ExclaimTM consumer web services address virtually every aspect of digital photography and related media including the collection, organization, manipulation and dissemination of digital photos, short digital videos and the metadata that provide additional meaning to the consumer's digital imaging experience.
These services benefit Exclaim consumers by providing a safe, reliable, low-cost and centralized storage medium and by offering new ways to share and combine digital media that enhance the experience of sharing and preserving personal memories. For our professional, "prosumer" and newspaper customers, dotPhotoŽ and dotPhotoProŽ leverage their talents and increase sales by handling transactions, which enables professionals to spend more time capturing extraordinary images.
Exclaim facilitates the consumer's ability to gather digital images and short videos into a single reliable database through upload tools, desktop software, camera phone software and email-upload compatibility with every major wireless carrier in the US.
Once online, consumers can manage images and videos by rearranging, cropping, rotating, correcting for brightness or color, removing red-eye and even adding voice captions via a computer-attached microphone. Exclaim's consumer website also accepts incoming voice captions from PictavisionŽ 5, Exclaim's camera phone software.
Consumers can share their experiences through a variety of innovative online tools including:
- - The only browser-based Flash presentation tool on the Internet mixes photos, voice captions, transitions, graphic frames, text and music.
- - A simple website development tool that enables users to create a multimedia website with a wizard and HTML code that they can cut-and-paste from Microsoft Word.
- - A key that supplies code to link other sites to content served by Exclaim properties.
- - A thumbnail or listing display of public albums or albums with identical passwords that the user chooses to share.
- - Emails that invite individuals or groups to view an account, album, image or dotPhoto Show.
In addition, Exclaim's Pictavision enables consumers to view online images from their color cell phones and to personalize "wallpaper" on their phones. Exclaim's Pictavision servers resize images on-the-fly for conveyance to cell phones. Pictavision 5 also enables consumers to view camera phone videos that are stored on Exclaim servers.
Consumers can express their photos physically as prints, books, posters, CDs, DVDs or personalized gifts. In addition to popular items like shirts, calendars, mouse pads and mugs, Exclaim offers unusual gifts such as chocolates, photo-imprinted wine bottles and talking photo cards with embedded voice chips.
Popular Photography (May 2006) awarded Exclaim's dotPhoto.com six of six stars for print quality, ease of use, turnaround time and storage policy. In its review summary, Popular Photography notes "outstanding quality across the board; monthly print plans; fast service; ability to add audio in albums."
Exclaim servers are designed for speed and scale. Consistently rated by an independent third party as among the fastest photo sites on the Internet, Exclaim hosts thousands of simultaneous users and stores more than five times the Library of Congress.