I see, it's easier for photographer and designer but customers must like this type of photos too otherwise there will be no demand for that.

I wonder why all this so called "lifestyle" photos are taken in environment staging real life apartments to be so white and sterile looking?

I think the most important is how entire economy is doing. If giants like Google have to downsize because of shrinking advertising budgets what would you expect from much smaller businesses? It's going to be survival of the fittest :-) Definitively larger companies got bigger chance to survive. When economy start going up we will see increase across the board and stronger parties will probably start snapping weaker ones.

I am not getting why people want to close accounts and remove all their files? I simply stop uploading and observing this account.

I got middle one, with USM but w/o IS. If you intend to use it for hand held shots, forget. Other than that it's OK lens. I also tend to think that it's not very sharp and higher focal lengths.

"I will unfollow you!" 

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Keep uploading and got sub sale once in a while.

I have completed you survey.

In general my answer is I like syndication and stats but I am not willing to pay for storage. I already paid in some places and I would rather using files stored there instead of having another copy. Are you considering using customer storage account. Can I grant you access to my S3 storage?

As I said I am small fish. I do not make enough to justify service like that. If you want to go to the masses of microstockers it has to be low percentage of their monthly income. Remember that majority does not even get paid every month due to payout minimum.

Sometimes I think eating is cultural habit. French are less obese than Americans ;-) It must be combination of cuisine and lots of wine versus hamburgers and beer :-)

Today they tweet about adding Veer and AlwaysHD. How about IStock and Shutterstock we have been asking for a while?

The other issue is price, I think it's to high for majority of microstockers. How about percentage of what they track? They report that I am making $20 a month and they wont $12 out of that?

Novelty (derived from latin word novem for "new") is the quality of being new.

I learned that superstitions are bad thing :-) I did not want to travel on 13th and went next day. Ended up with knee surgery :-)