Just to remind myself that there were other days than the last rainy week.
Category Archives: Photography
“The Three Bogatyrs” is a famous russian painting which tells you a lot about the country and its traditions. This one was taken somewhere in Pennsylvania, not sure it deserves to be placed right now in The Tretyakov Gallery but it also tells me something about another’s Big Country Spirit.
Stockholm Evenings
Gamla Stan / Old City
Top Microstocks on Google Trends
An interesting picture from the Google Trends covering the popularity of top microsotck brands in the Google search and news.
istockphoto: 1.00 shutterstock: 0.66 fotolia: 0.78
dreamstime: 0.20Â stockxpert: 0.04
Dreamstime and Stockexpert are stagnating on the bottom but Fotolia competes with two other “micro-monsters” on the top. This is quite interesting because it doesn’t exactly reflects the situation with my sales. Also according to the regular earnings reports posted by Lee Torrents on Microstock Diaries the picture looks a bit different. You never see the Fotolia in the leaders. Very good promotion or am I missing something as a contributor?
Microstock API Overview
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Imagine you are a micro stock photograph. Also imagine your are not working exclusively for one agency but contributing to the top 5: iStockphoto, Shutterstock, Dreamstime, Fotolia and let’s say… Stockexpert.
Here is where the problem begins: each agency has its own rules, interfaces, submitting channels (HTTP, FTP etc.). Obviously, as the microstock marked is growing, there is a need for additional services and software both for and contributors and buyers.
I also have a couple nice ideas in this area, so I’ve done a short research on existing microstock API (Application Programming Interface).