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Share Pics On The Go With Pikchur

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Are you someone who likes to share pictures and also likes to micro-blog? If so, then Pikchur is definitely a site that you will love; it gives you the best of both worlds. "Pikchur is a simple service that updates your social networks/micro-blogging platforms with pictures. No need to signup, just login with one of their many supported platforms and start sending your piks today." So basically, Pikchur is like Ping.fm but for pictures only.

If you don't know, most micro-blogging platforms do not allow you to add picture directly to a post; you have to link to it. With Pikchur it's no different, most of the sites it supports will still link to your picture but it just makes it easier to share your picture all over the Web at once. Pikchur currently supports Pownce, Twitter, Tumblr, Jaiku, Facebook, FriendFeed, Identi.ca, Plurk, and Rejaw.

How does Pikchur work? Well, it's pretty easy to set up and use.

#1 - Create a Pikchur email. Your email will be something like pikchur.321@pikchure.com. The "321" represents a pin number that you will need to create and can be any number(s) you choose.

#2 - Send your piks to Pikchur via email (on your phone or computer), or by uploading your piks straight to the site.

#3 - Pikchur will update all of your services with your new pik.

Pikchur allows you to create albums, which are called "Pikboxes". You can move piks from one Pikbox to another as you please. To add piks to a Pikbox you simply add #Pixboxname# to your message. Each pik that you upload gets its own page. There's also a comment box that allows users to leave a comment about your picture on any of the sites/accounts you have setup there.

Pikchur comment box.

What's also neat is that when someone leave a comment on your pik from another site, it will still show up right on Pikchur. So, there's no need to go to Pikchur.com to leave a comment on a picture, you can comment from wherever it's posted and it will show up on the site as well.

Pikchur comments.

I also love the fact that Pikchur allows you to create "gear" from any of your pictures. On your individual pik pages, there's a Gear menu that allows you to choose to create a mouse pad, mug, trucker hate, postage stamp, or postcard with your pik on it. Of course it's not free to create an item, but it's still nice to have it there. The gear option is care of Zazzle.com and you can customize your gear as you like.

Pikchur gear customization.

Pikchur is definitely a tool that makes micro-blogging just that much better. Most people now are using micro-blogs more then their regular blogs. Plus, since we all love taking the easy way out, Pikchur is definitely the ultimate choice for sharing pictures all over the Web. What do you think?


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