DailyBooth
Encyclopedia
DailyBooth is a photoblog
ging website designed for users to take a photo of themselves every day with a caption, in order to document and share their life with others, thus the slogan "your life in pictures." It is similar to social-networking websites
such as Twitter
in that you can follow other users and allow them to follow you in turn and get real-time updates on what other people are doing. The user base is geared towards teens.
In August, 2009, the site was reported to have over 3 million unique visitors a month with a growth rate of about 35% a month.
DailyBooth is funded by the startup
funding firm
, Y Combinator
.
Rumors have been stated that many venture capital
firms want to fund DailyBooth.
Y Combinator
stated that they had once considered a name change for DailyBooth, but were afraid it would cause a revolt with the community.
stream of recent photos and activity from all public members on the site.
The Live Map displays real-time updates on a map.
DailyBooth allows users to automatically post a link to their Twitter account when they take new photos. DailyBooth also offers short URLs
for users to link to their photos.
Photoblog
A photoblog is a form of photo sharing and publishing in the format of a blog. It differs from a blog through the predominant use of and focus on photographs rather than text...
ging website designed for users to take a photo of themselves every day with a caption, in order to document and share their life with others, thus the slogan "your life in pictures." It is similar to social-networking websites
Social network service
A social networking service is an online service, platform, or site that focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people, who, for example, share interests and/or activities. A social network service consists of a representation of each user , his/her social...
such as Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
in that you can follow other users and allow them to follow you in turn and get real-time updates on what other people are doing. The user base is geared towards teens.
In August, 2009, the site was reported to have over 3 million unique visitors a month with a growth rate of about 35% a month.
DailyBooth is funded by the startup
Startup company
A startup company or startup is a company with a limited operating history. These companies, generally newly created, are in a phase of development and research for markets...
funding firm
Venture capital
Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as...
, Y Combinator
Y Combinator
Y Combinator is an American seed-stage startup funding firm, started in March 2005. Y Combinator provides seed money, advice, and connections at two 3-month programs per year...
.
History
DailyBooth was founded and opened in February 2009 by Jon Wheatley and lead developer Ryan Amos, gaining popularity after several YouTube stars and Internet celebrities , such as Ashton Kutcher and his wife Demi Moore joined and encouraged their viewers and readers to join. The site recently passed the 1,000,000 photo mark and the user who posted the 1,000,000th photo won a Throwboy pillow. In early 2010, the website reached 3,000,000 photos and 10,000,000 comments.Rumors have been stated that many venture capital
Venture capital
Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as...
firms want to fund DailyBooth.
Y Combinator
Y Combinator
Y Combinator is an American seed-stage startup funding firm, started in March 2005. Y Combinator provides seed money, advice, and connections at two 3-month programs per year...
stated that they had once considered a name change for DailyBooth, but were afraid it would cause a revolt with the community.
Features
The Live Feed is a feature which displays a real-timeReal-time computing
In computer science, real-time computing , or reactive computing, is the study of hardware and software systems that are subject to a "real-time constraint"— e.g. operational deadlines from event to system response. Real-time programs must guarantee response within strict time constraints...
stream of recent photos and activity from all public members on the site.
The Live Map displays real-time updates on a map.
DailyBooth allows users to automatically post a link to their Twitter account when they take new photos. DailyBooth also offers short URLs
URL shortening
URL shortening is a technique on the World Wide Web in which a Uniform Resource Locator may be made substantially shorter in length and still direct to the required page. This is achieved by using an HTTP Redirect on a domain name that is short, which links to the web page that has a long URL...
for users to link to their photos.
Versions
There have been three versions of DailyBooth, the original and two complete re-writes:- 1.0 - This version was the original version from which the community grew its roots.
- 2.0 - This was a complete re-write. This version included live comment feeds, the ability to upload images for picture comments, and also made a use of @ replies, as well as an update to the iPhone App. This version was well received by most of the community, but with it came various bugs and problems. Not all of them have been fixed and troubles include problems saving photos and glitches that make it say users are following unrealistic numbers of people.
- 3.0 - Once again, a re-write. This time "Favorite" changed to "Like", notifications were added, and the logo changed.