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The report takes an in depth look at geometric growth of photoblogging, a new form of web-based photo sharing that has seen 10X month over month growth in content and users since the Spring of 2003. Based on extensive research of blogging and photoblogging services, technologies and applications, the report examines how photoblogs are changing the way digital photos are used and shared on the web, the role of key players already entering the segment such as AOL and Google, and the implications for various sectors of the imaging industry. It includes:
- Definitions of blogs, photoblogs, moblogs, their core architecture features and how they differ from photo sharing web sites in both requirements and user experience
- Profiles of the top ten vendors providing photoblogging software and hosting services
- An inn-depth review of AOL’s new entry into the photoblogging market, Journals, and its integration with You’ve Got Pictures
- A discussion of market segmentation and top applications for photoblogging
- A review of the opportunities raised by photoblogging for vendors of:
- Image capture devices –digital cameras and camera-phones
- Desktop imaging software
- Imaging infrastructure products such as storage, DRM, content screening, etc.
- Mobile photo messaging software
- Stock photography
- Online photo sharing/printing services
- An examination of the potential impact photoblogs will have on photo printing
- A primer on RSS technology
A listing of 18 vendors of software & services
40 pages with 26 tables and figures
About the Author:
Myron J. Kassaraba has been a pioneer of bringing to market new products and technologies in the digital imaging and online services markets. He co-founded Applied Videotex Systems in 1983, a videotext software company that also operated Boston CitiNet, the first advertiser supported consumer online service. Since 1987, he has been a driver of desktop digital imaging starting with color scanners and prepress systems at Howtek, to visual enhancement graphics chips at Edsun Labs.
In his seven years at Kodak, he developed the KCMS licensing business, co-founded the International Color Consortium, secured and managed the strategic alliance with Microsoft resulting in PictureIt and the Kodak Image Magic Print Service as well as the FlashPix format, started and built Kodak’s Developer Relations Group and ran Corporate Strategic Alliances. More recently at Trellix, Myron drove the move to develop a browser-based web publishing platform through a strategic partnership with Lycos. He then licensed Trellix’s ASP platform and software to major portals and community sites including Bolt.com, CNET, InfoSpace, iVillage, Lycos and ZDNet.
He is now the principal of MJK Partners and provides strategy and business development consulting and advisory services to companies in the digital imaging and web publishing markets.
Contact information:
Tel. 617-489-1924
www.mjkpartners.com View: Table of Contents, Executive Summary, Introduction (Adobe PDF document)
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