BlueMelon
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BlueMelon is a photo sharing
web service
, providing for digital storage of images. It is a Web 2.0
application running mostly on Ajax
, and incorporating drag & drop functionality
. It came out of Beta on April 2009, after having launched on October 2008.
. "Power" accounts, beyond the professional account, feature customization for advanced users with CSS and HTML proficiency, and the use of a custom domain, visitor password protected uploads, and the ability to use links in descriptions It is a "family-safe" web application, where the content is reviewed and inappropriate content is periodically removed. It offers an application interface allowing other developers to write their own applications using the BlueMelon infrastrucutre
Photo sharing
Photo sharing is the publishing or transfer of a user's digital photos online, thus enabling the user to share them with others . This function is provided through both websites and applications that facilitate the upload and display of images...
web service
Dot-com company
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, providing for digital storage of images. It is a Web 2.0
Web 2.0
The term Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web...
application running mostly on Ajax
Ajax (programming)
Ajax is a group of interrelated web development methods used on the client-side to create asynchronous web applications...
, and incorporating drag & drop functionality
Drag-and-drop
In computer graphical user interfaces, drag-and-drop is the action of selecting a virtual object by "grabbing" it and dragging it to a different location or onto another virtual object...
. It came out of Beta on April 2009, after having launched on October 2008.
Features
Along with features common to other image sharing sites, BlueMelon also provides for slideshows with a fullscreen mode Prints may be ordered from stored images. The originals of the images are stored on Amazon S3Amazon S3
Amazon S3 is an online storage web service offered by Amazon Web Services. Amazon S3 provides storage through web services interfaces...
. "Power" accounts, beyond the professional account, feature customization for advanced users with CSS and HTML proficiency, and the use of a custom domain, visitor password protected uploads, and the ability to use links in descriptions It is a "family-safe" web application, where the content is reviewed and inappropriate content is periodically removed. It offers an application interface allowing other developers to write their own applications using the BlueMelon infrastrucutre