Sweden based Jalbum.net is the online photo sharing community of photographers and cutting-edge digital presentation tools, launched Jalbum Widgets and expanded the reach of digital images across the Web.

Jalbum offers its millions of users a free and simple way to display images on any web site, as well as limitless options for personalizing custom displays.

Jalbum Widgets display more information about the album and the photographer and allow Facebook, MySpace, Digg and other social networking site sharing in a simple and intuitive way. Creators may display photographs on the Jalbum.net network or host them on their professional or personal websites with this.

Jalbum Widgets

With the release of Jalbum Widgets, anyone with digital images can now incorporate face detection and tagging, build conversations around images, monitor popularity and enable any viewer to spread the word.

Face Detection and Tagging with Polar Rose

“By incorporating Polar Rose’s unobtrusive face recognition, Jalbum users are given an easy option to see familiar faces in scenes from their world.” said Nikolaj Nyholm, CEO of Polar Rose.

Jalbum was started as a hobby project by David Ekholm in 2002. Funded (total raised capital approx $3.2 M) by Nordic Venture Partners since 2006, Jalbum currently has 10 employees.