Once photos are in Everpix, the service uses image analysis to show highlights in a year's worth of "moments."
(Credit: Everpix)
PARIS -- After a year doing its Apple-centric groundwork, start-up Everpix is ready to find a wider audience for its photo sync and organization service.
Today, the company announced version 1.0 of its Windows software, an out-of-the-way utility that slurps photos from people's hard drives and uploads them to company's servers. There, Everpix analyzes each photo mathematically for a variety of characteristics then synchronize the files with iPhones, iPads, and the Everpix Web site.
Everpix, though, isn't really about syncing files like Dropbox or Google Drive. It's also not about online photo communities such as Yahoo's Flickr, and it's not about social networking with a visual twist like Instagram. Chief Executive Pierre-Olivier Latour is careful to deflect suggestions that he's taking on incumbents.
Instead, the service aims to make people's photo collections manageable for themselves, said Latour in an interview here. Everpix, which costs $5 per month or $40 per year, dovetails with other services and software but doesn't seek to replace them.
"Don't worry about taking more photos. Don't worry about organizing," Latour said. "We want to give people more freedom" by plucking choice moments from the... [Read more]
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