Author Archives: Niran Amir

Picapp Announces Partnership with WordPress.com

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Posted by Niran Amir on October 6, 2009 – 7:14 am
Filed under General

We are happy to share with you some good news, we have signed a partnership agreement with Automattic, the company behind the WordPress open source project and which runs WordPress.com.

What does it mean?

It means great news for the 7.5MM publishers using WordPress.com who just gained access to around 20 million premium, legal images and who can now search for and embed PicApp images into their blog posts.

It means a user community that grew and became even stronger.

It means another important milestone for PicApp in solidifying its position as the ultimate source for images online:

  • Images that cover any category you can think of- breaking news, sports, entertainment, travel, food, fashion, family and more.
  • Premium images from the most prestigious content partners.
  • Images that are licensed and legal to use.
  • Images that offer opportunities for blog readers to further interact and engage with blog content.
  • Images that come fully tagged to improve blog SEO.

We created this fun, cool video to illustrate the value images add to our blogs and sites, hope you’ll enjoy it.

And a warm welcoming to the 7.5MM publishers who are now part of the PicApp family.

Click here to read the Press Announcement.

Happy blogging,
The PicApp team!

Brazil to Host 2016 Olympic Games

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Posted by Niran Amir on October 2, 2009 – 3:24 pm
Filed under Current Events, General

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva cries at the contract signing ceremony after Rio De Janeiro won the vote to stage the 2016 Olympic Games at the Bella Centre on October 2, 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark. After eliminating Chicago, Tokyo and Madrid, International Olympic Committee members selected the Brazilian city as site of the 2016 Summer Games. This will be the first time the Olympics will be held in South America.

IOC 2016 Olympic Venue Announcement - Day Two

A New and Improved Picapp

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Posted by Niran Amir on September 22, 2009 – 11:13 am
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If you’re a long time PicApp user or just following our work you know that we are always looking for new ways to stay ahead and make PicApp better.

For the last few months a bunch of geeks, aka our tech team, focused on making our service more stable, simpler to use and mainly faster. We’ve listened to your feedback and requests and today we’re adding a new face to all of the great adjustments we’ve made and are proud to release a new PicApp website.

The top items on your wish list were related to website performance, search quality and image display. The new website is about those exact items.

What can you expect?

Website performance – all actions, especially running searches and grabbing image embed codes, will be super fast – searches are 5 times faster!!!

Bridgestone Indy Japan 300 Mile Practice

Search quality – our new search will be more accurate, stable, with a wider range of images (we added new image providers and have several others in the pipeline), a wider range of image collections (sports, science, medical etc.) and the ability to filter searches by categories for your specific blog needs.

Image display – it will be easier and faster to grab image codes and embed them in your blog, the code itself has been modified so images load faster and look better on your blog posts. We have also added “Image Thumbnail” feature, to let you use a thumbnail image as a teaser and drive traffic to the post where the full size image is displayed.

New PicApp tools – with the new website tech backbone in place, we can start releasing new and exciting tools and widgets to create new ways for you to use PicApp and for your readers to interact with your blog content. As part of our new Tools section on our home page, we are excited to release “The picapp search” which enables you to add a direct PicApp search to your personal browser – try it out! We are also extending an invitation to our loyal bloggers to join our Alpha revenue share program. In the coming weeks we’ll deploy more of these to the website so stay tuned….

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Last but not least, a brand new look – we’ve re-designed our website for a slick and elegant interface with the focus on bringing you more news, new tools and gadgets, and an easier navigation for searching and grabbing the right image for your blog post.

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Fewwwww…. You can see why it took a little extra time (-:

So, go ahead, check out our new website and keep the great feedback coming, that’s what made all these great improvements happen!

Best Dressed at 2009 Emmy Awards

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Posted by Niran Amir on September 22, 2009 – 10:50 am
Filed under Current Events, General

Rose Byrne in Valentino:

61st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards - Arrivals

Heidi Klum in Marchesa:

61st Primetime Emmy Awards arrivals

Blake Lively in Versace:

The 61st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards Arrivals in Los Angeles

The 66th Venice Film Festival

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Posted by Niran Amir on September 12, 2009 – 5:03 pm
Filed under Current Events, General

The 66th Venice International Film Festival is organized by the Venice Biennale. The first “Esposizione d’Arte Cinematografica” came into being in 1932 as part of the 18th Venice Biennale.

The very first film to be shown in the history of the Festival was Rouben Mamoulian’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, screened on 6 August 1932.

The aim of the Festival is to raise awareness and promote all the various aspects of international cinema in all its forms: as art, entertainment and as an industry, in a spirit of freedom and tolerance.

Closing Ceremony Inside - 66th Venice Film Festival

Actor Colin Firth holds his Best Actor award while attending the Closing Ceremony at the Sala Grande

Celebrities at the premiere of A Single Man at the Venice International Film Festival 2009, Italy

Premiere for the film A Single Man. Pictured: Director Tom Ford and actress Julianne Moore.

Usain Bolt Wins 100m in World Record

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Posted by Niran Amir on August 16, 2009 – 10:35 pm
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Usain Bolt crossed the finish line breaking world record in 100 m run, he managed to shave 0.11 seconds off his achievement at the Beijing Olympics last year, setting 9.58 seconds as the new world record.

Track and Field: 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics

Tyson Gay, the American runner arived second with 9.71 seconds

12th IAAF World Athletics Championships - Day Two