March 27th, 2012

Bootstrapped Is Better? Smugmug’s Camera Awesome Crosses 4M Downloads, Adds Instagram Support

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Here’s a tale of two photo apps. One has 27 million users after a year and a half, and comes from a company with 13 employees and $7.5 million in venture funding. But there’s nary a revenue model in sight.

The other app is smaller with just over 4 million users in less than a month. But it’s packed with in-app purchases of filters. Plus, the company behind it is totally bootstrapped and has… → Read More

December 6th, 2007

SmugMug Automatically Scales Photos and Video, Supports High Definition Video

SmugMug has released a set of new features that further cements itself as a first-rate photo sharing website. The first of these constitutes just a user interface upgrade, but a very attractive one at that. SmugMug realizes that users often change the size of their browser windows – and switch between devices with differently sized screens – so it has implemented dynamic resizing of… → Read More

January 22nd, 2007

SmugMug: The (Anti) Web 2.0 Company

SmugMug CEO Don MacAskill, who has said “maybe I just don’t get this ‘Web 2.0′ term” in the past, is proceeding to teach those of us who claim to know exactly what it means a thing or two. The company launched a suite of stunning new features tonight. SmugMug, which took its first customers in late 2002, is the go-to service for serious photography nuts. 100,000 paying… → Read More

April 6th, 2006

The Flickr Gunners

Flickr wasn’t the first photo sharing site, and it isn’t the most popular. In fact, it isn’t even the most popular photo sharing site owned by Yahoo – this is. But Flickr caught our attention and, at least with the technology-savvy crowd, it has become synonymous with photo sharing. A whole new crop of services are gunning for flickr and the title of “coolest photo… → Read More