Canditto is a patent-pending kiosk that collects the photos your guests have taken at your wedding, party, or reception.  It produces a USB flash drive of all the guests pictures by the end of the night.
Canditto units are rented to clients.  The $450 rental fee* includes everything: round trip shipping, your keepsake memory cards, and all the support you might ever want.

Short 2 minute video on the service:

This is a good business model where user generated content (in this case friends and family that came to the event) is put in the hands of (literally in their hands via a thumb drive) the host.  The business has a feel of customer interacting and touching the hardware and enjoying the pictures digitally.  Few important points about the business:

• instant gratification
• novel and still old style
• creative use of user generated content
• good word of mouth or referral marketing potential

This is a niche that we thought about before but did not quite work out how the delivery and interaction of the device (Kiosk).  Rush from Canditto definitely has great plans and he has already talking about non-wedding events and we wish him well.

Collagist Team

~ do more with your pictures ~

In this blog post we want to cover the topic of photo storing.  For storing photos you have two options: 1.) Store on your local computer and 2.) Store online

Of course, each of these options has its advantages and disadvantages.  First, we want to write a little bit about the tools and options that are available to the users and in the coming weeks we would like to write a little bit in detail about these tools/software and what you can do with your pictures.  We would like to remind you to do more with your pictures.  And you would ask, do more? what do you mean by more and we would point you to Photo Collages, Posters, Canvas Prints… See, we want you to come back and use our services and we are pretty sure you will like what you get.

Ok, going back to the topic of photo storing.  We believe that having a plan to organize and use the above options is a great way to share and access your photos.  Storing to your local computer is by far the easiest way but not always the best way to share, print, and work on your pictures.  The picture transfer from your camera or memory card to the computer is the fastest way that is possible out there.  But, this does not offer you many tools, particularly for the MS Windows users, in terms of reducing the image sizes, tagging and emailing or sharing with others.

The good news is that there are many tools that are available out there, for free, to make the photo organization and management easy for everyone.  Some of the tools are Shutterfly’s Studio, Google’s Picasa, Adobe’s Photoshop Album, PicMe Sharing by Raiz Labs, and more.  We particularly like Picasa.  PCMag once wrote an article about Picasa to explain what is good about Picasa.

Picasa also offers options to store pictures online but you need to have Google Account.  There are many other options that would let you store photos online for free as well for a fee.  Some of these services are Flickr, Photoworks, WebShots, phanfare etc.

In the coming weeks we would prepare a list of all these services to make choosing easy for you.  Until then go out there and take pictures and enjoy them.

Collagist