Archive for the 'Miscellaneous' Category

Today is a very happy day for the Snap team as we celebrate Snap Shots's first anniversary.

What began as a link preview service (Snap Preview Anywhere) that was created in order to spread the word of Snap.com (our search engine), became one of the world's fastest growing ad networks, where user-demanded content combined with […]

Some of the biggest players in the Internet descended on the New York Hilton this week for OMMA, the Online Media, Marketing & Advertising show, and Snap was right there with them.
After two grueling days of presenting Snap Shots to hundreds of attendees and meeting quite a few Snap Shot site owners, two things stood […]

Snap of the Gnomedex 7.0 Conference Auditorium
Snap represented itself with a small contingent at Gnomedex 7.0 in Seattle, Washington at the Bell Harbor Conference Center. We were able to sit in on the majority of the sessions each day and absorb the latest in blog tech, social networking and emergering rich media solutions.
The discussion […]

Recently our Snap Shot Add-On for Firefox was featured on the Apple Downloads page. Ironically, if you do a search for 'Firefox' in the Download section we are the second result after Mozilla Firefox! Way to go Snap!

iA: Web Trend Map 2007 Version 2.0 with Snap Shots
As cross posted on a number of high profile blogs this past weekend, iA a strategic design agency in Tokyo, Japan, has enabled their online version of their subway 'Web Trend Map' with Snap Shots!

I patiently waited in line to get my iPhone and last week reported that FedEx dropped the units when they came in. After about 3 hours of standing in line (some people were there since that Tuesday [see previous post]) I was able to get mine. At exactly 6:45pm I walked out of the […]

Snap Water - More Pictures
OK, OK, so I chose that headline because it would get me links and blog traffic to the Apple iPhone… but seriously… We saw the people in line in the blazing heat outside the Pasadena Apple Store and had to help them poor souls out. So, what did we do? We […]

Since the DIGG Expose mash-up blog post hit the front page of DIGG, we have received numerous requests for documentation and use of the Snap Shots Preview API. We wanted to take this opportunity to clarify that usage of our images is on an ad-hoc and permission based publisher service agreement basis at this time.
As […]

Snap Preview Anywhere (now Snap Shots) was mentioned in the latest O'Reilly Realease 2.02 in an article called Channeling Crowds, Why the merger of social networking and prediction markets will launch a new category of tech strartups by Dave McClure.
O'Reilly Release 2.02 (Download Sample PDF, Subscription Required)

Mashup of DIGG Posts and Snap Preview Shots
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/programming/Digg_Expose_DIGG_Snap_Preview_Shots';

It never ceases to amaze me the cool stuff that people are doing with APIs. This little mashup was found on the YourMinis site. Basically a realtime feed of DIGG posts illustrated using Snap Preview Shots, with some layout and sorting tools to adjust the [...]