Alan Bullock
 Nov 8, 2013
It’s been a rough week for startups in the photo aggregation space. On Tuesday, November 5, Everpix notified users that it was shutting down. Today, November 8, Linea made a similar announcement. While there may be a silver lining for Linea (the shutdown letter to users says that its “core technology will be deployed in a new platform in the future”), there was no such optimism coming from Everpix. Its demise is well documented in this article on The Verge.
This news comes in the wake of Shutterfly’s recent beta launch of ThisLife, its new “Enhanced Cloud Service” for gathering and organizing photo and video content from multiple sources. Read more »
Tags: aggregation, cloud, collection, Everpix, facebook, flickr, Instagram, linea, Photo, Picasa, shutterfly, SmugMug, thislife, Tumblr, Twitter
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Alan Bullock
 Aug 7, 2013
If it’s possible to disrupt a still-emerging market, Google Chromecast has the potential to do just that for Connected TV. Read more »
Tags: and Pholium, Android, Animoto, App, Apple, Apple TV, apps, Blurb, cast, casting, Chrome, Chromecast, connected, connected TV, DLNA, Everpix, flickr, Google, Google Play, HBO, HDMI, HDTV, Hulu, Lytro, NeroKwik, Netflix, Nexus, Nexus Q, Pandora, SDK, shutterfly, SmugMug, Stream, streaming, Woven, YouTube
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Ed Lee
 May 23, 2013
On May 20, Yahoo announced a major redesign of its Flickr photo sharing service. One of the new features is that the storage limit has been raised to one terabyte (TB) for all users, and it’s free! Read more »
Tags: Cloud storage, Consumer, flickr, Flickr online photo storage yahoo, Forecast, High-resolution photos, Online photo storage, Personal Photo Activity Forecast, Photo, Video, yahoo
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Alan Bullock
 Mar 2, 2010
Yesterday, Google announced its acquisition of Picnik, the online photo editor. Established in 2005, Picnik is a powerful Flash-based in-browser editing suite for photos that are already online, with tools well beyond the standard zoom/crop and rotate functions offered by most online photo services. Read more »