You can already do a lot with Photobucket–host your photos, create albums, slide shows and even share videos. Photobucket has managed to integrate with a number of third party services, creating multimedia to be easily shared on your Facebook profile, in a variety of ways. While much of Photobucket’s initial popularity seemed to fluctuate with a love-hate relationship with MySpace, in the end MySpace made the move to acquire Photobucket, making the photo-hosting and sharing service even more deeply integrated with a widely-used social network.
Now, Photobucket has teamed up with online scrapbooking tool Scrapblog to provide its users another way in which to chronicle and share their multimedia content. This is offered through a Scrapblog application which is now available through Photobucket, providing scrapbook templates that can be created from scratch or take advantage of one of Scrapblog’s many themes celebrating vacations, sports, weddings, and holidays.
There are also branded template options that are modeled after popular television programs such as Disney’s “High School Musical 3.” Seeing as Scrapblog is partnering with more and more brands such as Carnival for highly specific scrapbook themes, the new availability of its application on a service like Photobucket could easily be spread even further across the Web.
Seeing as Photobucket already had a great deal of custom options, including themes for various events and holidays, one way in which to further extend the options available to users is more comprehensive ways in which to turn media into a story-telling device. More applications are emerging with portable methods in which to share media, some, like the mobile app Moblyng, work directly with content already existing on MySpace, and others, like Heekya, present themselves specifically for such integrated story-telling tools.
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