There is one thing at Boardoo we don’t have, but I have always wanted to see us do and that is image and photo hosting.   I’m a big amateur photographer and offering such a service is essential for me for near daily use.  I currently rely on outside services for that and look forward to being able to use Boardoo instead.  Around July of this past summer I began to develop a truely unique image hosting experience with features and capabilities that are either not found, or found on one site.  Unfortunately time constraints and the need to work on other aspects of Boardoo shelved the project for the time being.

It still is shelved for the time being, but to at least get us started with image and photo hosting service I have decided to reactivate a license that I had for a commercial software package that will allow us to do just that and be up and running in time for the Holiday season too.  It has taken a  couple days of development and testing to ensure complete integration with the Boardoo environment as well as to integrate with the Customer Support (and Billing) center.

We have a little more testing to do before the official launch but the service is on track for launch sometime this weekend, most likely on Sunday.  Keeping with the spirit of Boardoo’s free service offerings we will offer a free image hosting plan as well as two higher levels of service:

FREE Plan

250 MB Disk Space
1 GB/month Bandwidth
No Branding On Images
Our Branding On Your Pages
Create Slide Shows
Create Auction Galleries

Standard

1 GB Disk Space
5 GB/month Bandwidth
No Branding On Images
No Branding On Pages
Create Image Portfolios
Create 360 Spins
Create Slide Shows
Create Auction Galleries

Premium

5 GB Disk Space
15 GB/month Bandwidth
No Branding On Images
No Branding On Pages
Create Image Portfolios
Flash Photo Portfolios
Create 360 Spins
Create Slide Shows
Flash Slide Shows
Create Auction Galleries

Pricing for the two enhanced plans has not yet been determined.  I’ll make a front page announcement when the service is up and ready for use.

This is a test of an application called moBlog which allows members to post to their blogs from their smartphone or pocketpc.

Do you want your own blog that you can customize as you like, like this one?  Then I have good news for you as I have just finished putting the finishing touches for the beta launch of Boardoo Blogs! which is the same service that powers this blog.

Boardoo Blogs! offers free Wordpress powered blogs with no limits on posts, comments, links, etc, and you also get 50 MB of space for uploading pictures, videos, and other files for posting in your blog!  Best of all, I’m giving you all of that, plus a selection of 150 hand-picked Wordpress themes to choose from, and a personalized subdomain for free!

Here is the Signup Link Just follow a couple steps to get your blog activated and you will be blogging in minutes, I promise!  One more thing, if you already have a Boardoo Free Forum, you can actually put your blog under your forums subdomain!  Unfortunately our order system won’t allow you to do that during signup, so to start with, pick a temporary subdomain and then open a support ticket indicating you wish to have your blog and forum share the same subdomain.  My staff will take care of the rest.

Happy blogging!