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« on: November 05, 2008, 01:18 »
I know I might be biting myself in the foot, but here is the graph from an exclusive that doesn't have a big porfolio and doesn't upload much. In August I uploaded a few photos and it helped because of the bias toward new photos. I already had a record BME in Sept. before the newest change in the best match. 
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« on: November 04, 2008, 22:31 »
Our population is about 60% of the USA, not 1/3, and voting is mandatory, so perhaps the number of voters in a national election is about the same.
The electronic system has already been tested and validated by all parties, and we never experienced anything abnormal, or at least more abnormal than in the times we used paper. Aparts from a few votes here and there, no results were ever questioned with the electronic system, even after surprising results.
US Population: 301,139,947 Brazil Population: about 180,000,000 I'd like to point out that I also have a background in computer science an can tell you that no electronic voting machine that is currently on the market worldwide is secure from easy manipulation. I do like the personal electoral ID that most countries in the world have, but it's an impossibility given the current makeup of the US supreme court and the general "states rights" principles in the US. I'm hoping that with Obama as president we can become a country that has universal health care, universal IDs, and a generally stronger federal government while restoring the rights of the people that have been abridged by the Bush administration.
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« on: November 04, 2008, 20:48 »
You have a very complicate way of voting in the USA. With electronic vote here in Brazil not only we vote very fast, but the result is known within hours from closing.
No offense but you're comparing apples to oranges. We have 3 times your popluation. You have 26 states, we have 50. Here each state has its own ballots and each one decides how to carry one elections (and actually each district within a state has different ballots). There is also a basic difference that states rights are an important part of government here in the US. Each state has their own laws, not like there in Brazil. As an example of how having strong states rights has an effect on our voting: in 2006 I voted in one county in Kansas so I voted there and voted on electronic machines. Today I live in a different county only 20 miles away an I voted on a paper ballot where you color in the circle you want an then it is scanned into a machine. In 2000 and 2004 I lived in California and I voted using absentee ballots. Yes it's a weird system to outsiders but there is a reason for it all. It prevents the corruption that is constant in latin american politics. It's actually extremely hard to rig an election in the US (dispite what you hear in the media, especially fox news) because of the electoral vote system. On a positive note. Given Obama's huge win in Pennsylvania, the election is basically over. It's extremely unlikely that McCain can win since he lost in Pennsylvania by such a large margin. Oh, and the USA uses 9 times zones over all our states and territories (learned that in 5th grade). Atlantic Standard Time, Eastern Standard Time, Central Standard Time, Mountain Standard Time, Pacific Standard Time, Alaskan Standard Time, Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time, Samoa standard time and Chamorro Standard Time.
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« on: November 04, 2008, 18:28 »
I guess everybody is busy voting cause it's slow like on Sunday :-)
I don't think so. We don't get the day off. Either you go before work, durning lunch, or after work. It took me 2 minutes to vote today.
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« on: November 04, 2008, 15:08 »
However, the fact remains - you do have to track the usage, let's say the image is bought for a book cover, they would want to make sure another book won't come out with the same cover (that's why I said - certain industry). And they do state in the article above that RM payments have been as low as 2.08.
I don't think there is much if any overhead in making a database entry about the image's manage use. The $2.08 was the royalty paid to the photographer not what the corporation paid for the image rights (I think there is some confusion), but yes that seems extremely low for a RM license.
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« on: November 04, 2008, 12:08 »
Seems quite clear to me that IS do not require exclusivity for RM images: IS allow you to sell ANY photo on RM site.
Since the point of exclusivity is to create a collection with a value due to the limited access of that exclusive content, putting similar images, even at an RM site, would devalue your work as an exclusive.
In this case why does IS allow exclusive to sell their images on RM sites?
Different markets. IS is in the RF market, so unless IS in the future expands into RM why restrict people from selling in markets other than the one you're in? You'd have fewer exclusive artists and wouldn't gain much competitively by restricting their ability to sell in the RM market.
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« on: November 04, 2008, 10:45 »
The lawsuit argues that Premium Access violated Getty's agreements with rights-managed photographers, which requires the agency to track image usage and to set prices in good faith and in a commercially reasonable manner, in the words of the lawsuit. I think it might be more difficult to prove that it wasn't commercially reasonable ("Payments have been as low as $2.08") because of all the microstock competition.
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« on: October 29, 2008, 20:41 »
1) Recent upsurge in uploaders, possibly due to economic conditions, giving a lot of laid-off people more time to shoot and upload.
2) Reduced number of downloaders, again due to the economy.
3) Because of (1) and (2), there is a motivation to cut the stream of incoming uploads down to a fewer, better pictures. This results in pressure on reviewers to reject more content, which causes them to come up with more far-fetched reasons for rejection.
post hoc ergo propter hoc. (Sorry, I'm on a West Wing watching binge lately).
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« on: October 28, 2008, 20:41 »
Heh
If you see I am very upset, angry, .... (+50 very bad feelings and bad things about IS...)
Yes but why?
Maybe if I am buyer that is all OK but if you on the other side why that "superior, megaturbo super system" dont work for contributors in same way???
All complains about iStock are about that. Fck authors in all possible way for all kind of stupid triviality!?!
Why and for what? iStock in this way in quota protecting they newbee loosers as exclusive members??? Or programes have impotence or inability to solve that mutually simple thing???
Translation: You can see that I'm very upset, angry, etc. [Rhetorically asks himself why?] Maybe if I was a buyer on the other side of the change in the best match I'd be ok with the change. But I'm not and why does this "super duper system" not improve the situation for me in the same way it does for buyers? All my complaints about iStock are about the best match. It f*ucks contributors in every imaginable way for all kinds of trivial sh*t. For what reason? iStock is protecting exclusive members from newbee losers with the quota system? Or are the programmers impotent  /unable to solve the problem in a mutually beneficial way? [Editorial Note: iStock doesn't use the quota system anymore.]
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« on: October 22, 2008, 19:02 »
I hope so. I know I don't sell much (about 10-15 per weekday before the change) and now it's like 2 a day. I was really considering going exclusive because my sales had increased for the last 18+ months but overnight it's all wiped out. I could deal with the 20% commission when I was getting sales but now I'm thinking this might not be worth it.
Since this version of the best match supposedly helps exclusives more than previous versions wouldn't that be an incentive to go exclusive and not a disincentive?
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« on: October 18, 2008, 12:58 »
Sort your portfolio by views (in the detail window) and then by best match. For me, all the oldies that show up in the first few pages - which made no sense at all given the relatively small number of downloads - can be explained by them being in the top few pages for views. But why that has such an impact on best match results is a complete mystery to me.
Yeah, let's band together and form a viewing gang.   
Lets to do that so I can find out if you're the real Bitter.  "Will the real slim Bitter please stand up, please stand up." After spending more time looking at how the best match arranges my portfolio I think like this variation. It brought some of my better photos to the top that hadn't been seen since 2 BMs ago. I don't know if it will hurt or help my sales, but it at least the results don't return just the newest uploads and you don't see whole rows of a single series of photos. It's definitely a better variety.
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« on: October 18, 2008, 01:11 »
Well it looks like they changed the algorithm again. This time it heavily favors total number of downloads for a file, then secondly DLs/month.
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« on: October 13, 2008, 20:57 »
I think it could help rank images that already match by the keywords. If two images were seen 100 times, but one was downloaded more than the other, it may be better than the latter. It is more relevant than age or total downloads, I believe.
Your example is a straight comparison of downloads after a comparison of views, not a comparison of DLs/views. Holding all other things constant I think you could be right, but unfortunately there are a lot of other variables that could call this into question (see example below). I don't believe that a photo with a photo with a higher DL/view ratio is necessary a better match. Take for example the ubiquitous bikini model with santa hat that is being uploaded constantly right now. Lets say you have photo A, ugly bikini santa model, that has been up for a while so it has more downloads than newly uploaded photo B. Photo B has a few downloads and has 10x as many views as photo A. The more views of photo B would likely mean that the photo is of a prettier model, but because of the nature of the photo most of the views wouldn't be buyers. Conversely, Photo A's high DL/view ratio would be a result of it being up on the site longer when there wasn't as many gorgeous bikini Santa models. So you'd be punishing the photographer of photo B for having a prettier model. In effect, there is a time or age component to the DL/view ratio. DL/view is also effected by the design of the site itself. When a photo first appears on the site it is only visible in the new uploads section and hasn't been indexed in the search. Contributors are more likely to browse the new uploads than serious buyers because buyers are going to use the search engine. So if you're given two identical photos, C & D, and they are uploaded on the same day. There view counts will be effected by when they appear in the new uploads box. Should the photo that appears in the new uploads during the most visited time of the day be penalized for its higher view count? This also applies to what day of the week a photo first appears in the new uploads section. I've been thinking about this and have other reasons for not including views as a variable, but I'm having a hard time seeing a reason for including it as a component to the algorithm because I don't see it as representative of a photo being either better or worse than another photo.
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« on: October 12, 2008, 21:04 »
Also sales/views should be an important factor.
I've read this before, but I've never read the reason for it. Why should sales/view influence search results? I don't really have an opinion on this other than I can't see how a low or high value of this stat should relate to its result in the best match search.
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« on: October 11, 2008, 12:56 »
So it seems like most of the comments are about downloads dropping. I wonder if the people with increased downloads aren't posting or IS' sales are down overall from the new best match.
My sales are up, but I don't have a large portfolio so it doesn't really represent anything.
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« on: October 10, 2008, 16:18 »
I'm very happy about this. When the wiki first came out I wiki'ed a lot of files and the only effect it had was to see a red "bling" show up on my profile. It drove me nuts when I found the same search spammed by the same people after they had already been wiki'ed. The one that drove me the craziest was when I was trying to buy a photo of las vegas. Every tom, dick, and harry had spammed their isolated photo of cards, dice, and chips with the keyword las vegas.
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« on: October 06, 2008, 15:16 »
Didn't the best match algorithm limit the number of photos an exclusive photographer is allowed to have on the first page of results to 5? Did they get rid of this when they last changed the best match?
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« on: October 03, 2008, 19:26 »
Here is my favor find of one of my images. Had to be careful which relatives I showed it to though.  Istock image: 
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« on: October 01, 2008, 13:38 »
I want to see if they'll show his editing work because I'm curious how he takes photos from that shoot where they used none of the standard lighting gear (not even reflectors) and were able to make them high stock quality in post-production.
If anyone has a link to a video on how to do that I'd be interested.
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« on: September 30, 2008, 22:29 »
Is the second image a theft or copyright violation? Should I contact support?
Look at the area that connects the square base to the metal part of the trophy. Yours has a leaf, the other one doesn't. More importantly yours gets out right there, whereas the other one is round. It looks to me that they used a similar, but not the same trophy as the one in your photo.
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« on: September 30, 2008, 09:10 »
100% IS and BME for earnings.
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« on: September 29, 2008, 17:20 »
It should also be kept in mind that a recession or even depression in the US may not have a deeply negative effect worldwide. Germany for example is a large market for microstock and the German economy need not suffer just because the US is hurting. The euro could benefit from an ever-weakening dollar.
So far from true it's not funny. The US dollar went up today! The fact is that the world bought 10x the junk mortgage backed securities than are on the books in the US. 2 large banks in Europe failed just yesterday. The truism that when the US sneezes the rest of the world catches a cold is just as true today as it was in the past. Germany is actually worst off than a lot of european countries because of their huge dependency on exports. Just look at the Fortis firm this past weekend that was bailed out. Bradford & Bingley in England. Hypo Real Estate in Germany. If you live in Europe and don't think it's effecting you, then just wait a few months. It's coming.
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« on: September 26, 2008, 10:38 »
@yingyang0:
Hi Brian, in germany all zoos have a signpost. Ive you shoot for commercial you have to ask the administration and must pay about to 75 per image. Isnt it the same as a release?
I don't know about Germany or German law so I can't speak to how it works there under the civil law tradition. I normally qualify my statements with "in the US" but someone went on a personal attack when I did that in the Copyright Infringement thread so I didn't do it here.
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« on: September 25, 2008, 18:34 »
I usually have several rejects of this type every week, but today I think I had the worst. Check for yourself:
Rejected for:
{[ Beautiful, Blond Hair, Blond Hair, Elegance, Enjoyment, lay down, Relaxation]}
To me she clearly appears to be a brunette in that photo.
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