Thanks to my involve­ment in the world of tech jour­nal­ism, I recently had the chance to spend some time with two new Kodak prod­ucts — both of which embrace the company’s new phi­los­o­phy of sharing.

“Share” is a great buzz word for the photo indus­try, because it’s what most of us are look­ing to do with our pic­tures once we take them.  The lat­est line of Kodak cam­eras and pocket cam­corders has embraced this buzz word, offer­ing up what they like to call the “share button.”

The share but­ton is a but­ton you can press on the back of the cam­era while you’re brows­ing through your pho­tos that will let you upload any pic­tures you want directly to your Face­book, Flickr, email, and more.  Once you’ve selected what you want to share and told it where you want to share it, all you have to do is sync up your cam­era and it takes care of the nitty gritty for you.  Neat, right?

The cam­era I had the lux­ury to play with this on was the M590, and as you can see from the sam­ple pic­tures I’ve taken here and here, it takes a pretty great shot for being a low-end model, well worth it’s entry level price of $199.

It’s a nice thing to know about if you’re buy­ing some­one a cam­era — but let’s get real — the chances of that are prob­a­bly slim.  What’s more likely, how­ever, is that you’ll be shop­ping for a dig­i­tal pic­ture frame.  This is where the idea of “share” really comes into full swing.

The Kodak Pulse pic­ture frame is quite lit­er­ally the gift that keeps on giv­ing.  Once you’ve given it, you can con­tinue to update the frame from the com­fort of your desk by e-mailing new pic­tures to it when­ever you want!  What bet­ter gift for Grandma than a pic­ture frame given in Decem­ber that gets lit­tle league pho­tos in the sum­mer and grad­u­a­tion pic­tures in the spring?

And since the frame just uses a con­ven­tional e-mail address, you can give it out to every­one in the fam­ily so that new pic­tures can arrive from all sorts of famil­ial pho­tog­ra­phers!  The frame gets bonus points for stream­ing Face­book photo albums too, should you sim­ply want to stream a par­tic­u­lar album belong­ing to your­self or your friends right out of the box.

You can pick up the Pulse as a 7 inch frame for $129, while the 10 inch is avail­able for $199.  If you were already think­ing about get­ting some­one a dig­i­tal pic­ture frame this Christ­mas, why not get them one that you can update for them all year round?