a mobile photo-website available both on Android and Iphone. Pictarine imports all your photos, your friends photos and all the collections your photos are sorted by. This service was one of the most wanted by our users, hope you will enjoy it! You can comment and like all the photos on this service.

Windows Live

With 25 Gb of free storage, the Microsoft service Live is a huge place to store your photos. Just connect this service and Pictarine will give you access to all your photos from your Skydrive with all the comments you and your friends have added.

Photos from your Facebook pages

All the photos of your Facebook pages you manage are now automatically imported in Pictarine. See at a glance all your Facebook fan pages photos directly in your albums screen on Pictarine. This feature is specially useful for people dealing with different communities on Facebook.

Thanks for your support and your great feedback. We always love having a chat with you, so feel free to send us an email at contact@pictarine.com to tell us about you, how you use Pictarine and what you think of these last features.

Enjoy your photos on iPad and tablets

Today, we are really excited to announce you that Pictarine is now available on iPad and tablets. You will enjoy all your photos from any services in fullscreen slideshows : Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Instagram and Picasa. Experience a new Pictarine from your browser with Multi-Touch and use your fingers to control your slideshow, discover your friends’ albums or create zests.

Amazing slideshows on your large display

With your iPad or tablet, remote control the slideshow running on your desktop or your connected TV. It’s so easy: just connect to Pictarine on both devices’ browsers, validate on iPad the popup window and here you go, your photos are streamed wirelessly to your desktop or your TV. Your friends on your couch will enjoy your last holiday pictures on your large display while you easily select next photos on your tablet!

Pictarine.com as an iPad app

The iPad’s Safari browser gives you the ability to add home screen icons which automatically open your favorite web pages. This is how to create a Pictarine icon very easily and enjoy Pictarine.com as an app. From your Safari browser window, navigate to Pictarine.com, tap on the plus button located at the top of the screen. A menu should now be displayed on top of your Safari browser window. Select the choice labeled Add to Home Screen and select the Add button. You shortcut has been created and you can now access Pictarine.com directly from your iPad’s home screen.

All your Instagram and Twitter photos in one place

Today, Pictarine welcomes two new services : Twitter and Instagram

Twitter

From now on, you can access all your photos from Twitter, wherever they are hosted: Twitpic, Yfrog, Lockerz (former Plixi) and the new Twitter hosting service.

Just authorize Pictarine to access your Twitter account, and we automatically collect all your recent photos from these four services so you can see at a glance all the photos you have snapped with your mobile and shared on Twitter. At any time you can refresh your memories with your Twitter photos.

Pictarine allows you to download your recent photos from these Twitter services : you can have a safe copy on your computer at any time.

Instagram

From now on, you can access all your photos from Instagram. You can view or download all of them with a click. An other great feature we added, is the access to all your Instagram friends’ photos. As we have already done with Facebook, Picasa and Flickr, photos are grouped in an album per friend so it’s really easy to discover and download amazing photos from your friends. Enjoy it!

Reshare your Twitter and Instagram photos

Imagine you attend a great week-end with your friends and you take nice pictures with your camera. And you snap some pix with your phone and upload them on Instagram or Twitter. And of course all your friends do the same. Wouldn’t it be great to get all these photos in the same place?

From now on, you will experience a brand new feature on Pictarine : you will be able to mix your photos from your phone and your camera in a single virtual album. You can invite privately groups of friends to view, comment and add their own mobile or camera photos too.

How does it work? Just create a Zest on Pictarine (the virtual album) and you will be able to mix your photos from Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Picasa (google+ instant uploads included!), Flickr and these hosted on your computer. The interface remains as friendly as before and you can still share your Zest privatly with your Facebook, Yahoo and Gmail contacts. They will be able to add their own photos from their camera or phone too.

This is something new to allow people to easily access, mix and share the photos they have taken with all their devices and wherever their photos are hosted. We really think this is the beginning of a new era for the photo-sharing. Hope you will enjoy this feature!

Pictarine now supports Internet Explorer 9

 We are really excited to announce that Pictarine now supports Internet Explorer 9. You will benefit from all Pictarine’s new features in this browser. This is something a lot of people were waiting for, so we hope you will enjoy it!
 In case you are still using Internet Explorer 6, 7 or 8 (at work for example), you can still enjoy all Pictarine’s features by installing Google Chrome Frame, a plugin that will enhance your Internet Explorer browser into a Chrome one.