Tapatap Integrates Mobile Gaming Suite with Photobucket API

Tapatap Inc. has Integrated with Photobucket media to be used to create photo games for fun and prizes directly from mobile phones.

San Mateo, CA (PRWEB) April 22, 2008 -- Tapatap (www.tapatap.com and m.tapatap.com), the leader in social photo games for mobile phones, announced the integration of the newly released Photobucket API into Tapatap's suite of mobile photo games. Through the integration, photos stored on Photobucket can be seamlessly entered directly into all of Tapatap's photo games directly from mobile devices.

The Photobucket API has enabled Tapatap to enhance its mobile WAP service, allowing users to access their Photobucket photos from within the m.tapatap.com mobile site.

"Tapatap is thrilled to be one of the first mobile gaming applications to integrate the Photobucket API," said Andy Riedel, President & CTO Tapatap. "Allowing Photobucket's 40 million users to have direct access to their photo galleries and easily enter photos directly into Tapatap's photo games will raise the bar for mobile photo gaming. This integration will help accelerate our vision of a Mobile 2.0 world where services work as seamlessly on mobile devices as they do on the web."

"Our mission at Photobucket has always been to give people the power to upload and share photos and videos -- whether on blogs, social networks, auction sites, or consumer devices," said Alex Welch, president, Photobucket. "The broad release of our API offers new opportunities for people to illustrate their lives and share what they create with others. We're excited to see what a community of talented developers will do to extend our photo and video platform and tap into the creativity and passion of our users."

Here's how it works:

• Login to your Tapatap profile and select a poll, quiz or photo contest.

• After clicking "Enter Photo", click on "Login To Photobucket" to securely log into your Photobucket album or click "Search Photos" to access the Photobucket public gallery.

• Browse your Photobucket album or search Photobucket public albums to find the image you want to enter; click on the one you like and click the "Add Image" button.

Coincident with the opening up of its API, Photobucket has launched an Application Gallery on its Web site where developers can showcase their products and users can find and download applications and discover devices that support the API. At the Application Gallery, Photobucket users can bookmark and share their favorite applications on their Photobucket profile, allowing other Photobucket users to try them out as well. To view the Photobucket Application Gallery, visit: http://gallery.photobucket.com.

For more information about the Photobucket API, please visit http://developer.photobucket.com.

About Tapatap, Inc.

Tapatap is a social mobile gaming leader - delivering mobile and web sites where users can create, enter and play user generated or sponsored contests by some of today's major consumer brands. Tapatap is the first social gaming company on both the mobile and web that gives consumers the opportunity to play for fun and prizes. Harnessing the power of mobile 2.0, Tapatap combines pop culture and game show logic, to deliver the most unique consumer mobile entertainment experience. Based in San Mateo, CA Tapatap launched in June 2007 and is privately funded by Gabriel Venture Partners. Tapatap is on your mobile phone at m.tapatap.com and on the web at http://www.tapatap.com.

About Photobucket

Photobucket is the Web's most popular creative hub, with nearly 40 million unique users around the world linking billions of personal photos, graphics, slideshows and videos daily to hundreds of thousands of Web sites, including Bebo, Blogger, Craigslist, eBay, Facebook, Friendster, Hi5, MySpace, Orkut, Xanga and many others. In addition to linking content, Photobucket users share their personal digital media by email, instant messaging, and mobile devices. Every day, over 7.5 million personal photos, graphics and videos are uploaded to Photobucket for sharing with family, friends and the online world. The company actively moderates content to create a safe environment for its users, partners and advertisers. Photobucket has offices in Palo Alto, California and Denver, Colorado and is located online at http://www.photobucket.com. For the latest feature announcements and news, please visit the Photobucket blog at http://blog.photobucket.com.

(*) comScore Media Metrix, February 2008. For more information on comScore Networks, please go to http://www.comscore.com.

Contacts:

Tapatap            

Jennifer Herman        

650.344.9599        

jherman(at)tapatap.com    

LEWIS PR for Photobucket

Chris Ulbrich

415 992 4400

photobucket(at)lewispr.com

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