Quote from: SLP_London on August 10, 2013, 16:00

Quote from: picture5469 on August 10, 2013, 14:04

There is a search made by ajt and cascoly to cover the whole network.

Not necessarily discovered by new customers though.

Why do you say?

Apologies, if I'm wrong, but I didn't think including the global search link was included in every site by default? I thought the emphasis was on the connection to a select few sites?

There are plenty of 'retail' sites around that don't require registration. I've purchased from many and always appreciate the easy, hassle free shopping experience.

I have a studio full of strobes but in a few years there'll be like floppy discs collecting dust.

Have you noticed what's been happening with ISO. Some cameras can practically shoot in the dark.

I exaggerate, but still .....

Such a shame that 95% of this thread was wasted on bickering, quibbling and sniping. Yuri offered an opportunity for debate and it was wasted.

Regarding mobile phones, as I said in an earlier thread 'wake up and smell the coffee'.

And honestly, why on earth question Yuri's qualification and judgement of smart phone potential. Do you think he doesn't understand what competing with a DSLR requires?

Yes, what's registration all about? It's not required as far as the Paypal is concerned.

Wake up and smell the coffee guys and gals.

You think Yuri is the just throwing $1.2mill out the window?

This isn't about actually commissioning photography for $5. The $5 (I think it might be actually be $2.50 now btw, if you read the site) is just an incentive to get people shooting and uploading. This is a whole new library build in the making and it's an investment in the future (near future) technology of smart phones which in a couple of years from now will be seriously awesome bits of compact camera kit.

I've been tinkering with FOAP for a while and it's quite addictive cos it's so so simple. Whip your phone out, make a nice composition, click a few buttons to make it look cool, keyword and upload from your phone. Job done - had fun - portfolio growing. Who knows, maybe one day somebody will buy one.

I won't make any real money of course, but with the numbers game (crowd sourcing) comes a nice profit for the agency owners (Yuri et all) :-)

Smart phones + crowd sourcing .... Watch this Space.

(Oh, and don't forget all those recent threads about newspapers getting rid of staff photographers and giving journalists iphones). But then why even send anybody out when there's always a crowd of nearby on lookers with a smart phone?

There's another very similar concept App from Depositphotos as well called Clashot.
Same thing .... everyone is getting on board. Another race to IPO millions.

As a professional photographer, obviously this is all highly depressing really, but hey, you've either gotta laugh or cry. lol

As it is now symbiostock is not
customer friendly
secure enough
branded enough

Obviously this is in it's infancy, but wouldn't this global search concept be the way to go .......

http://www.symbiostock.info

one key point of entry to brand and market

Hi Steve, could you elaborate a little on the problems you were having? Are you confident that the problems were indeed to do with 1and1? Much appreciated, many thanks

If you decide to close your account with an agency, can you request/demand a payout - even if you haven't reached minimum target?

The amount of unclaimed royalty must be quite extraordinary I would imagine .... people that open accounts, upload, get bored and forget all about it .... people that die and leave no details for next of kin ....

I should imagine that many agencies maintain quite a healthy turnover simply from unclaimed royalties.

I have a small set of images that I think could do really well if discovered by the right buyers in a place like Fine Art America.

Excitedly, I opened an account and put in all the work to get my page up and running -  finally I had it all sorted and I reckon my page looked pretty good.

The images are basically a set of arty slightly abstract creations deriving from flowers and plants .... so I put them under the Floral category.

I then left the site for a few days (3 days I think) - then went back to the site (didn't login) and started searching through Floral/Recent Uploads, click, click, click, click ..... I don't know how many pages I went through, at least 15,  until I finally gave up, still not having found my work. So much new uploads in just a few days!!!

The only way I can actually find my work was to look up under my name.

Now the images have been up for a few weeks and they have only had one view (I think that was probably me).

So this seems completely useless - me thinks.

I left all the keywording very generic because the images just look good for what they are - for me it's not about which particular plant they are etc, so I didn't say 'rose' 'tulip' etc.

Anything I can do to get my work found and seen?

Thanks

@leaf .... I think that's just a typo, but Stockuploader DOES submit images. However, it does not deal with, or in anyway effect your keywording. So the moral is .... Sort your keywording out in some place else then give Stockuploader a go.

Photographic industry standard is 6500.