PicFog

10 Realtime and Reliable Photo Search Engines

Sat, 19 May 2012 21:45:15 +0000

10 Realtime and Reliable Photo Search Engines:

A little mention for PicFog on TNW

Drawing circumstances

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:23:14 +0000

2011 has started two weeks ago, but it’s only starting to sink in what I’m up to this year. I spent a very useful one and half years at Kitsite, working with great clients. I’ve been lucky too: Jamie (and earlier, Michael) was very generous to let me work on my personal projects one day a week.

And in 2010, the little, friendly personal projects started to grow in an incredible rate. PicFog started to require more and more time and StartupCharts (the engine behind LondonStartups.co.uk) appeared. I had to find more time.

So here’s the new year’s resolution: what if I draw the circumstances this time. I’ve decided to radically downscale my Kitsite presence and start to focus on PicFog. Great, amazing! See the problem here? My day job offers, well, job security and a salary, and PicFog offers neither of these. It offers thrill and excietement, but I’m not sure my landlord would like that very much. So - great plan, needs a bit more optimization.

And here you go: from next week, until I work out how to work on PicFog without losing my soul and sanity (okay, actually I can do without sanity) - I’m going to do some freelance work to fund my projects. (There you go, sanity!) I’m lucky to have some Kitsite work to kick it off.

I’ve done this before, albeit in Hungary, with way more hostile circumstances than in London. There’s not a lot that can technically scare me, I’ve picked up this and that during the last 12+ years, for technical details, see my LinkedIn profile. Also refreshed my knowledge about money - I’ve enjoyed this quora article very much and also was given invaluable advice from my old friend/colleague Alex.

Now sit back, get some popcorn and watch. Or say hi: tjp@tjp.hu

This deserves a few glittery letters: we’ve just passed...

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 13:17:00 +0000

This deserves a few glittery letters: we’ve just passed the 500,000th PicFog widget view mark! Thanks for all users & viewers.

New pricing for embeddable PicFog widgets

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 12:54:09 +0000

We’ve started experimenting with PicFog widgets a couple of months ago - the widget lets you embed any picture search result to a website, blog or online newspaper. We’ve learnt a lot during the process about how to deal with extreme widget traffics and other little details, and also learn people love to try the service before any serious commitment. The new pricing plan reflects these facts.

Free to try: Anyone with a PicFog account can use up to 1,000 widget views a day for free.
Anyone can create 5 different widgets (for 5 different searches)
If you sign up for the paid plan, you may end up -not- paying: up to 30,000 widget views a month are free.
From 30,000 widget views, you’ll be paying a CPM fee of $0.5. (Ie. 50 cents for 1,000 widget views.)

This lets our users to try the service more freely and also lets us scale more evenly than before. If you want to have a go, check out our showcase page to see how it looks like.

"PicFog is a real-time search for images powered by Twitpic, Yfrog, and Twitgoo. PicFog allows for..."

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 08:32:00 +0000

“PicFog is a real-time search for images powered by Twitpic, Yfrog, and Twitgoo. PicFog allows for quite a bit of fun.”

- 3 Tools to See Fresh Images Shared Online

(The other two are reddit and flickr - what a nice club to be a member of!)

"With practically every upturned garbage can or broken car window documented, police could rummage..."

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:18:00 +0000

“With practically every upturned garbage can or broken car window documented, police could rummage through Twitter to piece together what happened. Photos uploaded from the event are laid out neatly on a search engine called PicFog.”

- Giants win sparks high-tech ‘riots’ in San Francisco, CNN

Dressing up!

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 10:22:00 +0000

Dressing up!

This little showcase page lists a couple of uses of the new...

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 11:19:16 +0000

This little showcase page lists a couple of uses of the new PicFog widgets.

Claire Wardle (@cward1e) does training for the BBC. This video...

Wed, 06 Oct 2010 09:22:26 +0000

Claire Wardle (@cward1e) does training for the BBC. This video of hers is about flickr and PicFog search. (Watch from 3:00 to see the PicFog part!)

"In a nutshell, […] returns great results, far more relevant than Google, whenever you’re..."

Sat, 09 May 2009 23:00:00 +0000

“In a nutshell, […] returns great results, far more relevant than Google, whenever you’re searching for a topic that’s been widely discussed lately. And on the social web, everything of importance is widely discussed. Google needs to step up to this challenge, quickly, before it finds itself late for the real-time search train.”

- PicFog Displays the Strength of Real-Time Image Search - Mashable