QOOP
Encyclopedia
QOOP is a web services company that was founded in Mill Valley, California
in 2005. They run the website QOOP.com, which is presented as a 'social commerce network' for authors, artists, media archives and publishers.
, and later developed a Facebook
app, to make it easy to print and ship photos from those sites.
QOOP also provides on-demand publishing services, and has partnered with publishers such as CK-12 Foundation
, Stanford University Press
, and PLoS (Public Library of Science) to provide printing of textbooks and compendiums.
Mill Valley, California
Mill Valley is a city in Marin County, California, United States located about north of San Francisco via the Golden Gate Bridge. The population was 13,903 at the 2010 census.Mill Valley is located on the western and northern shores of Richardson Bay...
in 2005. They run the website QOOP.com, which is presented as a 'social commerce network' for authors, artists, media archives and publishers.
QOOP.com
This website provides tools for uploading documents and images, compiling them into calendars, books and other products, and printing the result. In addition to printing, users can use QOOP to create a store with listings of their digital content that they can easily share to friends and networks online.Partners and services
QOOP has grown through partnerships with sites for creators that allow them to quickly take their favorite works and turn them into cards, posters, and the like. For instance they had an early partnership with FlickrFlickr
Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to...
, and later developed a Facebook
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
app, to make it easy to print and ship photos from those sites.
QOOP also provides on-demand publishing services, and has partnered with publishers such as CK-12 Foundation
CK-12 Foundation
CK-12 is a non-profit organization based in California founded with the mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market, both in the US and world-wide . They maintain the FlexBook open source tool for creating remixable texts, and as of July 2009 were developing 30...
, Stanford University Press
Stanford University Press
The Stanford University Press is the publishing house of Stanford University. In 1892, an independent publishing company was established at the university. The first use of the name "Stanford University Press" in a book's imprinting occurred in 1895...
, and PLoS (Public Library of Science) to provide printing of textbooks and compendiums.
External links
- A list of current products
- An early review by KottkeKottkeKottke may refer to:* Leo Kottke - acoustic guitar player* Jason Kottke - blogger* Daniel Kottke - U.S. computer engineer and the first official Apple Computer employee...
on using QOOP to print his Flickr photos - Press release about the website, March 2009