by Michelle Lentz

I discovered PixelPipe this morning via ReadWriteWeb, which is also where I acquired a beta invite (so, thanks RWW!). I love the idea of being able to post photos to multiple sites at once. I tend to use Flickr for all my photos, which makes it hard to share things via Facebook. I only have so much patience for uploading.

PixelPipe lets you pick as many places, or “pipes”, as you want and it will upload your photos to all of those locations. It’s rather speedy as well. I tried it with one photo and it quickly posted it to Twitpic, Flickr, Facebook, 4 Typepad blogs, and bub.blicio.us, which runs on WordPress. (I deleted it from most of those locations however.)

It uploads to your blogs and immediately creates a new post (XYZ via PixelPipe). My preference would be to upload the photo as a draft post to my blogs. I would also like to select which of my pipes the photo will go to – in other words, I might not want to upload the same photos to bub.blicio.us that I do to my Wine Blog.

However, I can certainly see, for now, setting up a couple different Pixelpipe accounts. One that uploads to Flickr and Facebook, for example, and another that uploads to my technology blogs.

Pixelpipe currently supports 33 different photo and video sharing sites. You can upload via a custom email address, directly through Pixelpipe, or use one of their desktop-based tools. These include Mac (including an iPhoto plug-in), Windows, and Linux tools. I downloaded the full Mac application and found it easy to use. In fact, if you’ve ever used the Flickr uploading tool, you’ll find this one remarkably familiar. An iPhone app and a Firefox plug-in are forthcoming.

PixelPipe is a free service that solves a problem most of us now have – how to share our photos with everyone we know.

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