Photograph/Art Sales Cases, Items 1 to 35

"Photograph/Art Sales Cases" includes 35 items
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1. Algorithm Generates a Virtual Rome in 3D from 150,000 Flickr Users' Photos, by Rebecca Boyle, Popsci, 9-17-2009 Boyle describes how a team of computer scientists, using nearly half a million Flickr photos of Rome, Venice, and the Croatian coastal city of Dubrovnik, assembled digital models of the three cities in 3-D.
2. Close-Up with Jeffrey Hayzlett, CMO, Eastman Kodak Co., by Ellis Booker, B to B, 9-16-2009 Kodak has moved from broadcast to narrowcast, which means the consumer or the business wants to receive the information the way they want to receive it, Booker reports. Company's FAST philosophy is Focus, Accountability, Simplicity and Trust.
3. Startup Embeds Web Photos with Shopping Links, by Rachel Metz, CRM Daily, 4-14-2009 Metz describes an online advertising startup that converts photos on Web sites into interactive advertisements. For example, mouse over an image, and tiny price tags appear over handbags, dresses and other items.
4. Nine Ways To Manage Your Digital Photos Online, by , CIO Today, 4-2-2009 Tips on picking online photo-sharing sites include: examine the terms of service, question policies on photo deletion, back up your pictures in at least 2 places.
5. Sling Takes Its Video Portal Public, by Steven Musil, Cnet, 11-25-2008 Sling.com, the streaming site of Slingbox maker Sling Media, has emerged from private beta and is opening up access to its video content to the public. Viewers can subscribe to the video feeds of shows currently on the air and cancelled shows.
6. Local Search Success at Photo Site, by Carol Krol, B to B, 8-27-2008 It took a crisis for ScanMyPhotos.com to discover the power of local search advertising, Krol reports. The company is using Local.com’s Local Promote advertising program for half the cost of Yellow Pages advertising.
7. The Exclusivity Trap, by Zephrin Lasker, MediaPost's Performance Insider, 7-24-2008 Of all online marketers, publishers have the most difficult job, Lasker observes. They have to answer to the needs of three diverse constituents: their writers, readers and advertisers. And they have to make money doing it.
8. How Shutterfly Tapped Into Its Online Customer Community, by Jim Champy, CIO, 4-11-2008 Champy describes how the CEO of Shutterfly outpaced competitors by reimagining the online photo-finishing business as a way to build social connections between its customers.
9. Rules of the Game, by Jessie Scanlon, Business Week, 1-28-2008 Scanlon tells how "funware" brings gaming features to consumer applications like photo-sharing and social networking, describes rmbr.com. (The name is taken from the online shorthand for "remember.").
10. How We Did It: Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake, Co-founders, Flickr, by Michael Fitzgerald, Inc. Magazine, 12-1-2006 Reviews origins of photo-sharing website Flickr, one of the most popular sites on the Web, which was sold to Yahoo for a reported $30 million.
11. How to Restart a Startup, by Michael V. Copeland, Business 2.0, 7-6-2006 For every user who uploaded a photo on Riya, reports Copeland, 20 more were just using the site's search engine to find photos. The company decided to abandon its original idea for a photo-storage business and focus on searching images on the Web.
12. Riya's Photo-Search Engine Could Find Your Likeness Online, by Laurie Sullivan, Information Week, 6-19-2006 Describes technology that breaks images into complex mathematical equations to find similar faces and objects, letting users find digital photos across the Web by recognizing similarities in images.
13. Point, Click, Design, by Paul Lukas, Fast Company, 11-1-2005 Lukas relates how an inspiration during a bout of food poisoning eventually became the popular photo-sharing Web application Flickr.
14. The web opens up the photo printing market for retailers, by , Internet Retailer, 9-2-2005 IDC's new report, “2005 U.S. Consumer Digital Imaging Survey,” reports that 36% of users print their photos at a retail location and 6% of all digital photographers use the web to send their pictures to a printing facility.
15. Snapfish, Walgreens to Offer One-hour Photos, by , Cnet, 8-29-2005 Reports that online photo service Snapfish is partnering with Walgreens to let customers order prints online and pick them up as soon as one hour later. Snapfish also lets customers send images from its Web site to as many as 10 mobile phone numbers.
16. Amazon.com to offer photo service with Shutterfly, by , Biz Report, 8-22-2005 Web retailer Amazon.com said it would offer online photo developing services through a partnership with leading Internet photo service Shutterfly as it targets a fast-growing market.
17. Fine Art Photography on the Web, by Ken Rubino, Information Today, 4-15-2005 Describes fine art photography Web sites where you may look, appreciate, and perhaps purchase pieces without fear of having them eventually fade.
18. Going from 5,000 to 75,000 items equals a 30% sales gain at Prints.com, by , Internet Retailer, 10-28-2004 When Prints.com expanded its online offering from 5,000 limited edition art prints to 75,000 poster SKUs last year, it saw a sales increase of about 30% almost immediately. Discusses site search services by Netrics.
19. Eastman Kodak: Picture Imperfect, by Larry Barrett and David F. Carr, Baseline Magazine, 9-1-2004 The photo company's online service has not been profitable, so the company has been moving to create technical standards for swapping and printing digital images. Without that success, Kodak may focus on commercial printing and medical photography.
20. Roll Your Own E-Commerce Backend to Save Money, by James Maguire, ECommerce-Guide, 9-10-2004 Drama Store is a one-man shop selling limited-edition art work. The online outlet was developed on a shoestring budget, tapping a programmer friend to construct a dynamic catalog using PHP and MySQL programming, and using free tools for statistics.
21. Marrying Online Support With Sales, by Bruce McCracken, eCRM Guide, 7-10-2003 Describes photography service company's use of application service provider (ASP) tools to satisfy both professional photographers and consumers in an inter-related two-by-two fashion centered on the Web site and e-mail.
22. Picturing New Sales, by Renee Boucher Ferguson, eWeek, 12-16-2002 Explains how The National Geographic Society is digitizing more than 10,000 of its hallmark images and making them available to corporate clients via a business-to-business Web site. Notes the difference between selling images and industrial products.
23. Love in the Age of Digital Photos, by Stewart Alsop, Fortune, 2-4-2002 Relates experience with Shutterfly and its greeting card feature. Says he fell in love with the card feature, having spent more than $100 in recent months, but remains frustrated with the tedious processes involved.
24. Photoworks: Lots of Negatives, by Tim Mullaney, Business Week, 8-24-2001 Critiques online photo processor Photoworks, including "high prices, balky software, and a seemingly unending series of requests for permission to sell my name to marketing partners." Some good points include printed pictures as part of pricing.
25. Online Pics: A Sure Shot, by Timothy J. Mullaney, Business Week E.Biz, 9-3-2001 Reviews 4 sites offering online photography services: Snapfish, AOL You've Got Pictures, Shutterfly, and Ofoto. Says Snapfish has the best combination of price and online features, although all have benefits and drawbacks.
26. No Brush-off, by Alexandra Kirkman, Forbes Global, 3-19-2001 Reviews LatinArte.com, the first website dedicated exclusively to Latin American art. Site currently features 2,000 pieces with a combined market value of more than $6 million by more than 300 artists from ten Latin American countries.
27. My Store: Andrew Bridgeman and eART-originals, by Andrew Bridgeman, Sell It!, 3-28-2001 The owner of eART-originals, a webstore selling original Canadian art, describes the development, launch and initial operation of the business. Includes the systems he researched and then adopted for catalog development and online payment, as well as marketing issues.
28. Web Photo Services: Internet bubble or sea change?, by Alexis Gerard, Electronic Publishing, 12-1-2000 Reviews status of industry sectors: photo community sites, Web photofinishers, imaging vendors, Internet imaging enablers. Says trend will be toward new offerings based on technological advancements and better understanding of consumer behavior.
29. NFL Uses WebWare's Online ASP to Instantly Feed Images to the Media, by Kelly Stone, Electronic Publishing, 11-1-2000 Reports on National Football League's realizing significant savings by using software to post more than 3,400 images online, rather than sending images on four CD-ROMs to more than 4,000 recipients. Allows management of brand assets.
30. Artfully Outsourcing Art, by , Outsourcing Journal, 6-1-2000 Describes how the Web-based showroom of Fine Art Lease, a Manhattan start-up, provides artists an extra source of revenue from leases. Company offers financing and sales as well. Outsourced chief financial officer function helps company conserve cash.
31. Image Isn't Everything, by Cheryl Dahle, Fast Company, 6-1-2000 Reviews transformation of stock photography supplier Getty Images Inc. from paper and celluloid film to websites and digitization. Discusses "new logic" of Web value, including lowered cost, simplified pricing, using technology to expand services.
32. A Snapshot of the Online Photo Business, by Amy Doan, Forbes, 5-26-2000 Reviews several community sites such as Zing.com, Yahoo! Photos, others letting people upload and store snapshots for free. Observes slow start of traditional photo companies such as Kodak and Fuji Film. Predicts shakeout in the market.
33. Clark's New Focus, by Carol Pickering, Business 2.0, 1-1-2000 Said to be "the only person to have taken three ventures public (Silicon Graphics, Healtheon, myCEO) from inception to public status and have them reach market capitalizations north of $1 billion." Two-part article with advice from Clark. Next is Shutterfly.com.
34. Still In The Picture, by Art Jahnke, CIO WebBusiness, 8-1-1999 Kodak has followed a troublesome road to e-commerce. Finally today, the company has a vast website that will become the company's single best tool for maintaining worldwide recognition of the Kodak brand. A detailed look at the road Kodak has followed.
35. Moving the Photo Business Online, by Elizabeth Gardner, Internet World, 5-17-1999 Stock photography outlet Getty Images is in the process of most of its business to the Web. After five years building itself as a one-stop source for ad agencies, magazines, and art directors, it has bought Art.com and is courting consumers.