You may have noticed there’s a bit of a photo app showdown going on. Social photo apps such as Picplz and Instagram are taking off, and every serious contender in the group messaging space has also entered the group photo-sharing space. Meanwhile, photo app Color has earned a staggering $41 million in funding and a disproportionate number of headlines with its location-based photo-sharing concept.
Pixable first settled on its sorting (rather than sharing) focus when it launched its Photofeed browser app in January. The app connects with Facebook to help users track Facebook photos that are important to them. They can browse categories such as “most popular” and get updates when friends upload ne w photos. In February, Photofeed launched an iPad app with similar features; together, the apps have been installed more than 300,000 times.
A month before its iPhone launch, Pixable broadened its focus beyond Facebook photos, adding a category for popular photos on Flickr. The startup has since added a category for the most popular Instagram photos and plans to continue expanding to other services indefinitely.
The iPhone version of Photofeed is similar to the desktop and iPad versions. Users can browse different categories of Facebook photos their friends have uploaded (i.e. most popular, new profile pictures), view popular Instagram and Flickr photos, and get push notifications when friends update photos. When viewing Facebook photos, they can still comment on and Like photos as if they were viewing them on Facebook.
Eventually, Pixable co-founder Andres Blank sees the app developing into a personalized photo newsfeed for both friends and ev ents. In his vision,...
