Om Malik, founder of Giga Omni Media, is also a venture partner at True.
COMMUNITY WEBSHOTS ANDROID
Former Webshots executives Julie Davidson, Narendra Rocherolle and Nick Wilder are now on the Board of Directors for Threefold Photos.īeginning Tuesday, existing Webshots users will start receiving notices that their photos will be migrated to Smile, which currently has iPhone and desktop apps, with Android coming within a month. Rocherolle and CEO Mike Sitrin explained in an interview that they want Smile to be the easiest way to search and share photos, although they were light on specifics as they focus on transitioning existing users to the new service.ĭisclosure: Threefold Photos is backed by True Ventures, a venture capital firm that is an investor in the parent company of this blog, Giga Omni Media. In 2004, CNET bought Webshots for $71 million, which sold it to American Greetings for $45 million in 2007. In 2001 declared bankrupcy, and the founders purchased Webshots back for $2.5 million. They allow people to open an account and upload photos. I just need the various items put into a generic list.
But it is also a huge collection of photographs. In the json there is a top level that holds the count and then all of the specific item information. And heres Baltimores newest adition, just delivered today, 1 of 9 New Medic units to be delivered. I find that I dont have the time to do a proper bog these days but the Facebook format is so quick so use that it only takes a minute to upload a photo.
COMMUNITY WEBSHOTS SOFTWARE
Webshots is known for software that changes your computer wallpaper, puts a calendar on the page and such. Sorry for the total lack of new photos on this site, however I do now post daily photos to the Isles of Scilly Facebook page. In 1999, the founders sold Webshots to for $82.5 million in stock. Discussion started by mrwrite 16 years, 5 months, 3 weeks ago. Webshots was founded in 1995, and by 1999 had moved the product into photo-sharing as well as the original screensavers and wallpaper. Older photo sites like Photobucket and Flickr have certainly struggled to find new footing. However, it’s hard to say how a photo-sharing site can compete in the age of Facebook and Instagram, which dominate the photo upload and sharing experiences. Smile will roll out a variety of features this fall, but core to the experience will be a photo stream aggregating user photos that are easily searchable and shareable, targeting a user demographic that might not always upload to Facebook or iCloud. Threefold Photos (see disclosure below) has purchased Webshots from American Greetings for an undisclosed sum, and has taken investments from groups and individuals including Freestyle Capital, True Ventures, Chris Sacca, Biz Stone, Mike Hirshland, and others.
Threefold Photos plans to announce Tuesday that it has purchased Webshots and will re-launch the product this fall, transitioning it to become a more modern photo experience called Smile by Webshots.
Believe it or not, Webshots, the photo company founded in the mid 1990s, is still hanging around, but soon its service will go by a slightly different name after another change in company ownership.