Palo Alto, Calif. - Photobucket, the photo-sharing service acquired by News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS) Fox Interactive Media last year, announced on Tuesday the release of the site's application programming interface (API), which will allow developers to build new applications based on Photobucket. Any developer will now be able to offer Photobucket-based applications alongside offerings from Adobe, AOL, FotoFlexer, Intercasting, RockYou, Slide, Snapvine and TiVo.

Photo-sharing site Photobucket said today that it would reinstall images of babies in diapers that it had removed for violating the company's terms of servicing outlawing "nudity."

Palo Alto, Calif. - Photobucket, the online photo-sharing site acquired last year by News Corp. (NYSE: NWS), on Tuesday announced the launch of a mobile version of its service, allowing users to upload and view photos on their cell phones. The company said an internal survey of Photobucket users by Fox Interactive Media in August 2007 found that 80% have a camera phone, 36% use the camera on their phone every day, and 52% can access the Internet from their phones.

Alviso, Calif. - TiVo (NASD: TIVO) announced on Monday that it has partnered with online photo-hosting services Photobuck and Picasa Web Albums, to allow TiVo subscribers to access their own photos and those of friends via their broadband-connected TiVo boxes. TiVo users will also be able to search community photos of interest by keyword through TiVo's search interface.

In June, Yahoo! Photos began to close, and users are being encouraged to join Flickr. Later in the month, Yahoo! began including Flickr images in Yahoo! Image Search. These efforts have resulted in an increase in Flickr's US market share of 38% in the past four weeks (week ending 7/7/07 vs. week ending 6/9/07). Flickr is now the #2 photography website in the US, with 6.42% of category visits for the week ending 7/7/07.

Palo Alto, Calif. - Three weeks after reaching a preliminary deal, MySpace parent Fox Interactive Media (FIM) officially announced on Wednesday that it will acquire photo sharing site Photobucket for an undisclosed sum.

Palo Alto, Calif. - Facebook, the second-largest online social network behind MySpace, this week launched its anticipated open platform that lets businesses and developers create their own pages and applications.

Palo Alto, Calif. - News Corp.'s MySpace has reached a preliminary deal to acquire the photo-sharing site Photobucket for $250 million in cash, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.

Palo Alto, Calif. - Photobucket, a provider of online photo and video hosting services favored by MySpace members, said on Tuesday that Photobucket videos are once again visible on MySpace, following discussions with the company.

On Wednesday, April 11, MySpace blocked videos and slideshows hosted by Photobucket from appearing on the site due to an apparent violation of the MySpace terms of Service agreement. Did this blockage have any effect on Photobucket's traffic, and how much traffic do the two sites share?

Los Angeles - News Corp.'s MySpace has taken steps to prevent its users from uploading videos hosted by Photobucket, which also hosts many of the images posted by MySpace users and claims some 40 million users, TechCrunch reported.

Hudson Valley, N.Y. - Pump Audio, a provider of licensed independent music for use in various productions, said on Tuesday that it has partnered with online video and photo hosting service Photobucket, to provide music for Photobucket users creating photo and video mixes using the free Adobe mixing software recently added to the site. Photobucket's 35 million users may now add any of hundreds of licensed songs from Pump Audio's catalog of over 70,000 tracks to their mashup creations.

Silver Spring, Md. - Freewebs, a site that allows users to create multimedia websites and blogs, said that it has partnered with Photobucket, a site that allows people to upload videos, images and graphic art and link it to websites. Under the agreement, Maryland-based Freewebs' users will be able to add photos, slideshows, videos and remix videos from existing Photobucket accounts directly to Freewebs' publishing platform.

San Jose, Calif. - Adobe Systems announced on Wednesday that it has partnered with photo and video hosting provider Photobucket to integrate its new Web-based video remix and editing technology into the site. The free, Flash-based editing software is available now to Photobucket Pro users, and will be expanded to all of the site's 35 million members by early March. San Jose, Calif.-based Adobe said it expects to announce similar partnerships over the coming months.