The last couple of years i’ve spent a great deal of time exploring the visual paradigm, the shift from textual to visual communication and collaboration. A long the way i co-founded 23, a photo sharing service in 2005 -and saw people sharing unexpected photos. Small shops taking photos of their goods and the life in their store, organic farmers uploading photos of their lettuce in order to sell them, a small communication agency communicating through photos, big organizations sharing photos from their events – the story goes on,

But they we’re all struggling with what they didn’t have. They wanted control of the design, wanted it to run on their own domain names, wanted an experience that was about them – not about the tool that they are using. Wanted support for having multiple users on one blog, wanted to be able to easily do private blogs for internal use. All the simple stuff that they’re to from from websites and blogs.

So we decided to do yet another blogging (how crazy it might sound). One that natively was build to do photo and video really great. One that really could get visual communication and collaboration into our daily work habits onto our websites. Combining the best of blogging and the best from central photo/video sharing services.

It’s called Visualblog, it’s launching globally! today and it’s at http://www.visualblog.net. There’s a free trial, mail me if you want that extended if you like what you’re seeing. We’ve worked our asses off to get it done – i’d really be happy to get your feedback on what we can do better, help spread the word around, try it with your clients or in your projects/companies. I’ve attached the press release for rhetorical effect and you can check a visualblog in use at http://www.livefrompicnic.com .

-Thomas

AMSTERDAM, SEPTEMBER 25TH 2008
23 launches Visualblog, the first photo/video blogging tool

Until now, creating a photo or video blog has been a tedious process of hacking text blogging tools, embedding videos from Youtube, or using centralized photo sharing services. But now, 23 is introducing Visualblog – a new hosted blogging service that allows you to have a photo/video blog up and running in minutes and push-button easy publishing of your photos/videos with one click.

Visualblog brings the ease of publishing, which text blogging tools made possible 10 years ago, to the world of photos and videos. It is a simple tool that allows individuals and organizations to embrace the new visual sharing paradigm by providing an easy way to share the immediate and rich authenticity of photo and video.

Visualblog features
– Your own domain, your own design, full control over the user experience
– Easy upload of photo and video with one-click publishing
– Everything you know from video and photo sharing
such as slideshows, tags, calendar, embedding
– Everything good from blogging such as rss, trackbacks, spam monitorering
– Multiple authors for group blogging, visual comments
– Mobile upload from your mobile phone of photos and videos

A number of bloggers, organizations, small businesses and media companies have been trialing Visualblog:
Bloggers love to have their own identity with their own design and domain name. Organizations are embracing photo and video blogging as an easy authentic way to get started sharing.
Small businesses suddenly find it easy to communicate and actually get around to communicate with the world what they’re doing and media companies find it easy to add photos and videos with their own identity and advertising.

Pricing plans for Visualblog run from 15-150 dollars a month and is available with a 30-day free trial at http://www.visualblog.net

ABOUT 23
23, the visual sharing company, is a European startup that builds visual sharing tools for personal and organizational use. Our products are helping individuals, groups, businesses and institutions to communicate and collaborate visually in more than 200 countries across the globe on a daily basis. http://www.23visual.com

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
Steffen Christensen, +45 25327058, steffen@23visual.com
Thomas Madsen-Mygdal, +45 2972 5630, mygdal@23visual.com