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SmugMug announced support for the Eye-Fi Card, with which SmugMuggers can use their home Wi-Fi networks to upload photos to SmugMug from their digital camera. The Eye-Fi Card went on sale at select online retailers earlier this week.
Eye-Fi’s 2GB wireless SD memory card was announced on October 30th and is available at major online retailers for $99.99.
Related post on Eye-Fi: Photojojo’s take on Eye-Fi
Originally posted on November 5, 2007 @ 4:22 pm
American Greetings Corporation has acquired the online assets of the Webshots brand from CNET Networks, Inc.
Webshots is one of the largest online photo and video sharing sites on the Internet with more than 7 million unique monthly U.S. visitors and with more than 400 million digital photos stored. Webshots offers both free and premium memberships with a variety of features. Users of Webshots can easily manage their photos online, share their photos, order prints, and order custom photo gifts.
The purchase price was approximately $45 million.
Originally posted on October 27, 2007 @ 11:00 am
Blurb announced a strategic partnership with SmugMug, an online photo sharing and photo storage website. The partnership lets SmugMug customers create, publish, share, market, and sell professional quality books.
SmugMug customers can use Blurb’s new SmugMug Slurper to automatically “slurp†full-resolution photos from their SmugMug account into Blurb BookSmart software. Users then create a book on their own, or invite others to contribute to a community book project that captures their shared passions and experiences.
To publish a book, users download Blurb’s free BookSmart software straight from Blurb.com. Customers can keep their books private or announce them to friends and family, and include them in Blurb’s public bookstore for others to see and purchase.
In this photo, the SmugMug team celebrates a profitable company.
Originally posted on October 18, 2007 @ 11:16 pm
Netvibes today announced the beta launch of Netvibes Premium Universe, which integrates Netvibes functionality into any company’s website to enable users to personalize the delivery of branded online content and applications, including RSS feeds, podcasts, photos, videos, stores, widgets and more. Netvibes Premium Universes are Universes that are incorporated seamlessly within a company’s web domain, giving it full control over all of its branding and content, such as customized feeds, layouts and menus. With Premium Universes, users enjoy the personalization and enhanced delivery of content while publishers benefit from keeping users on their site; retaining user traffic, navigation and revenue generation.
Netvibes Premium Universe offers a unique opportunity for companies to maintain their brand integrity while building and strengthening relationships with users who seek a relevant and customized experience online. A Premium Universe enables publishers to showcase and distribute their widgets while also hosting their users’ start page all within the publisher’s site.
Partners include Tagged, MIVA Direct, France’s Les Echos and Le Figaro have also integrated Premium Universes within their homepages to power their personalized news and media content online.
Originally posted on October 3, 2007 @ 9:56 am
CornerWorld, a groundbreaking business management and social networking platform that empowers independent content creators to share and profit from their skill, launches today.
“Original creators can use CornerWorld to easily distribute, promote and monetize their digital creations while controlling how their content is downloaded, sampled, and priced,” said President and Co-Founder of CornerWorld Scott Beck. “CornerWorld integrates Web 2.0’s most valuable collaboration and sharing features and provides a platform for everyone to participate, and profit.”
Blogging, sharing photo, audio and video, instant messaging, subject-driven forums, e-mail and contact unification, event invitations and classified advertising are combined in one simple interface. New technology also expands boundaries to enable live streaming and capture for global event broadcasts and/or live video chats.
Originally posted on September 24, 2007 @ 1:39 pm