"Thinglink raises 1M USD from European investors for in-image product advertising network
"Helsinki and Palo Alto-based product tagging startup Thinglink has raised $1 million in seed funding from Nordic investors Inventure and Lifeline Ventures to develop an in-image advertising network for brands, retailers and other product advertisers. Thinglink offers online publishers a tool for engaging their viewers through interactive images. Any blogger or website can use Thinglink to make the objects in their images clickable and to drive traffic from these images to e-commerce sites and other destinations.
"Founded in 2008 by design blogger Ulla-Maaria Engeström after a conversation with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, Thinglink started as a free product code provider for design objects. The site grew into an invitation-only social network for design enthusiasts, and in July this year launched a technology for tagging products in images on any website or blog. The company today added for publishers realtime statistics about the views, hovers and clicks on their tagged images. Examples of European publishers and brands using Thinglink include the Scandinavian media house Aller, The Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE (Wenzel’s Antique Road Show), and interior design brand Artek."
(((And, on the same day, somehow:))))
Hi Bruce (((yo)))
Just writing to say hello and tell you briefly about our company, thingd (short for thing daemon)
We are building a database of every thing in the world & all of their details. (((Not like that should pose a big spimey technical issue or anything.)))
Today we have ~100 million things in the database and ~ 1bln associated attributes.
In September, we launched 3 new products:
1. http://www.thefancy.com - fun way to share and discover things.
2. http://www.productids.org - api for developers to check any product code against our db of over 100mm product codes.
3. http://www.plastastic.com - game for toy collectors
We have more fun stuff on the way in October.
Thanks for the inspiration.
Best
Joe
