SmugMug on Batman and WordPress
SmugMug is a photo hosting service targeted towards professionals, and a shining example of how a Valley company can survive (and make a profit) without funding and without completely littering their site with ads. They just released a new “SmugMungous” feature that scales photos up when your browser window is bigger — looks fantastic, and doesn’t use Flash!
But what I thought was really awesome was the “Runs on” line at the bottom of all their blogs:
[blog name] uses WordPress, just like Batman would if he blogged.
That made me smile.
SmugMug is a great service, and it’s safe to say that they target more than just professionals with their clean experience focused on the photos and not a social networking experience — just the photos for your friends and family.
There are big fans of super heroes, and sound like super heroes themselves — real people. It’s interesting that all of their employees where customers first.
It’s got to sting a little that they can’t handle the attention today, “We’re having some temporary difficulties. We expect full service to resume shortly. Sorry!”
Lloyd Budd
December 7, 2007 at 1:24 pm
I’ve always thought there was some connection between Batman and WP:
http://www.elainevigneault.com/what-should-we-do-about-blog-attacks.html
Elaine Vigneault
December 7, 2007 at 1:52 pm
Doh. Hopefully it’ll translate to more memberships and make it A Good Problem to Have™.
Mark Jaquith
December 7, 2007 at 6:26 pm
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December 7, 2007 at 7:59 pm
After used smugmug for over a year, I really like it. Especially the viewing and album password protection.
Norman
December 8, 2007 at 9:00 am
That is such a cool quote
Donncha
December 8, 2007 at 1:37 pm
We use Both Smugmug for our LP Gallery and WordPress for 3 Blogs on our site http://www.Livingplush.com.
Wonderful
Living PLush
December 12, 2007 at 8:22 pm
The greatest superhero ever is Batman. I have been a Batman fan for the last 30+ years and even built a web site with every type of Batman collectible out there.
Rich Syn
July 16, 2008 at 1:30 am