Making money is sometimes rare in this business, but dotPhoto has managed it.
For most of recorded history, if you wanted to preserve a memory, you wrote a
song or painted a picture. Only in the last 100 years did society decide that
our fondest moments should be captured on 4x6 inch paper and stored in our
closets. Today, digital photography and wireless technologies are converging
to enable the capture and distribution of images and sound anytime, anywhere,
to people all over the planet.
dotPhoto.com opened in May 2000 to improve the experience of digital
photography. Digital photography was in its infancy: to print a digital
photo, you used an inkjet printer that was time-consuming and expensive. To
share digital photos, you spent the afternoon uploading images, and the
person on the other end spent the evening downloading files that were often
too large to displ... (more)