Comments on: Moo: Flickrize your business cards

By: PaperDirect

PaperDirect — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:19:37 +0000

Photo cards are great for personal cards or if you’re an artist. Using them for other types of business seems to far out of the norm.

I’ve been buying business cards from http://www.paperdirect.com for a while now and the quality of the cards are great. Probably the best card stock I’ve seen from an online printing company.

By: Kathy Mead

Kathy Mead — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:55:48 +0000

hah, it looks funny, turn my Flickr photos into small business cards? Cool~~

By: MOO on Techcrunch « YO, CEO!

MOO on Techcrunch « YO, CEO! — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:52:50 +0000

[...] Moo, a startup that prints “mini cards” from photos and other images that you upload directly or point them to via Flickr, Bebo, or their other [...]

By: Software as a Service (Saas)

Software as a Service (Saas) — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:54:54 +0000

Moo card website goes down…

It appears that the startup Moo Cards is having a difficult time this morning. I was attempting to upload new photos for some business cards and I ran across this annoying situation. I like the error message. Very cute.
You can read more about this sta…

By: Creative Uses for Flickr MiniCards « Fast Wonder

Creative Uses for Flickr MiniCards « Fast Wonder — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 15:14:42 +0000

[...] found out about this service on TechCrunch where many people leaving comments were getting a bit too hung up on whether or not people would [...]

By: TechCrunch en français » Moo: après les cartes de visites voici les autocollants !

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 05:02:37 +0000

[...] est une start-up basée au Royaume-Uni qui imprime des mini cartes à partir de photos et de toutes sortes d’images que vous pouvez charger directement ou à partir de vos comptes [...]

By: Moo’s Got Stickers

Moo’s Got Stickers — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:03:48 +0000

[...] Moo, a startup that prints “mini cards” from photos and other images that you upload directly or point them to via Flickr, Bebo, or their other [...]

By: » Business cards from your Flickr account Joanna Tidball: Web consultancy and copywriting

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:25:22 +0000

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By: M WAHEED JADOON

M WAHEED JADOON — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 06:06:02 +0000

Junction Intl Traders Inc.
1811 Westminister Blvd Parline NJ 08859

Ph: 516 707 5000
http://www.junctiontrader .com

PLEASE KEEP US IN YOUR MAILING LIST

Dear Sir:

We are an International Import / Export Physical Commodity Traders, & Auctioneers
JUNCTION INTL TRADERS INC is a trading company in New York (USA) and
it?s specializing in all kinds of Commodity & industrial good.We have
more than 500 clients (local and International) all over the world. We
are also official traders of Govt and Non-Govt industries.

We work DIRECTLY with Sellers/Owners- and with Seller’s Mandates all
over the world

We also deal in Int’l Import / Export Trading, and we specialize in
EXPORTING USA products to world markets. We trade many types of
commodities, products, and merchandise such as:

Sugar, Wheat, Corn, Soybean, Crude Oil, Petroleum Distillates (D-2,
Jet Fuel, Mazut), Currencien, Brand-Name-Clothing, Fertilizers,
Insecticides, Medical Equipment, Earth Moving Equipment, Power Plant
Oil Refineries & Fire Safety Equipment, Agricultural Chemicals,
Agricultural Machinery & Eq., Agricultural Products, Air Aircraft &
Aircraft Parts, Airport/Ground Support Eq., Apparel, Engineering SVC,
Automobile/Light Truck/Vans, Automotive Parts/Services Eq., Aviation
Services, Building Products, Business Eq. (Non-Computer), Chemical
Production Machinery, Coal, Construction Eq., Consumer Electronics,
Cosmetics/Toiletries, Dental Eq., Drugs/Pharmaceuticals, Economy,
Electrical Power Systems, Electronic Components, Electronics Industry
Prod/Test Equiment., Films/Videos, Financial Services, Products,
Machine Tools/Metalworking Eq., Materials Handling Machinery, Medical
Eq., Mining Industry Eq., Non-Ferrous Metals, Oil/Gas Field Machinery,
Oil/Gas/Mineral Prod/Explor Serv., Packaging Eq., Paper/Paperboard,
Pollution Control Eq., Port/Shipbuilding Eq., Pulp/Paper Machinery,
Pumps/Valves/Compressors, Railroad Eq., Security/Safety Eq.,
Telecommunications Eq., Telecommunications Services, Textile Fabrics,
Textile Machinery/Eq., Textile Products – Made-Up, Tools – Hand/Power,
Transportation Serv. (other than Aviation), Trucks/Trailers/Buses,
Water Resources Eq./Services

Generators., Tents. , Trucks , Ultrasound. Medical Equipment , Earth
Moving Equipment , Computers ,
Industreal Plants & Machineries , Real Estate , Power Plant , Steel
Scrap , Aircraft Sales , Fire Truck , Ferry for sale , Oil Tanker for
Sale , Ship for Sale ,

REGARD

THANK YOU

M Waheed Jadoon
Junction Intl Traders Inc.
1811 Westminister Blvd
Parline NJ 08859
Phone: 516 707 5000
Email: WAJADOON@YAHOO.COM
JUNCTION_TRADER@YAHOO.COM
http://www.junctiontrader.com

By: Daniel Nicolas

Daniel Nicolas — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 07:31:44 +0000

This is Techcrunch.com…

Any complaints/feedback directed at them should instead be sent to the good people at moo.com.

Funding for your business allows your business to do the expensive things that will take it to the next level. It doesn’t just magically make your product better.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 00:00:10 +0000

I think these are great!! I got 10 for free and I am hooked. I would not use these as business cards unless you are an artist. I think they are little pieces of art. Share. Have fun!

By: mark

mark — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:18:40 +0000

I put my order in four days ago. It’s only today that they shipped it. I went to the web site to see what was up and there’s no way to check your order status or whether it shipped. You can only call them. Not a very web-oriented experieince. Maybe they were getting their problems straightened out after seeing Dario’s comments.

I’m worried about the cropping now, because scaling information is mislabeled if you go back and deselect or add an image to the set.

By: Boo Moo at Jim Lipsey

Boo Moo at Jim Lipsey — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:34:15 +0000

[...] Meet Moo, the newest online darling in the Web 2.0 age. Moo has all the fundamentals: a nice AJAXy interface, Web2.0 colors, gradient fills, rounded corners galore, and lots and lots of buzz. They even sell a physical product, which is downright revolutionary. Perhaps they’re Web 2.1? [...]

By: Dario

Dario — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:13:18 +0000

Third,
At the back. On the information, i writed:
Dario Diament
Fotografías

By: Dario

Dario — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:09:29 +0000

finally my order arrived perfectly. Fast delivery and
pretty presentation.

But I have to say I am a little disappointed.

First, between my hundred packs I received someone
else card. With the photography of a baby and her
contact informtion on the back. What happened guys?

Second, the photographs are not croped as I’ve chosen
on the webpage. So, 3 images have faces croped. Not so
nice. And another one has a feet croped. Remember that
flickr is a community of people that likes imagens and
pretend to have their design printed as planned!

Third,
At the back. On the information, i writed:
firstname lastname
Fotografías

By: mark

mark — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 09:44:25 +0000

I like the idea of different calling cards. Business cards don’t always have the impact they could. I’m using these to hand out at conferences.

The web site needs work. If you navigate back to add/remove photos, your settings don’t reset, but the infomation on zooms is wrong. It loses information navigating between several different screens. The order page can take several retries before the order goes through.

No idea if the order will be correct when it finally prints. Let’s hope so. Wish Qoop offered better card printing services.

By: Treacle Down

Treacle Down — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 12:57:45 +0000

Treacle’s Moo Cards have arrived…

Yay! Moo is a new London-based* print-on-demand firm that makes really cool cards from your Flickr photos. It’s a new service, and to celebrate its launch, they gave away 10,000 free packs of 10 to people with Flickr Pro accounts….

By: Mike Stopforth » links for 2006-10-02

Mike Stopforth » links for 2006-10-02 — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 02:23:55 +0000

[...] Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Moo: Flickrize your business cards I heart the flickr API (tags: flickr cards photos businesscards) [...]

By: kpak

kpak — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:56:08 +0000

I was wondering… are the people behind MOO the same people behind Pleasure Cards? The cards look real familiar.

By: Moo Flickr Mini Cards + Getting Real at disambiguity

Moo Flickr Mini Cards + Getting Real at disambiguity — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 23:07:07 +0000

[...] Moo Flickr Mini Cards + Getting Real Published September 22nd, 2006 in process, case study, interaction design Moo Flickr Mini Cards launched recently, as you may have read elsewhere. I’m stoked to see so many people checking them out and enjoying them because I had the pleasure of working with the Moo Team on the design of the service. It was interesting that Signals vs Noise wrote them up, because the design process that Moo undertook is really quite similar to the Getting Real methodology that the 37 Signals guys espouse. Moo took a really inclusive and user centric approach to the development of this interface – doing user research and testing in a range of different environments throughout the design and development lifecycle. It’s really great to see that some of the things that we at Flow found when we were working with them are now part of the design – and it’s been great to see the design evolve over time as more and more people got involved in the Moo project. So, designing, and developing and feedback were locked into a really fast and iterative process – and the end result is a process of selecting, designing and ordering cards that is – I think, and others seem to agree – really easy and enjoyable. Based on what I know of their ethos and approach, I feel confident that Moo will continue to evolve and improve the interface and user experience of Moo Flickr Mini Cards over time. It’s been really great working with the guys at Moo because of the responsiveness and user centric approach that they’ve taken to this project. I look forward to seeing how this product evolves and where else Moo shows up – they’re a really smart crew, doing really smart work! Yay Moo! Technorati Tags: moo, agile+design, usability, UCD Give it a digg or share with del.icio.usThese icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

By: Ashutosh Mehndiratta

Ashutosh Mehndiratta — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 04:50:09 +0000

Moo team has developed a really good interface for a user and ordering process is smooth. What they probably miscalculated (I think) is the demand for this calling card. Since it’s not a business card, the business user is out. It’s not professional, so a university student can’t use it to hand out at job fairs etc. This service is restricted to Flickr users only so that leaves out rest of the world. They offer only 1 size and I believe text is printed on one side and photo on the other. What if user wants to add a logo or few straight or curved lines. Business cards printed through photographic process (as opposed to regular offset or screen printing) have been around for a long time. My first summer job was selling such cards door to door 13 years ago in India. They were liked by car and motorcycle dealerships who could put colorful pictures and next to names of their salesmen and contact info etc. Product manufacturers, Travel agents were others who liked those. But these picture cards never picked up. Till date most business cards have white background. Even colored backgrounds are chosen by very few.

What Moo could add to their offering is -

- more sizes. so one could print let’s say a flier for a dance party or invitation for a kids birthday or a babyshower. team up with evite maybe.

- allow option for cutouts of images and text could be printed next to it. Real Estate agents, lawyers, handymen would love those. note that most of these people are not net savvy and don’t have accounts on flickr so they have to find a way to reach them. maybe kiosks in malls. if they go online to print then why not click to brick!

- offer products for small businesses so they could design brochures, posters, coupons and order them online.

- since online music downloads are so popular and kids burn their own CDs, they could offer covers for CD cases that have their favorite picture.

regarding the 5 million dollar funding, if their margin is let’s say 100% which means it cost them $10 to print 100 cards and they sell for $20, they would have to get 500,000 orders to break even. i know there are billion people on internet but how many on flickr and of those how many want to spend $20 on fancy cards which they can hand out to fancy people.

i say they overestimated demand of their product but then I said the same thing about ringtones on cell phones few years ago

By: Matthew Fitzsimmons

Matthew Fitzsimmons — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 23:56:49 +0000

Hello, morons. They aren't business cards. They're calling cards.

By: Moo Business Cards « Digital Life

Moo Business Cards « Digital Life — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:03:04 +0000

[...] Just got a set of the 10 free as flickr pro user [via] Technorati Tags: Moo, Business, Cards, Flickr [...]

By: Keane

Keane — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:02:32 +0000

Love/Hate is a good mix. It means it works. cf:

http://headrush...veandhate_1.jpg
http://headrush...cs_of_pass.html

Moo’s flickr cards are a beautiful service (I don’t know about the product yet, I’ve only just ordered). Extremely well conceived and made. re: $5m for photo business cards; my understanding is that this is just the first product/service moo are making and supplying. If they manage to come up with something else as successful, they’ll be well on the way to justifying that investment.

By: Infovore : MOO, and the re-invention of the calling card

Infovore : MOO, and the re-invention of the calling card — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 21:43:04 +0000

[...] That’s why I really enjoyed reading the comments on this Techcrunch post about MOO, which Tom linked to. “Handing out photographs as business cards is confusing, difficult to read and unprofessional,” writes one commenter – but he misses the point, because these aren’t really intended as “professional” tools. The fact they can be used as business cards is, in fact, a nice side effect, and several commenters in that thread point out the value of photographic cards for trade purposes. But really, they’re just ways to remember who people are, and perhaps how to contact them. [...]