Talk:SmugMug

Notability
This was written by the people themselves. Smugsmug NOT known, not nearly as much as any of the other ones —Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.140.215.150 (talk • contribs) 02:13, March 1, 2006


 * Disclaimer: I am one of the owners of SmugMug.


 * Seems strange to defend my company here, but to say we're "NOT known" is pretty silly. A simple Google, Technorati, or Alexa search (using our real name - not 'Smugsmug') will show you that we're extremely well-known, comparable in traffic to Kodak, Shutterfly, and Snapfish and higher than Sony's ImageStation.  We have more than 75,000,000 photos for heaven's sake.


 * I've refrained from editing this entry because I understand and respect the guidelines of Wikipedia, but we have a lot more to offer than listed here. Onethumb 01:08, 16 March 2006 (UTC)


 * I am a dedicated user of Smugmug and I have met the owners and get paid for certain work that I do for them, but I am not an employee of smugmug.


 * I have to disagree that Smugmug is not known. I came to smugmug because of online articles and articles in various newspapers.  What is not clear is which "other ones" the first commenter was talking about.  My guess (and it's just a guess) is that flikr is more well known than smugmug.  But I seriously doubt that pbase, mpix, exposure manager, or other more direct competition of smugmug is more well known.


 * Frankly I'd be interested to know who it was that wrote the initial comment. It's interesting that there was no signature or any information left about the commenter.--Lanemik 23:47, 26 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Now you are finally well known as the ones that introduces the hideous policy changes on Flickr in 2022. Thanks for nothing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.12.49.38 (talk) 20:33, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

Removing ad status
Ok I'm removing the ad status and original research, I was surfing around for a photosharing site. Though the claims of Smugmugs are abit unbelievable (that I can upload how much I want in basic account), I find no factual errors about this text. I'm not a user of smugmug/I don't own it Emj 11:24, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Argh now I see that people are fighting over this. Sigh... Grow up, there is nothing different about this and anyother wikipedian website entry. Of course if someone has any good claim of why this is an ad please tell me. Emj 11:28, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Emj, no factual errors is not enough. The tone is also wrong.  It comes across as an advertisement, even if unintentionally.  Compare this features section (which I just tagged) to Flickr's.  Flickr's has much more prose (rather than bulleted lists of features).  It even discusses different views of the features, e.g. "Because of its support for tags, Flickr has been cited as a prime example of effective use of folksonomy, although Thomas Vander Wal suggested that Flickr is not the best example."  There is also a controversy section (admittedly, it's better to merge such sections into the rest of the article when possible).  I'm not suggesting Flickr's article is perfect, just that it demonstrates some issues with this one. Superm401 - Talk 07:50, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Country? Location?
What country and city/state does Smugmug and its creators/company come from? Are we to assume that it is somewhere in the United States, due to its international domain name? If so, what state/city? FatBrain was based in California, should we assume that is the case here too? 136.186.1.188 (talk) 05:14, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
 * They are located in Mountain View, CA. I tried editing the infobox but did something wrong because the data doesn't show.  It is there in the code however if someone wants to clean up.Jack&#39;s daddy (talk) 05:18, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Articles for expansion
These were on the article, putting here. tedder (talk) 01:49, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Sharing your Digital Photos – Chicago Tribune May 1, 2004
 * You ought to be in pixels – New York Times, May 9, 2004
 * Soldiers download war onto Web sites – San Francisco Chronicle, January 10, 2005
 * Pixel perfect store – San Francisco Chronicle, May 23, 2005
 * Sharing vacation photos is as easy as aim, shoot and upload – Los Angeles Times, May 29, 2005
 * Make your images last – Macworld, July 7, 2005
 * SmugMaps goes live – Tim O'Reilly, August 18, 2005
 * Review – PC Magazine Editor's Choice, September 14, 2005.
 * Mapping the Web's Future – Forbes, September 21, 2005
 * Smugmug: Digital Pictures – troubleshooter.com, January 12, 2006.
 * Review – Jupiter Research, February 2, 2006

Notability (again)
I think perhaps SmugMug should be removed. Other online services like SmugMug (Zenfolio) have had their pages deleted. This page seems still more like an ad than an article. 166.205.139.230 (talk) 04:19, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
 * There are plenty of reliable sources to establish WP:GNG. Still, you are welcome to do so per WP:AFDHOWTO. I feel your time would be better spent elsewhere. tedder (talk) 04:44, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree with Tedder - SmugMug is notable and I doubt it would get deleted if you were to go to AfD. --Biker Biker (talk) 06:40, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

Location
Unless the proprietors have uploaded their personalities and reside in the cloud, they must have an office somewhere. i could not find actual, real, physical, location/contact info. maybe the owners know where they are. they could at least post a photo of their offices, and we could try to guess where the photo was taken.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 20:47, 18 November 2012 (UTC)