Fotolog

Fotolog is a the world's largest photo blog sites and one of the largest " social networking sites ". With over 20 million registered users Fotolog is one of the oldest and largest sites where you can upload photos to online diaries or photo blogs.

History

Founded in May 2002, generated Fotolog over four billion monthly page views and 16.6 million unique visitors worldwide has ( in Europe 4.9 million ) a month. Recently acquired Fotolog.com a place on the list of " Top 20 Sites" in the global " Site Ranking " by Alexa.

Fotolog is a registered trademark of Fotolog, Inc. Fotolog is headquartered in New York City. On 17 August 2007, the French online marketers Hi-Media Fotolog.com bought.

The site had to fight in the past due to the rapid growth of technical problems, so the daily registrations had to be limited to 1,000 per country. According to co - founder Scott Heiferman led innovations at the site to a continuous reachability. So Fotolog gained in November 2005 worldwide around 750 million page views. In Germany, the monthly visits are currently about 13 million.

Mid-2006 were allowed daily maximum of 10,000 persons per country to join. Since 14 August 2006, there is (also by a large investment of several million dollars) no restrictions on the registration number more.

In spring 2006, the UK publisher Thames & Hudson published a book of photographs from fotolog.com, entitled " fotolog.book. A Global Snapshot for the Digital Age" bears. The book is provided with texts by Andrew Long and Nick Currie and divided into thematically arranged chapters. In addition, some of the most popular photographers and their images will be presented in detail.

On July 29, 2007 Fotolog gained a record level of 10 million users. To celebrate this fact due, were among the users " Gold Camera memberships " raffle for a period of ten years.

In June 2008, Fotolog announced a partnership with StumbleUpon. Fotolog members can send their photos on StumbleUpon by clicking on their personal Fotolog page the appropriate icon.

Functions

Free Account

The site offers both free and fee- user accounts. The free version is ad-supported and allows you to upload a photo per day as well as to obtain a maximum of 20 Comments in the guestbook. Free members can customize their Fotologseite color and add other users to their " Friends / Favorites " list.

Gold Camera membership

Paying members ( " gold - Camera - Members" ) can daily upload up to 6 photos and more than 200 comments per photo received. They will also receive a preferred customer service. Gold - Camera - members may submit a " last word " in full guest books. Other Zusatzgimmicks are, inter alia, customizable header on your own Fotolog page and an icon of the most recently uploaded photos in addition to its own guest book entries on Fotolog other pages.

Groups

The groups at fotolog are organized thematically and are managed by the users. In Fotolog groups up to 50 photos can be uploaded per day. These photos can be contributed by each member of the Fotolog community.

Success

The rapid growth of Fotolog could be felt primarily in South America. On February 19, 2007, most members from Chile ( 955,000 ), Argentina ( almost 580,000 ) and Brazil (slightly less ) came. Fotologs success meant that many sites followed the model. In the Spanish -speaking world, the word " fotolog " received already for the general term in the common parlance, when it comes to describe a photo blog page. In Argentina originated with the so-called Flog Gern an independent youth culture around the service.

Over a long period Brazil was the country with the most users, but now lost the hand, many fans Orkut. The German community is in February 2008 to 10th place behind Argentina, Spain, Chile, Mexico, Brazil, Italy, Uruguay, USA and Portugal. Behind Germany are, inter alia, Poland, France, Great Britain, Sweden and Japan.

On 30 July 2007 Fotolog.com counted 10,025,923 user accounts and 281 607 509 photos. The three millionth user account and the 100 millionth photo created or uploaded on 15 April 2006. In January 2008, located on Fotolog.com 421 million images.

Since the start of 2008 the Fotolog pages in German. Other languages ​​in which Fotolog is reached: English, Spanish, French, Dutch, Portuguese and Swedish.

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