i-ssential listened to the users and integrates a bunch of new features in the new beta-version of the web-service thumbalizr (http://www.thumbalizr.com).

Bloggers, webmasters, account managers, designers are able to take a screenshot of webpages very fast and efficient without the need to start a graphic program.

Webmasters can use the API for their website. They can choose between a free account or dedicated products with diverse functionalities.
Amongst others user can get PNG- or JPEG-pictures, store pictures locally on the webserver and control the waiting period to shoot a screen (which is helpful for Flash-websites).

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We are just back from the OMD (Online Marketing Düsseldorf) trade fair & congress in Düsseldorf.
We heard very interesting speeches about marketing, social networking and online advertising.
We attended the keynote form Michael Tchong and the speech about trends in digital marketing. Very interesting: Jay Stevens from myspace who gave a good inside view in myspace Europe.

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Today we reached the 500.000th screenshot or thumb since the worldwide launch on August, 20.

Meanwhile we are working hard on the beta-version, and yes - there will be an api-key

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The launch of this product made a good example for the worldwide user-contacts.

First we wrote a german press-release and sent it to three pr-portals in the german-speaking area. Additionaly we posted a small article in the thumbalizr blog about the API-feature.

It was very clear that the press release caught the first attention to editors and german blogs. But on the second day the whole thing went into a new direction: English-speaking blogs were writing articles about us - and then it went off like a hive. Other blogs wrote about us and the logfiles told us that we made it to North America (California in special). This caught the attention of first digg.com and then techcrunch.com. At this moment the old server was under heavy use so that the site went horribly slow. It can’t get worse? It can!
The next morning many spanish-speaking blogs reported on us and we had many users from brasil and argentina on our site. This made the server go fully down, so we decided to push the service by installing a new, a faster one.

In the meantime our world-tour reached canada from where it jumps over to europe to france.
Due to the fact that many spanish-speaking-blogs reported on us a second wave goes to spain and italy.

So we were in europe again…
After the mediterranian countries the hive went to scandinavia and eastern-europe.
Next step was russia and then asia and india.

Result after 2 weeks of running this service that we had visisters from 138 countries, made more than 120.00 thumbs or screenshots and made contact to a bunch of cool users out there

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Due to the heavy response we’ve got from users all over the world we have to say SORRY that our server is a little overloaded at the moment. Be assured, we are working hard on a fast solution right now.

We never thought,  we could make it in only 3 days…

- on page 3 of digg.com
- on the frontpage of techcrunch.com
- to killerstartups.com
- to about 1-2 Screenshots per second(!!)

Thanks for your comments, suggestions, tipps and input!!

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Hi folks,
we have just released the first release of the API to the public!
Now you are able to use the thumbalizr in your own products just by writing one single line of code: 

 Syntax to use the API:
http://www.thumbalizr.com/api/?url=http://www.ford.de&width=250

Parameter:

url : the url with or without the http://
width : any width up to 1024 … all bigger values will be ignored … DEFAULT : 200

So the most simple usage is :
http://www.thumbalizr.com/api/?url=www.cyberport.de

If the URL is not in our database, a “queued”-Picture will be shown. After max. 2 Minutes it will be replaced with the final one.

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Here is the first screenshot of the  alpha-version:

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With our thumbalizr you can take screenshots of any webpage you want.
Use it for your presentations, documentations, visualisations or your webpage.

Just enter the target-URL and hit the “thumb it”-Button. A screenshot of the desired website will be taken and presented to the user. Users can download their screenshot in resolutions with 320,640,800 and 1024 pixel width.

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