Blipfoto
Blipfoto | |
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URL | https://www.blipfoto.com/ |
Status | Online! |
Archiving status | Not saved yet |
Archiving type | Unknown |
IRC channel | #archiveteam-bs (on hackint) (formerly #fotofinish (on EFnet)) |
Blipfoto is a cloud photo hosting service, established in 2004.[1] The company went into liquidation on March 11 2015[2] although the website continues to operate while a buyer is sought.[3] Described as "a major player in the Slow Web movement" [4], Blipfoto is thought to encompass at least 3.4 million photos[5] and 22 million comments.[6] Blipfoto was bought around March 25, 2015 by Jeffrey Hecktman Chairman and CEO of Hilco Global and Bobby Sager a Director at Gordon Brothers. [7] Blipfoto was bought by Blipfuture CIC in February 2016.[8]
Photos
Photos appear to be hosted on cloudfront.net URLs. Individual photo pages have numeric URLs like [https://www.blipfoto.com/entry/2024559920535307081].
Usernames
User pages exist in the form of [https://www.blipfoto.com/Wendles56]
Chip's initial Google/DuckDuckGo/Yahoo scrapes sorted and uniq'd [http://paste.nerds.io/raw/oxolaxaqiv]
Comments
Comments are loaded on scroll from /comments and are JSON formatted (not counting the while to prevent JSON Hijacking). e.g. https://www.blipfoto.com/entry/2019428284378382362/comments
Tags
Photos can be tagged and retrieved via search - e.g. [https://www.blipfoto.com/search/entries?q=%23bootees]. A very small list of 'popular' tags is visible at [https://www.blipfoto.com/tags]
Places
Photos can be viewed by places - [https://www.blipfoto.com/places] -- e.g. [https://www.blipfoto.com/place/glasgow]
References
- ↑ https://www.scotsman.com/news-2-15012/how-blipfoto-is-growing-from-small-leith-beginnings-into-1bn-company-1-2769334
- ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-31927236
- ↑ https://www.blipfoto.com/entry/2024545103963492314
- ↑ https://cassandra.co/tech/2014/02/07/first-fridays-joe-tree-founder-and-ceo-of-blipfoto
- ↑ https://www.thenational.scot/news/14897152.concern-over-future-of-social-media-site-blipfoto/
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blipfoto
- ↑ https://www.blipfoto.com/entry/2027531207289340134
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blipfoto