Digital Home Thoughts: Sharing Photos with Photoleap

"Based in San Diego, California, Photoleap, Inc. makes the Photoleap software application. Photoleap allows users to send and receive any number of digital photos regardless of photo size. Photoleap works just like e-mail, but unlike e-mail Photoleap can easily send dozens, even hundreds of photos in a single message. Photoleap is the creation of Paul Colton. An avid digital photographer, Paul realized that e-mail and ad hoc web sites were not the ideal way to share digital photographs between friends and family. Paul saw the need for an automatic, seamless way to share digital photos, and thus Photoleap was born."



There has to be no less than 200 different products and services aiming to solve the problem of sharing photos with others. There are many solutions, but not all are equal in terms of the amount of work they require you or the people you're sharing with to do. For instance, using a service such as Smugmug means a bit of work for you, the photographer, but very little work for the people you're sharing with. Conversely, Photoleap looks like it makes it very easy for you to share your photos, but the people on the receiving end need to install a small piece of software, which is a barrier that something like Smugmug doesn't have. Their Leapback concept is pretty interesting - you give out a unique email address to people at an event, and when they send a blank email to that address they get your photos from that event.