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Our Stars: publishers of the week

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Posted by Niran Amir on February 12, 2009 – 12:01 am
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We have thousands of publishers who are using our images.
One of the great things working on a webby/ social media app is that you are exposed to a variety of users. In our case all have an opinion about something and all share the urge to voice themselves- in that sense they are all alike.

But–each has a unique way of saying things, present a different angle or has a different topic he/she is passionate about. I really love that about my job! seeing who is using our images, what images are used and reading the posts and the insights.

With that I decided to periodically share with our blog readers some of the blogs I come across and like.

This week I want to showcase four blogs: Vegetarianstar, Grey’s Gabble, Celeb Tots and Teddy Bear Toys.
Feel free to share posts/ blogs you came across and found interesting.

Niran Amir

Starfish and seafoam

The baby can walk ! Better product , Amazing community and Fund Raising.

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Posted by Picaboo on September 17, 2008 – 11:40 pm
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Baby walking

Reflecting on our first “we are having a baby“ post from several month ago,  it seems that PicApp came a long way.  We are in the business of making online publishers’ life easier , enabling them FREE access to a Legal usage of the BEST visual content. Period.

 

In the last several months we : started and completed closed beta , doubled the amount of images served through new content partners  , enhanced the product based on our PicApp community feedback, and strok deals with blog networks who were eager to offer their publishers this amazing content proposition.  PicApp also helped hundreds of bloggers express themselves, and enrich their blog posts during the recent Olympic games.

 


Businessman with blocks

Today, we are happy to share some great news. As our young PicApp grew so nicely , it impressed the good people at Carmel Ventures , who are now going to fund PicApp and help us take it to the next level.  We have very ambitious goal -  to solve a real problem, and are now better equipped than ever to accomplish this goal.

 


Woman biting lemon slice

Yes , you all know the story by now , 90% of the images used online infringe the copyrights owner rights. But than again, all bloggers want is to create attractive content to fascinate their readers, and it is so complex and expensive to license an editorial image to compliment the blog post or article.  This is where PicApp ‘comes in the picture’  : )   -  with a growing set of tools, and an enormous number of searchable images (more than 10mm!)   PicApp is built to serve the online publisher’s needs while helping content owners maintain control of their image and receive online advertising based royalties. PicApp is  “making lemonade when life serves you lemons.” (Om Malik) 

PicApp is now an independent business entity , that is solely focused on  providing the best content to the best publishers.  Creating PicApp and bringing it to what it is today is a huge achievement to the smart and entrepreneurial people of PicScout .  The PicApp team thanks you for the endless support and friendships , we know we have high mountains to climb now and we are all very excited and motivated to continue.

Hiking

For our users -  your feedback in the last several months was key enabler to the product improvment. We listened and we promise to continue listening. Our new picapp version is design to increase traffic to your image-enriched’ blog posts while providing you with much more content  that is better  and faster   - let us know what you think!

Friends at a wine party

Stay tune!

Thanks for visiting us again! ..and don’t forget to come and party with us during BlogWorldExpo (booth 211) !

 Eyal Gura