photo-sharing

Move Over, Picasso: Smartphone Photos Become Works of Art

Lauren Goode in Commerce on December 5, 2011 at 3:06 pm PT

Seems like only yesterday we were talking about online and smartphone pictures supplanting physical photos. Now, a crop of new services are capitalizing on the Insta-hip printout trend.

Brian Pokorny: Why Pick Just One Photo When You Can Share Batches? (Video)

Liz Gannes in Social on November 30, 2011 at 8:34 am PT

DailyBooth CEO Brian Pokorny explains his company’s new app, Batch, which encourages users to take and upload lots of photos of their lives as they’re happening.

Kodak Seeks to Sell Online Photo-Sharing Business Kodak Gallery

Dana Mattioli, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 17, 2011 at 3:13 pm PT

In a bid to raise money to fund its turnaround, Eastman Kodak Co. is trying to sell its online photo-sharing business, Kodak Gallery, people familiar with the matter said.

Cooliris Cleverly Makes Photo Sharing Instantaneous (Video)

Liz Gannes in News on July 26, 2011 at 3:01 pm PT

Cooliris, which for the last five years has built all sorts of neat online and mobile media tools, has lately been working on some rather nifty technology to make photo-sharing much more instantaneous.

Aha! So This Is What You're Supposed to Do With Color!

Peter Kafka in Media on March 25, 2011 at 2:13 pm PT

You could spend the day reading every link on Techmeme. Or you could watch a prescient Onion clip from 2009. Your call.

Will Secretary of State Clinton's "Internet Freedom Agenda" Finally Get Traction?

Kara Swisher in News on February 16, 2011 at 7:09 am PT

Yesterday, in a major policy speech in Washington, D.C., Secretary of State Hillary Clinton jumped on the Internet bandwagon again, unveiling a $25 million government investment for entrepreneurs to allow dissidents to thwart “thugs, hackers and censors.” Since that’s about the amount a third-string social photo-sharing site gets while walking down University Avenue in Palo Alto, Calif., from venture capitalists with bags of money to spend, let me just say the money is, well, underwhelming. Clinton’s speech, thankfully, was much better.

Path: The Social App That's Not Viral (By Design)

Liz Gannes in Social on November 14, 2010 at 9:00 pm PT

While there are many interesting photo-sharing apps out these days, Dave Morin and Path are the most convincing about there being a larger idea behind what they’re doing. San Francisco-based Path is stubbornly focused on close personal connections–a.k.a. real friends.

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No, It's Not Instagram: Photo-Sharing App Picplz Raises $5 Million

Peter Kafka in Media on November 10, 2010 at 8:31 pm PT

Mixed Media Labs, the parent company behind photo-sharing app Picplz, has raised a $5 million Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Up until now Picplz, which works on both Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android platforms, has been best known as the new project from Dalton Caldwell, who ran music service Imeem until it collapsed a year ago. Next question: Who is investing in rival photo-sharing app Instagram? (Ahem. Besides Andreeseen’s firm, which invested in that start-up’s seed round.)

TweetPhoto Fills Its Own Hole Before Twitter Can, Rebrands Itself as "Plixi"

Peter Kafka in Media on August 31, 2010 at 6:55 am PT

Twitter photo services like TweetPhoto are supposed to be an endangered species. So it’s trying to evolve into something else before it gets killed off.

A “Hole-Filler” Gets Funded: TweetPhoto Raises $2.6 Million

Peter Kafka in Media on April 13, 2010 at 4:01 am PT

The new conventional wisdom is that photo-sharing systems built around Twitter are toast. But don’t tell that to the TweetPhoto team. The San Diego-based photo service just raised its first big funding round.