Microsoft Acquires Photo Sharing Site WebFives

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

Ah, Microsoft. Always late to the game. Maybe it’s a part of their strategy: wait until Google (Picasa Web Albums) and Yahoo (Flickr) establish solid market positions, and then develop or buy an (usually inferior) product of their own and try to corner those remaining 10% of users. This time, ...

Open Web Awards: Nominations for Photo Sharing

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Photo sharing – one of the biggest and most successful areas of Web 2.0, and likely to be a hotly contested area of the Open Web Awards. Flickr recently passed the 2 billion upload mark, while earlier in the year we saw Photobucket acquired by Fox Interactive for more ...

Why Beer Companies Don’t Have Facebook Photo Contests

Monday, November 26th, 2007

Molson, the brewer, thought it would be great to get more involved with social networking marketing. And what better place to start than Facebook? A photo contest set up by Molson for marketing purposes asked Facebook users to share images of their college partying. Facebook, of all ...