) November 13, 2008 -- VisionBedding, a leader in photo blankets and unique personalized gifts, announces that they now offer the shortest photo blanket production time on the market. The 3-5 business day production time of VisionBedding's photo blankets and other products, far exceeds other personalized gift and leading photo blanket competitors.

Photo Blanket

) April 30, 2009 -- Multiply, Inc. (http://multiply.com), one of the world's leading media sharing sites, has created a line of personalized gifts perfect for showing Mom how much you appreciate her - without breaking your budget. Multiply's Mother's Day Gift Guide offers a line of special Mother's Day products, including photo books, calendars, and cards for under $30. To make Mother's Day even more affordable, Multiply is offering 30 percent off our entire line of photo products.

) August 1, 2009 -- Tiny Prints (www.tinyprints.com), a leading online retailer of premium, personalized stationery, today announced the launch of its first-ever lines of Eid cards and Diwali cards. These new collections offer contemporary, customizable designs for party invitations, photo cards and more, all using the fresh, modern Tiny Prints aesthetic to share the warmth of these holidays in an elegant way.

In honor of Mother's Day, Picaboo (http://www.picaboo.com), the popular photo book and greeting card provider, announced today an offer of 25% of all photo books and greeting cards until April 30th, 2009 (SPRING25)*. With Picaboo, custom gifts with an affordable pricetag couldn't be more in synch with the times. (PRWeb Apr 20, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/04/prweb2338654.htm

) January 22, 2009 -- Tiny Prints, Inc. (www.tinyprints.com), a leading online retailer of premium, personalized stationery, today announced the launch of a new personalization feature called Paper Portraits. Through this unique technology consumers will have even more personalization options for their everyday social stationery from Tiny Prints.

) August 10, 2009 -- Tiny Prints (http://www.tinyprints.com), a recognized leader for online premium stationery has teamed up with the photo book expert, MyCanvas.com, owned and operated by Ancestry.com, to launch a premium photo books service. This partnership marks an important milestone for Tiny Prints as it expands its product offerings beyond personalized stationery and favors with the introduction of premium photo books to its collection.

Web development company Designrobots published free photo gallery software allowing to make easily your blog or website more attractive

Free online service Funny Photo! makes a funny photo mashup in one click! It contains huge collection of cool templates and uses an advanced face detection mechanism.

@ your library, a public outreach campaign for the American Library Association (ALA), is hosting a tote bag design contest. Anyone 14 years of age or older may submit a design, inspired by their library, for a chance to win a $500 grand prize or $100 people's choice award.

) December 18, 2008 -- Tiny Prints, Inc. (www.tinyprints.com), a leading online retailer of premium, personalized stationery, is revealing its line of New Year's themed holiday cards. The collection offers modern New Years cards and New Years party invitations that will kick off 2009 in style.

) September 25, 2008 -- Paper Locket, online designer of photo embellished cards and wall art, announced its release of their 2008 Holiday Photo Cards.

http://www.PaperLocket.com, a favorite across the nation, provides a simple way to create beautiful personalized cards with cool and hip designs for every occasion including Christmas, Kwanzaa, or Chanukah.

) April 28, 2009 -- Photo cards and printable greeting cards are now a part of the 21st century with the launch of GreetingBee.com, an interactive, easy and fun site that lets consumers take control of the greeting card. Instead of endlessly browsing a pre-designed selection of stock like at other card vendors, GreetingBee.com users are able customize and personalize a card from start to finish with photos, illustrations and even their own text. Launched by veteran computer game developers with more than two decades of industry experience, GreetingBee.com features cutting-edge card design technology and a vast library of graphics.

) October 7, 2008 – Beyond the stacks of presents to be wrapped and the cookies to be baked, most people are also scrambling to send the perfect personalized greeting during the holiday season. In fact, the United States Postal Service has reported that December is the busiest month of the year which suggests that snail mail is still the more popular choice for sharing holiday greetings. As consumers look for modern and unique stationery designs many are turning to Tiny Prints, an online leader in premium, personalized stationery.

) November 11, 2008 -- Photo Jewelry designer and owner of Elemental Memories, Lisa Laverty, has created a hip way to show off the many little sprouts that fill your garden.

Her newest Photo Jewelry design, "Time in the Garden" features 1/4" square custom clay photo tiles (number of photo tiles depends on your family size) combined with custom hand stamped sterling silver word charms wrapped in copper wire.

) November 6, 2008 -- Be known for the "favorite gift" or seasonal card all your friends and family talk about this 2008 holiday season when they receive a custom photo card or personalized stamper made-to-order from Social Butterfly Designs.

) January 26, 2009 -- Tiny Prints, Inc. (www.tinyprints.com), a leading online retailer of premium, personalized stationery, today announced the launch of its 2009 Valentine's Day collection. With the holidays behind us and Valentine's Day just around the corner, Tiny Prints is offering consumers the opportunity to extend wishes of peace, joy and, of course, love with a variety of stationery products from photo cards and party invitations to petite kids' cards.

Tiny Prints Valentine's Day Photo Card

Some highlights from Tiny Prints lovable collection include:

) September 24, 2008 -- Envytation.com, a designer company specialized in designing personalized photo birthday invitations and greeting cards which is based in Chicago, IL is launching their new line of inspirational invitations.

) May 11, 2009 -- Transfer your customers' images and text onto these high quality InkJet Photo Balloons and stimulate your Personalized Product Business with this exciting new product. In addition to making birthdays, anniversaries, reunions, weddings, or retirement celebrations more fun and festive, InkJet Photo Balloons from Conde Systems (www.conde.com) make unique promotional items for realtors, car dealers, restaurants, and political events.

) March 4, 2010 -- Shana Gibson, owner of Modern Cowgirl, wants to inspire girls and women to be empowered, be their own hero, and save their own day with the launch of her new White Horse Campaign. Merging the boldness and moxie of the cowgirl, and the sophistication and style of chic couture, Modern Cowgirl focuses on celebrating the spirit and strength of the cowgirl within every woman. Modern Cowgirl is redefining the fantasy of the cowboy on his white horse with their motto “I Ride my Own White Horse”.

Modern Cowgirl "I Ride my Own White Horse" tank top

) July 24, 2009 -- RateFoto.com has released a Photo Widget to rate MySpace Photos on a scale from 1 to 10. Find out how to get those results by using RateFoto.com's Photo Rater Widget. By adding the widget to the caption below any photo on MySpace a user will find out the results very quickly. RateFoto.com has all of the latest and greatest trends and designs available to suit a MySpace Users needs. Find out which photo of is the best. Use the RateFoto.com Photo Widget to get a score today.

RateFoto.com Photo Widget

1. Choose a design.
2. Add it to your profile.
3. Then let your friends rate the photo.

) November 6, 2008 -- Moborazzi.com is proud to announce the launch of their social photo sharing platform for mobile phones. In beta since April of 2008, Moborazzi provides mobile phone users with instant over-the-air upload and direct-to-mobile broadcasting of mobile photos to personalized networks of friends and followers. Snap a picture, post it to Moborazzi and the photo is on the phones of friends and family, posted to the web, and saved to an online Moborazzi account from anywhere, instantly.

Need a quick fix for that photo? There provides you with 10 top photo editors. With those photo editors, you can edit your photos esaily and quickly.

) April 19, 2009 -- Of course, everyone's Mother would appreciate candy or flowers. But to give Mom a gift that will delight her long after the candy is eaten and the flowers are wilted, consider a gift of custom-designed silver gemstone jewelry.

One of the terrific things about a gift of jewelry is the ability to select something unique for that special person.

If blue is Mom's favorite color, one can find a piece that features elegant blue gemstones, like a bracelet of shimmering emerald-cut sky blue topaz, handcrafted in all 925 sterling silver. At BeautifulSilverJewelry.com it is available at the special Mother's Day price of just $75.

) August 26, 2009 -- Cotto Concepts (http://www.cottoconcepts.com), a web development boutique, has published two very different Facebook applications that both deliver real world value to its users. Both applications let users create something beyond the virtual gifts and games that are more common in the Facebook universe and reflect the future of Facebook and the socially-enabled application.

) January 24, 2009 -- pYzam.com has launched a completely free and customizable photo slideshow maker. Their new slideshow creation process allows even novices to design their own high quality photo slideshow in a matter of minutes. With this new tool pYzam has improved on two of the most difficult parts of creating a slideshow: uploading photos and customizing the design.

Photo Slideshow

) September 25, 2008 -- PhotoAffections.com today introduced their new line of holiday photo cards for the 2008 season. As part of their continued exclusive licensing agreement with "InABabyCarriage," PhotoAffections remains a leader in the online marketplace for designer photo cards, offering compelling and stylish photo holiday cards at exceptional values. As in previous years, PhotoAffections captures today's popular design trends with a selection of 135 unique holiday designs. From modern designs dotted with festive colors, to more traditional photo cards with earthy toile and faux linen-look textures, the 2008 collection of holiday photo cards is exceptionally diverse.

) November 28, 2008 -- PicPads, the personalized photo notepads that artistically capture people, places, pets and experiences, is on a mission to feed the hungry this holiday season.

"This year is especially tough," explained PicPads creator, Laura Y. Eiman. "Everyone is concerned about paying for the day-to-day necessities - never mind holiday gifts and stocking stuffers. I hope people turn to gift ideas like PicPads. They are useful, easy on the budget and a portion of each sale goes to those who need it most."

This year is especially tough

) February 16, 2010 -- Unique photo framing and social networking features of the Imikimi Photo Frame App have found popularity on the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. Introduced in December of 2009, the application is featured in the iTunes "New and Noteworthy" apps section. On February 10th the Imikimi app reached number five in the photography section and 69th overall in the United States, out of more than 140,000 apps.

User love it:

Tecagora launches an update to Snapact Photo Manager which includes new Acquire Wizard designed to simplify the process of transferring photos from a camera or any external device to computer.

) August 12, 2009 -- Simplytoimpress.com, an industry leader in “create-your-own,” custom-design photo cards, redesigned its Web site today to cater to a more balanced customer base. With the change, the company announces its Simply Cute Photo Contest and launches more custom photo products.

Photo Birth Announcement Example

Peerflux Inc. launches Pixisnap, a fun web tool that allows users to make photo mosaics and polaroid pictures in very simple ways.

) November 10, 2008 -- Tiny Prints, Inc. (www.tinyprints.com), a leading online retailer of premium, personalized stationery and software development, announced today new functionality available on tinyprints.com that will allow customers to easily integrate their saved photos into Tiny Prints stationery designs. The site upgrade, which arrives just in time for the holidays, will allow consumers to upload saved photos from their Flickr, SmugMug, and Picasa accounts directly from the Tiny Prints Web site.

) April 28, 2009 -- More of EasyTemplates.com's affordable Flash website templates now come complete with an easy-to-edit photo gallery and/or video gallery. The Flash templates cater to an increasing demand for an easy and attractive way to present photos and videos on websites.

Sample of an easy-to-edit Flash Web Template with Photo and Video Gallery from EasyTemplates.com

Want to create fun photo mashups in one click? Mashups with 1, 2, 3 and even more photos? Now it is possible with free Funny Photo! service. Gather your loved people into single image.

Picaboo (http://www.picaboo.com), the popular photo book provider, announced today that precious school-year photos tossed into shoeboxes or abandoned on hard-drives can be graduated smartly to a photo book for gift-giving or posterity. (PRWeb Jun 17, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/06/prweb2539304.htm

) October 3, 2008 -- At corporate and publicity events around the world, guests are going home with a new kind of party favor. The latest trend in event souvenirs is the photo favor - a fun, unique photograph of party guests printed within seconds of being taken.

) April 3, 2009 -- How do you wow the tech lovers in your life with a unique gift they can't be without, that also embraces the Going Green movement? Recently celebrating its 18th anniversary, Motherboard Gifts & More has delighted technology friendly and eco friendly consumers with strikingly original and completely functional products -- from desktop clocks, coasters, clipboards, luggage tags, and key rings to money clips, picture frames, business card cases, and silver pendants -- all made from reclaimed circuit boards originally designed for computers, TVs and other electronics.

) August 24, 2008 -- Moving closer to the goal of a single interface for online photo services, FotoDesk Group AG (www.fotodesk.com) announced the launch of a direct-upload Picasa plugin for its online photo suite flauntR (www.flauntr.com). The new plugin integrates with Picasa in two simple steps, enabling one-click uploading of photos to flauntR from Picasa, the PC-based photo organizer by Google Inc.

) July 17, 2009 -- Time Factory Publishing has launched a new online photo Web site, Pikcal.com (pronounced pickle), offering consumers a chance to store and share photos and create fully customizable photo products. The new Web site offers access to professional photos, providing pictures from Getty Images, NASCAR, Susan Branch and Ford, with more licenses coming soon.

With a simple, user-friendly Web site, adults and children alike can create photo books, calendars and other school and office supplies suited to their tastes. The Web site provides a distinctive experience that other online photo sites fail to match. With pikcal.com, photo sharing has never been easier.

Photo Service, the major in-store photo print chain, has successfully experimented a Surface Computing application designed by IntuiLab to create photo albums in-store and starts deployment.