With all the talks about video becoming the number media on the internet, little is said about how much more complex it is than text or photos. The elements of motion and sound, as well as timing , file size or even rendering, have made mass market adoption slow, outsideContinue Reading
And it’s back. In a little more than a month, the third edition of the LDV Vision Summit promises to be as enriching, if not more, than the previous two. 2 days jammed packed with sessions, presentations, a start-up competition and plenty of opportunities to network, all around visual tech.Continue Reading
The issue seemed simple enough: Find a photo of a green landscape with a clean blue sky, add the company’s logo and tagline and post it on the homepage of the site. Sure, they could easily find an inexpensive photo that matched their need but after that, emptiness. For aContinue Reading
Making sense of the trillions of images now available on-line can reveal fascinating information about our society. Taking the first steps in this complex field that mixes art, computer science and sociology, Dr Lev Manovich, professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York explains, via aContinue Reading
Now that the flow of comments, rumors, anger and misled interpretations have died down and that more facts have flown through the pipeline, it is a good time to take a more educated approach. Let’s kill the misinterpretations first: Getty did not buy Corbis.. …nor is it responsible for itsContinue Reading
Rumors have been rampant for a while. First Shutterstock was believed to be the buyer, a rumor quickly killed by no other than Jon Oringer himself during their last quarterly report. At the last DMLA conference, the target moved to China Visual Group and remained there. It is confirmed today:Continue Reading
With the number of photo and video apps on the market still rapidly growing (currently at 78,000, more than twice as many as two years ago), the question is: what competitive advantages characterize the current breed of top-ranking photo and video apps? Who are they, what is their main useContinue Reading
I was recently invited to speak at B&H Photo Video . Here is the resulting podcast: “Anyone, I mean, anyone can submit their photos for sale in the stock-photography market. (Are you a foaper?) But the question remains: is it worth it? No doubt, the industry has been transformed by corporate conglomerationContinue Reading
The 2015 year ends pretty much as it started. Some promises were delivered, some fell short. At least for now. With mobile continuing to dominate as the number one gateway to the online experience and visual being its strongest appeal, one would have thought that visual tech would have explodedContinue Reading
With the advent of digital, pro photographers have been taking more and more pictures. The downside is that they end up spending more and more time in post-production, having to search within thousands of images for the winning photographs. This is what Hungary based startup Picturesqe solves: using a mixContinue Reading