Scrapblog, the first Web-based service for creating and sharing multimedia scrapbooks has now goes live, after two years of planning and development. In addition, another great news for them is that they also secured a funding from Longworth Venture Partners for an undisclosed amount in a round A financing, but some industry pundits are predicted Scrapblog is seeking for $2.5 million, according to this article.

Some of the built-in features are truly appealing. Flexibility, highly customized, no registration required, ease of use are favorably received by the users. Users can mix their photos, videos, audio, text, and other creative contents to Scrapblog in order to create the online PowerPoint-like books. The contents can either upload from their own PCs or notebooks as well as some other social media accounts that users owned such as YouTube, Photobucket, Flickr, Yahoo! Photos, and Webshots. The scrapbook that a user made can either published publicly or privately, a special appearance and function that provided by Scrapblog. Moreover, beautiful templates and presets are available to choose on Scrapblog’s design interface and Scrapblog also supports direct publishing to Blogger, Typepad, Wordpress, Flickr, MySpace, Facebook and other popular social networking platforms. In matter of fact, Scrapblog is pursuing a differentiation strategy by providing several design tools that help its users in “expressing” themselves in the Web community. They believed the tools that they developed capable in enriching the flashy effects on each personal, individual user towards the Web 2.0 effects and reflections. As you visit their Web community page, you’ll find their users that play around with their application with a myriads of beautiful designs and effects.

Scrapblog is based in Miami and the founding partners have previously founded another venture that called NoBox.

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