Posts Tagged ‘postcards’
Touchnote integrates with Heathrows X-ray scanners
Thursday, April 1st, 2010
LONDON, 1st April 2010 - Touchnote, the photo postcard company, has announced that it will be integrating with the new X-ray scanners installed recently by the UK Airport Authority. Travellers passing through the X-ray devices will be able to log onto the UK Airport Authority’s website to see their scan and then send it to friends and family as a postcard from as little as £1.49 to anywhere in the world.
Raam Thakrar, CEO of Touchnote, commented, “There are specific benefits to both parties using each other’s technology. The airports get a new revenue stream and customers get a physical postcard at their doorstep; meanwhile Touchnote enjoys access to the X-ray scanners’ incredible technology. You really can see every square inch, the resolution is amazing.”
UK Airport Authority spokesman Ike Anseeyu observed that “the scanners haven’t been everyone’s cup of tea and we have received some bad press. However, we see this as a really fun way of showcasing our technology. Plus lots of travellers will have been working out before their holidays and will want to show off to friends and family how fit and thin they have become.”
Touchnote’s technology will automatically preserve traveller’s modesty by using either mosaic blurs or black out bars to hide chest and genital areas. However, for an extra 50p, customers will also be able to enlarge the mosaic blur or blacked out bar. Ike Anseeyu said “as the rooms often have very strong air conditioning, we don’t want any traveller to be embarrassed”.
Back to school - postcard 101
Monday, December 14th, 2009
In honour of our newly released photo postcards, time to learn a little about postcards.
The image below is of a postcard from the 1870’s.
To some this may look like a piece of a brown paper bag. It is plain, washed of colour, there is no picture and the ink is brown. The main reason for this blandness is because postcards were never actually about self-expression, visual or verbal. They were intended as a cheap way to a non-confidential message. Interestingly, when picture-postcards eventually did appear on the market, legal issues were immediately raised as to what images printed on them were considered appropriate. A postcard image in one country for example was not always considered appropriate in the destination country or in the country it needed to pass through.
Some images such as those relating to the Islamic prophet Muhammad for example, were banned from being sent in 1900 by the Ottoman Empire. And apparently ‘banned’ post cards such as these that managed to be sent before 1900 are now considered to be valuable to collectors.
So all you collectors out there get checking
We’re helping websites make money
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
So, you have a website that hosts photos and other images - wouldn’t it be great to let people coming to your website send any of those pics as a real printed postcard .. to anywhere in the world?
Well now you can. You add a tiny piece of code to your website and a little “send as a postcard” button appears next to the pictures you choose.
If you’re feeling creative, then you can design your own button, like some of our partners:
Now the making money part. For every postcard that’s made using one of your images, we give you a royalty payment. Yes, that’s for every card - so if someone decides to use a single picture from your site on 50 cards, we’ll give you a payment for each of those 50 cards. We think it’s only fair.
We’re also being extra generous - offering a payment of 30% for the next six months. But please sign up before 30th November 2009.
Interested? Here’s some more info about the programme and here’s where you sign-up
Now how about seeing some cards in action…
(as reviewed on the Radio 2 Chris Evans drive time show)
Want to find out more: http://www.touchnote.com/image_api
