“Fotolia has continued to be an innovative pioneer in the microstock space. They continue to democratize the microstock industry, keeping stock imagery affordable for small business owners, non-profit
organizations, and other groups that would otherwise not be able to afford the costs of licensing imagery associated with other companies,” says Lor, President of Fotolia, North America. “A major goal for Fotolia is the continued expansion of our offerings through strategic partnerships with businesses around the world. Garth proved his competency in our previous work together, and he will make a valuable addition to Fotolia's already talented team.”

Johnson will be responsible for overseeing business development and strategic partnership opportunities for Fotolia North America, which currently has a presence in 11 countries worldwide. He will be working with Lor and Fotolia's co-founder and CEO, Oleg Tscheltzoff, on continued expansion strategies for the company, which has nearly four million monthly unique visitors (comScore), more than five million images available for license and more than 1 million members worldwide.

“I've really admire Fotolia's strategy and innovation in the marketplace," adds Johnson, of his decision to join the Fotolia team. "They have remained true to their vision of providing the highest quality imagery to media buyers for the lowest possible cost, making it possible for small businesses to legally access stock imagery that, in many cases, is essential to the success of their business, for use in creation of brochures, advertisements, Web sites and other promotional materials. Now, more than ever, with small businesses struggling to compete, Fotolia is empowering the small and home business owner. It will be a pleasure to work with the team to ensure that more businesses have access to our image library through strategic partnerships in North America."

Johnson and Lor both joined the Fotolia team on the heels of the announcement of Fotolia's expansion into the microstock video market, which was launched on April 28.

About Fotolia
Fotolia.com is one of the world's leading providers of affordable stock imagery, with a database of over five million images and over one million international members. With web sites in 10 languages, Fotolia, LLC is based in New York and has offices in 11 countries. In 2007, Fotolia became the first independent microstock agency to enter the traditional stock marketplace with the launch of Fotolia Infinite Collections.

“Fotolia has continued to be an innovative pioneer in the microstock space. They continue to democratize the microstock industry, keeping stock imagery affordable for small business owners, non-profit organizations, and other groups that would otherwise not be able to afford the costs of licensing imagery associated with other companies,” says Lor, of his decision to join the team. “They also continue to make it possible for talented photographers to connect with an audience of potential buyers, without the hurdles and costs of traditional stock firms. It’s a pleasure to join such a talented global team, and I look forward to working with them on bringing the company even more success as we continue to expand and enter new ventures.”

Lor will be overseeing North American operations for Fotolia, which currently has a presence in 10 countries worldwide. He will be working with co-founder and CEO Oleg Tscheltzoff on continued expansion strategies for the company, which has nearly 4 million monthly unique visitors (comScore), more than five million images available for license and more than 1 million members worldwide.

“Patrick had tremendous success with his work at iStockPhoto, and I’ve always admired his talent and what he was able to achieve,” explains Fotolia co-founder and CEO Oleg Tscheltzoff, “Fotolia has seen a tremendous amount of growth over the past years, and we’ve continued to expand both our physical presence globally and our service offerings. We have a number of exciting projects in the pipeline and are thrilled to have Patrick on board to help us bring Fotolia to the next level of success.”

The hire announcement comes on the heels of Fotolia’s expansion into the microstock video market, which was announced on April 28.

Since its launch in November, 2005, Fotolia has grown to offer one of the world’s largest libraries of legal, micro-priced images on the Web, offering professional and amateur photographers the ability to connect with more than 500,000 media buyers worldwide – from small businesses and design firms to some of the world’s most recognizable brands. With the launch of its stock video offering, Fotolia continues to expand its reach into new markets, satisfying the needs of videographers and video buyers worldwide by providing high-quality, low-cost alternatives to traditional stock video offerings.

About Fotolia
Fotolia.com is one of the world's leading providers of affordable stock imagery, with a database of over five million images and over one million international members. With web sites in 10 languages, Fotolia, LLC is based in New York and has offices in 11 countries. In 2007, Fotolia became the first independent microstock agency to enter the traditional stock marketplace with the launch of Fotolia Infinite Collections. For more information, please visit www.fotolia.com.

Press Contact:
Michael Conner
Director of Communications
Fotolia, LLC
P: 541-704-0800
Michael@fotolia.com
www.fotolia.com

“Fotolia has been, for years, one of the world’s most trusted sources for high-quality, low-priced, legal imagery and illustration,” explains Oleg Tscheltzoff, co-founder and president of Fotolia, LLC. “In January, we began accepting submissions for stock video clips because of an overwhelming demand from our customers, and the submissions we’ve seen in just a few short weeks – more than 10,000 accepted clips – have shown us that Fotolia is able to attract some of the best videographers from around the world to license their work through our agency.”

Fotolia’s video collection features a wide variety of content – from animation and stop motion to digital film and traditional video. Clips range in size and length from 320 X 240 to 1920 X 1080, 24 – 30 frames per second, and 5 – 60 seconds long. These clips – including HD video clips – prices are starting for as little as $10. Contributors can learn more about the offering and register to begin submitting clips by logging on to http://us.fotolia.com/Info/Contents/Videos.

Since its launch in November, 2005, Fotolia has grown to offer one of the world’s largest libraries of legal, micro-priced images on the Web, offering professional and amateur photographers the ability to connect with more than 500,000 media buyers worldwide – from small businesses and design firms to some of the world’s most recognizable brands. With the launch of its stock video offering, Fotolia continues to expand its reach into new markets, satisfying the needs of videographers and video buyers worldwide by providing high-quality, low-cost alternatives to traditional stock video offerings.

About Fotolia

Fotolia, LLC, based in New York, with offices in 11 countries around the globe and offering Web sites in 10 languages, is one of the world's leading providers of micro-priced stock images. Launched in early November, 2005, Fotolia's image marketplace has acquired over five million images in its database and over one million international members. In December, 2007, Fotolia became the first independent microstock agency to enter the traditional stock marketplace, with the launch of Fotolia Infinite Collections. For more information about the company or to access the Fotolia Web site, visit www.fotolia.com.

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“Fotolia has been, for years, one of the world’s most trusted sources for high-quality, low-priced, legal imagery and illustration,” explains Oleg Tscheltzoff, co-founder and president of Fotolia, LLC. “In response to an overwhelming demand, Fotolia is announcing a call for video submissions. We are seeking thousands of videographers from around the world who would like to sell their footage and make money through their videography passion.”

Fotolia is looking for a wide variety of content submissions – from animation and stop motion to digital film and traditional video. Submissions should be 320 X 240 to 1920 X 1080, 24 – 30 frames per second, and 5 – 60 seconds long. Beginning in mid-February, Fotolia will begin licensing broadcast-quality footage, in a variety of digital formats, including HD video, for as little as $10. Contributors can learn more about the offering and register to begin submitting clips by logging on to http://us.fotolia.com/Info/Contents/Videos.

Since its launch in November, 2005, Fotolia has grown to offer one of the world’s largest libraries of legal, micro-priced images on the Web, offering professional and amateur photographers the ability to connect with more than 500,000 media buyers worldwide – from small businesses and design firms to some of the world’s most recognizable brands. With the launch of its stock video offering, Fotolia continues to expand its reach into new markets, satisfying the needs of videographers and video buyers worldwide by providing high-quality, low-cost alternatives to traditional stock video offerings.

About Fotolia

Fotolia, LLC, based in New York, with offices in ten countries around the globe and offering Web sites in nine languages, is one of the world's leading providers of micro-priced stock images. Launched in early November, 2005, Fotolia's image marketplace has acquired nearly 5 million images in its database and over 950,000 international members. In December, 2007, Fotolia became the first independent microstock agency to enter the traditional stock marketplace, with the launch of Fotolia Infinite Collections. For more information about the company or to access the Fotolia Web site, visit www.fotolia.com.
Press Contact:

Michael Conner
Director of Communications
Fotolia, LLC
P: 541-704-0800
Michael@fotolia.com
www.fotolia.com

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There will be a two-fold benefit to LCN customers through this alliance -- Customers will be able get three royalty free stock photograph credits at no cost from the world's largest and fastest growing databases of nearly 4.5 million micro-priced, royalty-free images. Not only that, once signed up with Fotolia, customers of LCN, will be entitled to a 10% bonus on every order placed with Fotolia from then on.

Mark Boost, Managing Director of LCN.com commented, "Both LCN and Fotolia are dedicated to providing their customers with the best products within our respective industries. With high quality imagery being such a top level need for quality web design, it was a natural decision for us to partner with Fotolia as our imagery provider.

"With Fotolia, we have gained a trusted partner that offers the largest image bank of free and affordable royalty free images. This announcement is something new and existing web design customers will be delighted to hear." Boost noted further.

"This partnership allows LCN customers deeply integrated access to Fotolia's database of nearly 4.5 million high-quality, micro-priced images, using Fotolia's Partner API. It also gives users a platform to generate their own revenue through the intuitive Fotolia system whereby commission is earned on images they submit to the Fotolia Web site," said Oleg Tscheltzoff, co-founder and president of Fotolia.
Find out more about the Fotolia offer and LCN Web Hosting packages below:

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About LCN.com
LCN is one of the top UK domain and hosting providers with over 40,000 hosting customers and over 350,000 domain names registered since its launch in 2000.

About Fotolia:
Fotolia, LLC, based in New York, with offices in nine countries around the globe and offering Web sites in eight languages, is the world's largest provider of micro-priced stock images. Launched in early November, 2005, Fotolia's image marketplace has acquired nearly 4.5 million images in its database and over 850,000 international members. In December, 2007, Fotolia became the first independent microstock agency to enter the traditional stock marketplace, with the launch of Fotolia Infinite Collections. For more information about the company or to access the Fotolia Web site, visit www.fotolia.com.

SlideRocket unveiled its pricing -- with discounts available for a limited time -- as well as a set of collaboration features aimed at business users who commonly share presentations. In addition, it is debuting the SlideRocket Marketplace: an online store for browsing and buying presentation-related content and services.

"SlideRocket provides a new experience for presentation users at every level," said Mitch Grasso, CEO and Co-founder of SlideRocket. "By integrating powerful authoring tools, intelligent asset management, secure sharing, and presentation metrics in an easy-to-use Internet application, SlideRocket caters to every part of the presentation life cycle and empowers users to break free from the tired traditions and models of today's presentation solutions."

SlideRocket Redefines the Presentation Experience

With SlideRocket, users have access to their presentations both online and offline, with consistent results in any Internet browser (Windows, Mac OS and Linux) from any location.
SlideRocket incorporates:

• professional authoring tools
  
• intelligent management of rich media assets
  
• secure sharing and publishing
  
• collaboration
  
• an extensible architecture
  
• presentation metrics
  
• a marketplace of content & services
  
• online and offline playback of presentations
  
• a simple, easy-to -use interface
  

Designed with the business user in mind, SlideRocket enables working teams to collaboratively author slide decks, manage and share a visual library of presentations slides and assets, track versions, assign user rights, automatically update content across the organization, and conduct web meetings. This unique set of features results in streamlined content creation, greater organizational awareness and significantly improved reuse of intellectual property saving time and resources.

SlideRocket's wealth of features has resonated with early users: "SlideRocket redefines the way we think about presentations. It's easy to use, powerful and elegant, I love it!" said Irene Chiu, a Consumer Solutions Strategist in Sony's Media Software and Services division.

SlideRocket Availability and Pricing
SlideRocket is available immediately at www.sliderocket.com. A free version, with basic functionality, is available on an ongoing basis. In addition, for a limited time, SlideRocket is offering introductory discounted pricing on its enhanced versions:

• SlideRocket Individual, normally $15 per month is now $10 / month with an annual commitment.
  
• SlideRocket Business, designed for team use, normally $30 / user / month is now $20.00 / user / month with an annual commitment.
  

The SlideRocket Marketplace™ Streamlines Access to Services and Content

SlideRocket also announced today a set of initial partner providers for the SlideRocket Marketplace, a store within SlideRocket where users can browse and buy a wide variety of digital presentation assets (photos, illustrations, icons, themes, video, audio, etc.) and services such as printing & delivery, graphic design, copy writing, editing, presentation coaching, resource rentals, and more.

Charter partners include Mimeo, the online leader for digital printing, binding and shipping documents right from your computer, Fotolia, a leading provider of royalty-free stock photos with over 4.3 million assets, and PresentationPro, a market expert in presentation templates and graphics.

About SlideRocket:
SlideRocket is committed to delivering the best presentation experience to individuals and businesses around the world through innovative and compelling software-as-a-service (SaaS). By providing the most complete and integrated presentation solution, SlideRocket empowers users to make great presentations.

"We are pleased to be announcing our four millionth image,” says co-founder and president Oleg Tscheltzoff. “Fotolia has, since conception, prided ourselves in bringing together top photographers and illustrators with a wide variety of media buyers. We are thrilled to be able to spotlight the work of a Fotolia photographer with our own milestone. Without our photographers, we would not have had the success we have today, as one of the world’s leading providers of high-quality, micro-priced images.”

Fotolia’s contributors range from amateur enthusiasts who use the site to supplement their incomes or for the chance to see their work in print or online, to professional photographers who make generous incomes as full-time microstock contributors. Fotolia has also attracted photographers from some of the world’s largest and best-reputed agencies as contributors, due to our broad variety of media buyers.

Since its launch in November, 2005, Fotolia has grown to offer the world’s largest library of legal, micro-priced images on the Web. Professional and amateur photographers alike have the ability to connect with more than 300,000 media buyers – ranging from small home businesses to the world’s top brands.

About Fotolia:

Fotolia, LLC, based in New York, with offices in nine countries around the globe and offering Web sites in eight languages, is the world's largest provider of micro-priced stock images. Launched in early November, 2005, Fotolia's image marketplace has acquired over 4 million images in its database and over 750,000 international members. In December, 2007, Fotolia became the first independent microstock agency to enter the traditional stock marketplace, with the launch of Fotolia Infinite Collections. For more information about the company or to access the Fotolia Web site, visit www.fotolia.com.

Press Contact:

Michael Conner
Director of Communications
Fotolia, LLC
P: 541-704-0800
http://www.fotolia.com
michael@fotolia.com
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"The Fotolia corporate subscription service grants customers complete
control over media buying, enabling account owners to manage multiple
users within a single organization tied to a central account."
explains Oleg Tscheltzoff, co-founder and president of Fotolia, LLC.
"This allows corporations more control over tracking microstock
purchases without the need to open multiple accounts. As always, our
goal is to offer the highest-quality imagery to our buyers, by
attracting the best professional and amateur photographers in the
world and offering solutions that meet the media buying industry's
needs."

Corporations wishing to enroll in the subscription service will be
able to tie unlimited user IDs to a central account, which will make
media purchases and itemization much more efficient. Through a central
account, multiple users will also be able to access a central bank of
credits for media purchases, without the need for an accounting
department to monitor remaining credits on multiple accounts.

The packages offer customers ease of use, giving the administrator of
the account total control over the media buying process. Features
include the flexibility to download 25 to 250 images per day,
automatic renewal of your subscription, unlimited number of users, and
flexible subscription options for your organization's needs. For more
information on the service, or to subscribe, visit
http://us.fotolia.com/Info/Subscription.

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About Fotolia:
Fotolia, LLC, based in New York, with offices in nine countries around
the globe and offering Web sites in eight languages, is the world's
largest provider of micro-priced stock images. Launched in early
November, 2005, Fotolia's image marketplace has acquired nearly 4
million images in its database and over 750,000 international members.
In December, 2007, Fotolia became the first independent microstock
agency to enter the traditional stock marketplace, with the launch of
Fotolia Infinite Collections. For more information about the company
or to access the Fotolia Web site, visit www.fotolia.com

Press Contact

Michael Conner
Global Director of Communications
Fotolia, LLC
P: 541-704-0800
www.fotolia.com
michael@fotolia.com

The partnership integrates Fotolia's collection of nearly 4 million
images directly into the pingg platform and seamlessly powers the pingg
Plus+ application. The API is integrated into the site allowing users to
license an image from the Fotolia database for a fee directly through the
pingg site.

pingg Plus+ provides consumers a truly unique opportunity to design
fully customized online and print invitations. Hosts can search for then
select a unique image from the Fotolia collection. Once an image is chosen,
a host can utilize cropping and layout tools to further customize their
online and/or print invitations.

"This partnership grants pingg's users on-demand access to our database
of high-quality stock images and gives Fotolia the ability to further
expand our offerings through strategic partnerships with innovative Web
companies," says Oleg Tscheltzoff, co-founder and president of Fotolia,
LLC. "Fotolia's image collection will give pingg users deeply integrated
access to images for use in their custom invitations."

Our Business API allows partners to integrate and offer Fotolia
services to their customers. This is an ideal solution for companies who
want to produce customized on demand items for their clients in an
automated fashion.

"Fotolia has built an incredible collection of high-quality images.
Partnering with them," stated Lorien Gabel, Co-Founder/CEO of pingg,
"enables us to offer the pingg consumer the widest selection of images
anywhere for designing and personalizing their online and print
invitations."

About Fotolia

Fotolia, LLC, based in New York, with offices in nine countries around
the globe and offering Web sites in eight languages, is the world's largest
provider of micro-priced stock images. Launched in early November, 2005,
Fotolia's image marketplace has acquired more than 3.7 million images in
its database and nearly 700,000 international members. In December, 2007,
Fotolia became the first independent microstock agency to enter the
traditional stock marketplace, with the launch of Fotolia Infinite
Collections. For more information about the company or to access the
Fotolia Web site, visit http://www.fotolia.com

About Pingg.com

Based in New York, pingg.com was launched in March '08 by brothers
Lorien Gabel and Matt Harrop. Lorien and Matt are CEO and CTO respectively.
Their third business venture together, pingg.com is a new, free online
invitation and event management platform that lets image conscious hosts
seamlessly create, send and manage stylish online and print invitations
from one platform and then follow-up via email, SMS, web and Facebook. The
platform also features advanced list management and reporting tools,
gift/charity registries and more. For additional information, visit
pingg.com.

Press Contact Fotolia:

Michael Conner
Global Director of Communications
Fotolia, LLC
d: 541-704-0800
michael@fotolia.com

Press Contact pingg:

Margo Spiritus
pingg.com
VP, Marketing & Business Development
(w) 646.277.7348
(c) 917.757.9241
skype: margospiritus
mspiritus@pingg.com

It was just amazing the way she would recapture the essence of beauty, form, and substance of by gone ages that continue to influence the way we work today. She shared with us the story behind the images she worked on, adding the emotional touch to her work.

The way she would give the face energy and individuality by applying those fine details to render the expression of the soul was the part of the seminar that I enjoyed the most.

If you have the chance of attending this seminar I would encourage you to do it!

In my case, the mood of William Shakespeare reminds me of spring. In a humorous and lyrical way he would create and capture the essence of the spring season.

With the emotional change of the beautiful aspects of spring he would emphasize his feelings and fears. Shakespeare would imply everything we understand about the seasons of the year in our lives and the phenomena of spring.

It is the effect of what we have seen, heard, smelled, tasted, and felt internally that brings the SPRING season to life. So now is your turn to share with us the images of your spring memories.

If you are looking for more spring inspirations click here.

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