PixSense has one aim - to let people focus on taking pictures. PixSense does the rest for you - photo uploading,conversion,quality enhancement and sharing with their "click" and "you're done" model. As the story goes, Anurag's wife loved photography, but couldn't find a simple way to manage and share her photos. So an idea sparked and many Starbucks' house coffee and frozen frappuccinnos later PixSense was born. Presently in Beta, people are encouraged to sing up for a free account. Cute story aside, let's take a closer took at the service.

s the PixSense FAQ states," Personal photography’s too important to be a niche activity. Camera phones were supposed to make it easy but they don’t. A It’s easy enough to take a picture but then what do you do with it? How do you get it off the phone? How do you share it? How do you save it? How do you categorize it? How do you stop getting those annoying "out of memory" messages? How do you improve the quality of those little pictures? How do you print a camera phone picture? Those were some of the questions we asked and tried to answer."PixSense is a new way of taking, sharing, and managing pictures and videos captured with your camera phone. PixSense makes taking, sharing, and managing pictures with camera phones really easy; it makes it so simple, that all you do is Click, and then you're Done.

• Upload Photos and videos captured from your camera phone get automatically uploaded to the PixSense Web Gallery.
• Share with friends and familyShare your photos and videos with your friends and family directly from your phone or the web via email or SMS.
• Publish to everyonePublish photos and videos from your phone for public viewing. Click here to register and start sharing your photos and videos now! You can also read the FAQ to learn more about PixSense.

The service is compatible with a wide range of existing Symbian devices including the Nokia N70 and N90 and a free account with 100MB storage (at least for BETA users) provides access to the required software.  Generic pubilc and private functionality for images and albums exists and a simple but comprehensive "help" section walks users through the most common functions. I do wish the software was available w/out registration as that might attract more parties for testing purposes.

The site itself features the latest uploaded content with highights for popular and most commented units. Videos are also included but Quicktime is required for playback which I found strange given the popularity of FlashLite encoded content across the web.  On a plus note, I did find the actual public content pages fast loading and visually appealing, reminding me of the classic Menalto Gallery layout with thumbs of the first and last images in any given collection. Since I haven't signed for the service yet, I can't comment on what personalization and templating options exist or how the public and private areas differ.

A little look at the company's founders shows a wealth of talent including Faraz Hoodbhoy (Founder) formerly VP of Biz Dev at NextBrick and Dr. Asad Islam (CTO) formerly with Nokia's Research Center. He is credited with developing some of their JPEG 2000 standards and holds various patents in image processing.  Sounds like a Silicon Alley start up to me:) Let's see where they progress. See PixSense for more info.

Via SymbianOne

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