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Keepsy lets you Create, Organize, Print and Share your photos right from your iPhone. This new app from photo book printer, lets you print photo books from your iPhone library and/or Instagram. Recently introduced, the Keepsy iPhone app lets you…

Print

• Order a gorgeous photo book in minutes right from your iPhone.
• 7" x 5" (17 x 12 cm) hardback "Pocket books" up to 80 pages.
• Perfect personalized gifts for your friends and family.
• International shipping of albums to 22 countries.

Create

• Fun, challenging photo project ideas each week.
• Take better photos with tips from pro photographers 
• Share photo projects with friends and make sets together.

Organize

• Keepsy auto-sorts your photos into important events and locations.
• Make your own photo sets from your iPhone's camera roll and Instagram with a few taps.
• Up to 400 photos in a single photo set.

Share

• Share your photo sets with anyone via iPhone, smart phone, or the web.
• Friends can view, comment, and add photos to your shared sets 
• Family can print their own photobooks when you photo share a set with them.
• Great for group travel, weddings, celebrations, parties, and reunions.

Keepsy for iPhone [App Store Link], is a FREE, easy to use app, that lets you create and print 7" x 5" hardback Pocket Books, with book prices starting from as little as $14.95 USD, and thanks to Keepsy, readers of the iPhoneography blog can get a 10% discount by entering the following coupon code IPHOBLOG during checkout.

Make amazing calendars from your Instagram photos with keepsy

As you will have seen from my previous post, keepsy the photo book publisher has just announced their new calendar printing service.

Prior to this announcement, keepsy were kind enough to send me a sample calendar made up from some of my Instagram photos, and very nice it is too. Nicely printed on good quality lightweight card, from either your Instagram, Flickr, Picasa or Facebook photos, these calendars will look good hanging on any wall. Priced at $19.95 USD for a 12 month calendar or $25.95 USD for 18 month one, these calendars would make a great personalised Christmas gift for yourself, friends or family.

Main features of the new keepsy calendars are:

• The site integrates Instagram, Flickr, Picasa and Facebook APIs, so you can get your photos from any of these services -- not just Instagram.
• A cool new feature is the ability to access a *friend's* Instagram feed to make gift calendars or albums. We think this will be a big hit during the holidays. We're the first to enable this, as far as I know. (It's important to note that the person must be one of your Instagram followers if you want to access their photos -- so you can't make a book or calendar out of just anyone's pics. You also need accept terms that you have (or *would* have, if it's a surprise) their permission to print their photos. This limits the scope of givers and receivers to close friends and relatives -- which is perfect for the gift scenario -- but doesn't allow, say, Justin Bieber or Snoop Dogg fans to go create celebrity fan books, or for errant creeps on the service to just highjack your photos without permission.) 
• A 12-month calendar is $19.95, while an 18-month is 25.95. 
• We're shipping to 22 countries via USPS - cost varies depending on destination. All US domestic shipping is via FedEx ground and is $7.95 
• Turnaround on domestic orders is 5 to 10 business days. We recommend ordering by December 12th to avoid any issues with the holiday delivery rush. For International delivery, we recommend ordering by December 5th.

For more information visit keepsy.com

Press Release: Keepsy launches Instagram Calendars

November 1st, 2011 - Menlo Park CA. If you're an iPhone user, you've undoubtably heard of Instagram by now. The hot photo-sharing application that has taken the world by storm now has over 10 million users and hundreds of millions of photos uploaded. While some experts are scratching their heads over how the free application will eventually make money, some intrepid companies are diving in head first.   

One such Silicon Valley startup is riding this wave with printed books and -- starting today -- with printed calendars.

"We've been really amazed by the customer feedback on our Instagram books," said Keepsy CEO Peter Weck. "The print quality has been so high that introducing new products with Instagram photos was an easy next step for us."

The award-winning site now offers 11" x  8.5" wall calendars starting at $19.95. Keepsy's integration with Instagram, Facebook, Flickr and Picasa allows seamless import of photos from these online services.

"With nothing to upload or download, making a book or calendar takes only a few minutes," said VP of Product, Blake Williams.

The first website to allow users to create Instagram books -- Keepsy is fast becoming a leading innovator in mobile-to-print technologies. This is the second announcement in as many weeks from the company, as they gear up for the holidays. Last week, Keepsy announced a new "Gift Book" feature that allows friends and family to make printed Instagram books -- and now calendars -- using each others' photos. To ensure that albums are only printed as personal gifts, Keepsy requires that a given Instagram user follows the album or calendar creator in order to access the photos.*

"If you're part of the Instagram community, we can't think of a better holiday gift than getting your friend a surprise album or calendar of their best photos," said Williams. "And now that we're shipping to 22 countries, your friends can be just about anywhere."

About Keepsy: Keepsy uses the power of social networks to create custom, collaborative photo albums and calendars. People can create their own custom albums and invite friends to add their own photos and messages to the album. Keepsy was founded by Peter Weck, Blake Williams, and Kai Zhao. Keepsy's investors include James Hong, Tim Connors, and Dave McClure's 500Startups fund. To learn more about Keepsy, please visit http://www.keepsy.com

*Other restrictions apply. For more information, visit http://www.keepsy.com/faqs#503

Announcement: keepsy Instagram Gift Books, now available

"Why not give a friend a keepsy Instagram gift book for Christmas"

It’s great to make a photo book out of your own Instagram pics, but what if you could make a book for a friend… using "their" photos?

Now you can! And just in time for the holidays. Announcing Instagram Gift Books — All you need to do is log-in to Instagram on Keepsy and then replace your username with your friend’s username. Their pics will load automatically in our photo selector, pre-sorted by number of ‘likes’.

Make you keepsy Instagram photo album or gift book here.

Press Release: Keepsy launches Instagram Gallery

Keepsy releases first Instagram gallery - Photo album site first to create curated online gallery of Instagram photographers.

Today, Silicon valley startup Keepsy announces the first curated online "gallery" of Instagram photo albums.

"We've heard people describe Instagram as 'Twitter for photos' but that is really doesn't do the application justice. It is so much more than that," said co-founder Blake Williams. "We've been closely watching the photos coming through our system and the quality is simply stunning. Our aim is to create and curate a space that showcases this creative potential for mobile photography."

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