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Shutterfly launches 'photo book' social network

Do we really need another outlet for photo sharing? Shutterfly thinks so.

The photo-printing service, best known for publishing custom calendars, albums, posters, and other photography-infused goods, announced on Wednesday the launch of "Shutterfly Gallery," a social network that is sort of like a Flickr for the scrapbooking set.

Shutterfly Gallery is the first major project launched since the publicly traded company acquired Nexo Systems, a Web site personalization start-up. Nexo's technology has provided the technology for the new social-networking arm of Shutterfly.

Shutterfly Gallery encourages "storytelling" (see, I told you it would appeal to … Read more

Nexo groups get e-mail integration

If you like online groups but can't be bothered to check in on them to see what's going on all the time, you might want to give Nexo a look. We've covered this strong groups platform before, and we think it competes effectively with Yahoo Groups, save for the fact that Yahoo has many times Nexo's users. The Nexo team continues to work on its product. The latest update is tight e-mail integration. Now, not only can you have Nexo ping your e-mail when your groups are updated (Yahoo also does this), but you can contribute … Read more

Nexo launches home-page building site for groups and clubs

Pitched as "MySpace for groups" at Demo 07 last week, Nexo is a new Web publishing service that makes it gratifyingly easy to create a site for a club, team, or group of any sort.

There are a lot of easy ways to get a free site on to the Web right now, from MySpace (not a bad solution if you want to advertise your group to 40 trillion teenagers) to Wiki services like Wetpaint, but Nexo's focus on group dynamics pays off. The site is a good option if what you need is to keep a … Read more