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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
August 2009 Site Visitor Stats for Snapact
Hungary knocks off the United States to take the #1 spot in our top ten list for August 2009!
The United States has been consistently the top country referring traffic to Snapact.com since Tecagora launched Snapact in September 2008. So how did they get knocked off the #1 spot? Well, it looks like the website techline.hu in Hungary recommended Snapact Photo Manager as one of their top 5 Windows software programs. I guess being recommended as one of the top 5 Windows software programs combined with a great review of Snapact Photo Manager sparked interest from readers to download our product and give it a try.
Thanks techline.hu for the recommendation, product review, and referral traffic!
Here is the list of the top 10 countries that visited Snapact in August 2009: 1) Hungary 2) United States 3) Canada 4) Italy 5) Brazil 6) United Kingdom 7) Germany 8) Romania 9) Japan 10) France.
Welcome Hungary and Romania to the Snapact Top 10 Countries list!
Thursday, August 6th, 2009
The Rise of Netbooks
According to an article in ComputerWorld, it looks like netbook shipments this year could surpass 32.7 million units nearly doubling the number of units shipped in 2008. So why is this figure important to Tecagora and Snapact? The Snapact Photo Manager is a small download (just over 2 MB) and the install size is currently just under 6 MB! Most of the current netbooks in the market have 160 GB hard drives. Some are even available with solid state hard drives (up to 64 GB). Because Snapact Photo Manager has such a small footprint, when compared to other digital photo managers and viewers in the market, that’s a significant difference! All netbooks include USB ports and media card slots to upload photos from digital cameras (or media cards) to the netbook.
Netbooks are great because of their small size and portability with most weighing less than 3 lbs. Many netbooks are available with different screen sizes (ranging from 8” to 12.1” displays), come with webcams to stay connected via web/video chat, and are reasonably priced (ranging from $
If you’re looking for a simple and fast way to view, organize, and share your digital photos without having to give up too much hard drive space on your netbook, download Snapact Photo Manager and give it a try. The Snapact Social Networking Community is a great way to share your photos and stay connected with friends and family. If you don’t have a Snapact account yet, CLICK HERE to sign up for a free account.
Thursday, August 6th, 2009
July 2009 Site Visitor Stats for Snapact
Here is the list of the top 10 countries that visited Snapact in July 2009: 1) USA 2) Canada 3) Italy 4) China 5) Greece 6) Germany 7) South Korea 8) Brazil 9) United Kingdom 10) France.
Welcome China, Greece, and South Korea to the Snapact Top 10 Countries list.
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
Breaking News: Snapact Photo Sharing Community Website Updated!
We’re happy to announce that the long awaited new release of the Snapact Community has been launched. It has been a number of months since we started working on revamping the old website.
We had a few minor hickups today during the launch activities, but what’s a launch without some excitement? We will dedicate a future blog posting to the changes made and how our infrastructure has been modified… but for now, we’re going to sit back and monitor things.
To see what’s happening surrounding Snapact, head on over to http://www.snapact.com/buzz/.
Friday, May 8th, 2009
Snapact Photo Manager Version 1.3.1 is Released!
We’re happy to announce that we’ve pushed out an update that addresses a number of outstanding issues and prepares existing and new users for the upcoming release of the Snapact photo sharing community. Get it here: http://www.snapact.com/getsnapact.
I love it when a plan comes together.
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
Photo Altering, Restoring and Touching Up Services Now Available
Tecagora (the company that created Snapact) is pleased to announce the launch and availability of our Digital Photo Services!
If you have old photos that need restoration or photos that need some people or objects removed, then fill out the form to see what we can do.
Sunday, April 26th, 2009
We’re a VIATeC Awards Nominee - Innovative Excellence!
We just wanted to drop a quick note to our followers out there that we’ve been nominated for Innovative Excellence in the local VIATeC awards. This is a great honor for us, and a big step forward. It’s encouraging to see that we’ve been noticed in such a way.
See the nominee list here: 2009 VIATeC Awards Nominees
Congratulations to everyone else on the list. We’ll see you at the awards ceremony!
Sunday, April 26th, 2009
Convergence of Photography Terms
Google Trends is a great tool for doing research - perhaps not always scientific research, but hey, that’s why they call it ‘Trends’ instead of ‘Facts’… right?
A Google Trends comparison of ‘photo manager’ and ‘photo viewer’ shows how two somewhat similar terms have begun to converge over the years in how the public - consumers - understand this particular market we’re in. I would attribute this consumer change to the marketing practices of the many paid-for products in this market. Education of the public is a good thing - especially if it helps your position in the market too! Let’s take the words ‘image’ and ‘photo’. ‘Photo’, hands down, is the common term used to speak of the things that you get from your camera. ‘Image’ has more of a geek or techy vibe to it, but over the last few years, ‘image’ has become more or less synonymous with ‘photo’ in many cases. Personally, I think ‘photo’ will always be right for me…
What does this mean? Actually, not a whole lot. During the course of doing some SEO research, I came across this and thought I’d share. I hope you didn’t expect anything revolutionary! 
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
Buzz - Integrating 3rd-Party Comments
A new part of the Snapact website revamp will include a ‘buzz’ page - the title may change, but we want to expose what people are saying about Snapact (including ourselves, of course).
We have plans to pull in data from blog aggregators and Twitter, to start with. We’ll display the most recent items on a www.snapact.com page for all to see. Not only do we want to be open about what people are saying, but we want to encourage ‘link love’ - having a blog posting that you’ve written appear on our buzz page will likely help your blog’s ranking, or that’s the general idea anyway.
We’ll be doing something similar for Twitter too - and likely, we’ll introduce further aggregation in the future. What do you think of this idea? Good or bad?
Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Website Overhaul Update
The team at Snapact has officially started to test and work out the kinks of the new Snapact Photo Sharing Online Community. It will take us some time to get it just how we want it, which has been based on both our observations of you, our users, as well as your direct feedback.
Once things stabilize, I’ll announce something a bit more specific about a time frame for public release.
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