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Snipshot is a online Image editing tool..It comes quite handy while resizing & brushing pics just a bit before posting them somewhere online in blogs or any sites.

Key Features :

• No download necessary—100% browser based, no plug-ins required .
• Editing Big pictures—up to 10 MB, or 5000×5000 pixels
• Import PDF (first page only), EPS, and SVG files .
• Import pictures from any web site (including Flickr)
• Basic editing tools like crop, rotate, resize
• Nondestructive scaling, rotating, and cropping .

There are many online tools like this.. but the feature what is really cool here is directly exporting your images to Flickr . It comes quite handy to people using photo sharing tools like Flickr [ which I guess there are too many today ] .

Online photo sharing and printing service Shutterfly raised $87 million in an IPO today, closing up 3.7% at $15.55 per share. VentureBeat points out that the price climbed as high as $16.73 at one point in the day. Shutterfly started business in 1999 and since then has posted about 1 billion photos on its Web photo storage site, filling 12 million customer orders, according to the prospectus of the stock offering. It also has printed 370 million photos.

What does Shutterfly offer in user experience? A product that clearly appeals to mainstream users.

• Unlimited free storage.
• Good bulk uploaders for both Windows and Mac (though not Intel Mac).
• Public and private albums.
• Group collaboration on shared collections.
• Clean URLs, comments on photos, basic crop, border, red eye removal and color change effects.
• They’ve also got business solutions for resellers.

Its hard to say it would succeed or not as it’s gone public but its inflow of cash & strong user base definitely look good . read more..