The do’s and don’ts of delivering rich content experience on mobile devices
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Easier image sharing? Imgembed wants to give creators full credit
March 18, 2013 2:45 PM
Dylan Tweney
Imgembed, a new service from Singapore-based company The Creative Finder, aims to make it easier for photographers and other image creators to share their work -- while getting full credit and even revenue.
Google revamps image search to be ‘faster, more beautiful, and more reliable’
January 23, 2013 7:23 PM
John Koetsier
In other words, the perfect blend of old Google (fast, reliable) and new Google (usable, pretty).
How Crowdoptic’s big data technology reveals the world’s most popular photo objects
December 8, 2012 1:41 PM
Matt Marshall
Editor's Pick Crowdoptic, a two-year-old Silicon Valley startup, says it can now determine the most popular objects of photos taken during mass-interest events, such as Hurricane Sandy and the London Olympics.
Facebook, 1997 called and they want their photo uploading tech back
June 22, 2012 10:43 AM
John Koetsier
Photos are a massive part of the Facebook experience. Every day, users upload 250 million photos to Facebook. And photo status updates typically get far more engagement than any other type of post.
So why does the Facebook photo posting …
Bing’s new image search: the Pinteresting of the internet continues
June 21, 2012 4:40 PM
John Koetsier
Everybody wants to be Pinterest.
Bing has been updating its search engine results pages significantly this year, including an aesthetic and architectural revamp in May. Today Microsoft announced that image search, which is almost 10 percent of Bing traffic, is …
Imgur doubles monthly page views to 2B in just 5 months
May 15, 2012 7:08 AM
Tom Cheredar
Image hosting service Imgur is now serving up more than 1 billion images per day and has doubled its monthly page views to 2 billion in less than six months, the company announced today.
Imgur branded itself as the “simple …
If you use other people’s photos on your blog, you need to check this out
April 26, 2012 1:29 PM
Jolie O'Dell
Bloggers know what I’m talkin’ about: It’s that sticky legal and moral quagmire you encounter when you need an image for a post or page.
You could use Google Images and just grab something from anywhere on the web, sans …
Cloudflare’s Instaflare is an Instagram for all the images on your website — seriously
April 20, 2012 8:31 AM
Devindra Hardawar
Having a bit of fun with all the Instagram hype these days, website optimization service Cloudflare has launched Instaflare, a cheeky new feature that will let users of its platform apply filters to all of the images on your site.…
Verifeyed uses a camera’s ‘mathematical fingerprint’ to find manipulated images
April 19, 2012 10:58 AM
Tom Cheredar
Every time I try searching Google for images marked with Creative Commons licensing, I can’t help but feel like there’s plenty of stuff that’s incorrectly listed. This isn’t something that’s specific to Google, as most sites don’t always keep the …
Luminate gets $10M to add more than just a caption to photos
February 23, 2012 6:00 AM
Sarah Mitroff
Luminate has created a way to make the trillions of static images on the web interactive. Thursday, the company announced it has raised $10.7 million in a third round of funding and was launching an image app store.
“Images are …
Here are our 5 favorite companies from TechCrunch Disrupt
September 15, 2011 5:03 PM
Matthew Lynley
Despite that whole hooplah over former TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington leaving the company, there was still plenty of excitement over the startups presenting in TechCrunch Disrupt 2011′s Startup Battlefield.
The startups took the stage and battled it out to determine …
Image Space Media raises extra $1M to turn photos into cold, hard cash
Image Space Media, formerly Picad Media, has raised an additional $1 million from existing investors, according to an SEC filing.
The startup overlays text ads on Web images, similar to those seen on Google’s YouTube and other video-sharing sites. Publishers …
Stipple snaps up $2M to easily tag the web's pictures
Image tagging startup Stipple announced today that it has scored $2 million in seed funding, just three months after its launch in August.
The San Francisco-based company lets anyone tag photos on their website, similar to how you can tag …
OnRequest Images takes $2M more for global custom photography
OnRequest Images, a service which takes custom photographs from around the world, today announced $2 million according to Seattle-based TechFlash, which is where the company is headquartered.
OnRequest Images helps marketers and brands to take customized photos for campaigns. The …
