Since its acquisition by ADVFN plc in July of 2005, the international photo blogging website, Fotothing.com has transitioned from a niche product to a more mainstream photo site that now sees 100 new sign ups per day and boasts approximately 160,000 members and their one million plus photos. At the time of purchase the site had around 4,000 users. This figure rose to 95,000 plus in the following 12 months.

Fotothing (www.fotothing.com) is a free photo sharing and blogging site. It is similar to a standard blogging website, except with photos as the focus. Users can:

• Share their latest and favourite snaps with their friends, family and online communities



• Tag their own pictures and add groups and friends to their personal blogging network



• Post comments/receive comments from other users about their snaps



• Email any picture from the site to someone else



• Access the discussion forum



• Create their own Flash slideshow