http://gigaom.com/2011/10/17/500px-ipad-growth/ Tue, 21 May 2013 21:34:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2011/10/17/500px-ipad-growth/#comment-671340 Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:11:25 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=422074#comment-671340 @Mic… agreed, also, it is also turning into a popularity contest with ties to other social media activities that circumvent the algorithm, kind of turning into a different type of flickr. However, the photos are still fantastic, but you can see a pattern emerging and I several photographers with alot of followers always getting on the front page and they are almost all nature photographers.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2011/10/17/500px-ipad-growth/#comment-665873 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 01:34:53 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=422074#comment-665873 The ipad app is great…except there is no way to click on a pic you like, then click through to see the photographers other pictures. wtf?!

]]> http://gigaom.com/2011/10/17/500px-ipad-growth/#comment-665673 Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:09:43 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=422074#comment-665673 Colleen, FYI the deal with fotomoto was rescinded a few weeks back, so 500px is no longer earning anything from prints. As a user (http://www.500px.com/benfelten), that’s a great source of frustration, actually.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2011/10/17/500px-ipad-growth/#comment-665397 Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:11:21 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=422074#comment-665397 What other sites like 500px are around (besides Flickr perhaps), following the last comment saying 500px nowadays offerst mostly nature pics. Any other site thats more into artistic photography?

]]> http://gigaom.com/2011/10/17/500px-ipad-growth/#comment-665390 Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:52:23 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=422074#comment-665390 500px used to be a great site, it’s turned into a site for nature pics, if you photograph people post elsewhere!

]]> http://gigaom.com/2011/10/17/500px-ipad-growth/#comment-665363 Mon, 17 Oct 2011 20:25:06 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=422074#comment-665363 You’re right Mike — sorry about that omission. The post has been updated with that funding info! Thanks for the comment.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2011/10/17/500px-ipad-growth/#comment-665350 Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:23:48 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=422074#comment-665350 I’m a little confused with “500px has thus far avoided taking any venture capital investment” when http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/03/white-hot-flickr-alternative-500px-raises-525k-in-series-a/

]]> http://gigaom.com/2011/10/17/500px-ipad-growth/#comment-665343 Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:12:49 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=422074#comment-665343 Duh. The 500px iPad app is one of the few that allow nude pics (Bing, Reddit … etc.). Expect those numbers to keep rising … among other things.

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