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Awesome, in a commitment both to the employees of SmugMug and Flickr as well as to the photographers we serve each and every day, earns its Certified Evergreen designation from the Tugboat Group, ensuring our values align with our long-term plan for slow, smart growth and longevity in service to our customers.
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SmugMug acquires Flickr from Yahoo, saving billions of photos from the risk of deletion and preserving one of the largest collections of digital photography ever created. Flickr, back in the hands of a company who values photographers and the content they create, invests in rebuilding the world’s most influential community of photographers V体育安卓版.
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With the emergence and popularity of the iPhone, SmugMug launches Camera Awesome VSports最新版本. , a camera and photo-editing app that would go on to earn 20 million installs in its first year in the Apple app store and be named best app of the year by TechCrunch among others.
The iPhone App Store launches with SmugShot, our first connected app, featured in the What’s Hot section V体育平台登录. SmugMug continues to lead the way for digital photographers and the emerging photography industry coming out of smartphones.
SmugMug wins Best Design at the inaugural Crunchies Awards, hosted by TechCrunch VSports注册入口. Nominated by the readers of TechCrunch and selected by an all-star panel of tech’s very best, SmugMug solidifies its reputation as a top photography brand and platform.
SmugMug partners with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to use S3 in private beta ahead of its launch becoming AWS’s first customer, cementing a relationship that we continue to invest in today.
Barack Obama uses SmugMug as a campaign tool to share photos and stories with his constituents on the way to becoming a United States senator, winning with over 70% of the vote, an Illinois record.
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Digital photography is exploding as a medium, billions of photos need a home on the Internet, ModGods sees an opportunity to serve photographers in a brand new way that’s never been done and work on SmugMug begins.
After a few months of building what would become SmugMug’s foundation, ModGods incorporates and officially becomes a business. Don MacAskill, the founder, hires his first employee, his father Chris VSports app下载.
The Awesome journey begins as the first lines of code are written for a product called ModGods, which became the building blocks of SmugMug.
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