Comments on: Webshots Beautifies… Who Next?

By: Webshots Adding Video

Webshots Adding Video — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:21:17 +0000

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By: Mark Bole

Mark Bole — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 19:47:00 +0000

Liz, this is Mark Bole, CEO, ShoZu. I just wanted to add a quick comment saying that we do appreciate being included in this round- up and it is our differentiating features that distinguish ShoZu in this list. In reference to our exit strategy, I am happy to speak to you or Om in further detail at your convenience.

By: Ashish

Ashish — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 07:57:47 +0000

Not too sure why you have considered facebook as a photo site!!

Ashish

By: Darren Herman

Darren Herman — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 03:26:08 +0000

I think you need to seperate out the photo printing businesses from the sharing businesses as revenue is derived differently. It is very difficult to compare apples to oranges.

As a disclaimer, I was the original product manager at MyPhotoAlbum.com and the reason we went for the non-printing market originally was that everyone was focused there years ago. The beautiful part of the Internet is that you can share anything - so why not share your photos? Printing just adds another layer of complexity and logistics and is easy to outsource.

By: BarelyBlogging

BarelyBlogging — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:53:44 +0000

Idea for increasing photo printing…

Liz Gannes writes: Webshots Beautifies… Who Next? Photo-printing may be a big business, but there is too much competition to make much money off it. You can see lots of evidence of this issue in the Shutterfly IPO paperwork. Additionally, younger ge…

By: Salman

Salman — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:42:42 +0000

Pretty nice design, wonder who the designer was/is.

By: Former Reader

Former Reader — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:37:02 +0000

The quality of reporting on this site has come way down in the rush to crank out content and sensationalize it.

Please do some thinking, some fact checking, and some editing.

By the way, where is Photobucket on the quiz list?

By: Liz Gannes

Liz Gannes — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:47:21 +0000

I’ll ask Om about the multi-choice questionnaires! We know Facebook is not purely photo-sharing, and ShoZu is more of an enabling tool…but to me those distinctions make them appealing. Andy — you work for ShoZu/Cognima, right? Are you saying y’all aren’t interested in being acquired?

By: Andy Tiller

Andy Tiller — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:25:07 +0000

ShoZu doesn’t really fit here – it’s not a web site for sharing photos & videos, it’s a gateway between the phone and web sites like the ones mentioned above (including Flickr, YouTube, Webshots, Kodak EasyShare Gallery, Buzznet, Textamerica…).

By: Jeremy Pepper

Jeremy Pepper — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 07:02:28 +0000

Snapfish was also sold and bought twice.

All in all, I think it is wrong to say that the photo printing sites were bad purchases, but it may be true that they are not evolving fast enough for new tastes. Let's not forget the middle of the country, where sites like Ofoto, Shutterfly and Snapfish fit the bill moreso than Web 2.0 sites.

I think the bigger question is not who is going to be acquired, but who is the next Zing or PhotoPoint.

Disclosure: worked at Ofoto, and prior on EK.

By: Jeremy Pepper

Jeremy Pepper — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 07:01:18 +0000

Snapfish was also sold and bought twice.

I think the bigger question is not who is going to be acquired, but who is the next Zing or PhotoPoint.

Disclosure: worked at Ofoto, and prior on EK.

By: Stan

Stan — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 06:28:02 +0000

Zooomr is spelled with 3 o’s…

By: Jeff Clavier

Jeff Clavier — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 06:27:53 +0000

You are mixing apples and oranges: photo hosting/sharing, photo printing, mobile phone photo applications, photo aggregation, social networks with photo sharing features,… And therefore you would need a multi-choice questionnaire to name favorites.

By: dave mcclure

dave mcclure — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 06:18:24 +0000

not sure Facebook really fits in with the rest of these… also might include Slide, FilmLoop.

By: Klaas Brumann

Klaas Brumann — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 05:55:08 +0000

“Photo-printing may be a big business, but there is too much competition to make much money off it.” – The Kodak’s and HP’s struggle to make money from photo printing because they all follow the same traditional model. Look at http://FotoInsight.de for a profitable (European) photo processing and printing business. Its a company that constantly pushes new gifts and improved photobooks.