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QuickLinks For 2009-04-24

• Interview with Rick Becker-Leckrone, CEO of BlendImages:
  Often opportunity comes from what one might perceive as a difficult situation. [...]
  We started with no images and of course, no revenue.  About 4 ½ years in we have about 80,000 images, over 70 photographers and sales just over 6M a year.  It’s been a great ride so far. [...]
  Yeah, I think it was Jonathan Klein, CEO of Getty Images who gave me a friendly reminder that “co-ops” are hard to run. Or maybe he said “you’re f’ing crazy” - something like that.
  Interview conducted by Jerry J. Jansen on Action Sports Digital Photography.

Deutsche Telekom To Launch New Microstock Community

The Deutsche Telekom/German Telecom is about to launch a new microstock community for a new internet portal to combine textual editorial content, community tasks and paid content in photography.

The company also plans to promote the international expansion of the new platform.

Two weeks ago the Deutsche Telekom reported about their new 100-days-old online photo magazine Augenblicke which reached 17 million page views from over 1 million users within its first three month after launch.

(Micro) Stock Photo Concept Generator

Rasmus was granted access to the Secret Microstock Diary of Yuri: he returned with the most intriguing tool for microstock newbies.

(Below you can find a screenshot, NOT the original stock concept generator which is here)

 

 

QuickLinks For 2009-04-10 [Update]

• Photographer Makeover by Jack Hollingsworth, April 29th - May 3rd, Austin:
  "We’ll begin each day at 8:30 am sharp". An impressive 5-days-schedule
  (PDF download).
  [Update] JH is moving Photographer Makeover from April 19 - May 3 to June 1-4.

QuickLinks For 2009-04-05

• BigStockSound:
  A young nice new microstock audio site with sounds and music from the vacuum cleaner over electronic to classical music, located in Palo Alto Prague, Czech Republic.
  Apparently they tried to lure away contributors from iStockAudio, and the guys over there were all that super enthusiastic about this move.

• Which was topped later when they visited the iPhone App Store and discovered ... AudioMicro´s new iPhone App and listened to the Beer Can Open sound.

Pino Granata: Once Upon A Time In Photography

There are a few things that make me think that Photography the way we have known it doesn´t exist anymore.

It doesn´t exist anymore a culture of photography and editors consider pictures something they can´t do without but that doesn´t deserve much attention.

With a few exceptions the pictures published in the papers today have little to do with the text that should be illustrated.

A lot of people blame the large offer of images we have today. Only on Flickr there are 3 billion pictures and it´s better not to make fools of ourselves and say a good share of them are not garbage and also they are almost free.