Picnik Updates its “Basket” with Batch Uploads and More

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:35:36 +0000

For sports fans and athletes, the prospect of working for or playing professionally on a favorite team is a fantasy that can become a reality. We’ve put together a list of 15 resources to help you find your dream job in sports.

Whether you’re a high school athlete trying to make a college team or a seasoned professional looking to make a career move, this list aims to bring you the tools you need to find the right sports job for you.

Team Recruitment

AthletesAdvance.com - A site to help high school athletes get recruited by setting up a profile with all of their vital stats including weight performance and academics in one location.

AThruZSports.com - A service for promoting high school athletes to college recruiters. Can help with things such as promotion, tutoring and even job placement upon graduation.

beRecruited.com - Helps connect high school athletes with potential college and university coaches that may need them for their teams.

MyBestPlay.com - A site for athletes, trainers, agents and coaches to network and find each other. Based in Spain, with a heavy emphasis on that country, but still applicable to other parts of the world.

ScoutUSA.com - Assists in helping high school athletes find schools that are willing to recruit them, as well as possible scholarships.

Sports-Recruiting.com - Assists athletes who want to be recruited outside of their own countries. The service also helps athletes get settled in their new locations.

Jobs

JobsInSports.com - A subscription-based service that works with groups such as the NFL, Orange Bowl and more.

SportsCareerFinder.com - For people already in the industry, or looking to break into it, SportsCareerFinder offers advice and provides job listings.

SportsDiversityRecruiting.com - Specializes in helping minorities and people with disabilities find jobs in the sports field suited to them.

SportsJobsUSA.com - Has job listings in virtually every part of the sports industry such as sales, management, administration and more.

SRSportsJobs.com - SRSportsJobs focuses on jobs that start in the neighborhood of $30,000 and are well above the entry level jobs that you can find on some other jobs boards.

TeamWorkOnline.com - A software vendor that supplies teams and stadiums with software to power their job boards. The convenient thing about their site is they provide quick access to all of the clients they work with such as major league teams and sporting organizations.

TheCorporatePlaybook.com - A site that helps college athletes make the transition from school to the corporate world. The jobs range from everyday jobs to those in the sports field.

WomenSportsJobs.com - Focuses on finding women jobs related to sports with teams, in broadcasting, coaching and more.

WorkInSports.com - The aptly named WorkInSports.com helps users find jobs with their favorite sports teams, from internships to higher level positions.

Source:Mashable!

While Flickr was busy working on its new slide show features, another growing photo-sharing site, Picnik, was busy adding some new features of its own. All users will be able to preview the new features, while Premium account holders will get unlimited access. The new “Picnik Basket” gives premium users the option of batch uploading up to 100 photos at once, which is always a relief when you’re adding photos to a media-sharing site and was unsurprisingly users’ most requested feature.

Other new options for Picnik Basket include photo layering and photo collage tools, which grant users more ways in which to display their images. These two effects for photo album viewing introduce more creative ways that users can show off a group of photos. Photo layering lets you drag and drop multiple photos on a single work surface, and then blend them together for a new effect. Premium account holders will have unlimited capabilities with this option while free users can work with up to 5 images. The photo collage tool lets users customize borders, control the aspect ratio of photos, and more. Free users can try this out with up to 36 images, while Premium account holders get free reign.

Since emerging onto the photo-sharing scene, Picnik has focused on the quality of its editor more than anything else, and the peripheral features came later. We’ve seen a lot of development on the added feature side of Picnik in recent months, as the company continues to reach out to a wider user base through the promotion of its product, direct integration with other sites and services like MySpace and Box.net, as well as free options for all users and additional benefits for premium users.

With services like Photobucket having a stronghold on photo effects, and ongoing merging of several other photo-sharing services with third-party sites (i.e. Photobucket and Scrapblog’s recent partnership), the competition is heightened and the necessity for inclusive creative, sharing and distributive features is very much reflected in Picnik’s strategy thus far.