Blipfoto

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Blipfoto
URL http://www.polaroidblipfoto.com/
Status Online!
Archiving status Unknown
Archiving type Unknown
IRC channel #fotofinish (on hackint)

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]

Photos

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

Usernames

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

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

Tags

Photos can be tagged and retrieved via search - e.g. [https://www.polaroidblipfoto.com/search/entries?q=%23bootees]



References