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At lifeblob, we are constantly innovating to help you do more with your photos. Today, we announce the launch of a widget that is so unique and powerful in showcasing your photos that all existing widgets simply pale in comparison.

What is so unique about this widget?

If you look towards your right, you will see this widget embedded in the sidebar of this blog. The unique aspect of this widget is that it allows a viewer to browse through your entire public photo stream by simply scrolling through it.

Try scrolling down in the widget on your right and you will see that it keeps fetching more photos as you move down. This makes it really easy for you to showcase your entire photostream within the limited space available on your blog. And when the viewer likes a photo, he/she can click on it to see a larger version of the same – neat, isn’t it?

Whats more, as you add new photos to your photo stream, the old photos get pushed down and the new photos automatically start showing up in the widget!

Thats so cool – how do I get it on my blog?

Here are 3 simple steps in which you can quickly build this widget for your blog:

1) Sign up for a lifeblob account – yup, its required. How else would we get your photos?

2) During the signup process, you will be asked to link your existing flickr / picasa / photobucket / facebook accounts. Follow the instructions on the page to link up as many accounts as you want and we will get your photos from there.

3) After you finish the signup flow and reach your profile page, click on the “Embed” icon. You will then be taken to a page where you can get the embed code for your widget – simple!

So get all your photos on lifeblob and proudly showcase them to the world! Do let us know how you like this embed.

For those who have been asking for it, its time to rejoice – we changed the profile photo defaults to make them more colorful. Yay!

Now thats not much of a news, so we decided to check out what each of these colors mean in the language of photos. And guess what, the results were very interesting.

Click on any of the photos below to check out what that color means:

Today we are launching a new way to discover photos at lifeblob – the “good old search“.

Lifeblob now has a collection of over 1.5 Million photos and adding search for photos makes it really easy to find photos that match your interests. So go ahead, type in a few words and explore the amazing world of photos.

Here are a few searches to try out: Kid Photos, Pet Photos, Landscape Photos, Bangalore Photos, Road Photos.

Tip for lifeblobbers: Photos that have more comments / likes / views rank higher in the search results. Promote your photos by sharing them with your friends!

In an endeavour to make it easier for you to find your friends on lifeblob, we are launching support for AOL and improved support for Yahoo.

If you are an existing user, you can use the following steps to find and invite your AOL and Yahoo buddies:

• Log in to your lifeblob account
• On the right side, choose “Find your friends“
• On the page that comes up, choose the service where you keep your address book to proceed

New users will find the option to find and invite friends as a part of the signup process.

We would love to hear about your experience with lifeblob so far and any suggestions that you may have to make it better for you!

Today we added photobucket to the list of photo services that are supported for import to your lifeblob. If you are an existing lifeblob user, you can use the following steps to get your photobucket photos to your lifeblob:

• Login to your lifeblob account
• In the sidebar on your right, click “Import Photos and Videos“
• On the page that shows up, simply choose the photobucket option and you are done!

If you are joining lifeblob today, you can import your photobucket photos during the signup process.

If you use another photo service that you would like us to support, do let us know!

Lifeblob is all about experiences and how they connect people, places and things together. We have been listening to your feedback and in order to make the experience more enriching and your memories truly memorable, we have made some changes to the site.

Starting today, we will be sporting a new theme and a new color scheme called – “Lily of the Valley”. Your photos now look more beautiful, overlaid on polaroid cards and relations are tucked neatly below them. We do hope you enjoy using it as much as we did building it for you.

We look forward to hearing from you how much you liked it.

Today, we are announcing a couple of changes to how you can interact with lifeblob and I am going to give you a glimpse of these changes here.

If you scroll below your timeline, you will find that you have a couple of choices:

1) Lifestream: Inside this tab, you will see a linear view of your lifestream. The notable thing in this view is that you are now able to quickly see the blobs around which discussions are happening so that you can join in and add your point of view.

2) Newsfeed: Inside this tab, you will see the activities that your friends are performing inside lifeblob.

3) Comments: Inside this tab, you will see comments that other users have made on your timeline.

We hope that these changes should make your interaction with lifeblob a lot more interesting and also make it easier for you to have discussions with other people that share your interests.

Yes, you read it right – there is much more you can do by linking your facebook account with lifeblob than you thought. Read on to see how you can quickly get a lot of value by linking your facebook account with lifeblob.

1) Single Sign On
This is the most obvious of all – link up your facebook account with lifeblob and thou shalt have the privilege of signing into lifeblob with your facebook credentials.

2) Timeline from facebook photos
If you maintain your photo albums in facebook, this is your opportunity to turn them into a timeline. We also look at your face tags and automatically turn them into relations that you will see behind the blobs. Trust us, no one can make your photos look better than a lifeblob timeline.

3) Autocomplete includes your facebook friends
There are times when we ask you to enter the name / email ids of your friends, for instance when you create a new blob or when you add a face tag. If you have imported your address book, we assist you by auto-completing the names for you and linking up your facebook account will now get your facebook friends to show up there too. Isn’t it cool?

4) Share your blobs with your facebook friends
You can now add your facebook friends as participants to your blobs. When you do so, we automatically intimate your facebook friends about your new blob. You also have the option of publishing your newly added blob on the facebook news feed so that all your facebook friends get to see it.

5) Get your facebook friends involved in your activities at lifeblob
When you add a comment or perform some other activities inside lifeblob, you have the option of publishing it to your facebook news feed. This is a great way of getting your facebook friends to participate in a discussion on something you like in lifeblob.

We hope you like these and find these valuable means of interaction. If you have more suggestions on how we can help you further, do not hesitate to write to us.

We have been beta-testing the facebook connect integration for the past 15 days or so and it is time to make an announcement.

“Facebook connect is now officially live at lifeblob”

For new users, this means that you do not need to create a new account at lifeblob. Simply click the f-connect button to login directly with your facebook account and get a lovely timeline built off your facebook photos.

For our loyal blobbers, if you login with the facebook account next time, we will do our best to match it with your lifeblob account and link them together. However, the fool-proof way to link up your facebook account is to follow the steps below:

1) Select “Manage Imports” from the “My Lifeblob” dropdown.

2) Click on the facebook icon.

3) Click on the f-connect button and login with your facebook account.

Thats all – your lifeblob account will now be linked with your facebook account and you can in future login with either of the two.

We have turned on some special features for physical communities that meet up on a regular basis. If you run such a community, you now have a consolidated system where you can PLAN, RSVP and RECORD all your meets.

Whats more, we allow direct sign-ins using google account, yahoo account and open id so your members don’t need to create yet-another-account to use these features. Sounds unbelievable – check out the video below to find out how you can benefit from it.