Found this PicScout Story Here:

PicScout Makes Image Credit Available to All for Free – Spurs Industry-wide Action to Credit Every Digital Image

Silicon Valley, CA and Dublin, Ireland – June 10, 2010 – CEPIC – Announcing at the worldwide CEPIC conference today, PicScout is making it free for digital images to be credited with ownership anywhere they appear. Introducing a no-fee fingerprinting and metadata registry participation in ImageIRC™ for use with ImageExchange™, PicScout with stock agencies and content creators can ensure that every image gets its proper credit. With today’s announcement, PicScout extends its role as creator of the de facto standard for image protection toward a new standard for global image recognition and promotion. By offering an easy-to-use tool at the point of every image encounter, PicScout enlarges and accelerates the image buyers market.

Today’s announcement also includes a special introductory promotion for stock agencies and individual photographers to use ImageExchange when they join ImageIRC during the month of June. ImageExchange automatically and directly connects a user from the point of image discovery to the licensor of that image.

PicScout is moving aggressively to fingerprint and give credit to every available digital image, which can ensure images are not classified as orphan images. PicScout has also created an agency-and-photographer-friendly pay-per-click model that includes direct links within the ImageExchange results box that provide one-click connections to license. Participating agencies will receive an allotment of free clicks each month – followed by a tiered pricing structure for additional clicks based upon the image’s licensing status: rights managed, royalty free and microstock images.

As part of the introductory pricing program, PicScout will provide an additional $1,000 or $500 in credits for those who contract by June 15 and June 30, respectively. This promotion enables all content creators to participate in a unique program without risk.

“PicScout aims at industry-wide adoption to credit every image on the Internet. We have made entry level image credit participation free to everyone and are confident that soon most images will have recognized credit and licensing connection through ImageIRC,” said Offir Gutelzon, PicScout CEO. “The pay-per-click model is used by leading stock agencies to drive leads through keyword-based advertising. PicScout has created an industry-customized, more affordable pay-per-click model that corresponds to specific images of interest to qualified image buyers. The modest investment sustains and even multiplies its value, since the image retains ownership recognition wherever it resides.”

ImageExchange users recognize images for sale because they see an “i” icon every time they encounter ImageIRC images. One click reveals the creator’s name and the license type, and another connects them to license and use images immediately. Every registered ImageIRC image is always credited with the creator information wherever it appears. Also, leading image application sites are working with PicScout to embed image credit with every image at their sites or within the application platform.

Agencies, photographers, artists and image owners wanting to participate in ImageIRC for ImageExchange can register their images for credit and connection to license at: http://www.picscout.com.

The ImageExchange tool, always free to install, is available at: http://imageexchange.picscout.com/download.

About PicScout

Founded in 2002, PicScout™ is the information company commanding the world’s largest index of fingerprinted and owner identified images, protecting and promoting images for use across digital platforms and devices through the company’s proprietary and highly scalable image recognition fingerprinting technology. The PicScout suite of products leverage the company’s ImageIRC™ platform, which includes ImageTracker™ and ImageExchange™ products, the ImageQualification™ service, and an open API for developers to create products and services to meet the demands of clients engaged in digital image use.
A financially independent, privately held company, PicScout has offices in the Silicon Valley, Herzliya, Israel and Tokyo, Japan. PicScout is a member of PACA www.pacaoffice.org, CEPIC www.cepic.org, and BAPLA www.bapla.org.uk.

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Technically Speaking, it’s good to read more …

I assume by the end of the weekend, the 1138 (I was 1139) followers will be in the neighborhood of 10 times more. Have you followed @finkd yet? What am I talking about? Well if you somehow just woke up, @finkd is the real Mark Zuckerberg. Apparently this so called secret account is no longer a secret after VentureBeat broke the news this morning.

While VB maintains, like other people do that search is going to make them money …

Which is funny, because Twitter’s real-time, open search capability is one of the features that Facebook seems intent on redesigning its site around. Twitter search could be a key way for the microblogging service to make money, because it helps you find current information that you care about based on what others are saying. As with Google, some fraction of such services involve a user’s intent to buy something, which is where advertisers want to be.

… and it’s a damn good guess. I’m going to back the position of old school business meets new school and utilizes a tried and tested formula as I blabbered on about in this morning’s siliconANGLE post I wrote ….

Think about it. All the parts are there. The VC’s are looking for a cash cow with a high user adoption rate. They are looking for something that will provide a consistent flow of money like an open water spigot. The music business has a high adoption rate of listeners. At one time, they controlled the water spigot. Right now twitter controls the water spigot with the same high and growing usage rate. They are the only game in town, your basic monopoly of the API. Understand now?

…. and Eric was lucky to be number 45 …

Right now, a range of current and former Facebook executives and associated tech types are some of the 44 people already following him (I just made myself number 45). Perhaps Zuckerberg will go cold as more people follow him? Or perhaps he’ll enjoy public sharing.

… as I just made 1139 as stated above!

Technically Speaking, what do you think the number of followers will be by Monday morning? I’m sure it will easily be 10 times the number now, maybe more!

The more twitter grows, the more people try to do something different with the API. Here is one that I thought was rather amusing. It’s called follow cost. After seeing this, you may not want to follow me!

Technically Speaking, the more we twitter and tweet, the more fun things that people will come up with.