FocalPower Looking for Alpha Users
Friday, November 30th, 2007The holidays are upon us. And FocalPower is has a gift for some adventurous souls. Over the past few months, we have been busy designing and building a professional grade photo sharing and management system. The past few years has seen an explosion of photo sharing solutions. All of these solutions seem to have themselves as the center of attention: it’s about them and their service. Not you and your photos. We feel this is wrong. The center of attention should be you and your photography! Every photographer needs to have a means of sharing his or her photographic work on the web. However, there are too many places that this can (and should) happen: your website, your blog, other’s blogs, forums, etc. Why should you have to deal with all of them individually? More importantly, why should you loose control of your photographic brand when you do share photos on these sites?
Core to FocalPower’s mission, is to enable photographers to share their images in a manner that maximizes their image’s quality while minimizing the photographer’s work. FocalPower’s service will allow a photographer to upload their photos and then share them in multiple locations that the photographer controls. Additionally, the photographer will be able to extend their photographic brand to each place they share their photos.
This is Professional Grade Photo Sharing! It’s about you and your photos.
Our mission also includes making your life easier. We realize that there are multiple sites on the Internet that are of value to you to place your images. Some of these sites require that you upload images directly to them. Why should you spend your precious time uploading images to multiple sites? Why should you have to loose your photographic brand when you do?
You shouldn’t! You should have a photo management system that can do that for you. Upload them once. Organize them once. Brand them once. Then have us push them out to other services for you. This frees you up to do what is important: creating more great photos!
FocalPower’s Initial Release — Alpha Users Wanted
We are a short ways away from releasing our service. However, before we just open up the flood gates we need a few adventurous souls who can help us test and improve the system. We are looking for alpha users to help us refine the initial features as we finish them.
While the alpha version won’t be perfect (what ever is?), it will be usable. And will be evolving quickly. We are looking for a hand full of dedicated users to put the system through its paces and provide us feedback. We can’t stress the feedback part enough! Those who do will receive a free one year subscription to the service once we release it to the public!
If you’re interested, please apply by filling out our online application. We will be contacting all applications shortly with more details.
And stay tuned, we’ll be releasing more details about the FocalPower service on the blog over the weeks.
