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Fotki.com, one of the oldest and most reliable of all large photo sharing sites, is celebrating its 10th anniversary in a very usual way -- by sharing -- this time, sharing savings with users and offering discounted anniversary prices on Fotki membership.

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) September 26, 2008 -- Fotki Inc., the company behind the Fotki.com media social network where users share over a billion photos, videos, blogs and social links, is celebrating its 10th anniversary.

Fotki.com launched in 1998. Other major current photo sites launched later (Shutterfly and Ofoto, now Kodak Gallery -- in 1999, Snapfish -- in 2000, Photobucket -- in 2003, and Flickr -- 2004). Since then, millions of users all over the world (mainly, outside of the US), have used Fotki and have come to store media, meet friends and see and learn new and exciting things. All this time, Fotki has been leveraging the volume of its product orders (photo prints and other photo products, such as T-shirts, mugs, mousepads, etc.) to offer the lowest possible prices to its users -- for example, it was the first major photo site to introduce 9 cent everyday prints.

Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Fotki is offering significant discounts to its annual Premium membership plans (Premium membership, which comes with unlimited storage and ads-free experience, is optional) -- until the end of September 2008, Fotki membership is discounted:
3 year membership -- $60 ($20 a year)
2 year membership -- $45 ($22.50 a year)
1 year membership -- $25

About Fotki
Fotki is an international media social network owned and operated by Fotki Inc., a privately held company located in San Francisco but with users in 215 countries. Users are attracted by the site convenience, many advanced and easy-to-use features and ability to contact with those sharing their interests. Fotki provides unlimited photo storage, Google Maps integration, photo tagging and ability to save tagged links, as well as guest book and email. The cheapest prints in the industry (9 cents for 4" by 6" print) are available to any Fotki user. Created in 1998 as a hobby and a means to communicate with friends and relatives around the world, Fotki has gradually grown into a powerful media social network as well as a provider of b2b photo, video and social networking solutions for numerous companies in telecommunications, retail, travel, education and other industries.

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The wireless memory card from Eye-Fi will change how Fotki users share their images.

New York, NY (PRWEB) December 3, 2007 -- Fotki, the world's largest and most advanced independent photo site, announced support for the Eye-Fi Card, which will allow Fotki users to upload photos directly from cameras to the site wirelessly and seamlessly.

"As an enthusiastic user of Eye-Fi Card myself, I am excited to let millions of Fotki enthusiasts all over the world upload their pictures so easily," says Fotki's president, Dmitri Don. "Now uploading photos becomes as simple as pouring a cup of coffee -- you don't need to connect your camera to a computer via a cable or card reader, and then create directories, albums, etc. Now photos automatically find their way from cameras to Fotki servers."

Fotki expects the number of photos stored in its system to dramatically increase from the current hundreds of millions to billions once users start using the Eye-Fi Card.

"We've designed the Eye-Fi Card to make the upload process as simple as possible for Fotki users. In fact, users don't even have to turn on their computer for their photos to upload to the site," said Ziv Gillat, Eye-Fi's co-founder and vice president of marketing and sales. "Now users have time to focus on sharing their memories."

Eye-Fi's 2GB wireless memory card was announced on October 30 and is available at major online retailers including Amazon.com, Buy.com and Walmart.com for $99.99 USD. For more information, please visit www.eye.fi.

About Fotki
Fotki is world's largest independent photo sharing site with the most advanced features of any photo sites. Mainly a photo-sharing, photo-printing, photo-selling and blogging site, Fotki also provides millions of its users all over the world with what seems to interest people on the Internet most -- connection, much in the spirit of the Internet's very idea -- the Web connecting people all over the world.

About Eye-Fi, Inc.
Founded in 2005, the company is dedicated to building products and services that help consumers navigate, nurture and share their visual memories. Eye-Fi's patent-pending technology works with Wi-Fi networks to automatically send photos from a digital camera to online, in-home and retail destinations. Headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., the company's investors include Opus Capital and Shasta Ventures. More information is available at www.eye.fi.

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Mindy Whittington
redconsultancy.com
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Fotki Named a Finalist in the "Webware 100" Awards by CNET Webware Editors and the Web 2.0 User Community

Fotki announced today that it has been selected by the editors at CNET Webware as a finalist in the first ever "Webware 100" awards for its www.fotki.com, one of the largest photo sites with several million users and several hundred million stored photos in Media (photo, video, audio) category. From more than 4,000 user-submitted nominations, Fotki was chosen as a finalist for the "Webware 100" Awards. Winners will be announced on Monday, June 18 and posted on Webware.com, a CNET site. Online voting poll open to public to select the Top 100 winners.

New York, NY (PRWEB) June 6, 2007 -- Fotki announced today that it has been selected by the editors at CNET Webware as a finalist in the first ever "Webware 100" awards for its www.fotki.com, one of the largest photo sites with several million users and several hundred million stored photos in Media (photo, video, audio) category. From more than 4,000 user-submitted nominations, Fotki was chosen as a finalist for the "Webware 100" Awards. Winners will be announced on Monday, June 18 and posted on Webware.com, a CNET site.

Started in 1998 as a site for a close circle of friends, Fotki has been successfully developing into a powerful photo portal ranking among world's digital photo leaders both in technological innovation and in sheer number of photos it stores. Fotki is a thriving international community, great and fast growing, interconnected by numerous friendships, family relationships and multiple interests. Mainly a photo-sharing, photo-printing, photo-selling and blogging site, Fotki also provides its users with what seems to interest people on the Internet most - connection, much in the spirit of the Internet's very idea - the Web connecting people all over the world.

The "Webware 100" Awards recognizes the best Web 2.0 sites, services, and applications that are leading the next wave of innovation. Voting is open to the public from May 23 through June 11, where the top 25 finalists in each category will be listed.

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Users: Fotki.com Latest Release Rocks

Fotki.com released a new version of the site. Its new global "Search" and "Links" sections, as well as the completely customizable top navigation bar were developed with improved usability in mind. Before the release, Fotki opened its test server to Fotki users to let them review and test new additions for two weeks. The innovations were highly appreciated by Fotki members.

New York, NY (PRWEB) February 6, 2006 -- Fotki Inc., the company behind the Fotki media social network, released a new version of the site. Its new global "Search" and "Links" sections, as well as the completely customizable top navigation bar were created with improved usability in mind. Before the release, Fotki opened its test server to all Fotki users to let them review and test new additions for two weeks. The innovations were highly appreciated by Fotki members.

Fotki completely redesigned its top navigation bar. Now users easily rearrange its view and bar items the way they want: changing the order of top navigation items, as well as selecting the items they want to be included. The convenient pop-up menu of the "Go to" item lists all the navigation choices available.

The top and bottom bars' colors, as well as the colors of all top bar elements and of most of the Fotki account sections change according to a user's color scheme selection. Now users' pages have a more consistent look and feel.

New additions include: global photo search by tags and "Links" features. A local search by tags from the "My Photo Tags" page is linked to the global photo search. This makes possible a new search for photos marked with the same tag all over Fotki from the "My Photo Tags" page.

Links saved by a user in his "My Links" section can also be tagged to enable quick and targeted searches. All links saved by Fotki members in their "My Links" sections are visible on the global "Links" page.

Among the updated sections are the easy-to-use photo tagging and new slideshow with three options added: convenient thumbnails, gradient background color, and the unique "Invite a friend" feature. The feature empowers album owners to send invitations via any instant messenger, email, Skype, etc. Now Fotki members have the ability to view slideshows together with their friends.

The innovations were highly appreciated by Fotki members in the Fotki Blog: "You continuously amaze me with site improvements", writes Pasha Patriki (Canada). "I am especially grateful for the approach, that you offer a testing of the new features before running them instead of applying them immediately and cause commotion!", thanks Fotki loyal member Napomo from Belgium. To sum up, Enigma Photography Prints exclaims: "Ladies and gentlemen, the new toolbar rocks! ...I'm in Taiwan, and I assume search feature will be returning with more users."

This update came just after Fotki photo collection had reached 100,000,000 of unique shots uploaded to the site by its more than 800,000 Fotki members during Fotki's eight-year history.

About Fotki
Fotki is an international media social network owned and operated by Fotki Inc., a privately held company located in New York City. Fotki community interconnected by numerous friendships, family relationships and multiple interests is represented by 215 countries. Users are attracted by the site convenience, many advanced and easy-to-use features and ability to contact with those sharing their interests. Fotki provides free unlimited photo storage, Google Maps integration, photo tagging and ability to save tagged links, as well as guest book and email. The cheapest prints in the industry (9 cents for 4" by 6" print) are available to any Fotki user. Created in 1998 as a hobby and a means to communicate with friends and relatives around the world, Fotki has gradually grown into a powerful media social network.

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Fotki Celebrates Its 100,000,000th Photo Uploaded and Looks Forward to New Summits

Fotki web portal, an international social media network with emphasis to full-scale online photo-sharing, including free unlimited storage space, celebrates 100,000,000th photo uploaded to the site. About 800,000 Fotki members from 215 countries created a tremendous photo collection during eight-year Fotki history.

New York, NY (PRWEB) January 20, 2006 -- Fotki. Inc., a company behind the Fotki web portal, an international social media network with emphasis to full-scale online photo-sharing, celebrates 100,000,000th photo uploaded to the site. About 800,000 Fotki members created a tremendous photo collection during eight-year Fotki history.

Having free unlimited photo storage, Google Maps integration, and photo tagging, as well as cheapest prints in the industry (9 cents for 4" by 6" print) Fotki continues to be a stand for its international community. No wonder California Digital Photography Weblog stated: “Fotki provides its users with what seems to interest photo-people the most - communication through online photo albums and blogs.”

Fotki community represented by 215 countries is constantly growing. Users are attracted by the site convenience, many cool features and ability to easily contact with those sharing their interests. Everybody, from an Australian Pastor to a best-selling sex books' author, are excited about sharing their photos and their lives through Fotki.

“Fotki is a gratifying way to improve your photography. I enjoy seeing my photos online and receiving feedback on them, including tips from experienced photographers on how to take better shots”, says Peter Mann, pastor of the Christian Outreach Centre in Australia.

“Congratulations on reaching 100 million, Wow! I guess that's a nice start to the new year!, - congratulates Fotki American best-selling author Violet Blue. - I've always used Fotki exclusively for all my image hosting needs. It is one of the most thoughtfully put together sites I've ever seen, it's unfailingly reliable, and there are so many fun options for users. Fotki manages to stay way ahead of the tech curve, providing members with new tools before we even think we might want them.”

About Fotki Fotki is a media social network owned and operated by Fotki Inc., a privately held company located in New York City. Fotki's international community is interconnected by numerous friendships, family relationships and multiple interests. Free unlimited photo storage, sharing albums and blogs, photo printing and professional online photo selling, as well as guest book, email, and ability to save tagged links are Fotki's alluring features. Created in 1998 by its co-founders as a hobby and a means to communicate with friends and relatives around the world, Fotki has gradually grown into a powerful media social network.

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Fotki Inc. Welcomes Vinit Nijhawan as a Member of Fotki Advisory Board

Fotki. Inc., the company behind fotki.com, a media social network specializing in photo sharing, today announced that Mr. Vinit Nijhawan, serial entrepreneur, has joined Fotki as a member of the Advisory Board.

New York, NY (PRWEB) December 24, 2005 -- Fotki. Inc., the company behind fotki.com, a media social network specializing in photo sharing, today announced that Mr. Vinit Nijhawan, serial entrepreneur, has joined Fotki as a member of the Advisory Board. Vinit Nijhawan is the President of TiE Boston - a not-for-profit Boston organization with a mission to foster and support entrepreneurship. He also serves as a Venture Partner at Key Venture Partners. In addition, Vinit Nijhawan is a Director of airwide solutions a Key Venture portfolio company. The company provides software to wireless operators to monetize their data networks by enabling and managing text and multimedia messaging.

Previously, Mr. Nijhawan was the founder, president, and chairman of the board of Kinetic Computer Corporation, which was established in 1992 to provide wireless solutions for transportation and logistics fleets. Mr. Nijhawan also previously held the positions of Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer for Payload Systems, Inc., which developed spaceflight instrumentation for the space shuttle and the international space station. Mr. Nijhawan has participated in over 100 panel discussions and paper presentations about technology.

Mr. Nijhawan stated: "Dmitri Don and his team have built an international top five photo sharing community that is poised to become a top twenty internet destination. I am delighted to join Fotki as an advisor to help them achieve that vision."

"We are thrilled to bring Vinit onboard. Vinit's track record of success as a serial entrepreneur and proven leadership within the mobile and wireless technology will help to bring our company to a whole new level," says Dmitri Don, President of Fotki.

About Fotki.com
Fotki.com is a media social network owned and operated by Fotki Inc., a privately held company located in New York City. Fotki's international community, great and fast growing, is interconnected by numerous friendships, family relationships and multiple interests. Fotki provides its users with what seems to interest people on the Internet most - communication through online photo albums and blogs. Also photo printing and professional online photo selling, as well guest book, email, and bookmarks are Fotki's alluring features. Created in 1998 by its co-founders as a hobby and a means to communicate with friends and relatives around the world, Fotki has gradually grown into a powerful media social network.

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Phone: (646) 257-5646 x125
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Fotki Inc. Welcomes CEO of AutoCell Eric Janszen as a Member of Fotki Advisory Board

Fotki. Inc., a company behind fotki.com, a media social network specializing in photo sharing, today announced that Mr. Eric Janszen, President and Chief Executive Officer of AutoCell, Inc, has joined Fotki as a member of Advisory Board.

New York, NY (PRWEB) December 22, 2005 -- Fotki. Inc., a company behind fotki.com, a media social network specializing in photo sharing, today announced that Mr. Eric Janszen, President and Chief Executive Officer of AutoCell, Inc, has joined Fotki as a member of Advisory Board.

Eric Janszen brings more than twenty-five years experience in executive management in high technology to his role as a member of the Advisory Board at Fotki. Most recently, Eric Janszen worked for a venture capital firm Trident Capital. From 2001 to 2004, Janszen served as President & CEO of Bluesocket, Inc., a leading Wi-Fi systems vendor. Before Bluesocket, Janszen was Managing Director of Osborn Capital LLC, where he managed a portfolio of 20 technology startups. A graduate of UMass., Amherst, Eric serves on the Board of the Massachusetts Network Communications Council and has been the subject of numerous articles and profiles in the business and technology media, notably The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA Today, The Boston Globe and the BBC.

“Fotki is perfectly positioned to become the world's leading media social network,” says Eric Janszen. “The platform can economically scale rapidly to support many times its current nearly 1 million loyal community members around the world, and already supports all media types, including video. Platform maturity combined with the fast growing market for digital media devices, from digital cameras to Wi-Fi enabled cellular phones with still and video image capabilities will drive the company's growth and leadership for many years to come."

“We are honored to have Eric bring his experience, vision and wisdom to our team. His extensive knowledge of wireless area and media, his insight into the market, coupled with his prominent role in venture capital community, will allow Eric to be of an outstanding value as our company brings its services to a whole new level,” says Dmitri Don, President of Fotki.

About Fotki.com
Fotki.com is a media social network owned and operated by Fotki Inc., a privately held company located in New York City. Fotki's international community, great and fast growing, is interconnected by numerous friendships, family relationships and multiple interests. Fotki provides its users with what seems to interest people on the Internet most - communication through online photo albums and blogs. Also photo printing and professional online photo selling, as well guest book, email, and bookmarks are Fotki's alluring features. Created in 1998 by its co-founders as a hobby and a means to communicate with friends and relatives around the world, Fotki has gradually grown into a powerful media social network.

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Phone: (646) 257-5646 x125
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9-Cent Photo Prints from Fotki.com (And No Fine Print) - Just in Time for the Holidays

New York, NY (PRWEB) December 8, 2005 -- Fotki. Inc., a company behind fotki.com, a media social network specializing in photo sharing, has just announced a price slash on the most popular print sizes making them the cheapest in the industry. 9¢ 4" × 6" prints arrive just in time for this year's Holiday Season. New pricing is applied to 4" × 6", 4" × 5" and 3.5" × 5" print formats and to be enjoyed by more than 750,000 Fotki users as well as by all of their friends and relatives.

Just compare:

• Photo Works and Shutterfly - 19¢ per print
• Yahoo! Photos and Kodak Gallery - 15¢ per print
• Snapfish and Sony Imagestation - 12¢ per print

Comparing to what Fotki's competitors are offering, Fotki's 9-cent price gives to all of Fotki's users and visitors great and inexpensive present ideas for this Holiday Season.

People of creative persuasion are welcome to come up with their own personalized holiday greeting cards using all types of software, save their creations as .jpg, .png, .gif, .bmp or .tiff files and upload them to Fotki using one of twelve ways to do it.

Anyone can order prints for home photo albums as well as send photos to loved ones with one click of a mouse right from the website – no need to take photos to the post office, to package, stamp and weight them. All Fotki users enjoy easy ordering and payment process, rapid turn-around time and careful and secure packaging of Fotki's high-quality prints.

What is also important, Fotki does not believe in "bait-and-switch": no prepaid plans are required, no extras are added on top of the advertised prices if the order is "too small". To put it simply – there is no fine print on Fotki, one can order one photo or a thousand – it's the same 9¢ per print. Fotki Photo Printing Service has no hidden printing or shipping charges, so-charges and fees, so no unpleasant surprises are to follow.

About fotki.com
fotki.com is a media social network owned and operated by Fotki Inc., a privately held company located in New York City. Fotki's international community, great and fast growing, is interconnected by numerous friendships, family relationships and multiple interests. Fotki provides its users with what seems to interest people on the Internet most - communication through online photo albums and blogs. Also photo printing and professional online photo selling, as well guest book, email, and bookmarks are Fotki's alluring features. Created in 1998 by its co-founders as a hobby and a means to communicate with friends and relatives around the world, Fotki has gradually grown into a powerful media social network.

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Phone: +1-646-257-5646 × 125
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Fotki Inc. Puts Forward a Cool Ability to Browse Photo Albums with FotkiMaps and Browse Earth with Fotki Albums

New York, NY (PRWEB) November 26, 2005 -- Fotki.com, a media social network specializing in photo sharing has also become a geoweb by having announced a new era in geotagging and browsing photo albums. Geocoded albums are all present on the FotkiMaps powered by Google Maps. Now it is possible to literally travel around the Earth with Fotki albums.

Having started with photo-session location feature allowing incorporating location-based references into albums and photos, Fotki quickly came to the idea of integrating geotagged albums on a large interactive map. A nifty tool, FotkiMaps, was developed due to the power of Google's publicly available Maps API and has become the most fun means to digest the entire photo collection. All albums stored by location are seen as a picturesque network of photographer's travels allowing a viewer to experience as if following them: albums' placemarks are located on aerial and satellite images and combined with FotkiMaps with a click.

One can just find on the map the place where photos were taken and click on it to link an album to latitude and longitude on the Earth. On the FotkiMaps, a geotag stands for the album or the entire list of albums connected with this tag. Albums' owner can easily handle and manage any number of geotags through a unified Location Manager.

Everybody visiting online albums on Fotki can click a map button to open FotkiMaps and to view albums seamlessly integrated with scrollable and zoomable Google Maps. Geocoding, Geolocation, Geotagging and Geoblogging becoming common notions for a digital photographer and making much sense for him add plenty of advantages to photo sharing and media social networking.

People travel quite a lot and have many shots that are grouped into "road trip"- or "travel-route"-type albums - albums that are not taken at any one location but spread out over sometimes hundreds of miles. Same goes with subject-type albums: say, an album may contain photos of waterfalls or monuments taken all over a country. It is really great to have each album individually labeled with theme geotags and to see them all exposed on the map.

"We are really excited about this cool new Fotki capability," says Dmitri Don, President of Fotki. "The new feature makes Fotki a better tool for anyone who travels a lot, for the kind of people that we are proud to call our users: worldly, social, active people whose oyster is the whole world, so to say! We are always working to make sure that Fotki is the best place for such awesome people!"

To see FotkiMaps in their best, welcome to fotki.com:

• FotkiMap of GaryGS1, Gary G. Schempp from New Jersey, who created “Santorini Road Pix” and “Turkey Road Pix 2” albums while traveling around Europe.


• FotkiMap of Jerry Dougherty from Windsor Locks, Connecticut, who geotagged albums taken at CT.


• FotkiMap of Raphael Pungin from New York, who presented two galleries of Russia albums.


• FotkiMap of Todd Medley from Redmond, WA, who collected a picturesque series of albums united under "Falls and trail" theme whose geotags are located along the road

About Fotki.com
Fotki.com is a media social network owned and operated by Fotki Inc., a privately held company located in New York City. Fotki's international community, great and fast growing, is interconnected by numerous friendships, family relationships and multiple interests. Fotki provides its users with what seems to interest people on the Internet most - communication through online photo albums and blogs. Also photo printing and professional online photo selling, as well guest book, email, and bookmarks are Fotki's alluring features. Created in 1998 by its co-founders as a hobby and a means to communicate with friends and relatives around the world, Fotki has gradually grown into a powerful media social network.

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Fotki Is Entitled a "Pitching Contest Winner" and Named "Promisable, Investable and Undiscovered Gem" at iBreakfast Club Meeting in New York

NEW YORK, NY November 10, 2005 -- Fotki.com, a media social network specializing in photo sharing, was named a "Pitching Contest Winner" at the monthly iBreakfast Club meeting on November 2nd 2005. Six entrepreneurs were selected to pitch their plans to the iBreakfast investor team in order to win an invitation to a two billion dollar manager event called "Private Equity 2005" where businesses meet investors.

Igor Shoifot, COO of Fotki, presented his pitch to the Panel of Angels at the iBreakfast Club meeting lead by Steve Brotman, Managing Partner, SAVP; David Rose, New York Angels & Rose Tech Ventures and MJ Segal, Joshua Capital.

Mr. Shoifot's sharp presentation won Fotki a title of a contest winner as well as recognition of its potential from Alan Brody, a Program Director at iBreakfast. Mr. Brody expressed his great interest in Fotki as a promising business: "At a pitching contest Fotki stood out because they are real. Fotki has achieved critical mass in the number of users including international markets, it has strong revenues. Fotki is a promising company that is investable. During the presentation it became obvious that Fotki is an undiscovered gem and iBreakfast wants to put them up with major investors as soon as possible because this business is a valuable player in a quickly growing digital image market place."

Fotki's COO Mr. Shoifot who's experience includes partnerships and consulting project experiences with companies such as Microsoft, IBM, and Intel, is strongly convinced that Fotki is going to make it to the top of the list in the category and become a billion dollar successful business: "I am delighted that Fotki got a recognition from leaders of the industry and I am absolutely committed to making Fotki an even greater online experience for our seven hundred thousand users and for all the new thousands to come."

About Fotki.com
Fotki.com is a media social network owned and operated by privately held company Fotki Inc. located in New York City. Fotki's international community, great and fast growing, is interconnected by numerous friendships, family relationships and multiple interests. Fotki provides its users with what seems to interest people on the Internet most - communication through online photo albums and blogs. Also photo printing and professional online photo selling, as well guest book, email, and bookmarks are Fotki's alluring features. Created in 1998 by its co-founders as a hobby and a means to communicate with friends and relatives around the world via sharing photos, Fotki has gradually grown into a powerful media social network.

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About iBreakfast.com
The Silicon Alley Breakfast Club is a regular networking conference that gets entrepreneurs directly into the business side of the Internet culture. By attracting nationally known conference quality speakers in an environment where entrepreneurs are not only free to question them, they are able to network with significant players in the field. The iBreakfast is an outgrowth of the national conference series produced by the pioneering TECHmarketing group which introduced the first high tech awards program, THE MAR.COM AWARDS for ADWEEK in 1991, now in its 7th year, and CreaTECH, the first interactive/internet advertising conference, and Hollyweb, the convergence conference at NAB and CES. The monthly iBreakfast Club meeting promises to showcase the Silicon Alley movers and shakers in the context of the entire technology marketplace.

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Fotki Celebrates Its 60,000,000th Photo and Brakes All Storage Limits on This Occasion: Free 30 MB from the Start and 120 MB Free Annually!

NEW YORK, NY (PRWEB) October 3, 2005 -- Fotki. Inc., a company behind a popular online photo-sharing web portal, Fotki.com, has drastically changed its policy with respect to standard free account users. Free account photo-storage space limit was considerably raised - up to 150 MB during the first year plus 120 MB more every year with free membership. It sounds like 1GB (1024 MB) free space over several years. The ability to keep online journals given to all Fotki users. After the global mid-September update of the site, Fotki keeps polishing newly introduced tools and adding new features.

As free members are a significant and very important part of Fotki's fast growing community, these Fotki loyal users are given more abilities to better exploit Fotki potentialities. Fotki has tripled a standard photo storage space for free accounts. Now newcomers will start from 30 MB free space (against former 10 MB); and current free users will get 20 MB extra space. Moreover, all free members are given a chance to become more active by using an option of obtaining a 10-MB additional space every 30 days that totals to 120 MB annually.

Simultaneously, their email space becomes 25 times larger. And more: to make everybody's Fotki experience more pleasant and fruitful, all its members are given an ability to keep blogs on Fotki. Indeed, great pieces of news for Free Fotki members; and that's the beginning only for Fotki growth makes it possible to widen the usage of the existing features and develop new, more advanced ones.

Members privacy being an important priority for the majority of Fotki users, Photo Comments section was in the spotlight of Fotki development team last week. The result is a new feature giving photos' owner an option to log the IP address of any visitor adding comments to his/her photos. If saving IP address is enabled, an IP-logging notification will be placed beneath the comment form.

In the Photo Albums section, the album header obtained a perfect look and became fully customized: one can view it either in full or in compact view. Java-applet uploader was bettered due to a function of restoring a failed upload added. Now, if a user interrupts, casually or deliberately, an upload process by closing the browser or moving to a different page, next time the user opens the uploader, he will be offered to complete the previous upload starting from the point at which the process was interrupted.

Another update is made in the Ordering Prints section: its new cropping preview is as slick as a whistle. Nothing superfluous, while all that is needed is extremely handy: quick start and fluent run with all mainstream platforms and in all browsers on the one hand, and pictorial rendition of which parts of photo will be cut off, on the other hand. To better see the difference in various print formats, switch between the two lists, a complete one and that of the chosen print sizes is enabled. Print formats are listed in the preview window as photos' thumbnails with cut-off areas clearly marked. Next to a thumbnail, loss percentage and print quality are indicated. Clicking on each thumbnail enables the respective full-size photo's cropping preview with printable area framed and cut-off areas shadowed.

About the Fotki.com
Fotki.com is a digital-photo web portal representing an online-service suite providing sharing of digital photos with unlimited photo storage space and secure originals storage, high-quality photo printing at low cost, and professional online selling of photos. Fotki.com web site is user-friendly and compatible with all mainstream operating systems; its features include a P2P software tool - personal Fotki server, and full-scale co-branding. Fotki's standard accounts are free; and Premium membership giving access to multiple advanced online services is offered for a reasonable annual fee. Founded in 1998 as a privately held company located in New York City, owned and operated by Fotki Inc., Fotki.com is now a consistently profitable business and a top-five photo-sharing web site in the world.

For information: http://www.fotki.com or
http://journals.fotki.com/fotkicom/fotkiblog/
Phone: (212) 947-3452

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Fotki Releases a Global Update and Announces a Special Price Offer

NEW YORK, NY — September 17, 2005 — Fotki. Inc., a company behind a popular online photo-sharing web portal, Fotki.com, has recently released a global site update that includes many rebuilt sections, modernized existing features, and up-to-date RSS news feed and GPS-related features. Just after the update, Fotki has announced a special fall offer for newcomers and free account users. A weeklong bid makes it possible buying a first-year full membership for only $35 thus saving 30% of the regular price.

The huge update is a result of a half-a-year creative work of Fotki R&D team. Among the updated sections is the Photo Albums section: new album layout and navigation created, and other new features introduced. Another update is made in the Links section: link adding using a bookmarklet (a small JavaScript program stored as a URL within a bookmark) and introduced, link tagging and link search by tags. New addition awaits our users in the Address Book section where the dynamic contact details and contact tagging are introduced. Fotki also offers: new layout and more convenient posting-comment options in the Photo Comments section.

Adjusting its services for today’s digital lifestyle, Fotki has implemented modern features like convenient RSS news feed, and cool album photo session location feature.

With RSS news feed option, any Fotki visitor can now subscribe to the feeds from any Fotki members’ What’s New pages he wants to get updates on and the feed will be coming in due time. Photo session location feature makes creating and viewing albums more exciting. It allows finding the spot where photos were taken on a variety of web maps: Google Earth, MSN Virtual Earth, Mapquest, NASA World Wind, and Google Maps, when viewing albums. Geographic coordinates indicating a locality where all of this album's photos were taken are added manually in the "Album Properties" form. For each photo, precise geographic coordinates indicating an exact place where it was taken can be added either manually or automatically: Fotki users, whose digital cameras are equipped with build-in GPS receivers or external GPS devices, will have the GPS info of the uploaded photos automatically read and added to photo’s data.

With new icons, headers and avatars, and user-oriented environment, Fotki web site has got fresh look and feel and became an even greater place to post and manage pictures for photo amateurs, while Fotki’s diverse feature and tool advantages attract professional photographers to this e-commerce area.

About the Fotki.com
Fotki.com is a digital-photo web portal representing an online-service suite providing sharing of digital images with unlimited digital-image storage space and secure originals storage, high-quality photo printing at low cost, and professional online selling of photos. Fotki.com web site is user-friendly and compatible with all mainstream operating systems; its features include a P2P software tool - personal Fotki server, and full-scale co-branding. Fotki’s basic accounts are free; and its multiple advanced online services are offered for a reasonable annual fee. Founded in 1998 as a privately held company located in New York City, owned and operated by Fotki Inc., Fotki.com is now a consistently profitable business and a top-five photo-sharing web site in the world.

For information: http://www.fotki.com or
http://journals.fotki.com/fotkicom/fotkiblog/
Contact: mshkolnik@fotki.com
Phone: (212) 947-3452

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Fotki Slashed Prices on Online Photo Printing and Introduced Larger Printing Formats

NEW YORK, NY — April 20, 2005 — Fotki. Inc., a company behind a popular online photo portal, Fotki.com, has just announced lower prices for online printing of digital-image copies in all formats available and added larger formats for customers’ convenience. Most popular sizes, 3.5" x 5", 4" x 6" and 4" x 5", are 15¢ per copy only, and largest size, 48" x 48", is $36.00 per copy only.

Comparing to Fotki’s print prices (15¢) for most common formats, as well as to number of formats (19) and the largest print size available (48" x 48"), most other top digital photo printing web portals provide their users less diverse choices.

Perfecting its services for today’s digital lifestyle, the Fotki is concentrated on developing online services, and grants printing to high-professional photo labs. At that, huge amounts of copies ordered every day allow considerable lowering bulk prices and maintaining flexible price policy that makes the Fotki popular among numerous users worldwide.

“Online photo space is growing as a giant snowball,” said Dmitri Don, Fotki’s CEO, “More and more photographers are turning digital and they will never look back. The online branch of photo business has only started maturing; and on such background our goal is providing the users with unlimited opportunities to conveniently and inexpensively order photo prints online.”

Fotki’s satisfied customers share Mr. Don’s opinion. “I have been using the Fotki Photo Printing Service quite a few times and have always been very pleased with the ordering and payment process, the rapid turn-around time to get the prints and, most importantly, the quality (not to mention the careful and secure packaging),” said Fotki’s community member GaryGS1. “Now with these prices there is no reason to order prints from anywhere else or to even print my own. With the cost of ink for my printer and high-quality glossy photo paper, I can't even do it myself for that price!”

About the Fotki.com
Fotki.com is an ad-free digital-photo web portal representing an online-service suite providing sharing of digital images with unlimited storage space, high-quality photo printing at low cost, and online selling of photos. Fotki.com web site is user-friendly and compatible with all mainstream operating systems; its features include a P2P software tool - personal Fotki server, and co-branding - a means to create a personal website with Fotki or to integrate any of user’s Fotki pages into another site of his own. Fotki’s basic accounts are free; and its multiple advanced online services are offered for a small annual fee. Founded in 1998 as a privately held company located in New York City, owned and operated by Fotki Inc., Fotki.com is now a consistently profitable business and a top-10 photo-sharing site in the world.

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500 Digital Photography Hints, Tips and Techniques, a book by Chris Weston, a photographer

The book is a concise and easy guide to digital image capture, scanning, processing, manipulation and output. It contains step-by-step tutorials, quick fixes, and bullet point tips. Essential aspects of photos outputting, printing, emailing, and uploading to websites are also covered in this user-friendly how-to manual. Effectively illustrated by screen grabs, digital photos, and digitized shots, this is the most efficient how-to manual on the subject to date.

In the "Photos Ready" section, "What to do with pictures?" subsection, one can find a page with a list of selected photo sharing sites, Fotki among them (Tip 472). In this section, of most interest from Fotki's point of view, is Tip 476, in which sign up for a Fotki account, creating a new album and uploading photos to it are shortly described and depicted with a few screenshots from Fotki website.