DOWNLOADS: 30k and counting!

DOWNLOADS: 30k and counting!

In a previous post  I wrote about being approved for a Google AdSense account. A few months into the program and I can say that for us at AND Inc.,  AdSense is more about overall web relevance than actual (monthly) revenue. That is why we keep ads...
FORECASTS: the Bad the Good and the Hope

FORECASTS: the Bad the Good and the Hope

First a disclosure: It is not sour grapes that interrupted my day-job, pushing me to write this post. Nor it is April Fools. It is however an article in The Wall Street Journal titled “Top 10 dying Industries”, where I had the unpleasant surprise to find close to home...
MICROSTOCK: as seen on TV

MICROSTOCK: as seen on TV

I have a confession to make: in my younger years I was (and for different reasons still am) a fan of Erich von Däniken. For the ones serious enough to avoid a conversation about the UFO phenomenon or as Carl Sagan called the subject “extraordinary claims in need of...
MICROSTOCK: coins versus paper

MICROSTOCK: coins versus paper

(This post continues “MICROSTOCK: the beginning” and shares our experience at AND Inc. in trading visual content, within one of the most innovative and successful online industries over the last years.) By the end of 2006, our microstock honeymoon was over. After the...