In the wide world of photo-sharing tools, Memeo Share makes a strong effort to retain your focus with online backups, support for full-resolution photos and videos, social networking features, and a revamped interface.
The main interface of Memeo Share.
(Credit: Memeo)Version 2 makes a much-needed overhaul of the interface, which was not Memeo's best selling point. For a media-management tool, that can be the kiss of death, no matter how cool its features are. The new user interface is definitely "slick," as Memeo calls it, but it's also simple and bolstered by clean, big buttons.
Since Memeo's big selling point is that it's easier for family and close friends to privately share their media without having to worry about public social-networking platforms, an interface that doesn't confound and can appeal to people of all ages is a must. Although, users should note that you can make content public via a radio button at the bottom of the central pane.
The basics will sound familiar to many users. Memeo starts with a user-friendly design: your profile and friends on the left, Activity and Sharing Circles in the central pane, and the members of the current circle you're sharing with on the right. Double-click a thumbnail to see the large version of it and get access to features like comments, tags, saving to your hard drive, and running a slideshow.
The Sharing Circle is the big concept behind Memeo Share. It lets people create private groups whose members can interact with each other, but only upon invite. In addition to autoposting to Facebook and YouTube, Memeo Share now scans your Web mail address book for more contacts to invite.
Other major improvements to the program include drag-and-drop uploading, enhanced searching that includes tags and comments, the ability to push content to mobile devices, and the introduction of online storage to convince casual enthusiasts from going elsewhere for backups. Sharing tags and comments aren't new in this version, but the live feed of what others in a given circle are doing is. While sharing with only two other people, and not a large group, the experience was lag-free.
Overall, Memeo Share is an excellent tool for families or close friends to share their content without having to engage in public social platforms.
Sharing photos is what we all want to do, but the number of ways to get it done can be overwhelming. For users who want to keep their photos in a small, private circle, don't always want to access a Web site to get their sharing on, or for those who want or need to keep their Web use to a minimum, Memeo Share might be your solution.
Driven by a user-friendly setup wizard, Memeo Share lets you sync files from a designated folder on your computer to the computer of one or more contacts. File-sharing becomes a breeze, especially for transferring multiple large files like high-resolution pics or sharing with technical novices.
Memeo Share also has social networks in mind, auto-posting photos to Facebook and videos to YouTube if that's your desire, and pulling in existing Web mail contacts. It comes with 1 GB of free storage space, and can be upgraded for $4.99 per month if you need more space.
For more on Memeo Share, check out Jason Parker's recent post.
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We've all experienced it. You've taken a bunch of photos or a home video at a family gathering and now you're trying to figure out how to share your work with everyone in your family. It's possible to use online photo sites like Flickr, Shutterfly, or Photobucket, but what if you had a localized program that could share photos and videos immediately? Not all your relatives are as computer savvy as you, so you want a program that works quickly and with the fewest steps. You want a program that anyone in your family will be able to figure out.
You can automatically sync with your folder of pictures or drag and drop a folder to the interface.
(Credit: CNET Networks)If you've ever run into difficulties trying to find the solution to this problem before, you'll be glad to know we have the perfect program for the job. Memeo Share only takes a few steps to set up and makes it possible to share photos and videos with anyone you want. Choose a folder of photos or video and upload them to Memeo Share, then simply add your family members' e-mail addresses to invite them to a Sharing Circle. From there, all your friends and family will be able to view the latest photos and videos without the hassle of resizing, multistep uploading processes, or online sites. You can also share high-resolution images, because Memeo Share uploads big files in the background and syncs to everyone in your Sharing Circle. It also has options for uploading to YouTube and Facebook, if you want an easy access point to those sites as well.
Quickly add more photos to automatically sync with your Sharing Circle.
(Credit: CNET Networks)Memeo Share comes with 1GB of free storage space to start, but there is an option within the program to upgrade to a monthly subscription ($4.99 per month) if you need more space. If you share a lot of photos with friends and family, five bucks a month is definitely worth it to do away with all the hassle of sharing online or by e-mail.
Tuesday morning software company Memeo launched a new product called Share. Aimed at people who don't use photo- or video-sharing sites, Share lets you take what you've captured on your digital camera and beam it to friends and family members without clogging up their e-mail in-boxes with full-resolution shots.
The product is not aimed at the Flickr crowd, but instead at people who want to create small circles of people to share their shots with. That's not to say there's not a social element, since it can be configured to automatically upload your shots to Facebook. It can also slurp up your existing contacts from Web mail providers, like what you'd get using Plaxo.
The company is offering free licenses of the software to the first 1,000 people who sign up to use it. After that it will get capped off at 10,000 sign-ups.
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