Region 1 Visual Journal(ism)

Good day for you readers. I recently came across two super fantastic sites. Trendspotting and print buying.

Type and bookmark Springwise. Over 8,000 trendspotters from around the world send in the newest in funky, useful, innovative entrepreneurial ideas and companies. Currently, the site splits the posts into 20 industries including marketing and advertising, style and design, non-profit and social causes, and - I didn’t tell you about the site for nothing - media and publishing.

And that category is where I came across a new start-up called Fotomoto which enables you, the photographer, to sell images on right on your site. Goodbye PhotoShelter. Clients stay on your site. You can even add the ‘buy print’ button to a blog. No subscription fees. You pay the cost of print + 15%. To see full example, go to Sam “Top Left Pixel” Javanrough’s photoblog.

Fotomoto is in beta right now and by invitation only so click here to ask, beg, plead to be the next beta user.

For the techie folks, TechCrunch posted the Fotomoto site information. The range of topics is wide and interesting all at the same time. For example: Have you heard of UK start-up Imagini? TC article says: “The company’s VisualDNA concept - working out people’s personality types based on the pictures they choose.” The shopping widget helps monetise blogs and websites. Proving once again that visuals do make money.

I’m exhausting from all the sharing. Or maybe the carbohydrates.

-Sarah Evans