Online Photos Destinations support Eye-Fi

Eye-Fi Card allow users to automatically upload photos from their digital camera directly to 17 online photo sharing, printing, social networking and blogging sites.

Eye-Fi users are free to select from popular online photo destinations including KODAK Gallery, Shutterfly, Wal-Mart, Snapfish, Photobucket, Facebook, Webshots, Picasa Web Albums, SmugMug, Flickr, Fotki, TypePad, VOX, dotPhoto, Phanfare, Sharpcast and Gallery.

“We’ve eliminated the hassle and made it simple for users to do more with their photos,” said Ziv Gillat, co-founder and vice president of marketing and sales for Eye-Fi. “By partnering with 17 of the top online photo destinations, we’re giving users the greatest choice and flexibility to do what they want with their photos — from posting to a blog, printing them for relatives, or sharing them online with friends.”

“KODAK Gallery is committed to helping people tell their stories and we are thrilled that the new Eye-Fi Card will help people free their pictures from their cameras so they can share them with friends and family,” said Mark Cook, worldwide director of marketing for KODAK Gallery. “We’re excited that our customers can now spend less time dealing with the upload process and more time creating beautiful and meaningful personalized holiday items like cards, calendars, photo books, and more.”

Eye-Fi users can also choose from top social networking, digital media and blogging sites including Photobucket, Facebook, TypePad and VOX.

“User-generated content is now a defining feature of the online experience, especially when it comes to linking and sharing that content across social networks,” said Alex Welch, president of Photobucket, one of the Web’s most popular creative hubs. “Eye-Fi has made it even easier for Photobucket users to express themselves, and share photos with their community of friends and family.”

About Eye-Fi, Inc.

About Eastman Kodak Company - Kodak is the world’s foremost imaging innovator. With sales of $10.7 billion in 2006, the company is committed to a digitally oriented growth strategy focused on helping people better use meaningful images and information in their life and work. Consumers use Kodak’s system of digital and traditional products and services to take, print and share their pictures anytime, anywhere; Businesses effectively communicate with customers worldwide using KODAK solutions for prepress, conventional and digital printing and document imaging; and Creative Professionals rely on KODAK technology to uniquely tell their story through moving or still images. More information about Kodak is available at http://www.kodak.com/

About Photobucket - Photobucket is one of the Web’s most popular hubs for managing media. Photobucket’s users upload, link to, share and search for billions of personal photos, graphics, and videos every day. The company was founded in 2003 and acquired by Fox Interactive Media, Inc., a division of News Corp., in July 2007. The company is headquartered in Denver, Colo. with offices in Palo Alto, Calif., and is available online at http://photobucket.com/

Extensis Ships Portfolio 6 For Creative Professionals

Extensis today announced the immediate availability of Portfolio 6 - its award-winning Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution. Portfolio 6 includes a suite of completely new features that make it the easiest and most effective way for professionals to share, organize, retrieve and distribute the digital files they create and use on a regular basis. "Portfolio 6 flies in the face of traditional asset management," said Joseph Schorr, senior product manager for Extensis. "While most DAM solutions are rigidly-structured and have a steep learning curve, Portfolio 6 was rebuilt from top to bottom to make sense in a creative environment. Never before has a full-featured asset management program been so easy to learn and to integrate seamlessly into an existing workflow. The free Mac OS X upgrade will make it easy for our customers to adopt Portfolio today, and continue using it without interruption as they move all their major software tools to Mac OS X later this year."

Coming soon: Apple? Macintosh? OS X Version - Registered owners of Portfolio 6 will be eligible to receive a free upgrade to the Mac OS X version of Portfolio, which will ship later this year. Portfolio 6 currently operates in the Mac OS X Classic environment, allowing Mac OS X users to take advantage of the program's powerful cataloging and file management features. The free upgrade this summer will bring the full Portfolio 6 feature set to Mac OS X.

"Most of our customers are professionals whose primary platform is still Mac OS 9," said Schorr. "But as more and more key applications become available in Mac OS X, we know there's going to be strong interest in a full migration to Mac OS X. We plan to have Portfolio for Mac OS X ready when creative professionals are really going to need it." "FolderSync and the new Portfolio Express palette alone make Portfolio 6 a must-have upgrade," said Avery Raskin of The Write Words, a beta-tester for Portfolio 6. "Portfolio is the must-have asset manager for every professional and I couldn't imagine working without it."

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Extensis Portfolio 6

Extensis today announced the release of Portfolio 6, a major upgrade to Extensis' award-winning Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution. Portfolio 6 is a fast way for professionals to share, organize, retrieve and distribute the digital files they create and use on a regular basis. Portfolio enables users to create compelling visual catalogs that can be shared over a network or published on the web.

"Even the most powerful DAM solution will break down if people don't want - and like - to use it," said Joseph Schorr, Portfolio product manager for Extensis. "With Portfolio, we've created a system that integrates seamlessly with the creative desktop - a system that people will really want to use. We believe this product will radically change the way people think about asset management."

Portfolio 6 is the only asset management system that seamlessly combines the visual approach of an image catalog with the management and distribution tools of the operating system, making it easier for users to share, organize, and publish digital images. Working seamlessly in dual environments provides users and workgroups to work in unison without confusion over where and how to access files. The new FolderSync feature for example, can copy, move or delete files without leaving the Portfolio environment. Conversely, items moved on a network or local machine are tracked in Portfolio, so that visual catalogs are perfectly synchronized with actual files on disk.

"A good DAM system is flexible enough to adapt to the working style of its users - not force them into a rigid, predefined workflow," said Schorr. "Our goal with Portfolio 6 was to accommodate the working style of even the most free-spirited creative professionals."

Another unique component is the Portfolio Express Palette, which offers instant visual access to cataloged files directly from the creative environment, or from anywhere on the user's system. At any point, when designing a web page, writing an E-mail, or creating a presentation, a user is only one keystroke away from access to a Portfolio catalog, a search for a specific image and copying it into a document simply by dragging it from the floating palette.

Portfolio 6 has added features for helping users publish or distribute files. The Collect & Publish feature automatically collects and catalogs files for CD distribution, it even lets users create a stand-alone browser application on the fly. By using the new Create Web Pages command, users can convert catalogs into web pages based on one of several freely distributed templates that are professionally-designed, or users can create their own. Additionally, Portfolio works seamlessly with a user's default E-mail program to send electronic images as E-mail attachments directly from Portfolio.

New Features in Portfolio 6:

• FolderSync - Provides seamless integration with the existing file system by linking Portfolio catalogs to actual folders on disk, keeping them synchronized.
• Portfolio Express Palette - Floating palette brings the digital library of files directly into the creative environment, providing instant access to files from anywhere on the users system.
• Create Web Pages - Using preexisting, professionally-designed templates, web pages are built based on a users catalog contents with a few simple steps.
• Collect & Publish - Automatically collects images, linking them to a new catalog and generating a browser in which to view the catalog.
• Instant Cataloging - Allows users to select any file, folder or disk and instantly catalog it into the Portfolio system.
• Elegant New Interface - A streamlined, revamped toolbar and other refinements.
• Batch Renaming and Keywording - New cataloging option can rename files, add keywords, and fill in other field values on the fly as items are catalogued.
• Auto Move/Copy - New cataloging option copies or moves files into a new directory as they are cataloged.
• Saved Views - Save and apply customized view attributes such as fonts, colors, and borders to any gallery.
• Power Field Editor - A new window lets users add, append, replace or delete values from any field with unprecedented ease.
• Custom QuickFind - Performs find function across any user-defined combination of fields from within main catalog window.
• Send via E-mail - E-mail assets from within Portfolio, using the sender's default E-mail client.
• Rotate Original - Changes orientation of original JPEGs, not just the thumbnails.
• EXIF Support - Imports data stored in images created with digital cameras.

Pricing and Availability - The English version of Portfolio 6 will be available for download from the Extensis web site in February 2002. Portfolio 6 is available for a suggested retail price starting at $199.95US for full product, $69.95 - $129.95US for upgrades from previous versions of Portfolio; competitive upgrades for a suggested retail price starting at $149.95US. Portfolio Server is available starting at a suggested retail price of $2499.95US, including 5 free copies of Portfolio 6 for Macintosh. French, German and Japanese language product will be available in the first half of 2002.

System Requirements - Portfolio 6 will support Macintosh Operating System 8.6 and higher. Portfolio 6 will support Windows 98 and higher, Windows NT Service Pack 6 or 6a or Windows 2000 Service Pack 2. Portfolio Server additionally requires Pentium with min. 32 MB of RAM.

About Extensis, Inc.