• Last monthly Google quietly announced a partnership with LIFE Magazine to bring their entire archive of offline photos to the web. Today they bring it to the masses by advertising it on the Google Images homepage. This is one of Google’s most prominent achievements as they continue to try and organize the offline web online. This last week Google announced that you will now be able to search magazine online, another big step for the grand mission that is Google Book Search.
• The collection of newly-digitized images includes photos and etchings produced and owned by LIFE dating all the way back to the 1750s. A majority of the images have never been published and most the ones that did have only been seen by few collectors and historians. In the process, Google searched (by hand) the dusty archives which contained negatives, slides, glass plates, etchings, and prints that needed to be converted. As of last month during the testing period, they had about 20 percent of the collection online or around 2 million photos. Now, they are nearing completion of the 10 million total photos.

• List of 10 online scrapbooking tools here.

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• Flickr is gearing up for a redesign, adding social features to their site.
• Viewable via a sneak preview link at the bottom right of the layout.
• Contacts provides a streaming news feed of photos your friends have uploaded on the site.
• Explore showcases popular photos from around Flickr.
• Tiny commentary: The subtle yet valuable changes are a good move for Flickr, maybe Facebook should take a lesson.

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• Picasa, Google’s photo management service, has added cool user engagement features to take on Flikr
• Explorer, is a widget integrated with a world map, that displays public photos uploaded by Picasa members around the world
• They have also integrated a game with the service called ‘Where In The World’.
• WIW shows you a public geo-tagged photo from a member and players must guess, you guessed it, where in the world it was taken.
• Picasa is 3rd in photo management traffic with 48m visitors behind Facebook (97m), and Flikr (63m).

Can Picasa shed its red headed stepchild past and gain respect in the tech community?

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• Pikchur takes uploaded photos (email or MMS) and posts them on a variety of networks at once including Tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook
• Flickr integration in the works

• Launching today, ProofHQ lets you upload files up to 75mb and generates a unique link to view them within a web browser.
• Great way to avoid sending large attachments and application filetype incompatabilities.
• Miniproof feature lets you embed viewer into blogs/websites.

• Photobucket users can now order digital prints of their photos from Target and pick them up in-store.
• Price point as low as $0.20 for 4″ x 6″, standard glossy format paper.
• Target has made similar deals in the past with Shutterfly and Kodak Gallery, but neither service have anywhere close to the amount of images on Photobucket (millions added each day).
• Flickr is Photobucket’s closest competitor.