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| Type | Blog company |
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| Founded | 2003 |
| Founder(s) | Jim Conning 1 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California |
| Key people | Jeremy Verba (CEO) |
| Website | www.piczoinc.com |
Piczo, Inc is a privately held blog company based in San Francisco, California. Investors include Catamount, Sierra Ventures, US Venture Partners, and Mangrove Capital Partners.2
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Their eponymous service, also called Piczo, is an online photo website builder and community, which is for generation of free advertising-supported websites.
Piczo, launched in 2004, allows users to add images, text, guestbooks, message boxes, videos, and other content to their site using plain text and HTML. Partners include YouTube, VideoEgg, Photobucket, Flock and yahoo!.
In addition to the website development aspect of the site, Piczo has a User Generated Content repository, the Piczo Zone, where users can browse, post, and consume content that they or others have used on their site.
Another feature is "The Board" where Piczo informs users about HTML and Internet safety.
In August 2008 Piczo announced "Piczo Plus," a feature that allows you to buy an "ad-free" site.
Piczo sees around 12 million unique visitors a month,3 but according to Hitwise, is by no means the most popular social networking site available.456789. While primarily offering services in English and German, Piczo is also available in French, Spanish, Russian, Japanese and Korean BETA versions.10
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