By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Now that we’ve gone all digital with our photos and our life, we want to be able to physically show off our online life to our friends when they come over. That’s what New York based start-up, Pixable, is banking on.

The online photo company is different than KodakGallery and Shutterfly because it lets you use Facebook connect to upload your friends’ information and pictures all at once, so you can decide which ones you want to print. With $350,000 in backing, Pixable is relatively new. After a soft launch in July, the company debuted in October. So far, 5,000 albums have already been created.

The Calendar Creator program will put those birthday reminders where they belong. And yes, “unfriend” is the word of the year for good reason. Good thing Pixable lets you pick and choose which friends make the cut into your calendar.

So wait, if you’re friends with me on Facebook, you can make calendar of Boonsri? Privacy, please! The company argues that it’s a web-wide privacy issue. If anyone is friends with you, they can print your photos as long as they have a printer!

Monetizing on photos seems to be a largely untapped market. Flickr just partnered with HP’s Snapfish to let people have creative power over their photos. The joint venture will let people make calendars, prints, and books. At the moment, you can only make stuff from your own Flickr account.

It’s all about capturing the moment online, and then turning them into something real. The same desire to preserve memories applies to the written word as it does to photos. Tweetbookz.com lets you turn your tweets into a book, hoping that it can turn your 140 characters into poetry. Good luck with that.