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A New and Improved Picapp

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Posted by Niran Amir on September 22, 2009 – 11:13 am
Filed under General

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!!!

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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!

BlogHer and PicApp Announce Partnership to Provide Images to Network Publishers

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Posted by Niran Amir on July 23, 2009 – 10:21 am
Filed under Announcements, General

Contributors and members of BlogHer, the leading community hub for women, can now access millions of premium images from PicApp to include alongside editorial and creative content on their posts.

BlogHer is the leading participatory news, entertainment and information network for women online. It includes BlogHer.com, a community hub for bloggers with more than 54,000 members and 60 editors covering topics from politics, entertainment to food health and family, and the BlogHer Publishing Network of more than 2,500 qualified, contextually targeted sites reaching more than 15 million unique visitors per month. PicApp was selected as the only partner to be fully integrated into BlogHer in order to provide full size, premium and legal images to BlogHer publishers.

Read the full press announcement.

We are happy to announce the partnership and to have our application and images available to the BlogHer community.

The PicApp Team
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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!

China Fashion Week

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Posted by Niran Amir on March 26, 2009 – 12:51 pm
Filed under Current Events, General

With so many sports related events happening in March and April, I decided to take a short break and showcase different images- Fashion Shows ones.
China Fashion Week, March 25-31, is evolving from a small scale show to an influential event featuring 30 fashion shows, interestingly, critics say the fashion show has never been so “Chinese” with Chinese elements becoming more chic and popular in the fashion scene around the world.

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China Fashion Week A/W 09

Picapp is kicking off March Madness

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Posted by Niran Amir on March 20, 2009 – 10:34 am
Filed under Current Events, General

We are kicking off March Madness.
Take out your Brackets and join us for real time images from the games.
As a Bruins fan I opted to use an image from last night- UCLA Bruins v VCU Rams where Darren Collison insisted on not letting Eric Maynor’s last shot get in right at the buzzer resulting in a 65-64 UCLA victory.

Stay tuned!

NCAA First Round: VCU Rams v UCLA Bruins

picapp is on the right track - Press : Here sunday morning show

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Posted by Eyal on March 15, 2009 – 4:57 pm
Filed under Announcements, General

we got a nice tip from our friends today that picapp was mentioned live on the MSNBC KNTV’s  Press : Here Show.

The round table discussion was about the YouNoddle tool which provides calculated guesses for start ups valuation.  based on the short intro for the show , picapp is marked as one of the start ups that is on the track to success.  we also went and check what the Younoodle score thinks we worth and ….well , lets say we wish all of our last year investment charts would look like the chart they drafted for picapp.  I think this tool , as any other new tool  ( including picapp) still has a lot of place for improvements  and agree that if they will be able to hit 1 of 9 , it will still be a revolutionary thing.

we, at the picapp team,  still have lots of work and execution to do on our end as we must play in the start up game (we need to score 1 of 1 ) , but this video was , indeed,  a nice way to open Sunday morning with : )

thanks for Sarah Lacy , Scott Mecgrew and Maggie Shiels for including picapp in the show intro!

Eyal and the picapp team