Shutterbook Reinvents Online Photo Sharing; New Online Photo Sharing Service Gives Flickr a Run For Its Money By Offering A Multiple Photo Uploader, High-Res Photo Storage, Intuitive Photo Tagging And Complete Password Protection

Business Wire, Dec 6, 2005

LOS ANGELES -- Shutterbook (www.shutterbook.com), the latest and most intuitive online photo sharing service, today announced its inception with the launch of a new premium service that gives consumers considerably more than just the ability to upload photos to a website. Aiming to stand out from the over-saturated market full of cumbersome and non user-friendly photo sharing services, Shutterbook gives its customers a myriad of features, including a completely password protected photo sharing experience, a multiple photo Uploader application, 20GB of high resolution photo storage, unique tagging capabilities, a robust online community and an easy-to-use customized slideshow tool complete with your favorite music. Shutterbook, founded by interactive designers/developers Dzuy Linh and Trent Hamilton, developed the service to help consumers re-experience the fun, ease and excitement of creating online scrapbooks for sharing.

In the past, a service this robust and unique was reserved for large companies or the designer/developer enthusiast community. But now, every consumer is able to access this ultimate photo sharing service and all its incredible features for only $49 a year. Shutterbook will also offer first time customers the choice to create a basic account, which will contain most of the functionality of the premium account, minus the high-resolution photo storage (up to 20,000 photos) and the ability to upload photos via mobile phones or other devices.

"Shutterbook hopes to provide consumers with the type of photo sharing, photo managing, photo tagging and photo networking that every service should have," said Dzuy Linh, Co-Founder/Creator of Shutterbook. "We wanted to create a simple, powerful and easy-to-use interface that lets people really enjoy photo sharing and community experience."

Over the years, online photo sharing has gone through many changes. Consumers have never had more choices to share their digital assets than now. Even the most successful services to this point still don't offer the kind of functionality and user experience that Shutterbook does. Shutterbook's arrival into the marketplace will finally give consumers what they have been looking for in an online photo sharing community environment.

"Because Shutterbook is housed online and the interface is built on a cross-browser, cross-OS compatible platform, anyone can use it," said Trent Hamilton, Co-Founder/Creator of Shutterbook. "We designed it this way so that the technology would be virtually invisible, hence letting people just enjoy the art of online photo sharing without the technology getting in the way."

Even before Shutterbook was launched, the innovative photo sharing technology behind the service was getting noticed. In fact, the technology was licensed by Energizer Battery for a high-profile photo-sharing contest sponsored by Project Greenlight, BravoTV and the Palms Hotel Casino & Resort. Shutterbook was also awarded Macromedia's "Site of the Day" in its beta form. Shutterbook is poised to be the most presentable, friendly, personalized and fun photo sharing application available on the web.

Shutterbook Quick Facts

--Up to 20GB of high-resolution photo storage (about 20,000 photos)

--Easy online album creation, just like a computer desktop application

--Multiple photo Uploader application, giving users the ability to upload hundreds of photos all at once

--Beautiful Flash slideshow transition options, complete with music integration

--Designed to be consumer friendly

--Customizable interface colors

--Premium Account available for only $49 a year

--The user interface is easy to use, intuitive and beautiful

About Shutterbook

Shutterbook (www.shutterbook.com), founded by interactive designers/developers Dzuy Linh and Trent Hamilton, was designed to help consumers re-experience the fun, ease and excitement of creating online scrapbooks for sharing. Built by using award-winning, innovative web technology and housed in a brilliantly elegant user interface design, Shutterbook.com is poised to be the leader in online photo sharing, photo storing and photo networking.

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