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YouREP.com Launches New Photo Sharing Social Network and Offers 2 GB Free PhotoHosting to Users
A new photo sharing social network was launched last month at www.YouREP.com. Theservice provides 2 GB free photo hosting for members of the free service, as well asmore traditional social network features, such as commenting and the ability tobuild a network of  friends through the community. Custom tools to organize userphotos are also provided.
Vienna, Austria - October 23, 2006 Â The new www.YouREP.com, launched last month, isoffering a unique hybrid of a free photo hosting service and a social network. Inaddition to members being able to find and add friends in the community and commenton othersÂ' photos, YouREP is also providing users with 2 GB of free storage spacefor their photos. A selection of tools and features for organizing, tagging, andlicensing photos makes the site useful to both professional photographers looking tonetwork and show off their work, as well as amateur photographers looking to sharetheir personal, travel, or other photos. YouREP also offers a revenue sharingmodel, uncommon in social networks, which allows members to earn ad revenue throughthe site.
YouREP.comÂ's revenue sharing model makes the photo social network even better thanfree. Users not only have no cost to use the services, but they have an opportunityto earn money. The site gives members a choice of activating an additional bannerbelow their photos. If they choose to enable the banner, 50% of revenue from thatbanner will be paid to the user.
Social networks in general are all the rage due to the success of networks likeMySpace, Facebook, and Orkut. YouREP aims not only to provide a social networkingenvironment, by allowing photo commenting, friends, and groups, but also to givephotographers a chance to have their work reviewed in peer groups. By specializingin photography (amateur or otherwise), members posting photos are able to getfeedback on their shots from others with a specific interest in the niche. It alsomakes it easy for people to share photos from trips or holidays with friends andfamily, while being able to share their collective comments with each other.
YouREP offers several features as an added benefit to members. For example, iftheir digital camera allows it, the site can pull the date and time the photo wastaken automatically, and users can then use the Google-Maps function to geo-tagtheir images and show where they were taken (useful for travel photos). Users havethe ability to add titles, comments, and ratings to photos, and they can even creategalleries for photo groupings. YouREP also provides a unique tool calledyOrganizer, which allows members to edit photo attributes, such as access levels,tags, licenses, locations, and more for multiple photos at once.
Each member of www.YouREP.com is given a personal home page on the network, andaccess to networking tools such as forums, private messaging, and a chat room. Theycan find othersÂ' images either through the siteÂ's search function, or by browsingphotos by tags, locations, or even groups. Users can maintain a list of theirfavorite images, and can use a star rating system to rate photos posted by others. As an added benefit, members can even take advantage of YouREPÂ's backup function,which allows them to download all of their images at once in a .zip file.
About www.YouREP.com
YouREP, which stands for  you represent, is a social photo sharing platform,launched in September 2006 by Florian Cervenka. YouREP gives members of the site 2Gigabytes of free hosting for their photos, which they can make public or keepprivate (up to 25% of photos can be non-public). The site also offers tools, such asaccess to Google-Maps and yOrganizer. YouREP.com provides features typical tosocial networks as well, allowing members to explore each othersÂ' photos, comment onthem, and build groups of friends within the community.
For additional information about YouREP.comÂ's photo sharing community, please visitwww.YouREP.com, or contact Florian Cervenka at 004369917142128.
Contact:Flo rian CervenkaYouREPSchubertgasse 4-6/181090 ViennaAustriaPhone: 004369917142128Email: contact@yourep.com Web: www.YouREP.com
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