Dig if you will the picture.

Daring Fireball had two links yesterday to stories about the shutdown of Everpix.

I hadn’t heard of Everpix, either, but Gruber praises it pretty highly: “Everpix is how photo storage should work.” It might have been something I would have tried, if I had known about it. But I’d never seen even a mention of it anywhere until Gruber’s posts yesterday. This might explain why they are shutting down.

Everpix sponsored the DF RSS feed twice this year, which is how they first came to my attention.

I guess that demonstrates how effective sponsoring the RSS feed of a notorious Yankees fan is. Seriously, why were they not advertising on places like the On Taking Pictures podcast as well?

I don’t want to rub it in. It is sad that these people are losing their jobs and their money, especially if Everpix is all that and a bag of chips. But I do want to note one other thing from one of Gruber’s linked articles:

…Everpix became a finalist at the competition. (They lost the $50,000 first prize to Shaker, a bizarre kind of Second Life-meets-Facebook social network that raised $15 million and hasn’t been heard from in a year.)

Here’s the Shaker website.

Shaker creates online venues where you can host events of different kinds for just about any size of audience. From live-stream music events to networking events and conferences.

What differentiates this from, say, Second Life? A lack of giant dicks?

Here’s their blog. Enough said.

They got $15 million out of investors for this? I have got to work harder on schemes for separating fools from their money. Hmmmmmm…maybe a cross between Groupon and Second Life?

Edited to add: Ooooooh! Ooooooh! I know! Warcraft meets Google Offers! You kill monsters, and when they die, they drop special offers like “$15 for $30 worth of food at Mom’s“!

VC investors, the email address is on my contact page.

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3 Responses to “Dig if you will the picture.”

  1. Lawrence Person says:
    November 6, 2013 at 3:14 pm

    The bigger the monster you kill, the larger the deal they drop.

    Plus an item auction house where you can buy items that help you kill the bigger monsters.

    You could also have an “adults only area” to win coupons on porn, booze, etc.

    I’ve got a name, too: World of Scorecraft.

  2. stainles says:
    November 6, 2013 at 3:29 pm

    Newsletter. Subscription.

  3. lelnet says:
    November 8, 2013 at 1:06 pm

    “how photo storage should work”?

    You mean like the way they hold pictures hostage, so that even the people you specifically share them with have to write custom AJAX-parsing perl scripts just to break through the insane walls you have set up to prevent them from downloading those pictures, but they’ll happily sell you overpriced crap “merchandise” with your pictures emblazoned on it — just like dozens of other sites on the internet, that _don’t_ try to hold your pictures hostage for nickel-and-dime tchochke purchases by your friends and family? THAT is “how photo storage should work”?

    In what universe?

    Shame about the people losing their jobs, but to the business? Good fscking RIDDANCE!