Webshots has been in business since 1995. The company began as a retail photo screensaver company, empowering computer owners to customize generic blank desktops with colorful photo wallpapers and screensavers. Within a few years, Webshots had become the largest public photo sharing site, with over a million photos uploaded per day at its peak.
As photo sharing has evolved over the years, Webshots has evolved as well. Today we’re happy to introduce Smile, the latest evolution in photo management.
Many of us have hundreds, if not thousands, of photos stored in multiple places and on multiple devices. It’s time-consuming for all of us to get our family’s photos organized into one place, and it’s even harder to share them with one another.
With Smile, we hope to change all of that. We’ve made it easy to: 1) create a single permanent library for all your photos, and 2) allow you to share photos instantly with your closest friends and family. We hope you’ll let us know what you think.
Mike Sitrin is a successful entrepreneur with 20 years of business experience. He jumped from traditional publishing to the consumer web in 1999 to join startup Spinner (acquired by AOL) and never looked back. After gaining experience in larger business operations under AOL, Mike co-founded user-generated video site Grouper, which was acquired by Sony. Until recently, Mike was co-founder and CEO of FYI Living, the "mythbusters of health information."
Josh Fraser is a versatile technical executive with over 15 years of professional experience in many technical fields, such as Systems and Network Operations, Software Development, and Database Administration, while maintaining an emphasis on performance, availability, architecture, and the bottom line.
Having held management and leadership roles at Twitter, AirPlay Networks, Adteractive, manageStar, and Netcom, he excels at building technical teams from the ground up.
Diana Donovan launched her digital marketing career in 1996 when she left her studio manager position with a commercial photographer to join an interactive travel site on AOL called Lost In America. She worked as a freelance writer for companies such as iVillage and Pottery Barn, and held a number of product and marketing positions with consumer Web companies such as CNET Networks, Excite@Home, American Greetings and Oodle. Her expertise includes all aspects of brand development and marketing.
