Photobird.com Press Release

New Photobird.com codebase: More robust platform, flexible architecture, stronger foundation, at least 200% speed increase

For the past several months, we’ve been hard at work on a new version of Photobird.com.  This new version has the same clean, attractive design as the previous Photobird.com site, but it also has improved speed, a more flexible architecture, and a stronger foundation upon which to build new features.

Our speed benchmark tests show a performance improvement of at least 200%.  Some pages on the new Photobird.com show an improvement of over 2000%!  Because Photobird.com is already very fast and because these improvements are measured in milliseconds, individual site visitors may not see a dramatic speed increase.  But these performance improvements mean that as Photobird.com grows, it will continue to show photos and albums very quickly.

Our months of extensive testing enabled us to successfully launch the new codebase last week.  All of our customers’ photos and albums were converted over seamlessly.  This new version of Photobird.com has the exact same look and feel as the previous Photobird.com, so most visitors will most likely not recognize many changes.

With this new version of Photobird.com, we’re very much looking forward to delivering more, exciting features in 2005!

New feature:
Reveal some of your photographic secrets with “Display EXIF photo information”
We’ve introduced several new features in the last few months, but one of the most significant is that now you have the option to display EXIF photo information on the same page as each photo.  If customers choose to display EXIF photo information, we have designed the layout of the data to fit well within the current Photobird.com design.  Moreover, there are 3 options: do not display EXIF information (which is the default), display a short list only, or display the full list.  When you display the short list, you can also click on the EXIF information to view the full list.

We integrated this EXIF photo information into the pages to provide the flexibility to display the EXIF information, while keeping with the clean design and look of the photo albums.

You can see this EXIF photo display in action in the sample digital camera review photos at http://photobird.com/reviews/cameras/sony/t1/samples/baybridgemorning .

With the release of the new Photobird.com codebase, we are looking forward to an exciting 2005 with lots of new features to make sharing photos fun and easy!

Photobird.com home page: www.photobird.com

Photobird.com makes it easy to create online photo albums and share your photos, using a simple, attractive web-based design. Photobird.com is faster, easier, and more convenient than e-mailing
your photos to friends and family.  See the Photobird Learning Center for digital photography how-to articles, product reviews, news, and more!

Photobird.com offers:
- Easy-to-use, secure, professionally designed photo albums
- Easy-to-remember links that use the same names as your photo albums
- Send to a Friend button, to easily share links of photos and photo
albums
- Easily add titles and descriptions to your photos and photo albums
- No advertisements or solicitations on your photo albums
- and more…