Comments and Sharing on Picable
Monday, September 25th, 2006 - 1:23 pm - News
We added today the option to comment on pictures published on Picable. We have had several requests from users regarding this, and within changes we are doing to our core architecture, we found the time to implement this feature. So we hope you enjoy and comment on other’s photos!
Also notice that we added the “Share It!” bar between the picture and the comments, so now it’s easy to put pictures on your favorite sharing sites.
Last couple of days we were busy with core coding, and that’s the reason we didn’t post anything new here. In the next couple of days we plan on finishing this round of coding, which will peak at a new content site we’ll put up (features still top secret 
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So keep checking in, comment on photos and share them!
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Also notice that we added the “Share It!” bar between the picture and the comments, so now it’s easy to put pictures on your favorite sharing sites.
Does this mean people who click on your photos can add it to their sharing site (like yahoo)? I’m concerned about people downloading images and then claiming it is their work and seeking payment. There’s a case already on the picable site in which an image of another’s intellectual property is making money for an uploader. That’s not right or legal! There’s nothing to stop someone from going to a professional photo site, downloading their images, and then uploading and getting paid for them.
You need to set up some sort of quality control to avoid being sued.
Hello Sue,
First of all, I would like to thank you for getting our attention to the possible copyright infringement.
In our business, the copyright issue is essential. We make every effort to not publish copyrighted material. Our users our bound by a User Agreement which prohibits them for submitting any content which is not their original work, and on top of that we check every single content item that is submitted to us.
However, we are not fail-safe, and sometimes a copyrighted item slips through. Then we count on users like you, who inform us of such a mistake (and of course, on several random tests we run ourselves periodically). We then proceed with checking the complaint, and if the item is found copyrighted, it is promptly removed, and revenue for this item is not calculated.
Indeed, today our check on the item in question was finished, and we have grounds to assume it is copyrighted. Therefore, it is permanently removed.
I would like to thank you again, and hope that in the future we have as few cases like this as we can.
Regarding your question on sharing – The “Share It!” feature allows submitting links to sharing and social bookmarking sites that are extremely popular these days. People can submit links to the images to sharing sites, and not the images themselves. If they download an image and submit it somewhere else, they are violating copyrights, but that has nothing to do with sharing links. I hope this answers your question.
I’ve got a couple of suggestions to make picable.com and triond.com a better site.
Picable.com:
* create a third section on the front page that does nothing but rotate in and out old content already on the website. The drop down box is fine, but unless people see the circulating content, it’s often out of sight, out of mind.
* create a navigation section that links the most active to their albums, thereby pushing content. Again, if the casual viewer comes across the site and doesn’t see active content beyond the newest uploads or favorites, it’s out of sight, out of mind and that’s lost revenue for the site as well as the content creator.
Triond.com:
* I’d like to see new ways of veiwing the “my content” statistics: search by sorting content (documents from pictures), search by best performance by hits and by money.
If you can determine what kind of content sells best to the audience, then there will be less wasted space on the server, less bandwidth usage, and more productive hits resulting in revenue for everyone.
Sue,
Thanks for your suggestions. They will all be taken into consideration in the upcoming Triond evolution.