Photolog
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| http://www.fotolog.com | |
| motto | Share your world with the world |
| description | Online community |
| languages | German , English , French , Dutch , Portuguese , Spanish and Swedish |
| owner | Scott Heiferman and Adam Seifer |
| Published | May 2002 |
| Members | 32,942,135 (as of May 2012) |
| status | inactive |
Fotolog was a social network for Photography . With more than 32 million registered users, it was one of the oldest and largest Internet portals on which photographs could be uploaded and shared.
history
Founded in 2002, Fotolog generated over four billion monthly page views and had 16.6 million unique monthly visitors worldwide; in Europe it was 4.9 million. During the heyday of its life, Fotolog achieved a place on the list of "Top 20 Sites" in the global Alexa site ranking . Due to its rapid success, Fotolog had technical problems with accessibility for a long time and limited the daily new registrations to initially a thousand users per country. Following technical innovations, Fotolog reached around 750 million page views worldwide in 2005.
In 2006 the British publisher Thames & Hudson published a book with photographs from the Fotolog collection, entitled fotolog.book: A Global Snapshot for the Digital Age. wearing. The book is provided with essays by Andrew Long and Nick Currie and is divided into thematically arranged chapters. In addition, some particularly popular photographers and their pictures were presented in more detail.
Fotolog's rapid growth was particularly evident in South America . On February 19, 2007, most of the members were from Chile (955,000), Argentina (nearly 580,000), and Brazil (slightly fewer). Fotolog's success resulted in many competitors following the model. In the Spanish-speaking world, the word "fotolog" has already become a general term in common usage when it comes to describing a photoblog page. In Argentina, the so-called floggers created an independent youth culture around the service. For a long time Brazil was the country with the most users, but now the site has lost many fans to Orkut . In 2008, the German community was 10th behind Argentina, Spain, Chile, Mexico, Brazil, Italy, Uruguay, the USA and Portugal. Behind Germany lay u. a. Poland, France, Great Britain, Sweden and Japan.
Fotolog reached a record level of 10 million active users in 2007. In order to celebrate the success properly, “Gold Camera memberships” were raffled among the users for a period of ten years each. In the same year, the French online marketer Hi-Media bought the Internet portal. In 2008 Fotolog announced a partnership with StumbleUpon . Members could send their pictures to the partner project by clicking on the corresponding icon on their personal page.
In 2016, Fotolog was unavailable for several weeks. When the Internet portal went back online, the members were informed that the service would be closed. In 2018 the content of Fotolog was completely replaced. Even though the accounts of the members remained, the logo and the thematic focus were exchanged without further explanation. Since then, there have been no updates or official statements from those responsible about this measure. Fotolog has been considered inactive since then.
Functions
Free user account
Fotolog offered both free and paid user accounts. The free version was financed by advertising and allowed one image to be uploaded per day and a maximum of twenty comments to be received in the guest book. Free members could individually color their profile and add other members to their friends list.
Gold Camera Membership
Paying members (called “Gold Camera Members”) could upload up to six photos a day and receive a maximum of 200 comments per image. They also received preferential customer service and a so-called “last word” in guest books. Other additional gimmicks were u. a. Customizable headers on your own profile and an icon of the last uploaded photo next to your own guestbook entries on other profiles.
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- ↑ PrimeNewswire ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Fotolog Surpasses 200 Million Photos Posted , Feb 20, 2007
- ↑ Alexa Alexa Ranking
