WHY PICTARINE IS AN ULTIMATE SOCIAL PHOTOS PLATFORM

Only a couple of nights ago, I was checking my web albums and getting distort while managing all my photos on various platforms and social media channels separately and independently. I murmured in disgust- why can't we have all my pictures and web albums at one place? The very next day, I bumped into a web post about Pictarine. After reading about Pictarine, I told myself that this web app is certainly worth trying, and guess what I'm ecstatic about my Pictarine experience, Simply Fantastic !!

Pictarine Album Snapshot

 In one sentence, Pictarine is an ultimate social photos web platform. I think, the more I'm playing with it, the more features I'm unleashing about it. With the extra ordinary number of photo storing and sharing solutions online, it’s most of the times really cumbersome to manage all your pictures. Obviously, the need of the hour is one stop solution for everything that can pull out all your pictures from every single photo sharing channel you are using, and club them together in order to manage efficiently, this is exactly where Pictarine comes into picture.

In my opinion, Pictarine is such a powerful web app. It pulls in all your photos from your various web channels and combines them at one place, and most importantly, it is web based, no more software downloads just an online login. Awesome, isn't it? On top of it you can select pictures from various photo sharing services and create a new virtual album, which in the Pictarine world called as a Zest, and then share with your network. What makes it even more fascinating is- the collaboration function. Once you shared an virtual album, people can add their own photos !!

Pictarine pulled photos from my Facebook

 Pictarine has a simple user interface and easy to understand buttons that makes the entire user experience a pleasure. It backs-up the pictures real fast and when you are inside the album you will see various options such as- Download, Open in Service (Flick, Facebook etc.), Slideshow, Invite to create Zest and many more.

From my side, Pictarine gets a big thumps up !! My advice- Go and start playing it today...

Here is a short video about Pictarine, check it out:

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STARTUP CLONES IN TECH INDUSTRY: AN OPINION

These days there is much hype about one of the perils of the startup business – clones !! These clone companies are spying the popular web platforms, analyze them till the core, design a ditto skeletal, develop them, find a new market for such a service and then launch a clone company in the new identified market. 

No body likes copied ideas, of course for the obvious reasons, but what I admire the most is the perfection these clone companies have in building those existing ideas and their unmatched flawless execution. Yes, you heard me right, execution is probably their (Clone Companies) biggest strength.

 

An entrepreneur will most certainly understand the importance of execution, execution is the bridge between an idea and the final product, if we talk in context of techpreneurs. And one may argue that the whole internet world is based on the ideas which were already existing. Certainly, copying is not new, but what really becomes a scoop is when a copied idea becomes so popular that the discoverer or the inventor of the original idea starts taking notice of the clone. Also, one cannot deny the fact that the internet is virtually an open source world, if someone created a website, you too can, hence, even though it might be copying; if you can develop a better website than you will have more traffic, simple isn't it? Well, it might be simple if it were just a website, but when it comes to web platforms such as huge business, it becomes dirty.

I cannot stop myself from mentioning the Samwer trio who have been labelled as the German clone machine for churning out web startups in European markets that are being copied from American web based platforms. Alexander, Marc, and Oliver Samwer are the three German brothers behind the infamous incubator Rocket Internet. Internet heavyweights like Pinterest, Amazon, Fab, and Groupon have all fallen victim to the Samwer brothers, of course I beg to differ and I don't claim anyone to be anyone's victim, and going by the speculations "Square" is next !! Samwer brothers have been tagged as the startup clone machine, what media especially love to call them, but trust me they are hardly the only ones involved. Russian-based Fast Lane Ventures has also been known for doing so. It’s home to PinMe – one can easily guess what that is – and a Zappos clone is sold to another larger Zappos clone called Sapatos (vicious circle??).

I consider Samwer brothers unarguably intelligent, business-minded, and tech-savvy, but many consider them to be nothing more than pirates of the web startups who rake in the millions. Most importantly, they (the Samwers) don't deny the fact that they copy ideas. I think deep down every business associated to the internet knows that copying is part of the internet era, if one has to name it as copying, but what probably differentiates a successful clone company from the unsuccessful one is the flawless execution. Personally, I really applaud Samwer brothers and their incubator Rocket Internet for being a specialist in starting an already existing (as in outside Europe) business in the European market and then making it such a huge success that the original company had to pay money to acquire their European clones. Yes, we can call a lot of names for copying the ideas, but hey, no one beats their execution. In fact, in some cases they have done better than the original ideas in a very short span of time. So, give some credit for their business skills at least !!

As far as the cloning of web startups is concerned in the year 2009, Facebook sued StudiVZ. The site was a complete copy of the early Facebook, and Mark Zuckerberg sued it on the grounds of intellectual property theft. Facebook lost the case badly!! It’s a perfect example that with all the fame in the world and a formidable case, it is still incredibly difficult to win in these situations. So, looks like it came down to the reality that internet world is no one's property. Good or bad, the argument will continue, but i tried to pick the best out of the current scenario in this article. In any case, do leave a comment about what you think of the whole situation.

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