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Pixlater Online photo sharing tool for scheduling uploads to social networks

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Pixlater is an Online photo sharing tool that will automatically upload all the images you want to the various social networks at a time & date of your choosing.

If you have a ton of photos to upload after a trip, event or photo session, then uploading all the images to all the social networks you belong to can be a big pain. Instead of kicking back & relaxing after a strenuous day of activities & taking pictures, you’ll be up half the night on Flickr, Twitter, the various Facebook groups & pages, & other sites where you want to share the pictures with your friends.

Pixlater eliminates this problem by requiring only a single upload. You can choose which social networks you want to send the pictures to & when, & the tool will do it for you at the appropriate time.

The Pixlater Online photo sharing tool is currently in open beta & allows you to schedule photo uploads to Twitter, Facebook, Flickr & 500px. They plan to add Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest & Google+ soon.

You have 3 pricing schemes available if you want to use Pixlater. One is entirely free, with a limit of 10 photo uploads a month & 1GB of space, & the ability to connect the tool & upload photos to two sites.

The PixPlus plan at $10/month includes 50 photo uploads, 10 GB of space & 10 connected sites. The PixPro plan at $39/month allows unlimited photo uploads to unlimited connected sites.

You can also connect the tool to other apps if you are subscribed to the pro version. All of the pricing plans offer a free 30-day trial period. All you have to do is register with your email & connect your social networks to the account.

Pixlater was co-founded in Jan 2014 by Simon Gelfand & Eyal Halimi, both of whom previously collaborated as co-founders of Israel-based Content publishing & sharing platform Bukisa.

Image Credit: Pixlater

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Hinge: A friendship, romance, dating app all rolled in one

Hinge is a mobile dating app that piggybacks on your Facebook network to find & match you up with like-minded people based on your profile, interests & preferences.

Shades of Tinder, no doubt, but this is a much more refined concept. Someone, somewhere has given an analogy that if Tinder is akin to meeting up with someone in a bar in your neighborhood for a one-night stand, then Hinge would be the equivalent of going to a friend’s home for a party or dinner, & ending up going steady with one of their other friends who also attends the party.

The way Hinge works is pretty simple. You sign in with Facebook & set your preferences, including age, sex & location. You may also add your interests or hobbies so that others will know what kind of a person you are.

The mobile dating app will then go to work, using its algorithm for hunting for like-minded people in your Facebook network who match your profile & preferences. It will give you up to seven matches per day – all found from your own network, meaning that they will be friends of friends.

The fact that you are only given Facebook-validated contacts who are friends of your friends means that the names, pictures & profiles can be relied on, & you don’t have to do any verification or pre-screening yourself. You don’t have to worry about whether the sweet person you are being matched up with turns out to be someone else entirely.

Hinge was founded in Washington D.C. in Feb 2011 by Justin McLeod, who is the company’s CEO. In Aug 2011, the app expanded its reach in the Northeast to New York City & Boston, & the company is now headquartered in New York City.

Hinge.co has been funded to the tune of around US $5.2 million, including a recent $4 million Series A funding round from Great Oaks, Social + Capital & others that enabled the company to expand its reach beyond the Northeast. Hinge is now available in DC, Philadelphia, NYC, Boston, San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, & most recently launched in Los Angeles.

Click here to download the Hinge mobile dating app on your iOS device.

Click here to download the Hinge mobile dating app on your Android device.

Image Credit: Hinge

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