Photorgy: Post photos with AIM
The site is named Photorgy, and its tagline is "Do it with your friends," but the photo-sharing site isn't as risque it sounds like it might be.
Photorgy's photo-sharing site
(Credit: Photorgy)Photorgy enables members to upload images using AOL Instant Messenger's file transfer abilities, sending the images to the "photorgy" bot. The site houses pictures organized by AIM screen name; multiple people can share the same folder of photos for group image-sharing purposes.
"Photorgy isn't a porn site!" the site takes pains to explain. "Photorgy makes photo sharing a group activity that you and your close friends can all participate in and enjoy."
I couldn't get Photorgy to work, though, either through AIM or Trillian. The site spurned me as "user not activated," though I tried to activate by sending the Photorgy bot a message.
Three University of California students--Jason Su, Andy Chen and Aaron Tung--launched Photorgy in March. It now has 686 users who are sharing 99,658 photos.
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