A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Photo Sites

It's no surprise that photo's tend to the be the most shareable, likeable, engaging type of dynamic content. Whether you like your photo's vintage, tagged, or edited, there are tons of photo sharing sites to choose from.  Here is a run down of the biggest and best.

Flickr: Owned by Yahoo and claims to be, "the best online photo management and sharing application in the world."  Flickr offers mass organization and labelling tools as well as upgrade options that include endless storage space.  It has 80 million unique visitors and the site hosts 6 billion images.  You can edit your photos, create groups, comment, like and more within the Flickr photo community.

Instagram: is a photo sharing app recently acquired by Facebook.  The photo sharing program lets users take a photo, apply a digital filter to it and then share it on a variety of Social Media sites.  One billion photos have been taken with the app, and Instagram gains one new user every second.  The app uses Twitter type lingo and tools for search such as hashtags # and @ mentions.

Picasa:  Owned by Google and integrated with Google+.  Picasa is an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, plus an integrated photo-sharing website.  Over 7 billion photos are currently shared on the site.

Pinterest: is a virtual pinboard that lets you organize and share beautiful things you find on the web.  Users can upload their own pictures or install the Pinterest tool bar to "pin" items from websites. The site has 10.4 million users and growing.  It's integration with other Social Media sites make it easy to share and connect with your friends.

Contact us if you'd like to start sharing your businesses photos, and let us know if there's any other photo sites that you like to use.

Written by: Jenna Boholij - Marketing Manager 

Need For Speed

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On Feb 1, Facebook filed a Registration Statement with the United Stated SEC, a necessary step leading up to their eventual IPO. This document included a letter from Mark Zuckerberg that outlined the five core values for how Facebook is run. In what he calls “The Hacker Way”, Mark explains how one of these values is speed. 

The “10 Things” that Google recognizes as their core principles also share an affinity for speed. Google’s philosophy, written in 1999, states that being fast is always better and works continuously to make their software faster. The more efficient their pages and platforms can be, the happier the user will be.

The Takeaway

There is a clear lesson to be learned by these two Internet giants. When it comes to business, speed is crucial. It’s better to boldly seize opportunities and then wait to perfect things. Release models and products as soon as possible and then make improvements through iterations. Betas are perfect for this. When Google releases a beta version of a new product, users understand that the software is 99% functional, but not polished. Feedback from users helps to catch bugs and requires far less resources that would traditionally go into testing.