Pixable
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Pixable is a photo discovery application and company headquartered in New York City
. The application aggregates and ranks photos across different online photo repositories allowing users to search, browse, edit, and access all the photos connected to them in one location.
, and Alberto Sheinfeld in Cambridge, Massachusetts
. The company started in the dorm rooms of MIT before moving its headquarters to New York City
. In November 2009, an additional office was opened in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In October 2009, Pixable went live to the public and began offering personalized printed and digital photo products to customers. Pixable has since shifted its focus to its photo aggregation and discovery application.
The company's free application offers a unique, personalized browsing experience by aggregating photos from different social networks and then smartly sorting them into feeds like “Best Photos of the Day” in order of their relevance to the user. Pixable also doubles as a notification service allowing users to follow friends’ photo activity and be notified of newly tagged or uploaded photos.
The application aggregates the photos available to each user on their Facebook
network, Instagram
, Twitter
and Flickr
, and organizes them into feeds like “Photos you liked” and “Best of the Day.”
Also available is a video category which collects Youtube, Vimeo, and native Facebook videos shared on a users network, and ranks and organizes these into feeds as well On Twitter, the application will update and display the photo timeline of a user's Twitter stream, not just of an individual.
As of July 2011, Pixable introduced a feature allowing users to view a timeline of all of the photos they have liked or commented on in the application.
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. The application aggregates and ranks photos across different online photo repositories allowing users to search, browse, edit, and access all the photos connected to them in one location.
History
Pixable was founded in March 2009 by MIT graduates and entrepreneurs Andres Blank, Inaki BerenguerIñaki Berenguer
Iñaki Berenguer is co-founder and CEO of the start-up Pixable, a web-based content sharing and printing service based in New York City. Berenguer, originally from Muro, Spain, holds Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering from Cambridge University, UK and an M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of...
, and Alberto Sheinfeld in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...
. The company started in the dorm rooms of MIT before moving its headquarters to New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. In November 2009, an additional office was opened in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In October 2009, Pixable went live to the public and began offering personalized printed and digital photo products to customers. Pixable has since shifted its focus to its photo aggregation and discovery application.
The company's free application offers a unique, personalized browsing experience by aggregating photos from different social networks and then smartly sorting them into feeds like “Best Photos of the Day” in order of their relevance to the user. Pixable also doubles as a notification service allowing users to follow friends’ photo activity and be notified of newly tagged or uploaded photos.
Photo and Video Discovery
Pixable’s primary product is a photo and video discovery and viewing application available on the web, iPhone, and iPad.The application aggregates the photos available to each user on their Facebook
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
network, Instagram
Instagram
Instagram is a free photo sharing application that allows users to take photos, apply a filter, and share it on the service or a variety of other social networking services, including Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Tumblr, Flickr , and Posterous...
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
and Flickr
Flickr
Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to...
, and organizes them into feeds like “Photos you liked” and “Best of the Day.”
Also available is a video category which collects Youtube, Vimeo, and native Facebook videos shared on a users network, and ranks and organizes these into feeds as well On Twitter, the application will update and display the photo timeline of a user's Twitter stream, not just of an individual.
WonderRank
Pixable's “WonderRank” technology prioritizes photos that are the most interesting to a specific user based on factors such as the number of likes and comments, amount of interaction with the friends associated with the photo, and the kind of photos the user has liked in the past.Following
Pixable’s photo discovery includes a feature through which users can subscribe to updates of selected friends’ Facebook photo activity. This feature allows them to ‘follow’ them through updates The ability to see these updates of friends' Facebook photo activity is possible through the "follow" feature or through email and push notifications.Editing
In May 2011, Pixable integrated Aviary's Feather photo editor into it’s photo discover application to allow users to edit and apply filters to photos. The photo editor works inside the application, allowing users to work with photos as they find them in the application.Feeds
Pixable sorts users photos into several feeds such as "Best Photos of the Day" and "Just the Ladies," each of which have photos organized in an order determined by WonderRank.As of July 2011, Pixable introduced a feature allowing users to view a timeline of all of the photos they have liked or commented on in the application.