STOCK PHOTO NEWS from A-Z FOTOS
No.
28
The
first Modern eZine combining Stock Photography and
Marketing - Published since 1999
'Equally
important for picture buyers and image providers.'
February
2008
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CONTENT
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From the Editor
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Why links to your site and pictures are important
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Link building by commenting in blogs
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Finding the best and most profitable keywords
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Article marketing as link building
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Making use of social networks - social bookmarking
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Getty Images Acquired by Hellman & Friedman
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Conference in Phoenix for Picture Professionals
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Zymmetrical Launches Expanded Search with Freerange
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FROM THE EDITOR
I
hope you are doing well with your work with stock photos
in this new year despite threatening clouds of recession and
international conflicts. In fact the more threats you face
for your work the more benefits you should get with an
intelligent use of free or cheap marketing mechanism.
The
online marketing potential is increasing but the
competition becomes more and more tuff as individuals and
smaller companies become more professional in their approach,
harvesting the low-hanging fruits and applying more sophisticated
strategies and marketing tools.
I
this issue of Stock Photo News I have packed useful
information to improve your marketing related to pictures.
In earlier issues of SPN I have focused on the need for good
and relevant text on your web pages - a picture is worth a
1000 words - but unfortunately search engines can't read
pictures.
In
the following you will get straightforward tips to build
links to your site from other sites. All websites - big and
small - will benefit with more and more targeted traffic to
the website.
To
help you really benefit from the fast moving changes on
the web I have provided a number of resources for your
marketing work free of charge for you. They should be of great
help to make your efforts much more efficient and successful.
But that will only happen if you take action immediately.
Feel
free to forward this newsletter to friends and colleagues
to help them build a successful web presence.
Enjoy
reading Stock Photo News!
Soren
Breiting, Editor.
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Soren Breiting
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WHY LINKS TO YOUR SITE AND PICTURES ARE IMPORTANT
Some
basics (skip it if your are experienced in link
building and read further down).
The
main feature of the web is that information can be
linked. Linking means internal links in a website and
external links between different websites.
A
new website will typical start without any links from
other websites. But through the word of mouth it gets the
first visitors and if they find the information useful
they will tend to bookmark the site and the create links
from the websites they are in charge of.
This
mechanism of 'organic link building' is a very sound
feature of the web community and the search engines make
use of it when they estimate the value and content of each
website. The result of this is that a website with many
links pointing to it is regarded by Google as a more useful
information resource than competing websites.
Now,
the usefulness of information has to be related to what
kind of information people are searching for. Here comes the
focus on the content of the linking site and the content of
the site that get the links. The most precise way for a
search engine to estimate what kind of information users
will find when they click on the link is to focus on the
content of the linking text.
Obviously
a linking text saying 'find stock photos from
A-Z Fotos' gives more information for Google than the common
format: 'CLICK Here'. When pictures or graphics are used as
the link medium they have similar limitations. Always remember
to use a relevant link text.
Organic
link building is fine but it is a very slow process
in most cases.
Accordingly
most companies have a great interest in speeding
up the link building process by applying an active link
building strategy.
Before
Google and other search engines became as sophisticated
as they are now it was possible to help a website get notices
by participating in some kind of link exchange on a big scale,
so-called link farms, with free or with paid subscription.
Stay far away from these temptations nowadays. Your site
will easily be banned by Google and it will be very difficult
to get into the index in the future.
Reciprocal
linking has been useful all the life of the web
and it is still useful: You find another site you would like
to get a link from and offer in exchange a link from your
site.
It is time consuming, but it works. Select your link partners
with care and ask for the kind of text you want in the link
text.
The best will be sites with content matching your site's content
(not the same content but supplementary content) and with
a
high Google page rank, e.g. from 3 to 10.
If
you have the resources an Adwords campaign can help get your
site noticed and speed up the organic linking mechanism, check
for an Adwords campaign here:
http://www.stockphotonews.com/good/adwords
.
The
value of links from directories has diminished due to the
immense improvement of Google's ability to rank relevant webpages
in the top search results. Anyway especially links from specialized
and relevant directories should still be worthy to go for.
But
the following are the smartest and most potential link building
actions and they will all be dealt with in detail in the next
sections.
They are:
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Commenting on blogs
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Distributing articles for free reprint (article marketing)
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Making use of social networks
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LINK BUILDING BY COMMENTING IN BLOGS
Blogs
are written by individuals and normally a blog includes
an option to make a comment. The web is flooded by millions
of
blogs and many of them are not of any value except for the
blog
writer and friends or family.
But
other blogs are highly valued among people in the same
industry or area of interest and such blogs can have many
readers
among the specific target group, often depending on how well-known
the person or the represented company is.
When
you write a comment in a blog you need to be very careful
to contribute with valuable and relevant information.
Many
blogs give the option to have a link to your website and
that is how your efforts with commenting in blogs can function
as part of your link building strategy.
With
helpful comments you will also strengthen the branding of
yourself as one with specialist knowledge in the field.
The
best value of the link from a blog comment is when the link
is direct, not through a link of the website, and if you have
relevant key word text in the link.
When
you start to comment you will normally have to fill in
Your name
Your email address (and this will not be visible)
Your web address - an option, - remember always to include
http://
In
my case I can write as my name 'Soren Breiting', but in most
blogs it will also be acceptable to write the name of my website
in stead of my personal name, and that is important because
'Your name' is the link text to the url link you have provided.
Your
comment will not be accepted if you use the text of the
comment to advertise some product or service - stick to your
helpful information and avoid links to your own site in the
comment.
The
link value of such a blog comment depends also on a
technicality aimed at search engines. To avoid blog comments
being spammed by marketers many blogs use a so-called 'no-follow'
tag that tells the search engine not to follow the links,
e.g.
not to follow links to your website.
It
easily becomes a big task for you to search for the relevant
kind of blogs and to find out which blogs are worth commenting
on.
I
have got my hands on a very nice and useful script that will
help you to find the relevant blogs for comments and make
the
whole process much easier for your link building strategy.
It
is now in its second version and it has helped me a lot in
short
time. You can filter away blogs with the no-follow tag to
avoid
them.
It
is free for you to download and no strings are attached to
it.
You
get the Real Link Finder here:
http://www.stockphotonews.com/good/rlf
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FINDING THE BEST AND MOST PROFITABLE KEYWORDS
The
content and service of a website can be described with many
different words. The ideal for the website owner is to describe
it with relevant keywords that are used by many of the relevant
people in the target group but with low competition from competing
websites.
In
the earlier days of the web it would be quite easy to experiment
with alternatives because you could simple set up different
parallel
webpages targeting alternative formulations of the keywords.
These
days, however, the search engines actual high ranking is based
on
much more sophisticated algorithms making use of the links
and the
link texts as mentioned.
I
have used different of the available tools, paid as well as
free
tools, for keywords, and most have their limitation, e.g.
some
demand a very expensive monthly subscription. I end up every
time
with the build-in tools in Site Build it.
You
can start with a kind of brainstorm where you generate all
the
most useful keyword combinations of your master-keyword in
a so-called
vertical search. Let us say you are producing a magazine of
cars.
Then you can search for cars and get the most searched combinations
of cars with other words. Cars in itself is all too broad.
Car
magazines might be much better but still too broad. And again
the
more you can narrow the keyphrases down to being more specific,
the better.
The
real value of this brainstormer tool and keyword listing tool
is the additional information that are generated automatically.
You get figures for how often the search term is used, how
many
competitors you will have to rank high for that search term,
how
difficult it will be to beat the competition and how profitable
the keyword / keyphrase seems to be. It is an amazing amount
of
data that are analyzed for us with just a few key strokes.
At
the moment I just have one subscription to this but I use
it
to find the best keywords to all my sites. You will get access
to the facility by signing up to get a SBI website here:
http://www.stockphotonews.com/good/sbi
The
Brainstorm It is now in version 2.2 and it is continuously
being improved as it is one of the most important reasons
for
the huge success SBI website owners have had, almost always
beating their competition as it is explained at
http://www.stockphotonews.com/good/sbi
.
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ARTICLE MARKETING AS LINK BUILDING
To
write useful articles about topics related to your
website is a proven strategy to get visitors to a website.
You write small focused articles and submit them to article
directories. Other webmasters and ezine publishers are then
allowed to reprint your articles as long as they keep the
whole article complete including the links and your name
and other information.
The
improved traffic happens through direct traffic when
the reader is reading the article and finds the author
clever with high quality information and it happens indirectly
when the link to the website helps to boost the rating of
the website in the search engines.
There
is a lot to say about article marketing and you can
find some more info in articles, just check the menu at
free-articles.net
http://www.ezinearticles.com
is the largest article directory
in the world. Sign up as an author and be very careful to
follow all the instructions for the article. It will take
you some time to get your first article accepted here.
There are lots of article directories but some of them are
dormant and some have very little traffic.
You
are welcome to submit English language articles to my
own article directory gratisartikler.com
as I
accept articles in Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English.
Normally you will have your article accepted in 24 hours
and that will give you a direct link to your website from
a page rank 3 website with good traffic. Sign up as an author
at gratisartikler.com/signup.php
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MAKING USE OF SOCIAL NETWORKS - SOCIAL BOOKMARKING
Through
the years we have been used to bookmark interesting
websites in our browser in our own computer. Now we have the
option to make our bookmarks available online for us, too.
That is useful.
But
the really smart thing is that such bookmarks can now be
public and useful for others. As such they can also be a part
of our link building strategy and traffic generating strategy.
The
impressive thing is that the social networking sites that
provide the facilities of social bookmarking have an impressive
amount of traffic.
The
traffic at Facebook is approaching the amount of traffic
at Google. And that had happened in a very short time. The
web
is certainly a rapid moving phenomena and the social networking
sites are expected to partly take over the traffic from the
big
search engines like Google.
There
is a lot to say about social book marking. For your
introduction just think of the following steps:
You
sign up as a user of a specific social bookmarking site.
You
go to a website (could be your own) and make an online
bookmark to your site.
You
use relevant 'tags' to tag your actual webpage as part of
the bookmarking process. The tags will become the linking
keywords
to your website and concrete webpage so to choose them well
is
important.
As
there exists a lot of social bookmarking sites some marketers
have created a kind of facilities for website owners as well
as
for the bookmarking process, see
video-directory.net
and try the facilities - they are all free.
If
you want more in depth information about social bookmarking
as part of Web 2.0 you are welcome to download this ebook
(without any strings)
stockphotonews.com/good/smart
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GETTY IMAGES AGREES TO BE ACQUIRED BY HELLMAN & FRIEDMAN
IN
A TRANSACTION VALUED AT $2.4 BILLION
SEATTLE,
February 25, 2008 -
Getty Images Inc. (NYSE:GYI), the world's leading creator
and
distributor of visual content and other digital media, announced
today that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement
to
be acquired by affiliates of the private equity firm Hellman
&
Friedman LLC in a transaction valued at approximately $2.4
billion,
including the assumption of existing debt. Under the terms
of the
agreement, Getty Images stockholders will receive $34.00 in
cash for
each outstanding share of common stock they own. This price
represents a premium of approximately 55 percent over the
closing
price on January 18, 2008, the last trading day before the
Company
announced that it was exploring strategic alternatives.
The
Board of Directors of Getty Images has approved the merger
agreement and resolved to recommend that Getty Images' stockholders
approve the transaction. Completion of the transaction is
subject
to shareholder approval and other customary closing conditions.
The
transaction is not subject to a financing condition and is
expected to close in the second quarter of 2008.
"Our Board of Directors has thoroughly evaluated strategic
alternatives for Getty Images and has determined that this
outcome
is in the best interests of our stockholders as it provides
them
with superior and certain value. Furthermore, Hellman &
Friedman
brings specific industry expertise and support for the vision
of
the Company's management team that will benefit our employees,
customers and partners," said Jonathan Klein, co-founder
and chief
executive officer of Getty Images. "Just over a decade
ago we
started Getty Images with little more than a vision and have
achieved industry leadership due to the extraordinary talent,
effort and commitment of our employees and partners.
We
are enthusiastic about entering the next phase of Getty Images'
evolution by partnering with Hellman & Friedman as we
continue to
provide innovative offerings to businesses and consumers in
a very
dynamic digital media environment."
Andy
Ballard, managing director of Hellman & Friedman, said,
"Getty Images is the leader and pioneer in the visual
content
and digital media business. We believe in the vision and
execution capabilities of Jonathan Klein and his team, and
share
their commitment to the Company's stakeholders and customers.
We
look forward to working with all of Getty Images' employees
to realize the full potential of its traditional businesses
while furthering the evolution of Getty Images into a global
digital media company."
Financing
commitments have been provided by Barclays Capital,
GE Commercial Finance and RBS Greenwich Capital. In addition,
Getty Investments and certain related parties, including the
co-founder and chairman, Mark Getty, who collectively hold
approximately 15 percent of the Company's shares, have agreed
to vote in favor of the transaction and rollover their shares
into the acquiring entity.
Goldman,
Sachs & Co. is acting as financial advisor to Getty Images.
Barclays Capital and RBS Greenwich Capital are acting as financial
advisors to Hellman & Friedman. Weil Gotshal & Manges
LLP and
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP are serving as legal advisors
to Getty Images and Hellman & Friedman, respectively.
Further Information About the Transaction
Getty Images will file with the Securities and Exchange Commission
(the "SEC"), and furnish to its stockholders, a
proxy statement
soliciting proxies for the meeting of its stockholders to
be called
with respect to the Merger. GETTY IMAGES' STOCKHOLDERS ARE
ADVISED
TO READ THE PROXY STATEMENT WHEN IT IS FINALIZED AND DISTRIBUTED
TO THEM BECAUSE IT WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION. Getty
Images'
stockholders and other interested parties will be able to
obtain,
without charge, a copy of the proxy statement (when available)
and
other relevant documents filed with the SEC from the SEC's
website
at http://www.sec.gov. Getty Images' stockholders and other
interested parties will also be able to obtain, without charge,
a
copy of the proxy statement (when available) and other relevant
documents by directing a request by mail or telephone to Getty
Images, Inc., 601 North 34th Street, Seattle, Washington 98103,
Attention: Investor Relations, telephone: (206) 925-5000,
or
from Getty Images' website, http://www.gettyimages.com.
Getty Images and certain of its directors, executive officers
and
other members of management and employees may, under SEC rules,
be
deemed to be "participants" in the solicitation
of proxies from
stockholders of Getty Images with respect to the proposed
merger.
Information
regarding the persons who may be considered "participants"
in
the solicitation of proxies will be set forth in Getty Images'
proxy
statement relating to the proposed merger when it is filed
with the SEC.
Information regarding certain of these persons is also set
forth in
Getty Images' proxy statements and annual reports on Form
10-K previously
filed with the SEC.
Forward-Looking Statements
Some
of the statements in this press release may constitute "forward-looking
statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform
Act of 1995. These statements are based on management's expectations,
assumptions and projections about our business as of the time
the statements
are made. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees
of future
performance and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties
that
could cause our actual results to differ materially from our
past
performance and our current expectations, assumptions and
projections.
Differences
may result from actions taken by us as well as from risks
and uncertainties beyond our control. These risks and uncertainties
include,
among others, (i) the occurrence of any event, change or other
circumstances
that could give rise to the termination of the merger agreement
and the
possibility that the Company would be required to pay a termination
fee
in connection therewith; (ii) the outcome of any legal proceedings
that
may be instituted against Getty Images and others following
announcement
of the merger agreement; (iii) the inability to complete the
merger due
to the failure to obtain shareholder approval or the failure
to satisfy
other conditions to completion of the merger; (iv) risks that
the proposed
transaction disrupts current plans and operations and the
potential
difficulties in employee retention as a result of the merger;
(v)
the ability to recognize the benefits of the merger; (vi)
the amount
of the costs, fees, expenses and charges related to the merger;
(vii)
currency fluctuations; (viii) the Company's ability to integrate
and
grow recently acquired businesses and pursue new business
strategies;
(ix) changes in the economic, political, competitive and technological
environments; and (x) system security, upgrades, updates and
service
interruptions. The foregoing list of risks and uncertainties
is illustrative,
but by no means exhaustive. For more information on factors
that may affect
future performance, please review the reports filed by us
with the Securities
and Exchange Commission, in particular our Quarterly Report
on Form 10-Q for
the quarter ended September 30, 2007 and Amended Annual Report
on Form 10-K/A
for the year ended December 31, 2006. Except as required by
law, we do not intend
to update or revise any forward-looking statements until our
next quarterly
earnings release.
About
Getty Images
Getty Images is the world's leading creator and distributor
of still imagery,
footage and multi-media products, as well as a recognized
provider of other
forms of premium digital content, including music. Getty Images
serves
business customers in more than 100 countries and is the first
place
creative and media professionals turn to discover, purchase
and manage
images and other digital content. Its award-winning photographers
and
imagery help customers produce inspiring work which appears
every day
in the world's most influential newspapers, magazines, advertising
campaigns,
films, television programs, books and Web sites. Visit Getty
Images at
gettyimages.com
to learn more about how the company is advancing
the unique role of digital media in communications and business,
and enabling
creative ideas to come to life.
About
Hellman & Friedman
Hellman & Friedman LLC is a leading private equity investment
firm with
offices in San Francisco, New York and London. The Firm focuses
on
investing in superior business franchises and serving as a
value-added
partner to management in select industries including media
and marketing
services, financial services, professional services, information
services,
healthcare and energy. Since its founding in 1984, Hellman
& Friedman has
raised and, through its affiliated funds, managed over $16
billion of
committed capital and is currently investing its sixth partnership,
Hellman & Friedman Capital Partners VI L.P., with over
$8 billion of
committed capital. Representative investments in media and
marketing
services include: DoubleClick Inc., Catalina Marketing Corporation,
Young & Rubicam Inc., Digitas Inc., The Nielsen Company,
and Axel
Springer AG. For more information, visit http://www.hf.com.
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ASPP EDUCATION CONFERENCE TO BE HELD
APRIL 24 - 27 IN PHOENIX, AZ
Press
Release 1/30/08
The American Society of Picture Professionals invites all
photography and visual media professionals to their 5th
Education Conference to be held at the Hilton Phoenix
East/Mesa Hotel, Mesa, Arizona from April 24th through
27th 2008. The invitation is for content managers, art
buyers, photo researchers, stock agency executives &
employees, industry experts, as well as photographers.
PACA
(Picture Archive Council of America) members are our
special guests for this event, and special pricing is also
available for any members of the associations belonging to
the Imagery Alliance (see below).
The conference will feature 8 fascinating sessions with
industry guest speakers and panelists. You will hear from
key representatives from agencies including Digital Railroad,
Getty, Jupiter Images, agefotostock, Image Source, fotolia
and Corbis; organizations including PACA, ASMP, SAA, BAPLA,
ACSIL, IPTC and PLUS; publishing representatives from
Macmillan/McGraw-Hill and Discovery Communications; and notable
speakers such as Mary Virginia (Swanee) Swanson and Nancy
Wolff
among others.
" In the trenches of Ken Burn's "The War" (2
producers discuss
documentary research and licensing)
" Metadata Standards and Submission Guidelines - Part
1
" Where the Heck Will the Great Stock Images of the Future
Come From?
" Technology Driven Services & Applications for Visual
Media
Content
" Copyright: Your Legal Questions Get Answers
" Finding Your Audience: 5 Points Towards Achieving Your
Personal and Professional Goals
" Metadata Standards and Submission Guidelines - Part2
" From Stock Footage to Microstock - Essential New Tools
for Photo Researchers
In addition there are three optional side tours to
" The Center for Creative Photography in Tucson
" Heard Museum of Native Cultures and Art , Phoenix
" Taliesin West - Frank Lloyd Wright Center
Our Gala dinner on the Saturday will feature a special tribute
from both PACA and ASPP to our late friend and mentor, Jane
Kinne.
The
keynote speaker that night is Win Holden of Arizona Highways
publications.
ASPP is extremely grateful for the generous support of our
sponsors.
The
general sponsor of the conference is Digital Railroad.
Other
major sponsors are StockShop, agefotostock, Getty Images,
Pearson and Danita Delimont Stock Photography. Many other
companies have also offered support, which has enabled ASPP
to
keep the cost of the conference as reasonable as possible.
Conference Package Price includes continental breakfasts,
buffet
lunches and two poolside cocktail receptions, a Gala Dinner
and
all conference sessions:
ASPP members: $450 (U.S. Dollars)
PACA members: $540
Other Imagery Alliance* members: $590
Non-members: $650
*APA, AIGA, ARS, ASMP, ADC, EP, GAG, IPA, NANPA, NPPA, PPA,
SPE,
SAA, SI and WHNPA
Conference space is limited, so register early and take advantage
of the special hotel rates, and advance purchase airfares.
Registration
may be done through the ASPP website, or you may
download a registration form and mail it in. A full conference
brochure is also available at our website at
www.aspp.com/pages/194/183/0/.
Hotel
information
You can receive the discounted ASPP rate at the Hilton Phoenix
East/Mesa hotel where the Conference is being held. The group
rate
of $129.00 per night (plus local tax) is valid for room stays
from
April 21 - April 30, 2008
The conference dates are Thursday, April 24 through Sunday,
April 27.
You'll need a credit card to HOLD your reservation. Your card
will
not be charged until you check out. You can cancel 24 hours
prior
to your first night's stay.
To
make room reservations online, go to
http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/meshphf_asp/index.jhtml
The hotel is business and family friendly, located 15 minutes
from Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport, and offers the Zuni Grill
restaurant, outdoor pool and sundeck, fitness center and atrium
bar.
Locally
there are a shopping mall, a family themed park, and golf
course, restaurants, and sports bars. The hotel is within
easy
distance of the downtown Phoenix and Scottsdale art centers
and
major tourist attractions.
For
further information and conference updates please go to our
web site. (www.aspp.com)
The
American Society of Picture Professional (ASPP) is a
community of image experts committed to sharing their experience
and knowledge throughout the industry. This non-profit association
provides professional networking and educational opportunities
for
those who create, edit, research, license, manage or publish
pictures.
For more information go to http://www.aspp.com.
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ZYMMETRICAL, THE FIRST AND ONLY FAIR TRADE DIGITAL ART MARKETPLACE
LAUNCHES ITS REVOLUTIONARY "EXPANDED SEARCH" WITH
FREERANGE ™ TECHNOLOGY
Zymmetrical.com,
the only midstock digital art marketplace for
photos, videos, fonts and graphics with prices starting as
low
as $1.00, is proud to announce that it has just enhanced the
search process.
New
York, NY, February 16, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Digital Art site
Zymmetrical, the first user generated marketplace for photography,
video, fonts and graphics where members can price their offering,
today announced the launch of its new "expanded search",
reinventing the search for visuals. With hundreds of millions
of
images and graphics available in the stock photography world,
the
"expanded search" delivers the highly-focused results
that buyers
need.
After
extensively researching and analyzing user needs, the
Zymmetrical team has created new query tools that allow for
a more
natural approach to finding the perfect video, graphic, font
or
image; all at a budget-friendly price.
The
Freerange ™ option allows users to find images with
a designated
area of blank or clutter-free space to facilitate adding a
logo or
text.
When
combined with the Color Picker tool, which allows users to
select
the dominant color of a visual, the result is a highly accurate
result.
"Image buyers already know what they need when they perform
a search,"
says Keith Tuomi, CEO and founder of Zymmetrical, "our
new tools allow
them to get to the perfect result much faster."
Zymmetrical's
breakthrough approach to search blends a semantic search
with a purely intuitive experience. While the majority of
midstock and
microstock sites rely heavily on a basic keyword search, Zymmetrical
is
building a user-friendly site with intelligent search options.
The
many "expanded search" tools work in perfect combination
with each
other, acting as a virtual search assistant, quickly filtering
out the
unnecessary content explains Tuomi. "We have sprinkled
some human
intelligence in our search tools", he continues, "making
it more useful
and less complicated".
Zymmetrical
is also the first and only midstock site to offer a Free
Firefox plug-in that allows to search right from a tool bar.
With
traffic doubling every six months, Zymmetrical is quickly
becoming
a familiar destination for anyone in need of a video, font,
graphic or
photograph. Moreover, available in 8 different languages,
it is fast
becoming the preferred creative tool to a large international
community
of art buyers.
About
Zymmetrical.com:
Created
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SINCE LAST SPN
Recently
I went to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates at
the Arabian Gulf. What a hectic location. At the same time
a
bold approach to development and a quite scaring use of
resources and human forces.
Building
mainly on the growing population of wealthy people
in many parts of the world when thinking of attracting target
groups, but also building the real work on people from places
in the world more associated with poverty and social injustice
than democracy and an even sharing of wealth and the prospects
for the future. A challenging approach to development and
future security when others in e.g. my small country are
targeting ideas of sustainable development and social justice.
A
very interesting location to visit and a place where you
should expect much to have changes even a few years from now.
I
am collecting video clips to document options for
tourists in Dubai, see touristindubai.net
See
you in next SPN.
Soren
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