Today we are initiating a wide scale test to update and improve our image display look & feel.
The images embedded by you on your blogs and web pages will appear as usual but you might see different visual display of the PicApp added elements appearing on top of the image.
As our community grows we get more and more ideas from our bloggers\users about their wishful readers experience . Some of these ideas are so great that we want to test them and see if indeed they create a better user experience that translate to better usage and improved royalties to content providers.
Feel free to send us any feedback you have about the different display options (good or bad…).
As some of you noticed, our WordPress plugin has been falling lately behind the rapid progress of the WordPress versions progress.
Our users (being the slick bloggers they are) have updated their blogs to the 2.8.x versions (2.9 is around the corner…) and started to see slowness and issues working with the plugin. Well, hint taken!
Today we release a brand new version of the plugin, simpler, faster and compatible with the latest versions up to the current 2.8.5.
With the new version you just search:
select the image you want:
Click on the thumbnail, and, viola, the image will be added to your post:
We wanted to share this great news with you - ZUMA Press, one of the world’s largest independent press agencies and wire services just joined PicApp as one our content partners! This collaboration expands PicApp’s content by providing access to more than 5,000 new images posted daily on ZUMA covering sport news and entertainment.
A little info about ZUMA Press:
ZUMA Press, produces award-winning news, sports and entertainment content and represents some of the greatest photojournalists, media groups and picture agencies around the globe. ZUMA represents over 3,000 photographers worldwide and over 60 of the world’s best picture agencies, as well as over 100 newspapers and the daily feed and archive of 33 publishing giants. ZUMA’s photographers have won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer, World Press, BOP and POYi.
Those of you who have been blogging with us for a while noticed that we are moving toward the upper-end of the content representation and have made certain changes in our content partnerships to improve the quality of the content we provide. We believe that by working with top agencies we can better insure many of the important factors such as professional keywording , global coverage , fast server respond , clear legal rights\credits and more.
We came to meet all of our friends and make some new ones in BlogWorld Expo 2009 in Las Vegas!
It was so great meeting up yesterday with all of you out there that are using PicApp and hearing your important feedback, questions, ideas and compliments. We were especially thrilled to meet some of our new top Bloggers who joined us since our new partnership with Wordpress.com.
If you are a Blogger, writer or want to hear more, you should definitely ping us so we can meet and show you our cool product and the amazing images we have for you (for free!). We have new widgets, new tools and exciting coming new features. Let us know that you’re here – we will stop by and say hi!
We look forward to meeting you - just email us (discover@picapp.com ) and we can set up a time and place.
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