The new way to share digital photos from the people who brought you Picasa
No email, no websites, no waiting!

News: August 1, 2003

We know you love your digital photos – we do too, and we’ve been working on a way to make sharing your photos with others easier.

Today, we’re excited to take the wraps off our secret project, and give you a preview of how we think people will share pictures in the future.

We’re making the public beta of Hello available for free, and you can begin instantly sharing your pictures with friends and family. No longer will you have to hassle with email attachments that are always too big, or worry about uploading to websites where your pictures are too public.

While you browse through pictures together, you can easily chat online with your friends and family about the pictures. If being able to share more than just words with your friends and family sounds intriguing, we encourage you to be one of the first to try the free beta version of Hello.

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Product Information

Hello is a peer-to-peer program (p2p). This means that your computer is directly connected with other computers (similar to how popular file trading programs work). Hello is safe and secure to use at home or at work, because you set up your buddy list of family and friends and only those people that you approve can send you pictures. No one can get your pictures without your permission. And, no one can share pictures with you unless you specifically give the ok.

How does it work? You simply select photos that you would like to share, and the person you’d like to share them with. As you press send, the person you’ve chosen will instantly see the pictures on their computer screen – no email, no attachments, no waiting! While you’re both looking at the pictures, Hello also allows you to chat with the other person and your comments appear right alongside the photo!

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