Post-SingTel Acquisition, Photo Aggregation App Pixable Gets An Image-Centric Redesign

pixable_newA little more than a week after announcing its acquisition by telecom giant SingTel, Pixable is releasing a substantially redesigned version of its iPhone photo aggregation app.

As with the old version, the Pixable app aggregates photos and videos from social networks, highlighting the ones that are most likely to be interesting to you. The big theme with the redesign, the company says, is “letting the photos shine.” That may seem like an odd claim for a photo app — weren’t the photos front-and-center before? Well, the change is obvious when you compare at the old home page and the new one.

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Photo Aggregator Pixable Acq-hires The Badass Developer Who Built Their Android App In 3 Weeks (And It’s Live Now)

pixable-android2Pixable, the iPhone app that aggregates the photos and videos shared by friends on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube, is now arriving on Android. But how it got there is something of an interesting story. Instead of designing and building the Android version in-house, as is typical, the company instead “acq-hired” an independent developer who crushed out his own Pixable Android app in just three weeks.

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With Users Viewing 100M Photos/Month, Pixable Taps Hashtags To Help Sort Pics

Screen shot 2012-02-16 at 3.22.40 AMSince its name began appearing on blogs and in media early last year, and launched officially at DEMO in March, Pixable has been able to sustain that buzz — no easy feat in a world saturated with photo apps. That’s because millions of photos and videos are shared on social networks every day, making it difficult to find the ones that matter amidst the noise. So, Pixable pulls that fire hose of images and videos from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Flickr, YouTube, and Vimeo, aggregates them in one place, and then gives users a number of sleek categorization, sorting, and editing tools to help them find the most relevant content.

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