TinyPic replaces TinyFx with Categories!
September 11, 2008
Not to worry! TinyFx isn’t gone…it’s just relocated. As a TinyPic member, you can still create TinyFx using your images. But on the Home page, the TinyFx option has been replaced with a Categories option.
The Home page displays Featured Categories of images and videos. Click Categories at the top, or click More>> to the right of the Featured Categories title to see all the TinyPic categories. Each category has a headline image and a list of sub-categories. Click the magnifying glass icon in the corner of a headline image to view that specific image.
Gigya!
September 2, 2008
I just love that word. “Gigya!” It makes me think of Glen Quagmire (giggity) on Family Guy® and Kramer (giddy up!) on Seinfeld. But really, Gigya is a company that provides free Wildfire technology for sharing and tracking your company’s widget. The Wildfire technology supports more than 50 destinations, including:
- Social networks, including Facebook
- Blog platforms
- Start pages
- Desktops
Which is why we are using it on TinyPic! Gigya allows you to post images and videos to a multitude of sites or email images and videos to a host of your friends.
- Go to http://tinypic.com, and choose the image or video you want to share or post. Log into your account if you want to use your own content. Below Tools or Your Toolbox on the left, you can see the Gigya widget:
- Choose the location to which you want to post the selected content, or click the Email link to email the content.
- Follow the instructions for your selected option.
There you go! Nice feature, isn’t it? The better news is that you can use Gigya within videos that you play on TinyPic! So, let’s say you are watching a video on TinyPic. Click the hyperlink icon at the bottom. The Gigya options display, and you can post, bookmark, or email the video, as well as copy the code if you want to embed it in your own web page!
Have you noticed the new TinyPic video player?
July 30, 2008
Our new video player is pretty cool! Not that the old player was bad, of course. But as with most things, there’s always room for improvement. Do you remember the old player? You could link to it and view videos on it; it was a vanilla video player. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. After all, a video player that has too many bells and whistles is likely to hog up lots of resources on your computer. However, there was room for improvement. And so…
Introducing the new, improved TinyPic video player! Ta da!
The first thing you may notice is that the function bar at the bottom, which used to be hidden when you watched a video, is no longer hidden. And while you are looking at the function bar, the second thing you may notice is that there are more icons in the function bar. In addition to the typical play, stop, and volume buttons there are two new buttons:
- hyperlink
- view full-screen
When you click hyperlink, the quick post functionality displays over the video view so you can click a button to post the video to the website of your choice, choose to bookmark or email the video using the links at the top of the quick post display, or copy the code to embed the video within a web page. When you view the video on TinyPic, you see the same quick post links at the left in the Tools or Your Toolbox.
When you click view full-screen, as you may have guessed, the video display takes up your entire monitor (some videos look REALLY BAD at a larger resolution 
). You can press the Esc key to close the full-screen view or click view full-screen again — Hey, check it out! The function bar still displays in full-screen view! And all the functionality on the bar works, too!
As always, when you click the TinyPic logo at the top of the video display, the TinyPic website displays.
Linking a video to Piczo.com
June 2, 2008
Piczo allows you to create a highly customized website around your photos, graphics, videos, music, and more, and there’s no need to learn HTML! The Page Editor lets you create new page elements on the fly and drag them into position. You can design sites with multiple pages and link your site to your friends’ sites, then interact with their site and their friends. If you want to, you can share your content with the rest of the Piczo community in the Piczo Zone. Check out Save the Green to see how spectacular a site built with Piczo can look!
Well, that’s all great, but you don’t know how to add a video to your Piczo website. It must be a complicated procedure, right? Nope. It’s not that complicated! Adding a video is a quick process, because you can use the videos you upload to TinyPic on your Piczo website. Nice. Upload to one place, link to many others :) What a time-saver!
To link a TinyPic video to your Piczo website:
- Upload a video to TinyPic.
- Copy the HTML for Websites embed code.
- Log in to your Piczo site.
- Go to the page where you want to put the video.
- Open the new Tools menu, and drag the HTML BOX onto your page.
- Paste the embed code you copied from TinyPic.
- Click OK. Your video is linked from TinyPic and displays in your Piczo site. Kind of like this (note the video at the bottom right of this Piczo site):
So you think you can dance.
May 13, 2008
What if you’re right? You could be the best dancer out there and NO ONE will know about your talent. Unless…there must be some way to call attention to your fabulous dance moves. Your electric slide (how old are you, anyway?), your spins, your snap dance…
You know, everyone can see how great (or bad!) you are when you upload your dance video to TinyPic. But there’s no rating system, you say. How will I REALLY know what people think of my stuff? Well, you’d just better join DanceJam.com — The largest dance floor on the planet!
DanceJam uses TinyPic to host the videos you upload. And DanceJam provides you with that little “je ne sais quoi” (I don’t know what—well, I do know what. It provides you with a RATING system.) You can enter your video in a battle. People can vote!! You can emerge victorious (or as a super loser…hard to say). And just like TinyPic, you can send a link to all your friends and relatives to share your battle (you might need the votes).
So get out there and dance! Invent your own, go for a known quantity, get a broom and pretend it’s a light-saber. It’s up to you to impress us all.
