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Widexplorer Broadens Your Web Browsing Experience. Literally.August 28th, 2008 at 7:30 pmSource:Mashable! From the team behind DealQUE, we have a new service called Pikchur, a startup that posts your photos to a myriad of social media sites where you have residing accounts. What you can do is upload an image directly through Pikchur or send one to your assigned Pikchur email address via MMS or email from your phone or computer. In concept, Pikchur is similar to TwitPic in that you can upload a photo and it will appear in your Twitter stream. A caption can be manually added for direct and MMS uploads, and your subject line will be the caption for photos sent via email. Pikchur moves beyond Twitter, however, and sends your images to a handful of other services like Tumblr, Pownce, Facebook (via the Pikchur Facebook application), FriendFeed and Jaiku. The result is a broad distribution for your photo within the micro-blogosphere, giving you a one-stop shop for immediate photo sharing. There aren’t any import options for automatically bringing in photos from other photo-sharing sites for redistribution purposes, but a little bird has told me that Pikchur is working on some upcoming Flickr integration, so perhaps such import options will be added in the near future. Given the lack of photo importing for redistribution purposes, Pikchur really caters to mobile users that would like a quick and easy way to send out photos while on the go, so its updating capabilities sent out to microblogging platforms is appealing in its simplicity for this purpose. Nevertheless, Pikchur is a handy service that makes photo distribution a brainless task, especially from an operational standpoint around your email. As services like Xoopit better turn your email into a searchable media database, microblogging and other auto-distribution methods can become very useful as media-sharing tools for a wide range of users.
Normally, your search efforts involve one engine or another. You go to Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Live Search for the general Web, and perhaps photos, etc. You visit Digg, Reddit, or Yahoo Buzz for cool links. YouTube, DailyMotion and others for videos. The list goes on. But in the event that the default dimensions of your Web browsing experience gets dull, tedious and in need of a change (this is the moment of change, after all!), there is Widexplorer to satisfy a new leaning. Sporting black, a dozen categorical hotlinks, Widexplorer is a simple thing. No miracles being performed there. Nonetheless, its presentation is the kicker. Click any keyword below the search bar to get a grip on what that means. For instance, the ‘buzz’ label takes you to all the top Web 2.0 linking services. And all are laid one beside the other. Digg first, then Yahoo Buzz, followed by Delicious, Reddit, Mixx, Technorati, Popurls. It’s really quite interesting. It’s better than browsing through tabs, in a way, because there’s absolutely no clicking to do. Except for the movement of the horizontally-savvy scrollbar in the window. For users of scrollballs of various sizes, it’s even more simple to operate. My Apple-issued Mighty Mouse is a wonder here. You will want to play with this one for quite some time if you happen to be similarly equipped, I think. I’ll leave you to browse the remaining options available at Widexplorer, but suffice it to say that this one, if nothing else, deserves a bookmark. The only reservation to have with it - other than its impracticality as a day-in-day-out search service - is that website load times can leave you waiting for the white space to fill out with data. But that is the case with the Web browsing process in and of itself, so it’s hard to nab Widexplorer on that point. In all, I say you take a look. Just one to five minutes’ time will have you sold. No question about it.
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