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Photobucket Offers Online Video Mashups

Photobucket has launched a new service that will allow its 35 million users to do video editing online with technology powered by Adobe. The Adobe Web based video remix and editing technology is currently in Beta. Users can now combine photos, videos, text, and music to create videos or mashups of content from their Photobucket albums.

Easy Social Media Optimization via Photos

In case you haven't noticed, social media optimization (SMO) is the new big search marketing term. I think you'll be hearing a lot about it this year and thought I'd give you an easy tip to get started. First think you need to know is what social media optimization is. Basically, it's just getting exposure and traffic from social media sites like Digg, del.icio.us, MySpace and many others. For a more in depth explanation, check out the new rules for social media optimization.

MySpace Blocking Photobucket?

GigaOM - MySpace Blocking Widgets? Om Malik is out with a post about MySpace blocking widgets and blogs a screen shot from Photobucket which reads:

Flickr Who? Photobucket Leads Image Sites

Among websites that allow visitors to store and share photos, Photobucket snares almost 44 percent of the market share of Photo Sharing Sites.

Social/GGM Website Growth Soars

The recent buzz around user-generated content isn't misplaced. With younger users especially, who will become the next generation of consumers and developers, websites that leverage the ability for users to create and control content will grow the most. A recent report from Nielsen/NetRatings provides the numbers that support this notion.