Russian Internet giant Yandex has rolled out a new feature for its cloud storage service Yandex.Disk that allows users to siphon their photos from Facebook, including the ones they’re tagged in, to a safe place in the cloud. In addition to Facebook, users can import photos from popular Russian networks VK.com and Odnoklassniki, while support for Instagram is coming soon. The feature, which is currently available only in the desktop version of Yandex.Disk, also works the other way around, letting users export their photos from the cloud to the three supported social networks in a few clicks. As stated in Yandex’s press release, the new feature is aimed not only at consumers but also at businesses like stock photo agencies or image banks, who could use it to simplify their workflows.
Russian web giant Yandex has added a handy new feature to its cloud storage facility, Yandex.Disk – the Dropbox and Google Drive competitor now has the ability to import photos from Facebook and local player VK.com. What’s more, users can download not only photos that they themselves took and uploaded to the social networks, but also other people’s photos in which they are tagged. The tool also comes with photo-enhancing features. Much as they can do with rivals like Dropbox, users can also share photos stored on Yandex.Disk on the social networks. Yandex is hoping that the API it uses for this purpose will become more important in the future, as a spokesman told me: “The idea is to knock on, say, photo stock and printing services’ doors and to offer them to do the same integration using their tech platform. This will let, for example, my mom who is not experienced in online services use, but who uses iPhone to make a photo, to save her photostream at her Yandex.Disk (one click in the Yandex.Disk iOS app), and then send all of them or selected to her photo-stock account or to a printing service just in several clicks.”
