With financial - and moral - support from friends, families and early
investors, dotPhoto.com was launched in May 2000 as one of the first online
photo sharing sites to offer a complete and free solution for the digital photo
enthusiast, including professional lab quality prints, enlargements and custom photo
gifts delivered to your door.
As the small staff grew, so did Exclaim's reputation for innovation, providing one of the
first sites to enable digital photographers to sound annotate their online photos.
Other innovations followed quickly:
And, of course, more.
Not content with photos showcased on the Internet and preserved in traditional
prints, in 2003 Exclaim's management team launched Pictavision®, the first wireless
application to enable viewing of online photo albums on a cell phone's color screen.
This "wireless photo wallet" quickly gained acceptance with major carriers and consumers,
driving a large spike and continued growth in users.
Subsequently, Exclaim's growing expertise in wireless application development and
state-of-the art infrastructure gave birth to a suite of mobile products under the Pictavision
and MyAppstm brands.
To fuel the growth in both businesses, Exclaim accepted a venture capital investment in December
2003 from two leading firms, Edison Venture Fund and Sycamore Ventures, both with strong ties to
local technology ventures.
Since then, Exclaim has become a sought-after content partner and developer of co-branded or
private-labeled applications for such leading brands as CNET-Webshots and Verizon Wireless.
Exclaim's wireless applications are deployed in both BREW and Java environments, on 23 carriers, across
more than 800 handset application combinations in more than ten countries, including Chile,
Dominican Republic, India and Peru.
Today Exclaim's best-in-breed infrastructure houses large volumes of photo, video and sound files.
Along with this secure, redundant storage system, its web and database applications are at the heart
of an extensible strategy to deliver today's end-to-end rich media experience on your wireless device,
on the Web and at home.