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Blipfoto
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URL https://www.blipfoto.com/
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Blipfoto is a cloud photo hosting service, established in 2004.[1] The company went into liquidation on March 11 2015[2] although the website continues to operate while a buyer is sought.[3] Described as "a major player in the Slow Web movement" [4], Blipfoto is thought to encompass at least 3.4 million photos[5] and 22 million comments.[6] Blipfoto was bought around March 25, 2015 by Jeffrey Hecktman Chairman and CEO of Hilco Global and Bobby Sager a Director at Gordon Brothers. [7] Blipfoto was bought by Blipfuture CIC in February 2016.[8]

Photos

Photos appear to be hosted on cloudfront.net URLs. Individual photo pages have numeric URLs like [https://www.blipfoto.com/entry/2024559920535307081].

Usernames

User pages exist in the form of [https://www.blipfoto.com/Wendles56]

Chip's initial Google/DuckDuckGo/Yahoo scrapes sorted and uniq'd [http://paste.nerds.io/raw/oxolaxaqiv]

Comments

Comments are loaded on scroll from /comments and are JSON formatted (not counting the while to prevent JSON Hijacking). e.g. https://www.blipfoto.com/entry/2019428284378382362/comments

Tags

Photos can be tagged and retrieved via search - e.g. [https://www.blipfoto.com/search/entries?q=%23bootees]. A very small list of 'popular' tags is visible at [https://www.blipfoto.com/tags]

Places

Photos can be viewed by places - [https://www.blipfoto.com/places] -- e.g. [https://www.blipfoto.com/place/glasgow]

References