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Recently SS announced that they are going to provide RSS feeds of individual portfolios. I tried and it works great. You got nice image previiews in a feed.

I tried to check if other agencies got similar feed and it does not seem to be very common
1. Fotolia seems to have it but there are no previews, just title and link to image. For some reason it cannot be imported to FriendFeed but it works with Google Reader.
2. IStock - useless. Feed points to main site not your portfolio
3. 123RF - same story as above. I cannot figure out how to have feed of my portfolio.

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General Stock Discussion / Poll results trends
« on: March 12, 2010, 12:59 »
I know it's to early to draw a conclusion but did you noticed that all middle tier is very close together. It means that Veer advanced a lot while 123rf, BS and CanStockPhoto are going down. For me this month it's completely different 123RF is better than DT and BS, CanStockPhoto and VM earned nothing.

On the low end side according to polls PM is doing very well. I wish I have a patience to go thru their submission system and have more images online.

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StockXpert.com / Site down?
« on: March 06, 2010, 00:23 »
Is it just me or site is really down?

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Yaymicro / Third party sales
« on: March 05, 2010, 11:01 »
"The results from the third party  sales for fourth quarter are now in.
Your images made a total of 22,23.
This amount has been credited your account at YAY as one sale on a random image today."

Weird, do they actually know which photos are sold???

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Off Topic / Flipping burgers
« on: March 04, 2010, 13:00 »
First, I am not native English speaker so I do not understand all nuances of this language. Why flipping burgers seems to be the worst insult here. "You are lousy photographer you should be flipping burgers instead". My mom always said to me that it's not shame to do any work.

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General Stock Discussion / Re-shoot or forget?
« on: February 23, 2010, 15:18 »
I got few images from my early days that now does not look to great for me but some of them still sell quite well. I believe I would them better now but I am not sure if it's worth effort since there is a risk of rejection anyway.

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Off Topic / Avocado - fruit or vegetable?
« on: February 23, 2010, 14:13 »
I guess I put it in wrong category :-)

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123RF / Negative balance
« on: February 23, 2010, 14:04 »
I cannot figure out how they calculate it. It never adds up and they keep sending me payments but number shown on my earnings page is negative???

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StockXpert.com / StockXpert downgrade
« on: February 12, 2010, 19:26 »
I wonder why they took out image count from account page? I understand that they wasted to removed everything related to buying images but what's the point with messing submitter pages?

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General Stock Discussion / Do you Buzz?
« on: February 11, 2010, 14:52 »
Do we need another social networking engine?

http://www.google.com/profiles/melastmohican#buzz

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Dreamstime.com / 2K images approved at DT
« on: February 11, 2010, 14:40 »
I like round numbers. It took me 20 months to reach this number :-)

http://melastmohican.net/wordpress/2010/02/11/2k-images-approved-at-dreamstime/

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General Stock Discussion / Referrals
« on: February 11, 2010, 14:13 »
Where do you advertise to get referrals?

http://melastmohican.net/referrals.html

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I guess it will not happen automagically over night but I think it is what future holds. Can we prepare for that? What would be a strategy? Joining forces and forming production shops that may supply enough volume to actually compensate for commissions going down?

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StockXpert.com / StockXpert - final sprint to finish
« on: February 08, 2010, 14:01 »
I haven't seen so many PPDs in last half a year. Are people trying to quickly use their credits before it is over. Does it mean they are not going to make transition to IS or ThinkStock?

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Photoshop Tutorials / Best book/site for learning Photoshop CS4?
« on: February 04, 2010, 19:24 »
Finally I got a copy of PS and I feel overwhelmed with number of options :-)

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It seems if people riot for more than 3 days they do something otherwise they just ignore it and move on.

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General Stock Discussion / Critical mass or snowball effect?
« on: February 04, 2010, 16:09 »
Is there something like this? Once you sell n number of images your popularity raises and you sell more faster or it's just linear, steady, climb?

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If ThinkStock is a success will all others match or even beat their price?

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180 days from now, is it going to stay the same or will be upside down?

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General Stock Discussion / Last day of the month
« on: January 29, 2010, 15:41 »
It was pretty good month so far. Overall, across the board it might be BME. It just shows how small I am, 2-3 sites do well and I got a record. I need 2 dollars on couple sites to have more records :-) I guess it's to early to celebrate cause it could be one time phenomena but it feels better than recently.

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Cutcaster / First sale and extended license at the same time
« on: January 28, 2010, 16:31 »
Great that I finally have sale. Image bought was huge surprise for, I do not recall it was ever bought on any other site.

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General Stock Discussion / I do not have a clue...
« on: January 26, 2010, 16:58 »
why I am doing so bad on IS? If I look at top 6 everyone is doing better than IS including 123RF.

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Maybe it's just winter depression but I got a feeling that soon we will hear some not so exciting news.

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DepositPhotos / DepositPhotos - anybody got paid?
« on: January 22, 2010, 13:53 »
I finally was able to have enough images accepted in their promotion to request minimum payment. What can I say. Submitting interface is one of the worse if you deal with large amount of images.

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General Stock Discussion / I am just a statistical error
« on: January 20, 2010, 17:12 »
When I looked at DT db exposure graph it has been steady at 0.03% for over a year. It means that I am not increasing my portfolio fast enough?

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