DEMOfall 08: Photrade lets photographers license and track their photos online
Photrade hopes to make the web safe for photographers. That is, it has a technology for tracking photos so that photographers can control the spread of their photos and get paid by those who use them.
It connects photographers, advertisers, and web publishers in a marketplace where publishers can access photos legally and photographers can get paid each time their photos are viewed.
We wrote about GumGum’s business for licensing photos so that photographers can get paid… Continue Reading
Mochila, the market place for individual articles
Start-up Mochila has emerged with an intriguing idea: a marketplace for individual newspaper, magazine and other articles.
If VentureBeat wants to run AP stories, for example, we can go to Mochila and pick out individual Associated Press stories, run them on VentureBeat for free — and share any resulting revenue with Mochila and AP. It is a 40-30-30 percent revenue split, with AP getting the 40 percent. AP is a customer of Mochila’s, as are a… Continue Reading
Fred Wilson’s fortunes, sexy commenters & latest on Mojungle, MobiTV and Edgeio
The latest in the world of start-ups and venture capital:
Fred Wilson sells home listed at $37.5 million — Fred Wilson, the venture capitalist at Union Square Ventures in New York, who has one of the most widely read VC blogs, AVC, has sold his 15,000-square-foot townhouse in Manhattan. If it closed near the asking price, the 1847 mansion would be the most expensive single-family residence downtown, reports the Observer. In 1996, the home apparently sold for… Continue Reading