A quick shoutout to DeviantART, which recently topped 33,000,000 "deviations" (images) on its site. I bumped into Angelo Sotira, DeviantART's CEO last fall at the Web 2.0 Conference, and we wondered aloud why his company, as well as my former company, iStockphoto, are rarely mentioned in web 2.0 discussions and lists. It's not that either site isn't popular - DeviantART's Alexa ranking is currently 102, and iStockphoto is 249. It's not that either site doesn't have a ton of images or a bunch of really passionate users, either. In fact, both companies have worked tirelessly to bolster their infrastructure to accommodate the amazing growth in images and traffic.
We didn't come up with any answers, but took solace in the fact that both companies have amazingly sustainable business models, and have done incredibly well - with or without the web 2.0 hype.
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