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Messages - melastmohican
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926
« on: June 10, 2009, 18:29 »
This model will not prevent some photographers from setting very low prices. They are free to do that. Maybe there will be competition between photographers eventually when they notice that setting very high prices will produce not results. However nobody is forced to that form the beginning.
There sites that act like that already but they parse agency websites and harvest image thumbnails. When you want to buy images you are redirected to original image page.
Imagine that they do not have to do web scrapping but there is clear API to get images. Even agencies with tons of images can implement this API and act like one huge contributor.
927
« on: June 10, 2009, 18:06 »
Would not be nice if in future IStock understand our API and you can register your site with them instead of uploading individual images. We can give them 25% for this :-)
928
« on: June 10, 2009, 16:33 »
I am only complaining about transfer from SV, I lost over 2000 images.
It seems that Veer website is light years ahead SV and so far customer service was very helpful.
929
« on: June 10, 2009, 16:30 »
My night upload from yesterday went to void but today I got no problems with FTP
930
« on: June 10, 2009, 15:46 »
I guess Google will not "see" images on users websites, otherwise anybody could download them for free. Our search engine will only index sites that are registered with it and offer API a.k.a backdoor to see images :-) There must be some sort of handshake between legitimate search engine and the site.
931
« on: June 10, 2009, 15:41 »
It was not that bad after all I used almost same images I sent initially to Snapvillage so I wonder why they did not want to transfer my account. It must be cheaper to let suckers, a I meant contributors, to do job themselves.
932
« on: June 10, 2009, 14:29 »
It seems they cannot handle traffic they generated ;-)
933
« on: June 10, 2009, 14:04 »
934
« on: June 10, 2009, 14:01 »
For example my personal blog is using WordPress which give me opportunity to plugin anything written in PHP. If we can provide library that can be easily used then it will take care of API for some files I upload to my hosted server.
935
« on: June 10, 2009, 13:43 »
There are many easy to use blog or CMS software anybody can use. Some ISP like GoDaddy have one click installs for them. We can target some of them with some easy to plugin scripts similar to what Google does with AdSense or Analytics.
936
« on: June 10, 2009, 12:56 »
It has been working so far. I can finish submission on all sites during my morning coffee time :-) It's pretty random so I am always surprised when I see what photos were upload last night.
937
« on: June 09, 2009, 14:34 »
I hope that despite of result somebody should be subject to tarring and feathering 
938
« on: June 09, 2009, 13:47 »
939
« on: June 09, 2009, 13:41 »
They got weird QC system but I would not call them hostile. For me I am not always agree with rejections but I accepted fact that they want to be different.
940
« on: June 08, 2009, 15:40 »
They image processing does not work properly. Gives an error on a half of images I tried to upload. These images has been submitted everywhere so I do not think they are broken.
941
« on: June 08, 2009, 13:02 »
Couple days after they rejected my SV portfolio I filled a form on their website. Nobody even confirmed that they received data. What a heck?
942
« on: June 08, 2009, 13:00 »
Do they pay for blogging?
943
« on: June 08, 2009, 12:59 »
I got one EL there and couple small ones and then nothing
944
« on: June 08, 2009, 12:59 »
DT - 2 month ago BME but now back to nornal levels
123 - normal to low
StockXpert - slightly below normal
BigStock - 1 DL per month which is normal for this one
FT - is actually picking up from very low levels
FP - nothing in 2-3 months
SS - you dive last month but seems to recover now
IS - As usual, couple sales a month
945
« on: June 05, 2009, 18:39 »
If your images are already there via StockXpert then ... a) what's the point ... and b) you do realise you get (even) lower commissions via IS  ??
If only all agencies accept same photos... I got almost nothing from IS now so what would be a damage?
946
« on: June 05, 2009, 17:58 »
For me it is not going to be big loss but it can be a gain:
1. I already sell images thru StockXpert/Photos.com
2. I got only 130 images on IS
3. I do not sell a lot on IS
It cannot be much worse than that :-)
947
« on: June 05, 2009, 17:55 »
I understand that this has no business value to agencies and cost them money at the same time. Aggreagators need to offer something in return like linking back to original images so people can find them. I am glad that representative of agency is here and talks. Maybe you can work out some agreement :-)
948
« on: June 05, 2009, 16:54 »
We added a Captcha to our login recently too, it's really not a matter of " those pesky Artists, let's hide the info from them", it is simply a case of, why should an external service monetize our resources in an automatic fashion, incurring extra expenses, when the only application of the data harvesting is for comparing agencies to other agencies? What if we call you up on the phone 10 times a day and ask how you doin' compared to Yuri, it would not be a very friendly affair after long.
Translation: We do have time or money to give contributors statistics but lets make it difficult to others to help them. What if I could handle 10000 phone calls a day and you call me 10 times, would it be visible to me?
949
« on: June 05, 2009, 16:36 »
Just curious, does SS actually have any API? IS uses XML-RPC but I haven't heard any other agency provides anything.
950
« on: June 05, 2009, 14:21 »
Being devil's advocate for a while: who really owns sales data, agency or contributor?
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