Update: Showzey & Facebook working

Thursday, 8th July 2010  12:00pm PDT

Some users were reporting that login via Facebook Connect and cataloging Facebook photos were not working. The error started happening at Wedensday 7th July around 1:00am PDT.

The problem was caused by Facebook: the Facebook API server started behaving a little different and that caused problem with Showzey not to be able to connect to Facebook.

The problem is fixed as of Wednesday 7th July 13:00pm PDT.

We apologize to everyone who encountered difficulties using Showzey.

Showzey Team.

Harvard Business School: Pictures are killer app of all online social networks

Interesting post from Mikolaj Jan Piskorski from Harvard Business School. The following excerpt is very similar to our elevator pitch :):

The biggest discovery: pictures. “People just love to look at pictures,” says Piskorski. “That’s the killer app of all online social networks. Seventy percent of all actions are related to viewing pictures or viewing other people’s profiles.”

True. However, majority posts on Facebook are about FarmVille, PetVille, MafiaWars, spam messages, etc. And on Facebook you can see only photos which are stored on Facebook. What about photos sent via email? What about photos shared via Flickr?

So this is pretty much why we built Showzey.

Senad

Instructions How to Copy Photos from Gmail

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The updated Showzey is here: A little better performance, fixes, and one new feature

We have updated Showzey.com. The site should be a little faster, share emails will not be catches by spam filter, we added Single Click “Delete Account”, and other minor fixes.

Better Performances

Showzey.com performances should be a little better. We have applied ruby mbari patch and did some code optimization.

However, we are still not performing as fast as we should - there is still a memory leak (probably caused by ruby String implementation). We are working on it.

Share email will not be catch by spam filter

We have fixed problem that our share emails were considered as spam by Gmail spam filter. Lesson learned: don’t mess with headers when sending emails via Gmail.

Single Click Delete Account

Now you can delete your account from Showzey in one click. Go to your account menu and select “Delete my account”. That will delete all your photos stored on Showzey storage, all photo links cataloged by Showzey, and authorization and authentication tokens we store in our secure storage. Immediately - no need to wait for Showzey resync with identity providers (Yahoo!, Google, and Facebook) to learn that you revoked Showzey authentication and authorization.

Thanks!

Showzey Team.

A new of version of Showzey is here!

We have good news to share with you: a new and improved version of Showzey is here! On January 10th, we launched a new version that has super easy sharing, a new single photo view, ability to add comic word balloons on top of photos, and much more. Go check it out!

Sign in to Showzey.com and try the new version!

Thanks again for your support, and we look forward to sharing with you some exciting new features over the next several weeks. If you have any questions or comments, please share them in our forum or via email.

Senad Dizdar