Comments on: Shareapic Pays You To Host Pictures http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/ Startup and Technology News Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:43:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Shareapic, aloja tus fotos y gana dinero con ello http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-2231416 Shareapic, aloja tus fotos y gana dinero con ello Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:20:54 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-2231416 [...] | TechCrunch Enlace | [...] [...] | TechCrunch Enlace | [...]

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]]> By: Loyal Shareapic User http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1901256 Loyal Shareapic User Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:33:15 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1901256 Shareapic has clarified the above post in their forums. I’ve been paid over 15 times, and they are certainly not a scam!!! http://www.shareapic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4324 Shareapic has clarified the above post in their forums. I’ve been paid over 15 times, and they are certainly not a scam!!!

http://www.shareapic.net/forum.....php?t=4324

]]> By: Shareapic Scam http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1882122 Shareapic Scam Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:42:48 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1882122 I had a very bad experience with shareapic recently. Have been using it for almost a year and sure they do pay but be very careful once your earnings start to increase and accumulate. I had a balance of USD100+ and no, i did not do any autoclicks. They were page views from all the posting i did in various forums around the world. One day they just banned my account and after my appeal to them to reopen it, i was devastated to find out that they have totally wiped out all the photos and earnings with the reason that i do autoclicks, which i never did. Oh and do not forget that they will also slash 50% of your earnings with the reason that the traffic generated from your photos are from Asian countries, which no one can actually verify. Scam? its your say! I had a very bad experience with shareapic recently. Have been using it for almost a year and sure they do pay but be very careful once your earnings start to increase and accumulate. I had a balance of USD100+ and no, i did not do any autoclicks. They were page views from all the posting i did in various forums around the world. One day they just banned my account and after my appeal to them to reopen it, i was devastated to find out that they have totally wiped out all the photos and earnings with the reason that i do autoclicks, which i never did. Oh and do not forget that they will also slash 50% of your earnings with the reason that the traffic generated from your photos are from Asian countries, which no one can actually verify. Scam? its your say!

]]> By: matthew http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1859156 matthew Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:02:04 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1859156 I am not quite certain why Capazoo got lumped into a conversation that mentions schemes. Our referral program is not a scheme. We present everything on the site and it's open and up front. If Members use their Zoops for upgrade, then they never have to be out of pocket, so I am not quite certain where the scheming comes in. We value our Members and their efforts to bring in more Members, period. The levels of the referral program are clearly outlined on the site in each and every Member's account. I would be happy to supply facts and truth to go with postings that involve our name upon request. If you need to reach me, you can do so via www.capazoo.com/matthew .... Happy Holidays I am not quite certain why Capazoo got lumped into a conversation that mentions schemes. Our referral program is not a scheme.

We present everything on the site and it’s open and up front. If Members use their Zoops for upgrade, then they never have to be out of pocket, so I am not quite certain where the scheming comes in.

We value our Members and their efforts to bring in more Members, period. The levels of the referral program are clearly outlined on the site in each and every Member’s account.

I would be happy to supply facts and truth to go with postings that involve our name upon request. If you need to reach me, you can do so via http://www.capazoo.com/matthew …. Happy Holidays

]]> By: nell http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1852614 nell Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:16:19 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1852614 <a href='http://2refresh.blogspot.com/' rel="nofollow">money it's always money</a> money it’s always money

]]> By: Jordan http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1835530 Jordan Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:43:24 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1835530 @Mark - 1. As stated above, we have adapted to recognize spamming of images just as easily as you learn to deal with blog spam. It has been a challenge, but we have custom coded internal tools to help us detect misuse and delete / ban users who try to generate false impressions. 2. We very rarely receive requests to remove images, but when we do, we remove them promptly. There have been no major problems thus far. - Jordan Donaldson Owner www.shareapic.net @Mark - 1. As stated above, we have adapted to recognize spamming of images just as easily as you learn to deal with blog spam. It has been a challenge, but we have custom coded internal tools to help us detect misuse and delete / ban users who try to generate false impressions.

2. We very rarely receive requests to remove images, but when we do, we remove them promptly. There have been no major problems thus far.

- Jordan Donaldson
Owner
http://www.shareapic.net

]]> By: Jordan http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1835528 Jordan Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:43:08 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1835528 @Mark - 1. As stated above, we have adapted to recognize spamming of images just as easily as you learn to deal with blog spam. It has been a challenge, but we have custom coded internal tools to help us detect misuse and delete / ban users who try to generate false impressions. 2. We very rarely receive requests to remove images, but when we do, we remove them promptly. There have been no major problems thus far. @Mark - 1. As stated above, we have adapted to recognize spamming of images just as easily as you learn to deal with blog spam. It has been a challenge, but we have custom coded internal tools to help us detect misuse and delete / ban users who try to generate false impressions.

2. We very rarely receive requests to remove images, but when we do, we remove them promptly. There have been no major problems thus far.

]]> By: Mark http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1834977 Mark Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:15:25 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1834977 In theory - a great idea. In practice you get: 1. Views fraud (like click fraud, but much easier to make happen) 2. Copyright violations - take someone else' catchy pic of a semi-naked babe, post it on a few hot forums and there you have it. Good luck In theory - a great idea.

In practice you get:

1. Views fraud (like click fraud, but much easier to make happen)
2. Copyright violations - take someone else’ catchy pic of a semi-naked babe, post it on a few hot forums and there you have it.

Good luck

]]> By: Daniel Fontana (Shareapic.net) http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1834147 Daniel Fontana (Shareapic.net) Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:44:25 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1834147 @what happens its shareapic.net not shareapic.com... @ImageBam.com glad to hear the positive remarks... It has been a struggle to deal with bandwidth costs and we had that problem when we rented servers from companys that implemented hefty overages etc. But with co-location and owning your own powerful servers/hard drives it is alot easier to manage costs. ___________ @MuyLamo - Dont be a flammer... the big and most successful users of shareapic.net make more then enough to cover the servers/bandwidth they rent for their successful blogs which makes them more then happy. here is an example of one of our users blogs.. - http://soaddictive.fr/ and this is his public gallery area at Shareapic.net http://www.shareapic.net/users/soaddictive/ _____ @everyone - The ability earn additional money just for doing what you would call a hobby is amazing to people.. which is why alot of celeb bloggers use our service to host their pictures. I do agree that shareapic.net is not for everyone but for the people that use it right it is a very valuable service. @what happens its shareapic.net not shareapic.com…

@ImageBam.com glad to hear the positive remarks… It has been a struggle to deal with bandwidth costs and we had that problem when we rented servers from companys that implemented hefty overages etc. But with co-location and owning your own powerful servers/hard drives it is alot easier to manage costs.

___________

@MuyLamo - Dont be a flammer… the big and most successful users of shareapic.net make more then enough to cover the servers/bandwidth they rent for their successful blogs which makes them more then happy. here is an example of one of our users blogs.. -

http://soaddictive.fr/

and this is his public gallery area at Shareapic.net

http://www.shareapic.net/users/soaddictive/

_____

@everyone - The ability earn additional money just for doing what you would call a hobby is amazing to people.. which is why alot of celeb bloggers use our service to host their pictures. I do agree that shareapic.net is not for everyone but for the people that use it right it is a very valuable service.

]]> By: what happens http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1833927 what happens Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:45:57 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1833927 What if people upload something from FLICKR picture in a sharepic.com? What if people upload something from FLICKR picture in a sharepic.com?

]]> By: Jordan http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1833883 Jordan Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:22:05 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1833883 @FacebookBandwagon - In the past couple years that Shareapic has existed, we have indeed dealt with many methods of "spamming." However, we have adapted to recognize spamming of images just as easily as you learn to deal with blog spam. It has been a challenge, but we have custom coded internal tools to help us detect misuse and delete / ban users who try to generate false impressions. So far, so good. @ImageBam - "Even with good bandwidth-prices it is hard to stay profitable." Not so!! We run our own servers and have a custom contract with our data center :) Profitable is something we certainly are. You have to be in order to keep expanding. - Jordan Donaldson Owner www.shareapic.net @FacebookBandwagon - In the past couple years that Shareapic has existed, we have indeed dealt with many methods of “spamming.” However, we have adapted to recognize spamming of images just as easily as you learn to deal with blog spam. It has been a challenge, but we have custom coded internal tools to help us detect misuse and delete / ban users who try to generate false impressions. So far, so good.

@ImageBam - “Even with good bandwidth-prices it is hard to stay profitable.” Not so!! We run our own servers and have a custom contract with our data center :) Profitable is something we certainly are. You have to be in order to keep expanding.

- Jordan Donaldson
Owner
http://www.shareapic.net

]]> By: pm http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1833881 pm Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:21:28 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1833881 From just looking at the site all the prominate pictures are pictures that someone took from somewhere else. So all you have to do is troll the internet all day, download popular pictures you don't have the rights to, post them on this site and make money. Sound like a great site for the lawyers out there to take alokk at huh! From just looking at the site all the prominate pictures are pictures that someone took from somewhere else. So all you have to do is troll the internet all day, download popular pictures you don’t have the rights to, post them on this site and make money. Sound like a great site for the lawyers out there to take alokk at huh!

]]> By: FacebookBandwagon http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1833836 FacebookBandwagon Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:02:08 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1833836 @Duncan - I agree with your sentiments that rev share is pretty considerate. But from a business perspective, I don't think it'll work out very well, esp. in this case with posting photos. It's going to run rampant with spam and gaming of the system. Let's start a pool on the days left before this one gets deadpooled. @Duncan - I agree with your sentiments that rev share is pretty considerate.

But from a business perspective, I don’t think it’ll work out very well, esp. in this case with posting photos. It’s going to run rampant with spam and gaming of the system. Let’s start a pool on the days left before this one gets deadpooled.

]]> By: ImageBam.com http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1833816 ImageBam.com Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:54:59 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1833816 oh btw @shareapic.. I suggest the google adsense-api. It is a great method of earning some extra money! oh btw @shareapic..
I suggest the google adsense-api. It is a great method of earning some extra money!

]]> By: ImageBam.com http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1833814 ImageBam.com Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:53:48 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1833814 "and easy money to be had" Its not that easy - images tend to get larger and larger (3mb and up). This causes a large amount of data that has be stored and served. Even with good bandwidth-prices it is hard to stay profitable. And if you do not allow nudity you have to spend hours after hours to screen the images. Under the line free image hosting still pays off but is definitely not just easy money. Revenue sharing is an excellent method of driving traffic. Nice work @shareapic “and easy money to be had”

Its not that easy - images tend to get larger and larger (3mb and up). This causes a large amount of data that has be stored and served. Even with good bandwidth-prices it is hard to stay profitable. And if you do not allow nudity you have to spend hours after hours to screen the images.

Under the line free image hosting still pays off but is definitely not just easy money.

Revenue sharing is an excellent method of driving traffic. Nice work @shareapic

]]> By: Tecnologia » Blog Archiv » Shareapic, aloja tus fotos y gana dinero con ello http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1833742 Tecnologia » Blog Archiv » Shareapic, aloja tus fotos y gana dinero con ello Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:19:42 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1833742 [...] | TechCrunch Enlace | [...] [...] | TechCrunch Enlace | [...]

]]> By: MuyLamo http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1833689 MuyLamo Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:55:32 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1833689 Can this steaming pile of Shareapic just fail already? It's wasted too much of my time as it is. Glad to see Duncan Riley keep up his record of utterly lacking technological prowess or business acumen. I think he could be replaced by a mail filter that bounced PR pitches directly to the blog. Can this steaming pile of Shareapic just fail already? It’s wasted too much of my time as it is.

Glad to see Duncan Riley keep up his record of utterly lacking technological prowess or business acumen. I think he could be replaced by a mail filter that bounced PR pitches directly to the blog.

]]> By: SF http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1833681 SF Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:49:34 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1833681 That's awesome. But i'd rather carry all my images with me everywhere i go. Check out this innovative usb pendant from Olinari. http://olinari.com That’s awesome. But i’d rather carry all my images with me everywhere i go.

Check out this innovative usb pendant from Olinari.

http://olinari.com

]]> By: Doug Mehus http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1833676 Doug Mehus Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:43:26 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1833676 No, they're not moderating comments, Chrisco. Perhaps only certain users were placed on moderation, based on their IPs or something? Cheers, Doug No, they’re not moderating comments, Chrisco. Perhaps only certain users were placed on moderation, based on their IPs or something?

Cheers,
Doug

]]> By: Doug Mehus http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1833675 Doug Mehus Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:42:39 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1833675 This is a test to see if TC is moderating comments. Please ignore. Cheers, Doug This is a test to see if TC is moderating comments. Please ignore.

Cheers,
Doug

]]> By: I Am Not Posting To Spam My Blog http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1833631 I Am Not Posting To Spam My Blog Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:20:05 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1833631 Daniel, While I wouldn't expect you to say "yes, we copied Skype's logo", you really can't expect anyone to believe your denial. It's all-lowercase white text with a sky-blue surround that has a gradient that gets darker from top to bottom. Skype's surround is a bit more random and cloud-like, but that's literally the only difference - and it just makes Shareapic's logo merely a cheap copy rather than an exact copy. I can only hope you didn't pay anyone to come up with that. Daniel,

While I wouldn’t expect you to say “yes, we copied Skype’s logo”, you really can’t expect anyone to believe your denial. It’s all-lowercase white text with a sky-blue surround that has a gradient that gets darker from top to bottom. Skype’s surround is a bit more random and cloud-like, but that’s literally the only difference - and it just makes Shareapic’s logo merely a cheap copy rather than an exact copy.

I can only hope you didn’t pay anyone to come up with that.

]]> By: chrisco http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1833585 chrisco Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:04:02 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1833585 Ah, you guys are moderating comments now... that's good. no need to "approve" this one, just a thumbs up to TechCrunch... I mean it'd be nice if it wasn't necessary, but a few bad apples seem to make it so in all walks of life, unfortunately. Cheers, chrisco (hoping my startup will be featured -- in a positive light -- on TC one day, but it's not near ready yet. Cheers again! Ah, you guys are moderating comments now… that’s good. no need to “approve” this one, just a thumbs up to TechCrunch… I mean it’d be nice if it wasn’t necessary, but a few bad apples seem to make it so in all walks of life, unfortunately. Cheers, chrisco (hoping my startup will be featured — in a positive light — on TC one day, but it’s not near ready yet. Cheers again!

]]> By: chrisco http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1833578 chrisco Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:01:16 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/#comment-1833578 I agree there's still a LOT to work out for these kinds of models, especially just for static images. Videos can have a pre-roll and other forms of advertising, and as Michael [Arrington] pointed out in this post http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/29/redefining-the-img-tag/ about http://www.britepic.com/ things are on the way for static images as well. It's going to take time, but the model is there, somewhere. IMHO. I agree there’s still a LOT to work out for these kinds of models, especially just for static images. Videos can have a pre-roll and other forms of advertising, and as Michael [Arrington] pointed out in this post http://www.techcrunch.com/2007.....e-img-tag/ about http://www.britepic.com/ things are on the way for static images as well. It’s going to take time, but the model is there, somewhere. IMHO.

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