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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..