Google-backed Pixazza opens up photo tagging service to help blogs earn revenue
Pixazza, a Google Ventures-backed startup, is opening up its crowdsourced photo-tagging service, which can turn any Web site into an online store.
The Mountain View-based startup uses an army of taggers to identify products and link them to shopping sites like Amazon or Zappos. For example, you might see a photo of actress Penelope Cruz wearing a new outfit on a fashion blog. If you roll over the image, you’ll see links to similar products that… Continue Reading
Pixazza nabs $3.1 to turn web images into e-commerce links
Pixazza, a company that lets web publishers turn their images into links where users can buy whatever is pictured, just brought in $3.1 million of an anticipated $5.22 million first round of funding from CMEA Ventures, August Capital and Foundation Capital, reports VentureWire. The Mountain View, Calif. company used to be called BeMuz.
Pixazza is added to websites as a few lines of Javascript. Other members of the Pixazza community then manually add the links to… Continue Reading