TechCrunch reports today on ImageKind, an online service where artists can upload images and customers can browse and choose an image, and have it printed and framed. ImageKind has drawn the interest of investors who see an explosion in fine art mixed with the explosion of user-generated-content.  We love the idea of making money of [...]

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Folio reports:
“The Postal Regulatory Commission will announce its recommended decision on the U.S. Postal Service’s pending rate case at 11 a.m. Monday. The postal service in May proposed a system-wide postal rate increase of 8.5 percent, with magazines looking at an average 11.4 percent jump in rates. “
Oh my…

CondeNet International announced today the hiring of Microsoft strategist Stefano Maruzzi to the newly created post of President:
“He will be in charge of the development of CNI’s portfolio of 58 websites and all new media activity conducted by the company in territories outside the US. He is based in Milan, Italy.”
We’ve posted of new business [...]

iMedia Connection reports that the New York Times:
“…announced today that couples who submit announcements to the Weddings/Celebrations pages of The New York Times will be able to submit their own How We Met homemade videos to NYTimes.com/weddings.”
Homemade? Maybe, I smell professionals making the videos taste like homemade.  Still, another revenue stream…
from iMedia Connection 

It’s probably old news by now but still worth mentioning; consolidation of the stock-arena will mean competition between photographers increases while it decreases on the business-side. This equals less money (devaluing) for photographers and more revenues for the vendors. The market is changing for sure, that may be past tense, image-makers beware…
from PDN

Fox Interactive has purchased an ad-targeting firm to leverage all that user data that MySpace users enter to join-up, plus their behavioral activity. What remains to be seen is if those users will mind that they are being spied on rewarded with relevant advertising. Don’t forget the core-code of MySpace is built upon a spy-ware [...]

OMMA reports on a study by KnowledgeStorm and Universal McCann:
“…examined the impact of emerging media on B2B technology buyers through “The Emerging Media Series,” a string of studies developed from more than 13,000 responses to surveys in ‘06.“
What did they find:
“Online video had the greatest impact, with 57 percent of respondents saying it influenced purchasing [...]

Mergers and acquisitions are ramping up in our creative realm; with the larger agencies purchasing smaller interactive agencies to keep up the foreseeable demand for online initiatives. These days it seems that the big fish keep on eating up the little fish, should the independent creative (photographer/illustrator) follow suit? Should we be banding together into [...]

Using a combination of related photographs of the Korean actress Song Hye Kyo this 3-D animator is able to create a very life-like representation. According to top fashion-model houses there is a symmetry/equation to a person’s face that makes them a good model. Does this mean that we can look forward to “shoots” being purely [...]