28 October 2008

Pixum and AOL announce Co-Branded Picture Service and welcome all European AOL-Customers

Cologne, 28th October 2008

Pixum has forged an European agreement with AOL to offer a new co-branded Picture Service. Beginning today all European AOL Pictures users have access to Pixum’s award winning online photo services and will also be able to access their current pictures. Current AOL Pictures users as well as new AOL Users can take advantage of Pixum's storage capabilities and full range of features and services.

Pixum and AOL agreed to cooperate in the segment of online photo services in Europe and will offer a complete set of features and services based on Pixum’s award winning photo service: free storage, a complete set of photo-sharing tools and high-quality photo printing solutions on professional photographic paper as well as on T-shirts, mugs, puzzles, greeting cards, photo calendars & photo books. Pixum has earned a number of international awards from independent magazines for providing outstanding print quality, user-friendly Web design and fast and friendly customer service. With a few easy clicks, AOL Pictures users will be able to set up a free, personal Pixum-Account, and with this access all personal pictures via the new co-branded AOL/Pixum Picture Service and receive up to 100 free prints as a welcome-gift from Pixum.

Pixum and AOL will offer its new services in English, French, Dutch and German, with more European languages to be added in the near future.
“We are delighted about this exclusive partnership with AOL and we are proud to welcome AOL Pictures users to our service. As a leading online photo service we offer our users a highly qualified, powerful and appealing package of free services and various products. For Pixum this partnership also is a confirmation of our position as a leading Internet photo service in Europe,” comments Daniel Attallah, founder and CEO at Pixum the European agreement.

Photos & Posters in professional quality
(http://www.pixum.co.uk/poster-printing.html)
Photo Books at Pixum
(http://www.pixum.co.uk/photo-book.html)
Gift-ideas
(http://www.pixum.co.uk/photo-gift-ideas.html)
Photos simple, fast and inexpensive
(http://www.pixum.co.uk/developing-photos.html)

About Pixum
Pixum (www.pixum.co.uk) is one of the leading independent online photo service providers in both the United Kingdom and Europe. We offer high-quality photo printing on professional photographic paper as well as on photographic gift products such as T-shirts, mugs, puzzles and greeting cards. Pixum prints and exposes only on high-quality materials using up-to-date and environmentally sound technology. Other free services are online photo albums and photo sharing via the Internet as well as offers for camera mobile phone users. In over 40 tests by special interest magazines and consumer protection organisations, Pixum scores the overall top position. On www.pixum.com Pixums services are available in the languages English, French, Dutch, Danish, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and German. Delivery is possible within the whole of Europe. Pixum is a certified member of Trusted Shops and received the "Fast 50 EMEA Award" in October 2007 as one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Germany, offered by Deloitte Technology, the magazine Capital, the German stock market and the DVFA.

20 October 2008

SummerZoom 2008, Paris

Elaine (Bathgate)

Here are some pics from our honeymoon in Paris.
A view from right underneath the Eiffel Tower and two pics from a Candelit visit to a chateau on the outskirts of Paris - Vaux le Vicomte. Beautiful memories!








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Here, you can participate and win!
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17 October 2008

SummerZoom 2008, Greece

Tony (Belfast)

We holidayed on the Greek islands during the summer.

My son Dara enjoying chasing his shadow around the windmil at Parikia town on the island of Paros.


In the second photo passengers leaving a ferry at Parikia harbour, Paros stop to admire the sunset.


The third photo shows the famous Meltami wind blowing up in Mykonos town on Mykonos Island.



www.pixum.co.uk - Get the best from your photos!
Here, you can participate and win!
Photos like professionals: all about EXILIM EX-Z100 on www.exilim.co.uk

06 October 2008

Website relaunch with a new design and many great new functions!

Service, comfort, functionality and a new, modern look:
many thanks to the numerous beta-testers who helped Pixum to improve the quality and customer service of our new website. We are proud to present to you our new site, where we unite design, structure and expanded functionality. Come visit us today and see the new possibilities and functions of our website - discover a new Pixum 2.0!



My Pixum - A complete overview
After your login or registration, "My Pixum" offers you a personal homepage with a quick overview of your new photos, your photo albums and the current offers as a practical quick-link. In "My Pixum" you have an overview of all current and past orders and in "My account" you can edit all the personal settings of your profile. Additionally you can find the most important links to your account in the top right corner of every page.



Online albums & friends
Starting now you can change the names of your albums, change the optical order, secure your albums with a password and invite friends to your albums with only 3 clicks. With the new community functions registered customers can have an immediate overview of their own public albums, albums of their friends and statistics about the visitors of their albums. By the end of the year we plan to expand the Pixum community with even more functions such as a gallery, a buddy-list, the possibility to import photos from other photo communities such as Google Picasa, Flickr or social communities, address-importing, photo blogs and extensive profile functions.

More upload possibilities
To upload your photos to Pixum, we now offer even faster and better upload possibilities for most operating systems under "Upload photos". An email-upload for cell phones and an improved FTP-upload for professionals will offer you efficient and excellent comfort while uploading your photos.

New shop & new photo book area
To offer you more service, more functionality and more products, naturally we have also expanded our shop area. Due to a new categorization our shop now offers you a better overview and more structure. We are also expecting some new products...


The extra navigation bar and our improved product-search-function will help you to find the right product from our assortment of more than 150 products.

Our completely new designed photo book pages now offer you a simple entry in the area Pixum EasyBook. Here you will find the perfect overview of all formats (incl. XL & XXL), our photo book software and the possibility to repeat your order with only a few clicks.



Additionally we have developed a help function, with which you can create your own photo book with your best digital photos in only a few steps.

We want your feedback!

We need your feedback to constantly develop and improve Pixum for the future!
If you find an error or miss a function, please notify us of this problem by using the link "Report error/bug" in the top right corner of every page. We will then try to solve the problem as soon as possible. We ask you to only use the contact form in the help department for your support requests regarding your order or account. This is the only way we can guarantee to process your request quickly.

Go to the new Pixum site:


Best regards
Your Pixum team

PS: For everyone who doesn't want to let go of the old site just yet, we have added a link to the old site in the top right corner of every page. You can still place your order there. Some functions however are only partially available.

 
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