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Image details: Madonna and Guy Ritchie attend Kabbalah service despite pouring rain in NYC served by picapp.com

If this is the kind of picture you were looking for, or anything to do with entertainment (and a bit of gossip) images, we now have it. Thanks to our new partner, Splash News, bloggers can now add up-to-the minute celebrity photos to accompany their post. The official release is out as of yesterday, so take a look. 

Our team is also thankful to Adam Ostrow from Mashable. He was kind enough to review PicApp: “That’s a stark contrast to the wild west of services like Google Images where hundreds of images can be found on any topic, copyright information is sparse, and photos can be copied and re-published anywhere, virtually untraceable. Each PicApp image – even when embedded on a blog – comes with a link directly to the copyright image, and can be traced through PicApp’s interface for content owners.”

Image details: Heidi Klum and her family go for lunch in NYC served by picapp.com

So, come on and start blogging celebrity!

PicApp on TechCrunch!

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PicApp had a buzz this weekend, following Jason Kincaid’s of TechCrunch publication about our partnership with b5media. This review led to a number of online publishers putting across their thoughts, feedbacks, and a further increase in the number of bloggers using PicApp.

A few words about our friends over at b5media and our close partnership (see official release)…

As many of you already know, the publishers at b5media have been with us early on – as early as the privet beta stage. Their positive feedbacks and constructive criticism had a major part in shaping PicApp into the way it looks right now. It’s true the road to perfection, and to becoming a blog tool which is what publishers are looking for, is still pretty long – but, b5media paved its early days. So, we want to send a warm thanks.

For those of you that want to see how PicApp looks on a b5media blog, check these out:

mk ashley

Richie Fan

Snarkygossip

MerryRoyals

There is much more we’ve got to tell, but we want to keep you intrigued – so, stay tuned !

RSS + images = Stay updated without moving your mouse (or How I learned too much about Amy Winehouse)

PicApp users are simply lean-mean-blogging-machines. How do we know? Our servers tell us that our average blogger writes more than 3 posts a week!

So, we thought… Hey - let’s make their life easier!

Image details: Easy street sign served by picapp.com

How? - We've added the power of RSS to the our image results stream.

If you don’t know what RSS is (I guess most of you know but if you want to catch up quickly - here's a good summary ), it’s basically a live bookmark that updates on its own.

As a logged-in PicApp user, each one of your searches allows you to subscribe to an RSS feed of the results. This means that each time we get new images that match your search you will be automatically informed via your RSS reader – in real time!

So instead of bloggers chasing brand new images for their extra hot posts, PicApp would do it for them.

See how I used it:

Let’s say I’m blogging about young, interesting and talented person like me (OK, not like me, more like the really cool Amy Winehouse):

I login to the PicApp site and naturally run the search “Amy Winehouse” to get the best new images at hand:

As you can see, a new RSS button now appears on the image results page (to the left of the search box):

Now, just use the RSS button to subscribe for this specific search auto-updating results feed.

You can subscribe to the feed using the shortcuts your browser offers (see Firefox above) or copy the address and paste it into your favorite reader, I’m using Google’s Reader for my RSS needs,so it looks like the example below, but this will obviously work for all feed reading tools.

Every time the talented (although a bit, ahmm, shall we say, troubled)  Ms Winehouse does anything new – an updated image will be added to our inventory, and YOUR feed reader will update YOU as it happens!

Have fun staying updated!
The PicApp team

PicApp on Facebook

We're there too - on Facebook, and everyone is invited. It's simply another place for you to contact us, comment and see where we are...

So, come on over.

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A new PicApp version is now available!!

PicApp’s new version is here, and we want you to come and experience. Overall, we fixed some bugs, made a few improvements and added some cool features.

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What can you expect to see in this new version?

New Image Frame -  choose how PicApp will look on your blog.

RSS - build your own search feeds

Image Preview - don't buy the cat in the sack

Search Enhancements - for better results 

 

We’re still in beta, but continuously working on delivering quality, up-to-the-minute, images for online publishers -in the best way out there.

Some of your comments were implemented in this version, and others will be in the next versions. So, keep those comments coming - we want to hear you.