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Flavors.me brings support for 500px

We are excited to announce that Flavors.me has been working on integration with 500px and now all Flavors.me accounts support 500px. Flavors.me is the great way to establish a beautiful web-presence online — it's like a summary of you on the Internet that you can easily share with other people.

Now, with 500px, Flavors.me offers even better service for photographers. With several options to display your 500px photos you can customize it right for you.

Flavors.me is offered in a premium flavor as well, and it brings you unlimited services, more themes, custom domain and more. To celebrate, Flavors.me is giving away $1000 worth of prizes to our members. To get your premium Flavor.me account for a year, simply enter your Flavors.me username in the comments below and enable your 500px account on it. First 50 people will be upgraded to premium by the Flavors.me team.

PS: We'll be giving away 10 annual awesome accounts as well. See Flavors.me blog for details! :)

500px has worked with Flavors.me, Google Currents and Flipboard to integrate our most popular feeds and your personalized photos to deliver users on every platform the most inspiring photos in the world.

This Season, Give a Gift

We intentionally kept it to ourselves, but since the gift season is here, we wanted to share a news with you that might help you make a perfect gift to a great photographer that you definitely know. Head over to a secret Gift page for a surprise.

Here, you can purchase a gift for yourself, a photographer of your choice or just get in early (and receive a gift code you can gift anytime). It's that simple. Just $50 for 1 year of Awesomeness.

Wondering if Awesome is right for you? Well, it allows you to create your personal unlimited web-site, with 18 elegant themes, unlimited uploads and collections, advanced SEO customization options, Google Analytics, and custom domain (yes, you can hook it up with your dormant .com domain).

If you have received a Gift of Awesome yourself, head over to https://500px.com/gift and click "Redeem your gift account" to get your awesomeness. If you don't have an account yet, don't worry — you'll be able to create it during the process.

Enjoy the season!

Native iPhone Portfolios

If you had looked at your 500px portfolio via iPhone lately, you might have noticed a fresh new look to it. We have completely redesigned our portfolios for mobile, so now you can enjoy native and fluid experience on your iPhone or other mobile device.

500px Portfolios are now fully optimized for iPhone, Android and other mobile devices. Now every portfolio sports a clean look that adapts to your theme, and reacts well to touch gestures.

If you chose a light-grey or white theme as your portfolio, your visitors on mobile devices will see a white theme, and if you are into classic black, your portfolio on mobile will adapt to that too.

Viewers can now view all collections right away, and tapping a collection brings a familiar interface, where users can flick through the photos, or even enable the slideshow.

You can also access biography and contact pages and quickly overview all the available information.

This update is available to all users, and if you can fully control the experience in Portfolio Settings by enabling or disabling mobile-optimized view (your visitors, of couse, can also view desktop version by clicking on a link at the bottom).

Shoot, edit, publish. Even faster.

We are happy to announce that we have finished the development of the Lightroom publisher plugin for 500px, and it is now available for download at 500px.com/lightroom . We have developed the publisher plugin completely in-house to ensure best compatibility, continued support and development. During development, more than 500 photographers have participated in beta program, helping us achieve the best compatibility between different platforms and Lightroom versions. Thank you guys & gals!

With the 500px Lightroom plugin you now can:

• Publish photos to public profile or a personal portfolio

• Create and manage portfolio collections

• Edit titles, descriptions, and other metadata and sync it with 500px profile or portfolio

• Read and write comments for your photos right from Lightroom

• See your individual photo statistics, such as views, favorites, votes and rating

Wonderful RC Concepcion has created step by step video tutorials, which explain installation and image management processes. Enjoy watching "Installing new 500px Lightroom Plugin" & "Creating/Deleting Collections and Images with the Lightroom plugin from 500px".

♥ 500px team

Pixel Hack Day: recap

This past weeked 500px hosted our very own, open to everyone, hackathon - Pixel Hack Day. The event was aimed to bring together the creative talent of Toronto, mainly software developers and designers, to create photo related hacks — small but functional apps that use one or more of the photo APIs.

The event started on Saturday morning and ran for 30 hours, ending at 5pm on Sunday, when all the developers and teams submitted and presented their hacks. We had over 60 people sign up, many participants formed teams.

Pixel Hack Day went great, I am really pleased with the number and the quality of hacks that were submitted, you can check them out at http://pixelhackday.com/hacks.php. The winning hacks are:

1st place: Pictur.me — an app to create mosaic from any uploaded image, using photos from 500px website.

2nd place: Brovisor — a tool to upload a photo of an item of clothing in your closet and get suggestions to complete your outfit.

3rd place: TweetBG — Connect TweetBG to your twitter account to update your twitter profile background image with a collage of photos from 500px.com

Also, Photo Quest, the winner for the best use of Kik API, received $1000 prize from Kik and $5000 in consulting services from Playground.

Other prizes included:

- 500px — Free 500px Awesome account for 1 year for all participants

- GelaSkins — $40 gift certificates to everyone who submitted a working hack

- Moo.com — free pack of cards to all participants

Below are some photos from the event:

Also, huge thanks to our sponsors:

Ryerson Digital Media Zone

Kik (kik.com is looking for developers in Waterloo)

Yellow Pages Group

Ross Rumbell Business Lawyers

Playground

Moo.com

GelaSkins (also looking for developers, in Toronto)