Google announces WebM open media format

At Google I/O conference: WebM, a new project that will attempt to offer a standard, open format for audio and video on the web.

WebM includes:

• VP8, a high-quality video codec we are releasing today under a BSD-style, royalty-free license


• Vorbis, an already open source and broadly implemented audio codec


• a container format based on a subset of the Matroska media container

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Extended lincense sold

First EL this month: underworld :-)

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Earn extra cash for every image accepted on Veer, until June 30

Earn extra cash for every image accepted. Veer Marketplace is launching an exciting new campaign that rewards you for being a part of the Veer community. From May 5,2 010 until June 30, 2010, you’ll receive a cash incentive – up to $1.40 – for every image uploaded and accepted. The more you submit, the more you’ll earn per image. Plus, you’ll continue to earn royalties for every future sale.

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April 2010 earnings breakdown

Overall better than month ago but far from BME. Good news is that SS made new record and dominated results this month. Second time this year I got BME form SS which is really good start. Let's look at other top 5 guys. 123RF came second. Great result in comparison to last year but after BME in January it cannot repeat its success and it is going slightly down every month. Still much better than others. Fotolia grows, slowly but steadily. It is enough be be third. Surprising result form CSP due to one Fotosearch Medium Regular sales. It happened after a month of no activity. DT is really down. Something is going on there, I got unusually high rejection rates and almost no growth in sales. IS on the other hand seems to grow. It is still 1/15th of what SS does but it is way better that last year. I wish ThinkStock result were posted faster cause it is now almost half of normal IS sales.


Apr Apr/mar
SS 63.91% 135.89%
123RF 10.12% 76.13%
FT 8.71% 159.99%
CSP 5.10% 4700.00%
DT 5.09% 50.32%
IS 5.08% 84.18%
BS 1.45% 80.00%
CS 0.54% 120.00%
108.13%


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Let's look at 2010 trends:
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Steve Jobs email response generator

It looks like somebody figured out that all this recent email responses from Steve Jobs are generated by a bot :-)

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Three extended licenses sold in one day

Never happened to me before. It looks like somebody needed photos of California missions :-)


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Zoonar and Polylooks content offer

The first 200,000 images to be uploaded to Zoonar and then also accepted as image content for Polylooks will receive 0.15€ per image! Your images are provided on a non-exclusive basis, that means you can still make them available through other channels/platforms There’s only one condition to get your cash is: The photographer details that you give to Zoonar will be passed onto Polylooks image portal. Also the images are to be sold on a royalty free basis. The offer will end as soon as 200,000 images are accepted by Polylooks. You will be able to follow the daily update of the running total by visiting the Zoonar website.

Here’s how it works:

1. Register with Zoonar


2. In your Profile area, click to accept the partner "Polylooks"


3. Upload your images with the cost-free Media Manager from Zoonar


4. Activate ‘Royalty Free Licence’ for all your images


5. Assign clearance to your images that have successfully passed the Zoonar editorial check

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