PicApp blog http://blog.picapp.com/ Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:45:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 picapp/picappbloghttp://feedburner.google.com How to Use Licensed Photographs for Free: The John Chow blog covers PicApp! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/picapp/picappblog/~3/wwvcKGzppEk/ http://blog.picapp.com//2009/11/23/how-to-use-licensed-photographs-for-free-the-john-chow-blog-covers-picapp/#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:45:12 +0000 Moran http://blog.picapp.com//?p=976 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "How to Use Licensed Photographs for Free: The John Chow blog covers PicApp!", url: "http://blog.picapp.com//2009/11/23/how-to-use-licensed-photographs-for-free-the-john-chow-blog-covers-picapp/" });]]> We got great coverage by the John Chow Blog: John Chow dot com!

This is part of the item:
“Many bloggers seem to think that they are immune to any copyright infringements. They think that they can get away with using any kind of “borrowed” content that they’d like, but this is just as illegal as software piracy.

If you want to avoid any legal gray areas, the powerful image resource from PicApp seems to be just the ticket. You get access to millions of licensed photos and none of them will cost you a penny.”
Written by Michael Kwan.

To read the rest, check out the post.

Thanks @JohnChow!

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The images embedded by you on your blogs and web pages will appear as usual but you might see different visual display of the PicApp added elements appearing on top of the image.

Lab tech picking test tube from rack

As our community grows we get more and more ideas from our bloggers\users about their wishful readers experience . Some of these ideas are so great that we want to test them and see if indeed they create a better user experience that translate to better usage and improved royalties to content providers.

Feel free to send us any feedback you have about the different display options (good or bad…).

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]]> http://blog.picapp.com//2009/11/16/testing-1-2-3/feed/ http://blog.picapp.com//2009/11/16/testing-1-2-3/ New PicApp WordPress.org plugin - get it while it’s hot! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/picapp/picappblog/~3/lE_AvMSKUJU/ http://blog.picapp.com//2009/11/12/new-picapp-wordpressorg-plugin-get-it-while-its-hot/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:40:36 +0000 Roi http://blog.picapp.com//?p=950 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "New PicApp WordPress.org plugin - get it while it’s hot!", url: "http://blog.picapp.com//2009/11/12/new-picapp-wordpressorg-plugin-get-it-while-its-hot/" });]]> As some of you noticed, our WordPress plugin has been falling lately behind the rapid progress of the WordPress versions progress.

Our users (being the slick bloggers they are) have updated their blogs to the 2.8.x versions (2.9 is around the corner…) and started to see slowness and issues working with the plugin. Well, hint taken!

Today we release a brand new version of the plugin, simpler, faster and compatible with the latest versions up to the current 2.8.5.

With the new version you just search:

select the image you want:

Click on the thumbnail, and, viola,  the image will be added to your post:

So go ahead and try it.

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]]> http://blog.picapp.com//2009/11/12/new-picapp-wordpressorg-plugin-get-it-while-its-hot/feed/ http://blog.picapp.com//2009/11/12/new-picapp-wordpressorg-plugin-get-it-while-its-hot/ PicApp as Reali.com business tool of the week http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/picapp/picappblog/~3/5pQXnyJ8jiE/ http://blog.picapp.com//2009/11/11/picapp-as-realicom-business-tool-of-the-week/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:16:15 +0000 Roi http://blog.picapp.com//?p=933 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "PicApp as Reali.com business tool of the week", url: "http://blog.picapp.com//2009/11/11/picapp-as-realicom-business-tool-of-the-week/" });]]> It was cool being Reali.com business tool of the week!

Check it out - you can see us on minute 3:07 of the video:


Thanks for the thumbs up guys!

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]]> http://blog.picapp.com//2009/11/11/picapp-as-realicom-business-tool-of-the-week/feed/ http://blog.picapp.com//2009/11/11/picapp-as-realicom-business-tool-of-the-week/ Content quality continue to rise & great news for our Entertainment bloggers! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/picapp/picappblog/~3/dhCJPMpZONo/ http://blog.picapp.com//2009/10/25/content-quality-continue-to-rise-great-news-for-our-sport-bloggers-in-europe/#comments Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:06:02 +0000 Moran http://blog.picapp.com//?p=914 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Content quality continue to rise & great news for our Entertainment bloggers!", url: "http://blog.picapp.com//2009/10/25/content-quality-continue-to-rise-great-news-for-our-sport-bloggers-in-europe/" });]]> We wanted to share this great news with you - ZUMA Press, one of the world’s largest independent press agencies and wire services just joined PicApp as one our content partners! This collaboration expands PicApp’s content by providing access to more than 5,000 new images posted daily on ZUMA covering sport news and entertainment.

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A little info about ZUMA Press:

ZUMA Press, produces award-winning news, sports and entertainment content and represents some of the greatest photojournalists, media groups and picture agencies around the globe. ZUMA represents over 3,000 photographers worldwide and over 60 of the world’s best picture agencies, as well as over 100 newspapers and the daily feed and archive of 33 publishing giants. ZUMA’s photographers have won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer, World Press, BOP and POYi.

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Those of you who have been blogging with us for a while noticed that we are moving toward the upper-end of the content representation and have made certain changes in our content partnerships to improve the quality of the content we provide. We believe that by working with top agencies we can better insure many of the important factors such as professional keywording , global coverage , fast server respond , clear legal rights\credits and more.

Happy Blogging!
The PicApp team

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]]> http://blog.picapp.com//2009/10/25/content-quality-continue-to-rise-great-news-for-our-sport-bloggers-in-europe/feed/ http://blog.picapp.com//2009/10/25/content-quality-continue-to-rise-great-news-for-our-sport-bloggers-in-europe/ PicApp got some nice coverage in BlogWorld Expo 2009! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/picapp/picappblog/~3/cIMWwTCeGfk/ http://blog.picapp.com//2009/10/19/picapp-got-some-nice-coverage-in-blogworld-expo-2009/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:35:17 +0000 Moran http://blog.picapp.com//?p=884 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "PicApp got some nice coverage in BlogWorld Expo 2009!", url: "http://blog.picapp.com//2009/10/19/picapp-got-some-nice-coverage-in-blogworld-expo-2009/" });]]> PicApp got some nice coverage in BlogWorld Expo 2009, check it out :-)

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Thanks, @blognl!

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]]> http://blog.picapp.com//2009/10/19/picapp-got-some-nice-coverage-in-blogworld-expo-2009/feed/ http://blog.picapp.com//2009/10/19/picapp-got-some-nice-coverage-in-blogworld-expo-2009/ PicApp is in BlogWorld Expo 2009! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/picapp/picappblog/~3/YorpVIDwbrY/ http://blog.picapp.com//2009/10/17/picapp-is-in-blogworld-expo-2009/#comments Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:48:04 +0000 Moran http://blog.picapp.com//?p=860 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "PicApp is in BlogWorld Expo 2009!", url: "http://blog.picapp.com//2009/10/17/picapp-is-in-blogworld-expo-2009/" });]]> We came to meet all of our friends and make some new ones in BlogWorld Expo 2009 in Las Vegas!

BlogWorld Expo

It was so great meeting up yesterday with all of you out there that are using PicApp and hearing your important feedback, questions, ideas and compliments. We were especially thrilled to meet some of our new top Bloggers who joined us since our new partnership with Wordpress.com.

If you are a Blogger, writer or want to hear more, you should definitely ping us so we can meet and show you our cool product and the amazing images we have for you (for free!). We have new widgets, new tools and exciting coming new features. Let us know that you’re here – we will stop by and say hi!

Couple Looking Up from Crowd

We look forward to meeting you - just email us (discover@picapp.com ) and we can set up a time and place.
For more PicApp news follow us on Twitter: @PicApp.

The PicApp team

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]]> http://blog.picapp.com//2009/10/17/picapp-is-in-blogworld-expo-2009/feed/ http://blog.picapp.com//2009/10/17/picapp-is-in-blogworld-expo-2009/ Picapp Announces Partnership with WordPress.com http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/picapp/picappblog/~3/e24CpjotI3Q/ http://blog.picapp.com//2009/10/06/picapp-announces-partnership-with-wordpresscom/#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:14:17 +0000 Niran Amir http://blog.picapp.com//?p=821 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Picapp Announces Partnership with WordPress.com", url: "http://blog.picapp.com//2009/10/06/picapp-announces-partnership-with-wordpresscom/" });]]> We are happy to share with you some good news, we have signed a partnership agreement with Automattic, the company behind the WordPress open source project and which runs WordPress.com.

What does it mean?

It means great news for the 7.5MM publishers using WordPress.com who just gained access to around 20 million premium, legal images and who can now search for and embed PicApp images into their blog posts.

It means a user community that grew and became even stronger.

It means another important milestone for PicApp in solidifying its position as the ultimate source for images online:

  • Images that cover any category you can think of- breaking news, sports, entertainment, travel, food, fashion, family and more.
  • Premium images from the most prestigious content partners.
  • Images that are licensed and legal to use.
  • Images that offer opportunities for blog readers to further interact and engage with blog content.
  • Images that come fully tagged to improve blog SEO.

We created this fun, cool video to illustrate the value images add to our blogs and sites, hope you’ll enjoy it.

And a warm welcoming to the 7.5MM publishers who are now part of the PicApp family.

Click here to read the Press Announcement.

Happy blogging,
The PicApp team!

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]]> http://blog.picapp.com//2009/10/06/picapp-announces-partnership-with-wordpresscom/feed/ http://blog.picapp.com//2009/10/06/picapp-announces-partnership-with-wordpresscom/ Hitting some bumps with our WordPress.org plugin… http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/picapp/picappblog/~3/H4UFW5WQPcY/ http://blog.picapp.com//2009/10/05/hitting-some-bumps-with-our-wordpress-plugin/#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:19:03 +0000 Roi http://blog.picapp.com//?p=817 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Hitting some bumps with our WordPress.org plugin…", url: "http://blog.picapp.com//2009/10/05/hitting-some-bumps-with-our-wordpress-plugin/" });]]> We want to acknowledge and address the comments we’ve been receiving lately from our loyal bloggers who are using the Wordpress plugin.
The plugin was created for WordPress versions 2.7.x and therefore is not fully compatible with newer versions, which results in slower response time occasionally and errors in running image search queries.

We apologize for the inconvenience; we are working to complete a new version and hoping to update the plug-in with the new version by next week!

So bear with us until the update is ready to get the best images for your blog.

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]]> http://blog.picapp.com//2009/10/05/hitting-some-bumps-with-our-wordpress-plugin/feed/ http://blog.picapp.com//2009/10/05/hitting-some-bumps-with-our-wordpress-plugin/ Brazil to Host 2016 Olympic Games http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/picapp/picappblog/~3/7WDzBGUqthY/ http://blog.picapp.com//2009/10/02/brazil-to-host-2016-olympic-games/#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:24:09 +0000 Niran Amir http://blog.picapp.com//?p=811 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Brazil to Host 2016 Olympic Games", url: "http://blog.picapp.com//2009/10/02/brazil-to-host-2016-olympic-games/" });]]> Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva cries at the contract signing ceremony after Rio De Janeiro won the vote to stage the 2016 Olympic Games at the Bella Centre on October 2, 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark. After eliminating Chicago, Tokyo and Madrid, International Olympic Committee members selected the Brazilian city as site of the 2016 Summer Games. This will be the first time the Olympics will be held in South America.

IOC 2016 Olympic Venue Announcement - Day Two

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