Tag Archives: WordPress

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!

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/

Join us this Sunday at WordCamp, Israel

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Posted by Picaboo on November 14, 2008 – 10:48 pm
Filed under Announcements

We are happy to
participate and support WordCamp Israel 2008, it's happening this Sunday
November 16, 2008.


WordCamp Israel 2008 is the second annual
conference for the WordPress blogging community in Israel. Its goals are to strengthen the ties between Israeli
WordPress users, to grow the Israeli WordPress community and to increase
people's technical understanding of WordPress and PicApp is excited to align
itself with these goals.


We have recently launched our WordPress
Plug-in, the first WordPress Plug-in of full size copyrighted images and our experience
since we launch has been very positive, not only in terms of number of
downloads and increased usage but as important the great feedback and deep involvement
we get from the users— it's like joining a big caring family.


So, we'll be at WordCamp on November
16, we'll be presenting at the main entrance hall, stop by and say hi.



The PicApp Team


Wordcamp

Our WP plug-in rocks!

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Posted by Picaboo on November 12, 2008 – 1:13 am
Filed under Announcements

Our WordPress plug-in is available on WP directory, we created this short demo video to show you how easy it is to add PicApp images straight from WP editor into your post.

The images are fully licensed, come from the most prestigious content partners such as Getty Images, Splash News, Corbis and alike, these are full size images that come tagged so they improve your SEO and indexing to drive more traffic to your site (beyond the obvious value of enriching your blog and enhancing readership:)

The number of downloads in the short time since the plug-in was added is really gratifying.

Help us spread the word: if you haven't yet– give it a try and if you have– let others know of it, Digg it; Blog it, Facebook it…

Download our plug-in and start adding images to your posts!

Thanks,

Niran Amir

PicApp