Archive for the ‘Photography’ Category
- Getty Images
Getty Images is up for sales according to the NYT. Price tag: $1.5 Billion. Let the bidding start.
- Flickr Commons
Go Discover the Flickr Commons
Flickr Commons is absolutely awesome. Working in the editorial photo space I see a lot of editorial and news photographs, what I have always missed and tend to gravitate towards are cultural heritage photos and archive photos that we never ever get to see openly. Sometimes they are behind walls (no access to consumers), sometimes the search tools of the sites hosting the collections are so terrible that one gives up any hope of finding anything useful. I am so looking forward to this Flickr pilot succeeding.
The first part of the Flickr Commons project is a pilot that the Flickr team has created in partnership with The Library of Congress. The Library’s catalogue is not entirely available on Flickr: the Library of Congress team has selected 1,500 photographs from their collections to showcase on Flickr. This is a brilliant start! Awesomeness! Now what the project is really about is: showcasing the image collection and allowing the public at large to tag the images. There are today over 20 million tags on Flickr. And the hope here is that these additional tags could make searching the Library of Congress collections easier and better in the future. I am in. So folks, join me, and get tagging! The Library of Congress also has a blog post about the initiative.
- Photos free for all?
Is facebook freeloading? You be the judge, a great news piece from CBC – via Paul Melcher.
- Ford
Somebody please pinch me! I can’t believe this. Ford legal drops bomb on the Black Mustang Club. No kidding. You have to read it to believe it. Something they will surely retract or regret very soon. Mind boggling. It of course landed on slashdot.
- Smallworld
Since 1974, Nikon has sponsored a yearly photo competition for images that delve into the worlds beyond the reach of the unaided human eye.
- Not Sliding in NZ
Photo-sharing website, Slide.com grew by 228% between 5 May 2007 and 22 September 2007, overtaking Flickr during the week ending 8 September 2007 in the New Zealand market. Slide.com ranked at second position in the Hitwise Entertainment – Photography industry closely behind Photobucket with respective shares of 14.44% and 15.5% for the week ending 22 September 2007. Flickr followed at third position with 13.73% market share. Via Hitwise – full report.
- Where are the great photos on Flickr
This is a questions that comes up constantly in our office. Alec Soth (whose work I really love) asks and gets many, many, many answers. Happy hunting!
via Jason
- Fotolog Acquisition
Well: it is now a done deal as reported by GigaOm and Andy over at StockPhotoTalk. Fotolog has always been (in my eyes) the original social photo sharing site. It was there before flickr and certainly before the Facebook maddness!
The terms of the transaction are valued at approximately $90 million, net of transaction expenses. Consideration anticipated to be paid to Fotolog shareholders would consist of Hi-Media stock (approximately 77% of total consideration) and cash (approximately 23% of total consideration), giving eligible Fotolog shareholders 7,414,852 newly-issued shares of Hi-Media (anticipated to represent approximately 19% of Hi-Media’s issued and outstanding share capital upon completion of the acquisition). BV Capital and 3i Venture Capital, Fotolog’s largest shareholders, have elected to receive the majority of their consideration in the form of Hi-Media stock and expect to participate in the development of the combined company into a major pan-European online media and services group.
Fotolog celebrated its 5 year birthday a few months back with some outstanding statistics and is laying down the foundation of what is Next for fotolog past the Hi-Media acquisition; from the fotolog press release:
- The opportunity to bring together Fotolog’s rapidly growing audience of more than 10 million members, 15 million visitors – and its top 20 ranking among the world’s most trafficked websites – with Hi-Media’s huge ad-network and great optimization capabilities
- The tools for Fotolog to extend its platform and community services with one of Europe’s largest micro-payment networks · The jump-start Fotolog brings to Hi-Media’s Publishing Group
- The strong geographic fit, combining Fotolog’s growing strength in European markets like Spain and Italy with the reach Hi-Media will give Fotolog in rich and valuable Internet markets such as France,Germany and Sweden. · The outstanding opportunity the Fotolog team and investors will have to participate in the growth of the combined company.
- Photocamp
Last minute planning for Photocamp in Toronto. It is exciting to see the number of participants and explore their photography. We are pumped for the first Toronto Photocamp! If you are interested in joining us this is your last chance so go ahead and register.
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