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Lifeblob “People of the world” was a grand success with a lot of interesting content being showcased. This was what we intended for when we started this contest in the first place.

Some of the interesting photos were:

If you are one of those who have tons of photos on your hard drive and do not want to go through the hassle of organizing it into albums, we have some good news!

Today we announce  an upgrade to our picasa button where you now have the option of just uploading all your photos and let us do the tedious part of organizing them. Our servers do a good job of grouping together photos that were taken around the same time into a single blob and automatically turn your photos into a beautiful timeline.

Here are the steps:

1) Install Picasa’s latest desktop client on your machine. You can download it from http://picasa.google.com.

2) Install the lifeblob picasa button. You will find the instructions to install it at http://www.lifeblob.com/tools/. This will add a lifeblob button on your picasa button bar – it looks like:

3) Select all the photos that you want to upload and click the lifeblob button in picasa. Please note that picasa imposes a limit of uploading only 400MB of photos at one time.

4) In the screen that shows up, select “Automatically organize photos for me” option.

And thats all – in the next few minutes, all the photos on your hard drive will be converted into a beautiful timeline.

[This post is part of a series of posts explaining the features of the new lifeblob v2.0 release.]

Adding posts to your timeline has never been easier. In our never-ending quest to make it easier for you to post stuff onto lifeblob, we’ve added a few new features and simplified some existing ones.

Right below your timeline and also on your home page, we’ve added a nifty little panel that lets you add stuff instantly to your timeline.

• Want to post a photo to your timeline? Just select the file and click post. No further questions!
• A bunch of photos? Sure, just select “Upload an album”.
• We also let you add videos to your timeline. Currently, only YouTube videos are supported.
• Are you the writer kind? Choose the “Write” option and express yourself to your hearts’ content.

For the users of picasa offline photo organizer, we have a picasa button that they can install to upload directly from picasa to lifeblob.

Email is still a very widely used mode of sending photos to friends and the next time you mail your photos to your friends, you can also cc it to me@post.lifeblob.com to have them posted on your timeline – all your friends listed in the mail also get added as participants.