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DeviantArt blends in Fotolia stock-art business

DeviantArt, a social network used by 15 million artists, is adding a commercial component through a partnership with stock-art sales site Fotolia.

Under the partnership, DeviantArt members have options both to license Fotolia imagery for their own use and to sell their own works through Fotolia's system, the companies plan to announce today.

Some aspects of the partnership haven't been hammered out, but DeviantArt wants to launch special collections for those who want a more flavorful departure from traditional microstock imagery. The site also hopes to channel a larger fraction of the resulting revenue to artists than is … Read more

Daily Tidbits: Election, Palin top '08 topics

Yedda, a social answers service, announced that it has celebrated its first anniversary with AOL since its acquisition in 2007. Coupled with that announcement, the company released its most popular queries of 2008. It determined that the most inquired topics of the year were the presidential election, and the "Zac Effron vs. Robert Pattinson hotness" debate. President Obama's 30-minute infomercial spawned 1,800 answers, while Sarah Palin's nomination speech collected 1,880 responses. The favorite movie of the year, based on Yedda's findings, was The Dark Knight.

Fotolia, a company that provides and sells stock … Read more

Underexposed blog: Links of the day

Breakthrough of the Year 2007: Science magazine. Winner: human genetic variation. "Equipped with faster, cheaper technologies for sequencing DNA and assessing variation in genomes on scales ranging from one to millions of bases, researchers are finding out how truly different we are from one another." Vaporware 2007: Long Live the King. Wired's annual vaporware awards. Top 2007 tech flops--Fortune. I have a finite appetite for year-end lists, but schadenfreude never gets old. Fotolia announces "The Infinite Collection." Fotolia, a microstock, is getting a little macrostocky. Partnership with higher-end agencies; premium pricing for Fotolia but cheaper … Read more