We’ve been firing on all cylinders here at Picnik, with great new features and record numbers of users every week.  Lest it be forgotten in all the hubbub, our nifty little API is setting records too!  Every month we’re hitting a new all-time high for the number of photos going through our API.

Just recently we’ve seen Picnik pop up at sites like MailChimp and PopCarte, and our newest API partner is Open IT Online. Their tool is the leading Firefox extension to pull together several different online services to edit images and documents.  And with their latest update, you can now use Picnik to edit any picture you find on the web!  Here’s what Denis Remondini of Open IT Online has to say about the Picnik API:

“We had already integrated other online image editors but we were pleasantly surprised to see how easy it was to integrate a powerful Flash based image editor such as Picnik: we just had to get the API key and then have our software open a new web page containing Picnik. That’s it!”

For those that haven’t heard about it before, the Picnik API is a service that lets you integrate the award-winning Picnik experience right into your own web site.  The Picnik API is quick and easy to use (and free!).  You can get instant access to the API and explore all the tutorials and samples at http://www.picnik.com/info/api.

Brenda, our Community Liaison in Charge of Flickr Operations and Antipodean Branch Office Manager, has announced this months Flickr Picniker Award Theme and this month is: “Picnik Yourself“!

Find a picture of yourself — an old one will do, but a new one is better — and post the Picniked version to the discussion page (don’t forget to send the Picniked version to the Group Pool!) from now until November 20 (or thereabouts) when voting will start. A fun idea: Those suitably equipped can try the “Get From Webcam” link in the Library tab. And don’t forget: the two runners-up win 3-month Premium subscriptions and the winner receives a full year of Picnik Premium!

Friday was Halloween and although we were short on ghosts and goblins, we were certainly haunted by many weird and wonderful creatures, pictured below.

By the time the picture was taken, Steve Jobs and the Hairy Ghoul had left to manage the trick-or-treaters at home, and Spiderman, Princess Leia, and Ruby the Bee had come to say hi to their dads and gone again.

Saturday and Sunday were just as fun for us here at Picnik World Headquarters, because this Halloween weekend was our biggest weekend ever! We just never get tired of saying that.