There’s definitely not a lack of photo sharing services on the web. However generally speaking, we often just publish images and videos for friends to view without inviting them to actively participate in the album.PhotoCollect, unlike other services such as Flickr, enables users to collectively contribute to public or private albums without having to ask friends to go through a sign up process. Creating albums and inviting friends is simple because the service has integrated Facebook to simplify the sharing process....

Appysnap, an app that sets regular photography challenges to its users, has nowexpanded to Android, followingits iPhone launchback in June. As on the iPhone, the Android app lets users collect points and win prizes for successfully completing challenges which are regularly pushed to them. Challenges can be anything from ‘Take a photo of a street sign’, to ‘Take a snap of someone impersonating an Angry Bird’. Points awarded let users compete on a leaderboard, while prizes include the likes of Kindles, iPods and gift certificates....

When it comes to photos on the iPhone, Apple likes to keep you locked inside its good-looking, but quite restricted gallery.Photopodis a great little app that makes managing, uploading, downloading, editing and sharing images easy, whether they’re stored on your iPhone or on a number of Web services. The app, from Sweden’sDear Future Astronaut, hooks into Flickr, Picasa, Facebook, TwitPic and Dropbox. Once you’ve added your accounts from any of these services, Photopod allows you to browse photos stored across them all....

If you’ve found that photos are mysteriously disappearing from your Google Nexus S, you’ll be happy to know that it isn’t just you. But that’s about all the good news we have for you. A Sprint spokesperson is reported to have said that a small number of Nexus S 4G users have made complaints that photos taken on their phones are randomly disappearing. She added that while Google, Sprint and Samsung were looking into those complaints....

Google has a shiny new 40,000 sq ft office in London at 123 Buckingham Palace Road. The new digs were designed by Scott Brownrigg Interior Design to accommodate over 300 staff. The firm is also responsible for designingThe London Business School,the Eden House in Spital Square, and numerous other beautiful buildingsboth residential and commercial. The lobby features a giant Google logo forming doorways through the two Os. The entire space features a Brighton beach theme including wallpaper with seaside imagery....