PhotoVu Digital Picture Frames

RSS is a technical acronym that stands for “Really Simple Syndication.” It’s a way that websites can “publish” frequently update content, often call feeds or channels, to which end-users can “subscribe,” and then be automatically informed of new content as it is published, in an easy and efficient manner. Many, if not most, digital photo sharing sites, Apple MobileMe Gallery, flickr, FrameChannel, Google Picasa Web Albums, Photobucket, SmugMug, Webshots, and Windows Live™ FrameIt, offer the ability for their users to publish their own RSS feed for all of their photos and photo albums stored up their accounts. The PhotoVu is able to go out to these Internet websites and automatically download and sync the digital photos that are stored there to a local storage drive on the PhotoVu. In addition, most photo sharing sites that support the RSS Media or Enclosure tag are also compatible with the PhotoVu. You can even develop and use your own feeds!

This is a very powerful and a very deep feature of the PhotoVu that has a lot of capabilities that can be used in a variety of ways. For instance, it can allow a PhotoVu owner to automatically see photos posted by other friends and family members. Or, we have many customers who buy a PhotoVu to give to a loved one that may be a little older or not very technical. They will configure it at the remote location and set it up to automatically sync to a photo sharing website and their corresponding RSS feed. This way, they can automatically manage what pictures the remote frame plays by posting or deleting the corresponding pictures on the photo sharing website. Lastly, many photo sharing websites have groups or “pools” of themed pictures (i.e. sunsets, flowers, sports, landscapes, beaches, etc.) that their users can submit for other to see by simply “tagging” the picture when it’s uploaded with the appropriate tag. A popular group here at PhotoVu is “flowers.” If you subscribe to the Flickr “flowers” group feed, you can have your PhotoVu automatically go to the Flickr website every X minutes to download new beautiful flowers and display them as part of your overall photo show, or even by themselves on a timed schedule in its own separate photo show.

The above just barely touches on all the capabilities of RSS and the PhotoVu. We expect to add many more capabilities to the PhotoVu involving RSS technologies, so stay tuned, and don’t forget to subscribe to our mailing list to a keep abreast of all the latest features an enhancements.

For more information on PhotoVu RSS feeds, please see our knowledge base.