Like during any great summit, there was a lot of valuable information to take in during the LDV Vision Summit. Here are some noteworthy quotes to remember for those who were there and those who weren’t : “Big players will struggle to keep up in some fields as technologyContinue Reading
The Apple WWDC closes and it leaves crumbs on the floor. Let’s see what message they leave us: iOS 8 and Yosemite will be a another major push from Apple to continue to dominate the photo tech world. Unlike app makers, the Copernito team has the luxury of waiting and analysing whatContinue Reading
A few weeks ago, a study trying to predict the popularity of photos was published by Aditya Khosla and two of his colleagues from the MIT. The goal was to determine if an algorithm could guess the popularity of a photo by analyzing what is in the shot and by lookingContinue Reading
Crowdsourced content is only as good as the ability to curate it. Mapillary does exactly that by using computer vision to understand the relationships between two images and stitching them together automatically. Using GPS information, it is building the largest user-generated photographic map of the world. We caught up with co-founderContinue Reading
Even our cell phones cameras could one day be replaced by new tools which will make the process of taking picture even easier and less disruptive. Narrative, with its wearable camera, is in the process of disrupting everything we thought we knew about photography. We caught up with its co-founderContinue Reading
Google wants them, Amazon wants them, Twitter, Facebook, DropBox, Evernote , Yahoo wants them. Everyone on the internet, it seems, wants your photos. And for good reasons: • Photos are what makes you come back over and over to a site/app. Not only your images but those of your friends,Continue Reading
Rumors of that Facebook is about to launch an ephemeral app surfaced late this week end. While it could be surprising for some, especially after the company’s failure in that space emphasised by the recent closure of Poke, it is actually the least they could do. Here is why it makesContinue Reading
A new study by SimplyMeasured released this week show some impressive growth numbers for brands on Instagram. The growth of the top 10 brands on Instagram is nothing short of impressive: Companies like Louis Vuitton have grown 401% from May 2013 to May 2014, currently reaching more than 1,7 millionContinue Reading
While we were exploring Techcrunch Disrupt in New York last week, we were welcomed by two French entrepreneurs based in Boston who showed us Sharalike, an impressively simple yet powerful app to manage and share mobile photos slideshows: We decide to learn more and sat down with Etienne Leroy, Co-founder, CMO, CPOContinue Reading
And so it starts. First, with a toe in the water . Soon it will be the whole body. Image based social media site Pinterest has just officially announced it’s debut in monetizing its platform via advertising. Similar to Instagram, it is laced with the words “test” and “beta” everywhereContinue Reading