Fotki is a digital photo sharing, video sharing and media social network website and web service suite. In many ways, the site appears to have much in common with different popular photo sites, which share a number of so-called Web 2.0 features such as usage of Ajax, tagging, support for RSS feeds, social bookmarking, GPS location information and Exif info display, whose most cited example is Flickr.
The service offers unlimited storage space for digital images to Premium (i.e., paid) account holders and also to free account holders from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia. It also offers blogging (similar to LiveJournal or Blogger), online ordering of prints and selling of prints at custom prices, as-well as email and co-branding.
Fotki community tools allow tagging photos and videos, detailed profiling, saving and organizing links (similar to del.icio.us), as well as photo and member search using folksonomic tools.
As of July 2006, Fotki claims to have over 880 thousand registered members from 241 countries and houses over 100 million unique digital pictures. It ranks in the 900s in popularity by Alexa (compared to the 90s—lower rankings indicate more popular web sites—for Flickr owned by Yahoo and offering similar functionality).
Fotki has accounts of two types: Free and Premium. Free accounts come with basic Fotki features and have a 50 MB storage space limit and additional 10 MB every month. Premium accounts come with unlimited storage space and advanced features and tools. Not only Premiums accounts have no ads, but also logged-in Premium members can view free members' pages with no ads. Fotki Premium membership regular annual fee is US $50. Seasonal discounts and special offers are available. A new Fotki member automatically gets a two-week free Trial Premium membership.
History
Fotki was founded by Dmitri Don, Fotki current President and CEO, and Katrin Lilleoks as a privately held company in 1998. The site was created for sharing digital photos with friends and relatives living in different countries, who could browse photos and comment on them as well as upload their own. In 2001, the commercial version was launched. Since 2003, Fotki is a registered trade mark in the USA. Since March 2004, Fotki Inc. OÜ registered in Estonia represents Fotki Inc. in EU.
Etymology
In Slavic languages, like Russian and Polish, 'fotki' (pronounced with an unstressed ) is short for '‘photos’'. It is easy to follow a word-chain: ‘photography’ – ‘photos’ – ‘fotos’ – ‘fotki’. English speakers sometime interpret the word as 'photokit'.
Community
Fotki serves a few basic functions: storing and sharing images, printing and selling photos and being a platform for media social network - a social network organized around media-sharing connections.
* Fotki users have tools to hierarchically organize photos in albums and folders, tag photos and videos, as well as to geotag albums and individual photos in close integration with Google Maps using a feature called FotkiMap. Album holder can invite his friends to view an album directly from this album: to email an invitation to visit it or to invite via an instant messenger to view the slideshow together.
* Fotki community tools allow adding members as friends and sharing albums with them. Viewable profiles ("About Me" page) and member search make it possible to find members of interest; guest book with public and private messaging serves for communicating.
* Fotki has most-viewed and-most-active sections to feature its members. Since 2003, ca. 20 photo contests are held annually.
The service offers unlimited storage space for digital images to Premium (i.e., paid) account holders and also to free account holders from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia. It also offers blogging (similar to LiveJournal or Blogger), online ordering of prints and selling of prints at custom prices, as-well as email and co-branding.
Fotki community tools allow tagging photos and videos, detailed profiling, saving and organizing links (similar to del.icio.us), as well as photo and member search using folksonomic tools.
As of July 2006, Fotki claims to have over 880 thousand registered members from 241 countries and houses over 100 million unique digital pictures. It ranks in the 900s in popularity by Alexa (compared to the 90s—lower rankings indicate more popular web sites—for Flickr owned by Yahoo and offering similar functionality).
Fotki has accounts of two types: Free and Premium. Free accounts come with basic Fotki features and have a 50 MB storage space limit and additional 10 MB every month. Premium accounts come with unlimited storage space and advanced features and tools. Not only Premiums accounts have no ads, but also logged-in Premium members can view free members' pages with no ads. Fotki Premium membership regular annual fee is US $50. Seasonal discounts and special offers are available. A new Fotki member automatically gets a two-week free Trial Premium membership.
History
Fotki was founded by Dmitri Don, Fotki current President and CEO, and Katrin Lilleoks as a privately held company in 1998. The site was created for sharing digital photos with friends and relatives living in different countries, who could browse photos and comment on them as well as upload their own. In 2001, the commercial version was launched. Since 2003, Fotki is a registered trade mark in the USA. Since March 2004, Fotki Inc. OÜ registered in Estonia represents Fotki Inc. in EU.
Etymology
In Slavic languages, like Russian and Polish, 'fotki' (pronounced with an unstressed ) is short for '‘photos’'. It is easy to follow a word-chain: ‘photography’ – ‘photos’ – ‘fotos’ – ‘fotki’. English speakers sometime interpret the word as 'photokit'.
Community
Fotki serves a few basic functions: storing and sharing images, printing and selling photos and being a platform for media social network - a social network organized around media-sharing connections.
* Fotki users have tools to hierarchically organize photos in albums and folders, tag photos and videos, as well as to geotag albums and individual photos in close integration with Google Maps using a feature called FotkiMap. Album holder can invite his friends to view an album directly from this album: to email an invitation to visit it or to invite via an instant messenger to view the slideshow together.
* Fotki community tools allow adding members as friends and sharing albums with them. Viewable profiles ("About Me" page) and member search make it possible to find members of interest; guest book with public and private messaging serves for communicating.
* Fotki has most-viewed and-most-active sections to feature its members. Since 2003, ca. 20 photo contests are held annually.
The Pinecrest Speech and Debate team is a National Forensics League chapter centered at Pinecrest High School in Southern Pines, North Carolina. The team has seen extreme success in recent years in both local tournaments at area high schools and in national tournaments, such as the Harvard National and The Florida Blue Key Invitational. The team has also qualified students to the NFL national tournament. Since 2006, the team has also been a member of the NCFL, sending several students on to the National Catholic Forensics league tournament in Texas.
The team is coached by Libby Carter, who was profiled in the NFL's Rostrum magazine in February 2007. She is assisted by newly appointed assistant coach Robert Sheard as well as many extremely helpful parents and teachers.
The team competes in events including Dramatic Interpretation, Humorous Interpretation, Duo Interpretation, Extemporaneous Speaking, Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Oral Interpretation, Original Oratory, Public Forum Debate and Student Congress. It has historically not competed in Policy or CX debate as it does not consider them legitimate forms of debate. The team has also sent delegates to the Model United Nations simulation at Methodist University since it began in 2006. In 2007 Pinecrest sent two teams to the annual Wade Edwards Mock Trial Competition, one coached by local lawyer Bruce Cunningham and another by Prosecutor and long time debate supporter Tony Berk. The Pinecrest Gold team, coached by Mr. Berk, won second place at the event. In 2008 Pinecrest intends to send one team coached by Mr. Berk.
As of 2007, the team has also established the Moore County Middle School Debate League, in order to give middle schoolers the ability to expand their horizons through participation in public speaking and debate. The team sent veteran students to many area middle schools in order to teach and assist middle-schoolers in research, speech writing, and presentation. Pinecrest hosted the first ever Moore County Middle School Debate Tournament on November 17, 2007 in which 6th, 7th, and 8th graders competed along side novice freshman debaters in events including Impromptu Speaking, Interpretation Events, Original Oratory, Student Congress, and Public Forum Debate. The league intends to hold another tournament in Spring 2008, with sponsorship and support from the local English Speaking Union chapter.
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The team is coached by Libby Carter, who was profiled in the NFL's Rostrum magazine in February 2007. She is assisted by newly appointed assistant coach Robert Sheard as well as many extremely helpful parents and teachers.
The team competes in events including Dramatic Interpretation, Humorous Interpretation, Duo Interpretation, Extemporaneous Speaking, Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Oral Interpretation, Original Oratory, Public Forum Debate and Student Congress. It has historically not competed in Policy or CX debate as it does not consider them legitimate forms of debate. The team has also sent delegates to the Model United Nations simulation at Methodist University since it began in 2006. In 2007 Pinecrest sent two teams to the annual Wade Edwards Mock Trial Competition, one coached by local lawyer Bruce Cunningham and another by Prosecutor and long time debate supporter Tony Berk. The Pinecrest Gold team, coached by Mr. Berk, won second place at the event. In 2008 Pinecrest intends to send one team coached by Mr. Berk.
As of 2007, the team has also established the Moore County Middle School Debate League, in order to give middle schoolers the ability to expand their horizons through participation in public speaking and debate. The team sent veteran students to many area middle schools in order to teach and assist middle-schoolers in research, speech writing, and presentation. Pinecrest hosted the first ever Moore County Middle School Debate Tournament on November 17, 2007 in which 6th, 7th, and 8th graders competed along side novice freshman debaters in events including Impromptu Speaking, Interpretation Events, Original Oratory, Student Congress, and Public Forum Debate. The league intends to hold another tournament in Spring 2008, with sponsorship and support from the local English Speaking Union chapter.
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Isabella Soric (born February 18, 1988 in Furth, Germany) is an actress who stars in the Disney Channel Germany series Kurze Pause. She also competed in the 2007 Disney Channel Games as a member of the blue team. According to her bebo page, she is friends with such actors as Emily Osment, Miley Cyrus, Jason Dolley, and Kyle Massey. Her favorite bands include the Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Fall Out Boy. Her favorite sports include basketball and volleyball.
Infinity Cat Recordings is an independent record label from Nashville, Tennessee. Started and run in the basement of the home of Jamin, Jake, and Robert Ellis Orrall in 2002 – the latter being a thirty-year music business veteran. The roster of acts includes Cake Bake Betty, JEFF, be your own PET, Monkey Bowl, Skyblazer and Lindsi Weaver. Infinity Cat artists have enjoyed national press from The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, The New Yorker, NPR and more. Distribution has been internet-based for both CD sales and downloads, and direct to record stores through CIMS/AIMS/junketboy,and they have done licensing and/or partnership deals with Rough Trade, XL and others for artists/masters on the label.
Bands
*Andy West
*Art Circus
*be your own PET
*Cake Bake Betty
*El Rick Haun
*Jake Latakas Orrall
*JEFF
*Jimmy Cushman?
*Lindsi Weaver
*Mike Rodgers
*Monkey Bowl
*Pluppy The Puppy
*Prom Night
*Skyblazer
*Snug
*Something Jones
*Stoneham Tapes
*Tennessee Black Plague
*The Bastard Son Of Travis Bickle
*The Sex
*Twin Compulsions
Bands
*Andy West
*Art Circus
*be your own PET
*Cake Bake Betty
*El Rick Haun
*Jake Latakas Orrall
*JEFF
*Jimmy Cushman?
*Lindsi Weaver
*Mike Rodgers
*Monkey Bowl
*Pluppy The Puppy
*Prom Night
*Skyblazer
*Snug
*Something Jones
*Stoneham Tapes
*Tennessee Black Plague
*The Bastard Son Of Travis Bickle
*The Sex
*Twin Compulsions