Monthly Archives: May 2009

PicApp Announces Partnership with Daum Communication

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Posted by Niran Amir on May 30, 2009 – 1:03 am
Filed under Announcements, General

PicApp is proud to announce its partnership with Daum Communication, the largest ISP in Korea and to offer its Blog Platform, Tistory and its publishers with access to millions of images.
Tistory blog Platform launched in May 2006 is experiencing rapid growth and with over 250,000 users it keeping growing while attracting opinion leaders and trendsetters.

Accessing PicApp images will be done through the Tistory platform.
Read the official Press Announcement

We are very excited to launch the relationship, this is a first step in expending PicApp into Asia.
To meet with the anticipated demand for local content PicApp is and will be adding additional images in the next couple of weeks.

Read more- Daum’s press announcement.

Special thanks for the team at Daum Communication for their ongoing support and commitment.

To welcome our new partners and its publishers we have created this short introduction demo which walk thru the process of embedding a PicApp image in the Tistory Platform. Enjoy!

Champions League: Barcelona 2 - 0 Manchester United

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Posted by Niran Amir on May 27, 2009 – 9:46 pm
Filed under Current Events, General

Football - Manchester United v FC Barcelona 2009 Champions League Final

Football - Manchester United v FC Barcelona 2009 Champions League Final

Live from Cannes Film Festival

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Posted by Niran Amir on May 18, 2009 – 4:11 pm
Filed under Current Events, General

A lot of action at the 62nd Cannes Festival, Picapp as always is supporting the happenings with real time images from the Premieres, Hot Parties and Red Carpet Appearances.

Here are a few highlights from the first couple of days:

Premieres and Parties:
Premiere of “UP”
Spring Fever Premiere
Vegeance Premiere with attending celebs include: Doutzen Kroes, Asia Argento and others.
Rachel Weisz attends the Agora Premiere
Quintessentially dinner party attended by stars including Paris Hilton and Ryan Phillippe.
62nd Cannes Film Festival - Spring Fever Screening

And some red carpet appearances worth noting:

Robin Wright looked gorgeous at the opening ceremony; Elisabeth Banks in head-to-toe beaded Andrew Gn dress arriving to the screening of ‘Spring Fever’ and Actress Tan Zhuo in Roberto Cavalli attending the Spring Fever Premiere.

Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in Elie Saab SS09 couture attending the Spring Fever Premiere, Jaydy Michel at the ‘Up’ Premiere and our all time favorite Hillary Swank attending the Looking For Eric Premiere.
Looking For Eric Premiere - 2009 Cannes Film Festival

Some tips to help you get the most out of Picapp great images:

1. Set up an RSS alert for a search term(i.e. Cannes Festival) and get notifications when new images matching your term are added to picapp
2. Use one of our gadgets- Image Mosaic or Image Slideshow to display Cannes Festival images on your blog, images are updated automatically
3. WP users- use our updated plug-in for Wordpress to easily add Cannes Festival (or other) images to your blog.

PicApp at WordCamp Toronto

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Posted by Niran Amir on May 15, 2009 – 11:06 am
Filed under Announcements, General

WordCamps are growing events surrounding the popularity of WordPress. People from all experience levels with the blogging platform get together and interact with each other. For some WordCamp attendees, it is the only conference they attend, and with that, one of their few changes to interact with people that share a common interest.

This year, at WordCamp Toronto, PicApp was proud to not only sponsor, but also to have a representative at the event. David Peralty, whom you all might remember as the former Community Manager of PicApp stepped in and presented on our behalf. David is a well known blogger, and WordPress fanatic.

The presentation was entitled, “The Image Problem - Creating Captivating Blog Posts”, where he went through the issues with most methods bloggers use to add images to their blogs, and why it is important to have multi-media content embedded within your blog posts to drive attraction, page views, and focus.

“I went in there not knowing what the skill level would be of the audience, nor what they would be using WordPress for, but I assumed everyone would be publishing content, and with that text content, they should have some sort of images to help attract people to what they were publishing” - David Peralty (brandingdavid.com)

After David’s presentation, he fielded questions, not only about PicApp and finding free, legal images online, but about the blogging industry as a whole.

Over the course of the three day event, there were numerous talks on blogging, social media, building traffic, branding, and revenue to blogs being powered by WordPress.

Brendan Sera-Shriar, the lead organizer of the event did an amazing job. Logistically, these sorts of events are very complicated to put on, but in the end, everything worked out well.

We are looking forward to WordCamp Toronto 2010, and hope to see even more WordPress fans in attendance.

Toronto skyline

Picture of PicApp schwag:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/digitallifenews/3513299731/in/set-72157617789520543/

SEO thoughts and Special thanks for the google\blogger team for the L.O.V.E !

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Posted by Eyal on May 4, 2009 – 7:49 pm
Filed under Announcements, General

hello everyone,

we are very excited by the much love and great feedback we are getting to the picapp’s image serving design. seems that the new sleek look and the fact we reduced the ad’s intrusiveness (to zero!) are exactly what our publishers were asking for!
one important thing to mention regarding the new design is that the picapp image is now a real SEO steroid. the in-depth and professional metadata and captions we associate with the image , helps image search engines to better index the blog posts of our publishers. You all know by now that over 10% of the searches online are being conducted on image-search engines and much of the bloggers ( especially sport , celebs , news) traffic come from these images. here is a sample image search and how the SEO steroid looks like:

picapp SEO steroid

so there you have it - FREE SEO and the BEST content all together : ) enjoy!


Also -  the blogger\google team had recommended picapp as one of few leading sources where bloggers can grab copyrighted content and use it in a rightful way. picture-41

This is a very nice step forward in terms of the acknowledgment and acceptance of leading publishing platform of the fact that the more professional the blogging world become , the more access will bloggers need to rightful , updated , rich and copyrighted content. at picapp we have over 20 million of these files and thousands of new images coming everyday from the world’s best sources.

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we are very proud to be in the same list with much bigger web successes (we will get there too!) and will continue to work hard to make the millions of bloggers and online publishers happy.

guys thx for the love!