I have read many blogs and news snippets about Getty Images buying Jupiter Images for an obscene amount of US issued dollars. After what I have read and heard about royalty free microstock and looking at that space, if I was Alan Meckler, I would also quickly get out of that market before it collapses. I am actually surprised that Getty would even be remotely interested in purchasing a dying, over priced royalty free collection. I would rather try and purchase Fotolia, or Dreamstime if I were them and merge them…
However, while the whole industry was getting over-heated with over-priced stocks, I have discovered one of the coolest application of social networking: 3 D by accident
I was waiting for something like this for a long time. In the hands of professionals, that would be an extremely powerful tool….
