Archive for the 'Web Talk' Category
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, July 7th, 2009
Snapact and Touch PCs
The emergence of “Touch PCs” will certainly impact the way personal computers are being used today for entertainment. Computer manufacturers like Dell, HP, Asus, and MSI have already launched their “All-in-One” Touch PCs into the marketplace and have already received favourable reviews due in part to the large, rich display screens (20” display screens and larger), and the ability for users to simply tap their display screen to launch applications, listen to music, watch videos, or view photos. I have had the opportunity to briefly test the various Touch PCs manufactured by Dell, HP, Asus, and MSI at retail stores such as Staples and Costco.
As of now, my preference is the HP TouchSmart All-in-One PC but that’s not to say that Dell, Asus, and MSI don’t have a comparable product offering, because they certainly do. The first time I saw the HP TouchSmart PC was in Costco and I was amazed with the vibrant colors and crisp display on the 25.5 inch screen. As I was playing around with the features of the HP TouchSmart, I started to think about how Snapact Photo Manager would work really well with the HP TouchSmart, or any Touch PC for that matter.
Snapact Photo Manager was designed to incorporate “drag and drop” features and functionality. The design of the Touch PCs allows users to essentially replace the mouse with the user’s finger. With Snapact Photo Manager, users can now create their Snapact Albums by placing their finger on a photo and “dragging” the photo to the Album. Likewise, double-tapping on a photo will take the user to Viewer Mode that will display the Edit tools and the Thumbnail Filmstrip view at the bottom of the screen. To view photos, users can simply place their finger on the Thumbnail Filmstrip and drag their finger to the left or right to scroll through the photos. To select and view a photo, simply tap on the thumbnail image of the photo.
If you have already purchased a Touch PC or you are thinking about purchasing one in the near future, make sure you install Snapact Photo Manager. You won’t find an easier software solution out there to view, manage, and share all your digital photos.
CLICK HERE to download your copy of Snapact Photo Manager (2.02 MB download).
Friday, July 3rd, 2009
June 2009 Site Visitor Stats for Snapact
Here is the list of the top 10 countries that visited Snapact in June 2009: 1) USA 2) Canada 3) Italy 4) Brazil 5) Germany 6) Denmark 7) France 8) Switzerland 9) United Kingdom 10) Spain
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
Updated: Snapact Photo Sharing Community
A few hours ago, we released a small but visible update to the Snapact website. We tidied up some of the layout to make it cleaner and a little nicer to look at. The biggest visible change is the addition of ‘themes’. We currently have light and dark themes, which roughly equate to ‘white’ and ‘black’, respectively. Many people have professed a desire to see a lighter-colored version of the website for viewing their photos and true to our word, we have delivered.
Enjoy - we’re working on some more substantial improvements that will open many doors for new and existing users. Stay tuned!
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
Photo Sites Not Removing Deleted Photos?
There has been a fair amount of hype and concern in the news lately about photo sharing websites not removing photos that users have deleted.
User photographs can still be found on many social networking sites even after people have deleted them, Cambridge University researchers have said.
That quote is from a BBC article on the topic. The story has been picked up in blogs everywhere in social media circles. I’m glad to report that Snapact doesn’t fall victim to this shortcoming on the Snapact Photo Sharing Community. We actually have a regularly running program that discovers photos that users have removed and run the appropriate deletion routines.
Your photos will be removed from our permanent storage within a couple of minutes of your request. Your security and privacy are important to us, so enjoy Snapact knowing this information!
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/.
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?
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