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PixelPipe adds support for OpenPhoto

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PixelPipe adds support for hosted and self installed OpenPhoto instances bringing the power of the pi.pe platform to anyone who wants to migrate, transfer, share, manage and retain control of their photos.

For example, if you would like to migrate your entire 500px account over to Amazon S3 and use the OpenPhoto web and mobile apps to view, share and manage your photos – it’s now possible with a few clicks.

Head over to http://pi.pe to get started.

PixelPipe’s support for OpenPhoto puts the power of their pi.pe platform in the hands of anyone who wants to leverage it. — Jaisen Mathai, The OpenPhoto Project

PixelPipe recently launched (experimental) support for OpenPhoto. PixelPipe is a service that allows you to transfer photos (and videos) across social sites. If you have 5,000 photos in Facebook you’d like moved over to 500px; they do that. PixelPipe supports over 10 services.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Our goals with The OpenPhoto Project are to provide tools which make it easy for users to retain ownership and control of their photos. So the combination of PixelPipe and OpenPhoto create some very unique opportunities for users and developers.

OpenPhoto support in PixelPipe is unique for 2 reasons. It’s both distributed and open source. Every OpenPhoto instance is supported. Ones at openphoto.me and self hosted versions.

There exist 73 combination you can play with.

OpenPhoto supports the following storage services:

  • Dropbox
  • Box.com
  • CX
  • Amazon S3
  • DreamObjects
  • Local filesystem (for self installed instances)

PixelPipe supports these services:

  • 500px
  • Facebook
  • Flickr
  • Google Drive
  • Instagram
  • Mixi
  • MySpace
  • OpenPhoto
  • PhotoBucket
  • Picasa
  • Shutterfly
  • Smugmug

On being distributed
Being distributed means that you can set OpenPhoto up yourself, on your own hardware, and point the PixelPipe service to it.

On being open source
Being open source means you can configure it to do whatever you’d like.

Or you can use webhooks without touching a line of code.

We’d love to know what you think. Drop us an email () or send us a message on Twitter (@openphoto).

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