SnapMyLife a Destination to See Grassroots ‘Snapshot’ View of Presidential Inauguration Events on January 20

NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SnapMyLife, the leading mobile photo-sharing site, today announced that many of its 600,000 members will be snapping photos from their mobile phones at locations around Washington, DC and the world during the Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama next Tuesday, January 20. Dozens of inauguration events taking place next week will be captured live by SnapMyLife’s mobile, grassroots campaign. Popular social networking sites such as SnapMyLife, Facebook, MySpace and YouTube are planning events, but only SnapMyLife users can see photos people are sharing in real-time directly from their mobile phones.

“Barack Obama’s campaign broke new ground with its extensive use of social media and new technology”

SnapMyLife’s mobile-web community enables consumers to instantly share, discover and location-tag photos from any place in the world. The company invites the tens of thousands of citizens planning to converge for the inauguration, or many regional events across the country, to participate by snapping photos with their mobile phones and sharing them instantly. To submit a photo, simply create a free account on SnapMyLife, email or MMS the photo to a personal upload address, and include the tag ‘Obama’ in the body of the message.

Anyone interested in participating in the event or seeing the inauguration photos streaming live, can go to: www.snapmylife.com/tags/show/obama. To see photos from regional inaugural events, go to: www.snapmylife.com/maps.

“Barack Obama’s campaign broke new ground with its extensive use of social media and new technology,” said David Chang, co-founder of SnapMyLife. “On election day, SnapMyLife users from around the world openly shared their experiences live as the votes were tallied deep into the night. On inauguration day, we are encouraging people to share their memories from events in Washington, DC and around the world.”

SnapMyLife was launched in April 2008, and has rapidly grown to more than 1.5 million unique visitors per month and over 600,000 registered users. Mobile phone users from every country in the world use SnapMyLife to share pictures, make friends and see location-tagged pictures on interactive maps.

About SnapMyLife

SnapMyLife (http://www.snapmylife.com) is the leading mobile-web community for instantly sharing and discovering photos from locations around the world. The site is optimized for viewing directly on mobile phones, offers location tagging and interactive picture maps, and uses sophisticated filtering technology to ensure a great experience for a wide range of audiences and advertisers. SnapMyLife is venture-backed and headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts.