Lifeblob breaks new ground in photo sharing and discovery

 PRESS RELEASE – 12 November 2009, Bangalore Topic Lifeblob breaks new ground in photo sharing and discovery Details Lifeblob, a leading social network that helps you connect with your friends through photos and videos has announced yet another innovation that will change the way you discover and navigate through photos forever. This innovation pegs lifeblob as one of the most interesting photo sharing services to watch out for. Lifeblob was recently in news for being the only Indian company in the Business Week Asia's Top 25 Entrepreneurs 2009 list. Lifeblob, founded in 2007, is based on the concept that every event that happens in the life of a person relates him/her with other people, places and often specific interests. These relations have a tendency of connecting like-minded individuals together and are also a very interesting means of navigating from one event to another. This journey through relations is what lifeblob is all about. When you sign up for a lifeblob account, you are presented with a neat interactive timeline that shows you all your photos chronologically. Each of these photos can be face tagged with people present in the photo, related with the place where it was taken and also augmented with tags. If you already use an existing photo service like flickr or picasa, its easy to import all your photos to the timeline with a single click. As you start adding photos and the information around it, the lifeblob magic begins to happen. As you add a photo and build relations around it, you instantly see photos from friends or other lifeblobbers that are connected to your photo popping around it. Imagine adding a photo of your college reunion and instantly discovering other photos of your college friends. Or imagine adding photos of your picnic at a hill top and discovering photos of other people who have been there before. Or imagine posting a photo of your recent cycling trip and getting connected with other cycling enthusiasts. The possibilities are endless – with each photo you add, you have an opportunity to discover photos that you would never see otherwise, meet people you would never meet otherwise, become a part of a community that you would never find otherwise. In addition to discovering photos connected to you through people, places and interests, lifeblob also understands the time context around a photo to connect photos across time and builds a timescape for you. As an example, if you add a photo of Mahatma Gandhi, lifeblob intelligently detects that the relevance of Mahatma Gandhi is towards the early 1990s and lets you explore more photos around that era. This provides a very powerful way to skip across time and discover content that is connected with the photo that you just added. And ofcourse, there is the classic timeline visualization, revamped to discover through relations as you move through time. In addition to letting you to breeze through your photos and see a moviereel view of you life over time, the timeline also shows you how your relations and their importance to you change over time. So if you have photos spanning high school through college, you will actually see your high school friends fading away in strength as you scroll closer to your college years. Lifeblob is simply the best place to share your photos with friends and family and also instantly discover photos that are connected with yours. To take a test drive, sign up for a free account at http://www.lifeblob.com and savor the experience. For all users who signup this month, lifeblob offers unlimited photo space at no additional cost – use the promotion code NOLIMITS during the signup to avail this offer. About lifeblob Lifeblob allows you to share your experiences, memories and events with your friends through photos and videos. As you share your experiences, lifeblob understands the context around them and intelligently discovers other photos that are connected to it. Lifeblob is based in Bangalore, India and has received venture funding from Google backed SeedFund.