ImageShack gains early lead in mobile Twitter video hosting
There are already a few services that make it easy for you to share links to videos on Twitter, including TwitVid.com and TwitVid.io, but they’re getting a serious new competitor today: ImageShack.
You can either upload videos and tweet them directly from ImageShack’s media hosting service, yfrog, share videos from within another company that uses yfrog. Those include Tweetie, a popular third-party application for the iPhone and Mac computers, and a current yfrog customer.
Importantly, unlike its… Continue Reading
ImageShack aims to play media host to the Twitter ecosystem
Twitter’s traffic could more than double this month to above 30 million unique visitors on its web site in the US alone (that’s not counting Twitter traffic on other applications nor traffic outside the US). Expect to see the number of third party developers building applications for Twitter increase accordingly — and that’s what media-hosting startup ImageShack is betting on.
Today, the company is releasing Tweetero, an open-source Twitter client for the iPhone and iPod Touch… Continue Reading
Media-hosting site ImageShack raises $15M from Sequoia
ImageShack, a site where users can host their images and videos, has raised $15 million from Sequoia Capital, a reliable source tells us. The sizable backing from one of Silicon Valley’s most prestigious venture firms is pretty darn impressive, especially for yet another site in the crowded online photo market, and at a time when web investments are falling.
If the news sounds a little familiar, it’s because TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld reported an unconfirmed rumor of… Continue Reading