By chris | Published:
April 15, 2011
I’ve been extensively browsing through StockPodium testing the visual similarity search and something really interesting struck me. It might be a natural move but many times when people encounter problems they instinctively touch their head. Have you noticed yourself doing that? Have that in mind next time you face a problem. You may end up in one of these positions:
Frustrated businessman. Financial crisis
Business woman with hand on head reading a dairy
Senior couple working with laptop at home
Woman lying on living room floor surrounded with bills
By Georgi | Published:
April 5, 2011
The tragedy in Japan reminds us that nothing can withstand the great powers of nature. Even a highly developed country barely recovers after 9.0 earthquake, huge tsunami and nuclear crisis.
While still a young company, we believe we can help to the recovery of the devasteted parts of Japan. Every help counts! That’s why we decided to introduce our StockCharity initiative. From now on selected images in StockPodium, related to some current or emerging problems and challenges (both global and local), will be marked with our special icon 
“camera with a heart“. For every download of such an image we donate 10% of the sale price to a trusted charity devoted to solving the challenge or the problem.
That way every time you download a picture that illustrates the problem, you become part of the solution!
For our first StockCharity campaign – Japan Relief – donations go directly to the Japanese Red Cross.
We will continue to keep a close eye on the topics that concern our well being as humanity and reflect them in StockCharity campaigns. We truly believe that even a small act of giving and compassion can make a big difference! We need you to join us and spread the word as it is in giving that we receive most!
By chris | Published:
April 1, 2011
Something that we’ve been waiting to announce for so long – now you can buy images directly from StockPodium.
StockPodium is aiming to be your preferred micro-stock image search destination. We offer a great collection of stock images to chose from and state of the art search tools.
Buying Images Made Easy
It’s really easy. You need credits to buy the images you want. There are several advantages of using credits instead of directly buying images
- you can preload your account with credits (they come in credit packages – from really small to huge ones) and easily download the image you want without the need to go through the buying process over and over again.
- more secure way of buying images – we charge your PayPal/credit card only when you buy credits and you get just one invoice, which also means less paper work at the end of the month.
To buy credits go to the Buy Credits page. Here you can choose the credit plan that best suites your needs and start downloading images in just 3 minutes.
Search Made Easy
Searching for an image is the most probable way of using StockPodium. Text search is what you are used to when searching for images. No need to explain how it works. With StockPodium you can do much more using visual search options straight from the home page. There are several ways you can search using an image as visual example:
- Upload an image - upload an image from your computer and StockPodium will return images that are visually similar to the uploaded one. Filtering your results by adding keywords or using the advanced image filter option can be done to further improve the search results and find the image you are looking for.
- Paste URL – paste the URL of an image in the search box and StockPodium will return visually similar images as result. As you expect filters can be applied in this case as well.
- Click on the Visual Search icon in search results – this might be the easiest way to apply visual similarity search, experiment and find visually promising image results.
Try visual similarity search, buy some images from StockPodium!
By chris | Published:
March 22, 2011
Pavel, our creative director has done a great job redesigning our business cards and company brochure. We are set and ready for some extensive networking!
We also have a new brochure showcasing our services:
By chris | Published:
March 7, 2011
During this week (March 1-5) Georgi and Chris were in Hannover for CeBIT. It was pretty intense with lots of business meetings and possible new partnerships. Most of the events were in German, but it’s good everybody speaks English, so face to face communication is what really matters for exhibitions as CeBIT.
Our stand was in Hall 6, next to WebCiety Forum, so we were able to listen to the plenary panels (the ones in English) and also meet people to showcase the visual similarity technology and StockPodium.
Our business card was big hit – people really liked it. Somebody even stolen the card holder with all the cards on it!
CeBIT is well known with the great company parties after the face closes for visitors – another great way to meet people and talk about technology, start-ups, big deals, a bit of fun, a bit of wine and beer…