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ZangZing launches its group photo sharing web service into private beta Tuesday to gives users a way to create, build and share photo albums with friends.
“The state of photo sharing on the web feels like it’s stuck in the dark ages,” says ZangZing CEO and co-founder Joseph Ansanelli. “With ZangZing, we are enabling groups to easily create and share albums together in a way that is much more simple and beautiful.”
Users can create new group albums with photos imported from a smattering of web and mobile repositories -- Instagram, Flickr, Facebook, Picasa, Shutterfly and Kodak Gallery are just a few. Photos can also be added via the ZangZing uploader or sent in via email. The user can also invite friends as contributors to collaborate in the group photo album creation process.
With ZangZing, each album is treated as its own entity. So each album has its own privacy and sharing settings, as well as a custom email address. Albums, depending on privacy settings, can be posted to Facebook and Twitter.
Those with access to albums can view photos in a slick slideshow or see them in grid, timeline (Facebook newsfeed-style) or people views, share them and (eventually) buy them. ZangZing album creators and viewers can also "like" individual photos and albums.
A weakness of ZangZing's is that it requires too much of the user to get up and running and building group photo albums. The site does a great job at the how part of the equation -- the quantity of photo and social APIs being integrated is exhaustive -- but it leaves you to figure out the why piece on your own. It's also web-centric, which seems like a mistake in an age when mobile photo-sharing is paramount.
Still, ZangZing's group photo-sharing product is both stunning and functional and includes a number of nuances that make the overall experience quite pleasant.
ZangZing is self-funded and is free of ads and free for users. The startup will introduce fees for extra storage at a later date. Two-hundred and fiftyMashable readers can get priority access to the ZangZing private beta by signing up here.
