• Drag N' Drop Those Facebook Photos

    Wednesday, October 20th, 2010

    Erick Schonfeld is a technology journalist and the former Editor in Chief of TechCrunch. At TechCrunch, he oversaw the editorial content of the site, helped to program the Disrupt conferences and CrunchUps, produced TCTV shows, and wrote daily for the blog. He joined TechCrunch as Co-Editor in 2007, and helped take it from a popular blog to a thriving... → Learn More

    Facebook Photos just keeps on getting better and better. A couple weeks ago, it started supporting high-resolution uploads. And now there’s also drag n’ drop for when you are organizing your photos. The drag n’ drop feature brings Facebook Photos closer to the look and feel of a desktop app, as do some of the other advanced features.

    Facebook Photos also has a better photo viewer now, which no longer requires you to open a new browser tab when you click on a photo in your News feed. The viewer box pops open in-line. These last two aren’t new features, but the drag n’ drop appears to be new. Taken together, however, you can see where Facebook Photos is going—from a social repository of images to a fully-functioning photo app.

    Here is a video highlighting some of the new features (it’s funny that they put this on YouTube so that people could share it. Perhaps Facebook should start tackling videos next and adding basic features like embedding) :

    Company: Facebook
    Website: facebook.com
    Launch Date: February 1, 2004
    IPO: NASDAQ:FB

    Facebook is the world’s largest social network, with over 500 million users. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004, initially as an exclusive network for Harvard students. It was a huge hit: in 2 weeks, half of the schools in the Boston area began demanding a Facebook network. Zuckerberg immediately recruited his friends Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes, and Eduardo Saverin to help build Facebook, and within four months, Facebook added 30 more college networks. The original idea for...

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