Image sharing underdog, Photobucket have announced new features for public photos that integrate with Digg, allowing users to digg images directly from the site.

No doubt photobucket are simply jumping on the bandwagon after seeing so many Flickr images appearing on the front page of Digg, and the popularity of anything marked [pic] on the social-voting behemoth that could provide a much needed boost to ‘the bucket’.

Photobucket, who started out as an obscure image hosting platform, have been trying to ’socialise’ their service ever since the birth of Flickr showed them how it should be done. Now I use photobucket to store images, and that’s where it ends for me (and I suspect many others) and the tacked-on sharing features never appealed, so with that in mind, will this make any difference to the service, or is it just a last minute gimmick doomed to raise little more than an apathetic ‘meh’ from it’s ‘upload and forget’ userbase?

According to photobucket, they are adding the following features…

Photobucket Digg buttons — Digg buttons will be added to all photos in the public “Find Stuff” tab (http://photobucket.com/findstuff) on Photobucket, allowing Photobucket members to submit content to Digg.
A Digg Channel on Photobucket — A dedicated Digg channel will be added today under a “Popular” section within the “Find Stuff” tab on Photobucket. “Popular” will rank the most “Dugg” Photobucket images.
Photobucket on Digg — the Digg site will link back to Photobucket’s Digg channel, to display the most popular images as voted by the Digg community.

Will this change anything? Nope, but I’m sure photobucket relish the association with Digg, and will milk it for all it’s worth.

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