Online photo albums and galleries

	Home › About Funtigo			PRESS CLIPS Funtigo Deluxe PC Magazine March 16, 2004 Traditional photography is fading from the picture Computing November 3, 2003 Camera Phones Get the Picture PC World October 24, 2003 Funtigo Photo Website Delivers Powerful, Easy Features Future Image Weekly Briefing September 19, 2003 PRESS RELEASES Photo Site Funtigo Adds Music and Group Email Features Thursday, May 13, 2004 Photo Site Funtigo Adds Small Business e-Commerce Features Wednesday, January 21, 2004 Photo Site Funtigo Continues to Innovate by Adding Holiday and Other Clipart Thursday, December 3, 2003 Funtigo Photo Sharing Site Adds Support for Camera-Phones Thursday, September 25, 2003
	About Funtigo
	Roots Why yet another photo site, you might wonder. Heres why. We, the people that run Funtigo, love taking photos and sharing them with our friends and family. But when we tried out a bunch of photo sites a while ago, we didnt like them. You can make online albums with them or order prints, but your albums are framed by these companies logos and menus. We wanted our own website for our photos, not a collection of cookie-cutter albums. We wanted to easily and freely design Web or album pages that could include text, backgrounds, guestbooks, slideshows, clipart, or you name it. We wanted to be able to reposition these elements on our pages by just dragging them around without wading through an endless chain of wizard screens. So we looked at online website builders. But my, if you hate wizards, website builders are not the tools to use! Forget website builders if you want to easily upload all your pictures from your latest vacation. Or to organize them, per album or per page. So a few of us started talking. And writing code. Until we came up with a site that had the best of two worlds. Something much better than photosharing and website building combined! Thats when Funtigo was born, in June of 2002. Team Let us present ourselves. Anders Ottoson: user experience design Lead designer of over 80 web-based products for over 50 companies on three continents. Clients include PeopleSoft, Autodesk, Philips Design, and Icon Medialab. Jim Conning: web application development Senior engineer at Oracle, co-founder of PassPoints.com, seasoned developer of digital mapping, web and database-based applications. Hans Hartman: business and marketing development Chair Seybold PDF Conference, analyst Future Image; former president of ScheduleOnline, marketing executive at Live Picture, Busybox, Xaos Tools and Barco Graphics. Steve Maciaszek: design and programming Design and web-based application development for startups in the pre-dotcom, dotcom, and post-dotcom era. Jill Myers: marketing Marketing and operations whiz, formerly for wireless associations WAP Forum and Open Mobile Alliance. Around our core team is a group of "Friends of Funtigo" industry executives whose experience ranges from incubating internet startups, analyzing the photo imaging industry, evangelizing wireless solutions, marketing Fortune 500 e-commerce sites, and promoting photosharing sites, to business developing website builders. Growth Funtigo launched in June of 2002. A little more than a year later, 40,000 users have created their own Funtigo websites, attracting 400,000 unique visitors and 6 million pageviews a month. With almost no marketing because Funtigo is 100% self-funded. The core of our success is the directness with which you can create your album and Web pages. Intuitive to the core. Not a click too many. More flexible than any other photo or website builder site. Using a patent-pending technology all developed in-house. And our users love it! So for the first year we let the quality of Funtigo market itself. Users spreading the word among friends and family. In the meantime we also kept listening to their suggestions and kept finetuning the site. With version 2.0, we decided we were ready for even faster growth. You will actually see some Funtigo advertisements here or there! In the meantime, please keep spreading the word!