From the Gigaom article I just discussed I learned about PhotoCrank, a beta service that enables you to provide a caption or frame around your camera phone photo (see below).
PhotoCrank has about 145 different templates in eight categories, including a DEMO conference category, where it's showing it's stuff now. You may use the words in the templates or include your own text.
However, if you text is offensive, it could be edited, according to the FAQs on PhotoCrank's Web site.
Demo's take
According to "Demo says" on the page for PhotoCrank, "While PhotoCrank isn’t the first mobile photo postcard service, it may well be the service that gains widest market acceptance.
"Embracing photos as entertainment, PhotoCrank delivers a fun, viral content play to an active and attractive college-age demographic. It doesn’t take too much imagination to see PhotoCrank at the center of very clever and quickly spreading brand campaigns."
Pricing
PhotoCrank offers you three free "cranks" if you join. You need to select one of three pricing plans: $7.99 a month for 40 cranks, $4.99 a month for 20 cranks and a per-crank fee of $.30.
PhotoCrank says it supports three of the four major U.S. cellular operators: Cingular, Sprint and Verizon.
When I first saw it I thought, naw. But I don't know. Perhaps it could catch on. There already are lots of crank templates and I assume there will be many more.
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