QuickLinks For 2007-12-04

• While the stock photo industry was politely described as "what we call a niche industry", revenues in the User-Generated Content business are much more fun:
  
  • Last week PicScout´s Picapp.com service was unveiled.
  • Yesterday Photobucket announced the Digg integration featuring popular photos and the launch of Digg´s dedicated images section:
    "That´s where Idée´s image recognition technology comes into play: in preparing to launch a dedicated images section, Digg recognized that they needed to ensure duplicate images are identified.
    
    Idée´s image recognition technology is used for Digg´s dedicated images section to compare each newly submitted image to potentially hundreds of thousands of previously submitted ones.
    Details on the company´s blog: Idée Inc brings image de-duplication to Digg.
    Related:
    • Sorting and Duplicate Image Detection (Kevin Rose, Digg founder)

 

• Reorganization at The Associated Press:
  The new generation of consumers has completely different habits. The company is also moving toward an all-digital platform that it calls the "Digital Cooperative".
  Editor´s Weblog/NYT.

 

• A21/ATWO.OB hits new 52 WK Low of $0,025, down 16,7%.