Six months after changing its business model to photos that can be embedded, Getty Images has released an iOS app designed to help users browse and share pictures in Getty's massive collection.

The app, named Stream, lets browsers look into the stock photo agency's archives to find pictures users can legally share and embed on social media sites and other sites and on blogs for non-commercial purposes.

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The viewer can also look at photo streams clssified by the company's editors into categories such as sports, entertainment, news and "archival," a category where pictures of historical significance are highlighted.

The app also has a slideshow feature that lets Apple devices connect to AirPlay to display a stream of photos on Apple TV with ease. The photos can also be shared directly to Twitter and Facebook from the app interface.

While the user can easily share photos, the app doesn't let him save the images on the device's album. Users can "copy" the image, which saves the picture's embed code on the device's clipboard instead.

Getty lets users embed the code of the image as they offer the photo-sharing firm control over the picture, potentially earning a profit by putting ads or collecting user information.

Meanwhile, Kevin Rose, co-founder of Digg, has also released Tiiny, an app for sharing photos that will self- delete the submitted content after 24 hours.

A grid of 212 x 212 pixel looping videos and pictures is shown on Tiiny, which was made available to the public Sept. 12.

The images can't be zoomed in to get a better view. The idea behind the program is based on the Explore/Hashtag views on media sharing app Instagram.

The premise is that smaller sized photos and videos cause less pressure when shared.

Tiiny uses one's Twitter credentials to sign in. It automatically lists the people a user follows on the social site, although a user has the option to remove individuals.

Rose said in a blog post that it only took his team of five at Northern Technologies three weeks to finish the app.

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