(1888PressRelease)
December 16, 2008 - YAHOO! PRESS CONFERENCE, SUNNYVALE, CA. --- Xoopit introduces Photos by Xoopit beta in conjunction with today’s announcement of the beta launch of applications in Yahoo! Photos by Xoopit adds a beautiful social photo browser to Yahoo Mail, allowing people to find and share the photos they get every day and those that have been buried and forgotten over the years.
"Millions of people have billions of photos scattered across the Internet in webmail and photo sites such as Yahoo Mail, Flickr, Picasaweb, Shutterfly, and Kodak," says Xoopit CEO Bijan Marashi. "Photos by Xoopit makes it easy to access your photos and photo links from inside the Yahoo Mail Inbox."
"People struggle to find and view photos in their email. Those problems are now gone. Not only can users find those photos, but they will be able to post them to Facebook, blogs and other social networks without leaving their mail application."
“Email inboxes house a treasure trove of pictures, videos, links, files and messages,” says John Kremer, vice president of Yahoo! Mail. “Xoopit’s photo application in Yahoo! Mail extends the functionality of email to provide something our users want – the ability to mine for years of photos and turn them into a scrapbook of their lives.”
Xoopit is the leader in photo indexing and aggregation technology, bridging content from webmail with the rest of the social web. Xoopit's unique Cloud Indexing platform is a flexible search technology capable of indexing messaging systems, photo services, cloud file repositories, and web applications. The platform is extensible and customizable, developers may do custom entity extraction and relevance tuning to meet the needs of their service. Xoopit is now available to devices and services from personal photo collections on mobile phones and laptops to cloud scale services.
Yahoo! Mail users can expect to see a pipeline of search and sharing features to be built inside the service over the coming months.
About Xoopit
Xoopit finds the pictures, videos, and files buried in webmail's gigabytes of free storage and allows users to share, comment, and post them to their contacts on other social networks and blogs. The product has been released in beta with initial client support for Yahoo! Mail and Google's Gmail and automatically imports shared media from the top photo and video sharing networks such as YouTube, Flickr, Kodak, Shutterfly, and Picasa Web.
Over time, the company plans to expand its offerings to the top webmail systems including Hotmail, AOL and also top social networks.
Xoopit, the Company
Xoopit was founded in 2006 by Bijan Marashi and Jonathan Katzman as the first company dedicated to bringing the power of the social web to the world's email systems. Xoopit has been financed by Accel Partners and Foundation Capital along with a slew of strategic angels.
Brian Solis
FutureWorks for Xoopit
408-393-9808
brian ( @ ) future-works dot com
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