New Yahoo! Photos beta

Seems like you can’t swing a sack of apples here at Yahoo! without hitting a new product launch, upgrade or enhancement. Following up on an already busy “go-live” season, Yahoo! yesterday released its new Yahoo! Photos beta.

The new Yahoo! Photos should be a plus for publishers wanting to enhance the visual appeal of their offerings. Versatile “Web 2.0” features include:

• Easy-to-use drag-and-drop organization
• Tagging—pioneered by Flickr—for easy sharing and organization
• Advanced search capabilities
• Open APIs that encourage 3rd party development and mashups

Re-written using advanced JavaScript and AJAX, the new Yahoo! Photos is faster, more intuitive and more powerful than any other photo sharing site of its kind.

This limited beta is currently available only on the U.S., but those abroad can expect the global beta to be rolled out later this year. Yahoo! Photos was already the world’s largest photo sharing site, with more than 30 million users around the world and 2 billion photos stored.

Publishers: expect more announcements of interest from Yahoo! in the coming weeks and months . . .

—The Team