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HP acquires Tabblo – I will finally be able to print my Blog!

Published 28 March 2007, 06:52 PM



Many friends have been asking me why we acquired Tabblo since we
already owned Snapfish and whether we were planning to integrate both. Rather than repeat the same story, I thought I would blog about it!

Photo site Tabblo is not a traditional photo sharing site; Tabblo makes it easy to import photos from sites like Flickr and arrange them with text to make large posters, called Tabblos (from the French word tableau), to print directly from the web. In the last nine months since its creation, 150 thousand tabblos were created, using 5 million photos.

The plan is to take the entire Tabblo set of tools— the editor, the AJAX template engine, and the output formats and transform the web-to-print experience. Imagine if you could manipulate, format and print your entire blog history (text, graphics and photos), your MySpace page, personalized maps and books!

Tabblo’s website will remain intact and separate from Snapfish.
Let me know what you think!

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Being able to quickly select specific blog posts from your own blog archive including text and photos and then producing the content in print/book format is going to be a great tool and very popular with bloggers especially those bloggers that are already being pinged by book publishers or looking at services like Lulu to publish their works.

When i first saw your post headline- i thought cool finally a print this post feature! sometimes if i want to dig deep on a post, potentially doodling with some notes and ideas i want to print it out but it isn' that easy if a blog has a lot on posts, menus, widgets etc.!

Question- will you always require a HP Passport to post comments? are all HP blogs that way? Do you think it reduces the amount of comments you get?

# Friday, March 30, 2007 05:11 AM by danielabarbosa
Yeah I know.... The HP passport requirement most probably hinders the number of comments we have on our blogs, but it's the safest way to fight form spams that are attacking our blogging platform. Fits in our broader context of IT security. Eric
# Monday, April 02, 2007 04:51 PM by Eric Kintz

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