Sharpcast Photos 1.1 includes viewing and sharing group albums from mobile phones, plus interactive slideshows for blogs and MySpace. Sharpcast are also offering up to 110 free prints for Yahoo! Photos customers who sign up. Sharpcast Photos version 1.1 is available for free at http://www.sharpcast.com

Sharpcast Press Release

New sharpcast photos update is the perfect way to share and preserve summer memories

PALO ALTO, CALIF. (Monday, June 25, 2007) – Sharpcast today released a new version of its popular Sharpcast Photos software-service combination for automatically backing up digital photos online and sharing them with no manual uploading or web browsing required. In addition to the new release, Sharpcast is offering special free prints promotions to new members, members who refer their friends to Sharpcast, and people who choose to make a pain-free switch to Sharpcast from Yahoo! Photos as their service comes to an end this summer.

Sharpcast Photos version 1.1
Sharpcast Photos has been noted by industry experts as the most innovative new digital photo service available. Among the many unique features improved in version 1.1 is the ability to effortlessly create and share group albums, in which several people can contribute original full-resolution photos to the same album. Group albums are the perfect way to share and preserve family memories from summer weddings and vacations; and with new promotions starting today – turn them into beautiful prints for free.

Sharpcast Photos version 1.1, available for free at www.sharpcast.com, adds several innovative new features to what is already the most comprehensive photo solution in the market. For example people can now quickly add interactive slideshows to their blog, website or MySpace page, so anyone viewing the slideshow can write comments on the photos that sync right to the album owner’s PC.

Another addition is custom URLs (for example, your_name.sharpcast.com), allowing members to create their own personalized web space for their photos free of charge. The company is also delivering a new version of Sharpcast Photos mobile edition for Windows Mobile phones.  The new edition lets users view group albums and albums shared with them by others right on their phone, along with their entire PC photo collection.

Free Prints Bonanza
Now Sharpcast members have a chance to earn free prints every time they share photos. Sharpcast members receive 10 free prints whenever someone they share photos with signs up for a free Sharpcast account. New customers also receive free prints upon signing up for an account and up to 100 free prints for upgrading to a premium account. Details on the sharing, signup and upgrade promotions are at www.sharpcast.com/offers/invite_a_friend.

Perfect for Switching from Yahoo! Photos
Sharpcast Photos is the ideal alternative for Yahoo! Photos customers whose accounts will no longer be active after the shutdown of the Yahoo! Photos service later this summer. Sharpcast provides a more secure and private place for photos online as they can only be viewed by invited friends and family. Switching from Yahoo! Photos to Sharpcast is effortless, since unlike traditional photo sites, Sharpcast’s free software automatically uploads photos from PC hard drives without any manual web uploading required from the customer.

All Yahoo! Photos customers are also eligible to receive up to 110 free prints from Sharpcast. Details on switching from Yahoo! Photos to Sharpcast can be found at www.sharpcast.com/offers/yahoo.

About Sharpcast Photos
Sharpcast Photos’ one-of-a-kind feature set includes PC-to-PC sharing and photo chat with no need for manual uploading, 100% automatic online backup of full-resolution photos at blazing-fast speed, effortless group sharing of original images between friends or family, and the ability to keep an entire photo collection automatically in sync across multiple computers and the web, such that any change made to the collection anywhere is automatically applied everywhere. Sharpcast delivers the only way to effortlessly share original images for free.

In addition to even faster performance and uploads as well as user interface enhancements, new features of Sharpcast Photos version 1.1 include:

Embed an interactive chat-enabled slideshow of any of your photo albums into your blog, website or MySpace page. Comments made on the slideshow sync right to the album owner’s desktop
View all your PC photos, including group albums and albums shared with you, on your Windows Mobile phone
Vanity URLs for online web albums, for example, your_name.sharpcast.com
Import contacts to share original photos and group albums with, right from your web mail account (for example, Gmail and Yahoo! Mail) or Microsoft Outlook

About Sharpcast
An innovator in digital media and information synchronization, Sharpcast develops software and services based on their patent-pending universal push synchronization platform, which delivers the absolute simplest way for people to back up, share, access and sync their digital content regardless of what device they are on and whether they are online or off. Sharpcast APIs enable select partners to develop connected applications that work seamlessly online and offline, and transform existing applications into services that work across desktop computers, the web and mobile devices. A team of wireless and mobile industry veterans with a proven track record for building large-scale wireless data systems and successful software businesses founded Sharpcast in 2004 with a mission to make digital life simple.

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