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The DeFi answer to traditional savings accounts – Redefining passive income

Savix is the first self-staking token with a staking mechanic embeded into the ERC20 protocol. It offers many unique features:the first predictable embedded staking protocol.

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Savix main objective is to let users profit as much as possible from the new investment opportunities created by decentralized finance with as less barriers as feasible. This is the Savix mission.

Therefore we let users combine multiple income streams while keeping full flexibility of token usage. The staking mechanism built into the Savix protocol works without any need for user actions. Users don’t have to lock their tokens and don’t have to claim their rewards since the staking process works completely automated

“Easy DeFi For Everyone” — savix mission statement

Savix Dashboard As Heart And Brain Of Savix

In order to achieve the goal of Savix’ mission statement the following elements will be built into an integrated application:

🡆 Personal finance overview showing balances, rewards and their historical development

🡆 Integration of decentralized exchange for converting to / from Fiat currencies and other blockchains using existing bridging technologies

🡆 Steering modules for different DeFi products like lending, money markets / liquidity providing, decentralized synthetics or non-fungible token markets

All of these applications will be combined into the Savix dasboard which will serve as entry point into the world of decentralized finance for Savix holders.

Most important for the design of the Savix DeFi dashboard is the maxime to reduce complexity as much as possible by concentrating all functionality to the minimum required to guarantee smooth and stable processing of all functions. This is achieved by designing predefined settings and process templates for all actions and interactions investors are able to launch and trigger through the dashboard.

In contrast to other user interfaces the Savix dashboard will stick to main features of applications integrated. Users will be offered single choices in an easy-to-use interface, handling the complex details of DeFi products in the background powered by predefined processes and workflows designed for typical usage szenarios.

Savix Trinary Optimizing Uniswap Liquidity Providing

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The complex interaction of minting the Uniswap specific liquidity providing tokens (LP tokens) and reinvesting them for optimizing gains will be automated by this application. Instead of having to actively observe the development of the liquidity pool, withdrawing LP tokens and deciding on whether to reinvest or withdraw them, Trinary will simply offer investors to participate in the application taking care of all details by itself.

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The Savix token’s smart contract and staking logic is designed, developed, audited and deployed already. The staking mechanics get activated immediately after official trading starts! All ready-to-roll!

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🡆 Creating awareness of and market stability for the SVX token.

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Sample Revision - Effective with the November 2017 release for the third quarter of 2017, quarterly services estimates will be based on a new sample and published on a 2012 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) basis. For more information on the new sample or the impact of adopting the 2012 NAICS definitions, visit http://ift.tt/2n9e3nN.

Upcoming format changes - With the release of the Quarterly Services Report on March 9, 2017, the presentation of the release will change. The text portion of the release will be removed from Excel and reformatted. The layout and format of the tables are not currently changing, though some explanatory notes may move to the text portion of the document. The full text and tables will be available as a PDF, with the tables available separately in Excel. A preview of the new files is available: PDF Excel. The Advance Quarterly Services Report already uses these new formats.

API - The URL for the economic indicators data in the Census Bureau API (Application Programming Interface) has been updated to add /timeseries/. Examples can be found on the Developers' webpage.

Mobile App - To receive the latest updates on the Nation's key economic indicators, download the America's Economy app for Apple and Android smartphones and tablets.

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Advance Quarterly Services Report (Q1 2017) releases May 19, 2017 at 10:00 am EDT

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AWS said it was hit by a DDoS attack of record 2.3 Tbps this year, with an unsuccessful attempt to knock cloud services offline, continuously for three days in February.

To put the size of the attempt into context, it is near twice the 1.3 Tbps attack that blasted GitHub in 2018, or the circa 1 TbpsMirai botnet DDoS that famously knocked Dyn offline in 2016.

Record DDoS Attack: AWS Reports CLDAP Incident 

DDoS attacks come in a wide variety of flavors. The attack made on AWS was a CLDAP reflection-based attack and was 44% bigger than anything the cloud provider has seen before, it said in a Q1 AWS Shield threat landscape report [pdf]. 

AWS did not cite any apparent motive but noted that attacks increase when a new vector is located by attackers. 

Reflection attacks ill-use legitimate protocols, by sending a request to a third-party server, using a spoofed IP address.

The response given was much larger and is returned to the spoofed IP address of the unwitting victim.

CLDAP reflection attacks ill-use the connectionless version of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).

AWS weathered this attack as shown by its threat report, but it came after the public cloud giant saw services knocked offline in October 2019 by a DDoS attack on its DNS service.

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The report has also highlighted the four most important malicious “interaction types” used to try and hack services running on AWS in Quarter1.

41 million attempts were made to compromise services using these four techniques along during the quarter which makes 31% of all events.

Without naming any explicit CVEs, AWS points out:

·       “Docker unauthenticated RCE, wherein suspect tries to exploit a Docker engine API to build a container, without authorization.

·       “SSH intrusion attempts, where the suspect searches for ways to gain unauthorized access to the application using commonly used credentials or other exploits.

·       “Redis unauthenticated RCE, where the suspect tries to exploit the API of a Redis database to gain access to the application remotely, gain access to the contents of the database, or make it unavailable to end-users.

·       “Apache Hadoop YARN RCE, where the suspect tries to exploit the API of a Hadoop cluster’s resource management system and execute code, without authorization.

The report says: “The motivation of an attacker could vary. Individual interactions may come from an attacker with a specific goal which is related to the targeted application. The higher volume interactions are motivated by control of computing and network resources at scale for purposes like cryptocurrency mining, DDoS attacks, or data exfiltration.

It concludes by saying: “The frequency of interaction with an application depends on factors like its prevalence on the Internet, availability of unpatched RCE vulnerabilities, and the possibility that application owners have effectively restricted access to those applications”.

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Original Post from Rapid7 Author: Adrian Stewart

On top of braving the cold this past winter, our team was hard at work building out many new and powerful features for InsightAppSec, our cloud-powered application security testing solution for modern web apps. Security is constantly evolving, and so, too, must the tools you use to keep pace. That’s why we continuously update products like InsightAppSec to expand coverage and streamline your appsec processes.

We’ve been bursting at the seams to share these new features with you, which include extended single page application (SPA) and complex authentication coverage from our DAST engine, an executive dashboard to help you advance your appsec program, and an out-of-the-box CI/CD integration to help automate testing throughout your SDLC. In this post, you’ll learn about all of our new features, how you can benefit from them, and how you can begin using them right away.

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1. Bootstrap for multi-factor authentication

Bootstrap is the latest authentication type added to InsightAppSec, allowing you to interactively log in to a target application. Now, when an InsightAppSec scan encounters an authentication gateway, the user will be notified via email and prompted within InsightAppSec that authentication is required. Once the user provides the login page URL and credentials, the scan will proceed. If the scan encounters multiple login screens on the web application, the user will need to provide login credentials for each occurrence.

Meanwhile, the InsightAppSec Chrome plugin records and saves traffic between the browser and server to be used by the scan engine and satisfy the required authentication.

2. Email notifications

You’re busy fighting fires, training employees, and applying patches, which means your eyes aren’t always on the InsightAppSec dashboard. Because we know that staying in the know and tending to high-priority events is incredibly important to you, we’ve added email notification functionality to notify you when:

On-premises engines are offline and cannot be scanned

A running scan fails

A running scan encounters a Bootstrap authentication event that requires human intervention

All of this is sent to you without requiring you to be logged in to InsightAppSec.

To take action on any of these alerts, all you need to do is click on the link in the email and you’ll be brought to the exact event you’re notified about so you can take action when issues occur. If, however, your job function doesn’t include any one of these events, you can choose to turn off email notifications to reduce distractions.

3. New SPA frameworks added

InsightAppSec supports and recognizes the most commonly used SPA frameworks leveraged in modern web applications, such as Knockout, Angular, and React. Our latest update adds support for Angular 7 (in addition to 2, 4, 5, and 6) as well as React v16 (in addition to v15).

Web application developers use SPAs to deliver complex features without having to build everything from scratch. Users don’t worry about the “how” but rather how interactive the web applications are, and how easy they are to use.

While this presents advantages to all parties, it can make it challenging to find all the vulnerabilities that may exist within the page, as SPAs increase the permutations and can’t be crawled the way a traditional web site can be. To keep up with modern development practices, the InsightAppSec team is constantly evaluating and adding more frameworks to ensure the tool is crawling as efficiently and thoroughly as possible. Additional SPA support will be announced later in 2019.

4. Jenkins integration

Available from the Jenkins plugin store, this new plugin provides an easy way to integrate your build process with the InsightAppSec REST API. Using this plugin, Jenkins can automatically run a scan against your pre-production web application within the CI/CD pipeline and make a decision about the pass/fail status of the build based on the scan result.

Scans are initiated automatically as soon as builds are ready, ensuring you never miss a scan or issue before it goes into production. From there, Jenkins passes or fails builds depending on certain rules, such as the maximum number of vulnerabilities found or thresholds of vulnerability severity. This integration adds an important step to mitigating vulnerabilities before they get to production systems (where they’re much faster and less costly to fix).

5. A new executive dashboard: AppSec Home

AppSec Home is your new go-to dashboard to view key statistics and metrics regarding the security of your applications. Viewable to your entire team, it provides you with the appsec data you want to see, trends over time, and actions you can take to improve your security posture. All of this is also rolled up in a management summary, making it easy to digest for even the busiest executive and easily shareable at a moment’s notice.

In the coming months, we will continue to release new dashboard features that will allow you to further customize your view to focus on what metrics matter to you.

6. GDPR reports

Our new GDPR report is an informational report generated from a selected scan to show whether certain vulnerabilities might jeopardize your GDPR compliance. The report calls out specific areas where applications may be attacked, such as password control and network connection control, so you can take action on them. Any vulnerabilities found that relate to these headings are included and prioritized by severity level in order to facilitate remediation.

It’s worth noting that this report is not to be used as an indication of GDPR compliance, but instead, an advisory report that can be downloaded into a readable PDF or HTML format for you and your team to review periodically.

To Q2 and beyond!

Well, that’s a wrap for our Q1 updates for InsightAppSec! Our team is already hard at work on some new bells and whistles coming to InsightAppSec later this year, which we cannot wait to share with you. In the meantime, if you are an existing InsightAppSec customer, log in here to begin using (and loving) these features. And, if you’re not yet an InsightAppSec customer, sign up for your free 30-day trial!

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Lobster nets 1M to scale its user-generated content licensing marketplace

U.K. startupLobster is gearing up to scale its user-generated content licensing marketplace, as it closesa 1 million Series A. Its expecting to have closed out the roundnext week, with 85 percent of the funding committed at this point and onlyits decision on thelast fewinvestors outstanding.

Committed investors include KL10CH (aka The Key), a tech hub co-working space in Moscow, Russia where the startupsdev team is currently based; andNikolay Katorzhnov, the former CEO of Otkritie Capital, who is contributing 500,000; along with various other unnamed investors making smaller contributions. The remaining 20 percent of the round will be derived from U.K. and international angels, and follow-ons from investors in previous rounds.

The London-based startup, which was one of the 2014 battlefield finalists at TechCrunch Disrupt Europe, has previously raised around $700,000 in seed funding, including from Wayra UK, U.K. angels and via acrowdfunding route.

Its built a licensing platform with thepitch to its target brands/ad agency customers being to simplify legal useof user-generated content in their marketing materials by offering a low-friction way for them to locate and license themore authenticvisuals being shared on social media platforms(versus using tired stock photography).The business model is a subscription, with various tiers offered, including a month free trial as a taster.

For social media users aka Lobsterscontent contributors thecarrot is the chance to earn a little money on the side from their normal social mediaactivity.

Co-founder and CEO Olga Egorsheva says theSeries A will be going toward expanding boots on the ground in other countriesto drive marketing and partnership efforts overseas, with new offices plannedfor the U.S. and Asia. It will also befocusing resourceson AI-powered search, which it launched last year, aiming to enhancecontent-ranking andshow its customersmore relevant content.

This is really thenext step for us. Its really that moment where we start scalingnot only the contributor usage but the customer usage and we need to put some money in, some fuel in, to really make it take off in the key markets, she tells TechCrunch.

We have customers in the U.S., we have a few users in the U.S. and all over the world but we want to market more intensively in the U.S. to businesses, to different agencies and media creatives, and through API integrations.

Lobster also launched its firstAPI integration last week, with U.K. website builder Moonfruit, but is aiming to ramp up on this front too targeting10more suchintegrations in Q1-Q2 includingtalking to Adobe in the hopes of being able to plug Lobster into Photoshop in the future.

On the content front, itcurrently supports integrations withInstagram, Flickr, Facebook, Vk, YouTube and Vimeo, as well as allowingusers to makecontent available for licensing purposes via cloud storage providers such asDropbox and Verizon Cloud.

Users can choose to sync all their content automatically, or select specific photos and videos ora particular folder for licensingvia Lobster. The platform then indexes the metadata to power its search function, pulling in infosuch as hashtags, geolocation, titles, resolutions and so on. Egorsheva says their tech will alsoautomatically pull any newmetadata thats added to content in the future, meaningusers dont have to manuallyupdate any synced content.

Lobsters AI will alsoauto tag images to improve the quality of content tagging, as well assupporting other more powerful search features such as the ability to filter content based on a particular color palette (i.e. to match brand livery), or to upload aphoto to viewsimilar images in search results.

The AI can also identify faces, so customerscan filter for images with or without people, for example, and perform even more specificsearches, such as for different genders, ethnicities, ages and facial/emotional expressions.

TheAI-powered search alsoworks for video content, though this is one of the areas Lobster islooking to enhancewith thenew funding ideallybypartnering with anAI-focused startup that has built dedicated video search tech.

Part of [our current]AI is based on Stanfords technology which our tech team has adjusted to serve the social media field, and the database of social media that we have. The way forward as I see it is more in collaborating with industry players in AI, says Egorsheva.

Lobster nowhas around 17,000 people actively signed up to license their contentfromsites such as Instagram, Facebook, Flickr and YouTube, creating a poolofmore than five million pieces of content that itscustomers can browse, searchand license.

The platform is not strictly limited to this opt-inpool, though, as it also (at higher pricing tiers) offers a route for brands to reach out to any public user of thevarious social media platformsit supports to ask them tolicense specific content expanding its potential reach to some 30-40 billion photos and videos.

Itusesstandard, non-exclusive agreements for thecontent it licenses, in order to she says keep things simple, though it has manually agreed to a handful of exclusive licenses, andEgorsheva addsit may look to include an option forthat in the future if demand grows.

Pricing for content is automated by the platform, based on factors such as the source, resolution and whether the image has already been featured somewhere or not. And there are two standard types of licenses: one for content that gets less than one million views/plays; and an extended (and more expensive) license ifcontent garners more eyeballs.

Lobstertakes a 25 percent cut of any licensing revenue passing 75 percent to the content creator.Payouts to users are done via PayPal.

Another aspect of UGC licensing that theplatform simplifies is around model release (i.e. getting consent for anyone in the photos to their image being licensed for commercial use). Instead of requiring paper or PDF forms to be signed and collected by the content creator, itlets users share a link with their Facebook friends to authorize the usage of their image.

Its overallapproach of beingan aggregator and enabler, rather than trying to command a content repositoryof its own is its strategic advantage, reckonsEgorsheva.

Instead of creating another place where you would go and have to upload posts again were trying to uncover all that multitude of content that people already create, she says.

It also allows us as a platform to scale infinitely, almost, she adds. Because we dont store those images we pull the data, save the data and our search algorithm works with the data.

She also claimssocial platforms like the approach as it does not seek to draw their users activity elsewhere, and might even help them sustain users interest in posting to the social platforms if they aregetting some financial recompensefrom their activity, too.

Ive been offering revenue shares many times but the social networks and the clouds say that the engagement that they get or envision to get out of it is much more valuable for them.

At this point Lobster has around 30 customers, with clients including the likes of Hills Pets, Colgate Palmolive and their agency Red Fuse/WPP. (As you can imagine, Hills Pets was looking for cute photos of dogs.)

And while its currently focused on licensing visual content,Egorsheva says it could look to move into other areas in the future such as licensing user-generated music, via a platform like SoundCloud.

How much can content contributors make from licensing their stuff? It sounds as ifits mostlikely to be beer money (at least to social media users in the West), thoughEgorsheva says a userwhose content styleattracts the attention of an agency might be able to make a few hundred pounds (versus a few pounds or tens of pounds for others).

Still,Lobster is intended to be passive work, given its piggybacking on content a personwould probably be uploading anyway so its real lureisthe chanceof free money, at least for anyone actively uploading multimedia content to social media.

Its a good incentive that, by just connecting your accounts, and continuing to post as you usually do organically, you can earn for an extra cup of coffee or a beer, argues Egorsheva.

What we see in developed countries, in Europe and the U.S., is that the bigger incentive is getting noticed and getting into some agencys campaign and supporting the culture of not stealing or screenshotting images but legally getting permission, she adds.

Its very different for users in, for example, India or Eastern Europe, because for them this money naturally is a bigger deal So in them we see they are stimulated by earnings as well.

Source: http://allofbeer.com/2017/12/02/lobster-nets-1m-to-scale-its-user-generated-content-licensing-marketplace/

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Lobster nets 1M to scale its user-generated content licensing marketplace

U.K. startupLobster is gearing up to scale its user-generated content licensing marketplace, as it closesa 1 million Series A. Its expecting to have closed out the roundnext week, with 85 percent of the funding committed at this point and onlyits decision on thelast fewinvestors outstanding.

Committed investors include KL10CH (aka The Key), a tech hub co-working space in Moscow, Russia where the startupsdev team is currently based; andNikolay Katorzhnov, the former CEO of Otkritie Capital, who is contributing 500,000; along with various other unnamed investors making smaller contributions. The remaining 20 percent of the round will be derived from U.K. and international angels, and follow-ons from investors in previous rounds.

The London-based startup, which was one of the 2014 battlefield finalists at TechCrunch Disrupt Europe, has previously raised around $700,000 in seed funding, including from Wayra UK, U.K. angels and via acrowdfunding route.

Its built a licensing platform with thepitch to its target brands/ad agency customers being to simplify legal useof user-generated content in their marketing materials by offering a low-friction way for them to locate and license themore authenticvisuals being shared on social media platforms(versus using tired stock photography).The business model is a subscription, with various tiers offered, including a month free trial as a taster.

For social media users aka Lobsterscontent contributors thecarrot is the chance to earn a little money on the side from their normal social mediaactivity.

Co-founder and CEO Olga Egorsheva says theSeries A will be going toward expanding boots on the ground in other countriesto drive marketing and partnership efforts overseas, with new offices plannedfor the U.S. and Asia. It will also befocusing resourceson AI-powered search, which it launched last year, aiming to enhancecontent-ranking andshow its customersmore relevant content.

This is really thenext step for us. Its really that moment where we start scalingnot only the contributor usage but the customer usage and we need to put some money in, some fuel in, to really make it take off in the key markets, she tells TechCrunch.

We have customers in the U.S., we have a few users in the U.S. and all over the world but we want to market more intensively in the U.S. to businesses, to different agencies and media creatives, and through API integrations.

Lobster also launched its firstAPI integration last week, with U.K. website builder Moonfruit, but is aiming to ramp up on this front too targeting10more suchintegrations in Q1-Q2 includingtalking to Adobe in the hopes of being able to plug Lobster into Photoshop in the future.

On the content front, itcurrently supports integrations withInstagram, Flickr, Facebook, Vk, YouTube and Vimeo, as well as allowingusers to makecontent available for licensing purposes via cloud storage providers such asDropbox and Verizon Cloud.

Users can choose to sync all their content automatically, or select specific photos and videos ora particular folder for licensingvia Lobster. The platform then indexes the metadata to power its search function, pulling in infosuch as hashtags, geolocation, titles, resolutions and so on. Egorsheva says their tech will alsoautomatically pull any newmetadata thats added to content in the future, meaningusers dont have to manuallyupdate any synced content.

Lobsters AI will alsoauto tag images to improve the quality of content tagging, as well assupporting other more powerful search features such as the ability to filter content based on a particular color palette (i.e. to match brand livery), or to upload aphoto to viewsimilar images in search results.

The AI can also identify faces, so customerscan filter for images with or without people, for example, and perform even more specificsearches, such as for different genders, ethnicities, ages and facial/emotional expressions.

TheAI-powered search alsoworks for video content, though this is one of the areas Lobster islooking to enhancewith thenew funding ideallybypartnering with anAI-focused startup that has built dedicated video search tech.

Part of [our current]AI is based on Stanfords technology which our tech team has adjusted to serve the social media field, and the database of social media that we have. The way forward as I see it is more in collaborating with industry players in AI, says Egorsheva.

Lobster nowhas around 17,000 people actively signed up to license their contentfromsites such as Instagram, Facebook, Flickr and YouTube, creating a poolofmore than five million pieces of content that itscustomers can browse, searchand license.

The platform is not strictly limited to this opt-inpool, though, as it also (at higher pricing tiers) offers a route for brands to reach out to any public user of thevarious social media platformsit supports to ask them tolicense specific content expanding its potential reach to some 30-40 billion photos and videos.

Itusesstandard, non-exclusive agreements for thecontent it licenses, in order to she says keep things simple, though it has manually agreed to a handful of exclusive licenses, andEgorsheva addsit may look to include an option forthat in the future if demand grows.

Pricing for content is automated by the platform, based on factors such as the source, resolution and whether the image has already been featured somewhere or not. And there are two standard types of licenses: one for content that gets less than one million views/plays; and an extended (and more expensive) license ifcontent garners more eyeballs.

Lobstertakes a 25 percent cut of any licensing revenue passing 75 percent to the content creator.Payouts to users are done via PayPal.

Another aspect of UGC licensing that theplatform simplifies is around model release (i.e. getting consent for anyone in the photos to their image being licensed for commercial use). Instead of requiring paper or PDF forms to be signed and collected by the content creator, itlets users share a link with their Facebook friends to authorize the usage of their image.

Its overallapproach of beingan aggregator and enabler, rather than trying to command a content repositoryof its own is its strategic advantage, reckonsEgorsheva.

Instead of creating another place where you would go and have to upload posts again were trying to uncover all that multitude of content that people already create, she says.

It also allows us as a platform to scale infinitely, almost, she adds. Because we dont store those images we pull the data, save the data and our search algorithm works with the data.

She also claimssocial platforms like the approach as it does not seek to draw their users activity elsewhere, and might even help them sustain users interest in posting to the social platforms if they aregetting some financial recompensefrom their activity, too.

Ive been offering revenue shares many times but the social networks and the clouds say that the engagement that they get or envision to get out of it is much more valuable for them.

At this point Lobster has around 30 customers, with clients including the likes of Hills Pets, Colgate Palmolive and their agency Red Fuse/WPP. (As you can imagine, Hills Pets was looking for cute photos of dogs.)

And while its currently focused on licensing visual content,Egorsheva says it could look to move into other areas in the future such as licensing user-generated music, via a platform like SoundCloud.

How much can content contributors make from licensing their stuff? It sounds as ifits mostlikely to be beer money (at least to social media users in the West), thoughEgorsheva says a userwhose content styleattracts the attention of an agency might be able to make a few hundred pounds (versus a few pounds or tens of pounds for others).

Still,Lobster is intended to be passive work, given its piggybacking on content a personwould probably be uploading anyway so its real lureisthe chanceof free money, at least for anyone actively uploading multimedia content to social media.

Its a good incentive that, by just connecting your accounts, and continuing to post as you usually do organically, you can earn for an extra cup of coffee or a beer, argues Egorsheva.

What we see in developed countries, in Europe and the U.S., is that the bigger incentive is getting noticed and getting into some agencys campaign and supporting the culture of not stealing or screenshotting images but legally getting permission, she adds.

Its very different for users in, for example, India or Eastern Europe, because for them this money naturally is a bigger deal So in them we see they are stimulated by earnings as well.

from All Of Beer http://allofbeer.com/2017/12/02/lobster-nets-1m-to-scale-its-user-generated-content-licensing-marketplace/ from All of Beer https://allofbeercom.tumblr.com/post/168126076992

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Lobster nets 1M to scale its user-generated content licensing marketplace

U.K. startupLobster is gearing up to scale its user-generated content licensing marketplace, as it closesa 1 million Series A. Its expecting to have closed out the roundnext week, with 85 percent of the funding committed at this point and onlyits decision on thelast fewinvestors outstanding.

Committed investors include KL10CH (aka The Key), a tech hub co-working space in Moscow, Russia where the startupsdev team is currently based; andNikolay Katorzhnov, the former CEO of Otkritie Capital, who is contributing 500,000; along with various other unnamed investors making smaller contributions. The remaining 20 percent of the round will be derived from U.K. and international angels, and follow-ons from investors in previous rounds.

The London-based startup, which was one of the 2014 battlefield finalists at TechCrunch Disrupt Europe, has previously raised around $700,000 in seed funding, including from Wayra UK, U.K. angels and via acrowdfunding route.

Its built a licensing platform with thepitch to its target brands/ad agency customers being to simplify legal useof user-generated content in their marketing materials by offering a low-friction way for them to locate and license themore authenticvisuals being shared on social media platforms(versus using tired stock photography).The business model is a subscription, with various tiers offered, including a month free trial as a taster.

For social media users aka Lobsterscontent contributors thecarrot is the chance to earn a little money on the side from their normal social mediaactivity.

Co-founder and CEO Olga Egorsheva says theSeries A will be going toward expanding boots on the ground in other countriesto drive marketing and partnership efforts overseas, with new offices plannedfor the U.S. and Asia. It will also befocusing resourceson AI-powered search, which it launched last year, aiming to enhancecontent-ranking andshow its customersmore relevant content.

This is really thenext step for us. Its really that moment where we start scalingnot only the contributor usage but the customer usage and we need to put some money in, some fuel in, to really make it take off in the key markets, she tells TechCrunch.

We have customers in the U.S., we have a few users in the U.S. and all over the world but we want to market more intensively in the U.S. to businesses, to different agencies and media creatives, and through API integrations.

Lobster also launched its firstAPI integration last week, with U.K. website builder Moonfruit, but is aiming to ramp up on this front too targeting10more suchintegrations in Q1-Q2 includingtalking to Adobe in the hopes of being able to plug Lobster into Photoshop in the future.

On the content front, itcurrently supports integrations withInstagram, Flickr, Facebook, Vk, YouTube and Vimeo, as well as allowingusers to makecontent available for licensing purposes via cloud storage providers such asDropbox and Verizon Cloud.

Users can choose to sync all their content automatically, or select specific photos and videos ora particular folder for licensingvia Lobster. The platform then indexes the metadata to power its search function, pulling in infosuch as hashtags, geolocation, titles, resolutions and so on. Egorsheva says their tech will alsoautomatically pull any newmetadata thats added to content in the future, meaningusers dont have to manuallyupdate any synced content.

Lobsters AI will alsoauto tag images to improve the quality of content tagging, as well assupporting other more powerful search features such as the ability to filter content based on a particular color palette (i.e. to match brand livery), or to upload aphoto to viewsimilar images in search results.

The AI can also identify faces, so customerscan filter for images with or without people, for example, and perform even more specificsearches, such as for different genders, ethnicities, ages and facial/emotional expressions.

TheAI-powered search alsoworks for video content, though this is one of the areas Lobster islooking to enhancewith thenew funding ideallybypartnering with anAI-focused startup that has built dedicated video search tech.

Part of [our current]AI is based on Stanfords technology which our tech team has adjusted to serve the social media field, and the database of social media that we have. The way forward as I see it is more in collaborating with industry players in AI, says Egorsheva.

Lobster nowhas around 17,000 people actively signed up to license their contentfromsites such as Instagram, Facebook, Flickr and YouTube, creating a poolofmore than five million pieces of content that itscustomers can browse, searchand license.

The platform is not strictly limited to this opt-inpool, though, as it also (at higher pricing tiers) offers a route for brands to reach out to any public user of thevarious social media platformsit supports to ask them tolicense specific content expanding its potential reach to some 30-40 billion photos and videos.

Itusesstandard, non-exclusive agreements for thecontent it licenses, in order to she says keep things simple, though it has manually agreed to a handful of exclusive licenses, andEgorsheva addsit may look to include an option forthat in the future if demand grows.

Pricing for content is automated by the platform, based on factors such as the source, resolution and whether the image has already been featured somewhere or not. And there are two standard types of licenses: one for content that gets less than one million views/plays; and an extended (and more expensive) license ifcontent garners more eyeballs.

Lobstertakes a 25 percent cut of any licensing revenue passing 75 percent to the content creator.Payouts to users are done via PayPal.

Another aspect of UGC licensing that theplatform simplifies is around model release (i.e. getting consent for anyone in the photos to their image being licensed for commercial use). Instead of requiring paper or PDF forms to be signed and collected by the content creator, itlets users share a link with their Facebook friends to authorize the usage of their image.

Its overallapproach of beingan aggregator and enabler, rather than trying to command a content repositoryof its own is its strategic advantage, reckonsEgorsheva.

Instead of creating another place where you would go and have to upload posts again were trying to uncover all that multitude of content that people already create, she says.

It also allows us as a platform to scale infinitely, almost, she adds. Because we dont store those images we pull the data, save the data and our search algorithm works with the data.

She also claimssocial platforms like the approach as it does not seek to draw their users activity elsewhere, and might even help them sustain users interest in posting to the social platforms if they aregetting some financial recompensefrom their activity, too.

Ive been offering revenue shares many times but the social networks and the clouds say that the engagement that they get or envision to get out of it is much more valuable for them.

At this point Lobster has around 30 customers, with clients including the likes of Hills Pets, Colgate Palmolive and their agency Red Fuse/WPP. (As you can imagine, Hills Pets was looking for cute photos of dogs.)

And while its currently focused on licensing visual content,Egorsheva says it could look to move into other areas in the future such as licensing user-generated music, via a platform like SoundCloud.

How much can content contributors make from licensing their stuff? It sounds as ifits mostlikely to be beer money (at least to social media users in the West), thoughEgorsheva says a userwhose content styleattracts the attention of an agency might be able to make a few hundred pounds (versus a few pounds or tens of pounds for others).

Still,Lobster is intended to be passive work, given its piggybacking on content a personwould probably be uploading anyway so its real lureisthe chanceof free money, at least for anyone actively uploading multimedia content to social media.

Its a good incentive that, by just connecting your accounts, and continuing to post as you usually do organically, you can earn for an extra cup of coffee or a beer, argues Egorsheva.

What we see in developed countries, in Europe and the U.S., is that the bigger incentive is getting noticed and getting into some agencys campaign and supporting the culture of not stealing or screenshotting images but legally getting permission, she adds.

Its very different for users in, for example, India or Eastern Europe, because for them this money naturally is a bigger deal So in them we see they are stimulated by earnings as well.

source http://allofbeer.com/2017/12/02/lobster-nets-1m-to-scale-its-user-generated-content-licensing-marketplace/ from All of Beer http://allofbeer.blogspot.com/2017/12/lobster-nets-1m-to-scale-its-user.html

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Lobster nets 1M to scale its user-generated content licensing marketplace

U.K. startupLobster is gearing up to scale its user-generated content licensing marketplace, as it closesa 1 million Series A. Its expecting to have closed out the roundnext week, with 85 percent of the funding committed at this point and onlyits decision on thelast fewinvestors outstanding.

Committed investors include KL10CH (aka The Key), a tech hub co-working space in Moscow, Russia where the startupsdev team is currently based; andNikolay Katorzhnov, the former CEO of Otkritie Capital, who is contributing 500,000; along with various other unnamed investors making smaller contributions. The remaining 20 percent of the round will be derived from U.K. and international angels, and follow-ons from investors in previous rounds.

The London-based startup, which was one of the 2014 battlefield finalists at TechCrunch Disrupt Europe, has previously raised around $700,000 in seed funding, including from Wayra UK, U.K. angels and via acrowdfunding route.

Its built a licensing platform with thepitch to its target brands/ad agency customers being to simplify legal useof user-generated content in their marketing materials by offering a low-friction way for them to locate and license themore authenticvisuals being shared on social media platforms(versus using tired stock photography).The business model is a subscription, with various tiers offered, including a month free trial as a taster.

For social media users aka Lobsterscontent contributors thecarrot is the chance to earn a little money on the side from their normal social mediaactivity.

Co-founder and CEO Olga Egorsheva says theSeries A will be going toward expanding boots on the ground in other countriesto drive marketing and partnership efforts overseas, with new offices plannedfor the U.S. and Asia. It will also befocusing resourceson AI-powered search, which it launched last year, aiming to enhancecontent-ranking andshow its customersmore relevant content.

This is really thenext step for us. Its really that moment where we start scalingnot only the contributor usage but the customer usage and we need to put some money in, some fuel in, to really make it take off in the key markets, she tells TechCrunch.

We have customers in the U.S., we have a few users in the U.S. and all over the world but we want to market more intensively in the U.S. to businesses, to different agencies and media creatives, and through API integrations.

Lobster also launched its firstAPI integration last week, with U.K. website builder Moonfruit, but is aiming to ramp up on this front too targeting10more suchintegrations in Q1-Q2 includingtalking to Adobe in the hopes of being able to plug Lobster into Photoshop in the future.

On the content front, itcurrently supports integrations withInstagram, Flickr, Facebook, Vk, YouTube and Vimeo, as well as allowingusers to makecontent available for licensing purposes via cloud storage providers such asDropbox and Verizon Cloud.

Users can choose to sync all their content automatically, or select specific photos and videos ora particular folder for licensingvia Lobster. The platform then indexes the metadata to power its search function, pulling in infosuch as hashtags, geolocation, titles, resolutions and so on. Egorsheva says their tech will alsoautomatically pull any newmetadata thats added to content in the future, meaningusers dont have to manuallyupdate any synced content.

Lobsters AI will alsoauto tag images to improve the quality of content tagging, as well assupporting other more powerful search features such as the ability to filter content based on a particular color palette (i.e. to match brand livery), or to upload aphoto to viewsimilar images in search results.

The AI can also identify faces, so customerscan filter for images with or without people, for example, and perform even more specificsearches, such as for different genders, ethnicities, ages and facial/emotional expressions.

TheAI-powered search alsoworks for video content, though this is one of the areas Lobster islooking to enhancewith thenew funding ideallybypartnering with anAI-focused startup that has built dedicated video search tech.

Part of [our current]AI is based on Stanfords technology which our tech team has adjusted to serve the social media field, and the database of social media that we have. The way forward as I see it is more in collaborating with industry players in AI, says Egorsheva.

Lobster nowhas around 17,000 people actively signed up to license their contentfromsites such as Instagram, Facebook, Flickr and YouTube, creating a poolofmore than five million pieces of content that itscustomers can browse, searchand license.

The platform is not strictly limited to this opt-inpool, though, as it also (at higher pricing tiers) offers a route for brands to reach out to any public user of thevarious social media platformsit supports to ask them tolicense specific content expanding its potential reach to some 30-40 billion photos and videos.

Itusesstandard, non-exclusive agreements for thecontent it licenses, in order to she says keep things simple, though it has manually agreed to a handful of exclusive licenses, andEgorsheva addsit may look to include an option forthat in the future if demand grows.

Pricing for content is automated by the platform, based on factors such as the source, resolution and whether the image has already been featured somewhere or not. And there are two standard types of licenses: one for content that gets less than one million views/plays; and an extended (and more expensive) license ifcontent garners more eyeballs.

Lobstertakes a 25 percent cut of any licensing revenue passing 75 percent to the content creator.Payouts to users are done via PayPal.

Another aspect of UGC licensing that theplatform simplifies is around model release (i.e. getting consent for anyone in the photos to their image being licensed for commercial use). Instead of requiring paper or PDF forms to be signed and collected by the content creator, itlets users share a link with their Facebook friends to authorize the usage of their image.

Its overallapproach of beingan aggregator and enabler, rather than trying to command a content repositoryof its own is its strategic advantage, reckonsEgorsheva.

Instead of creating another place where you would go and have to upload posts again were trying to uncover all that multitude of content that people already create, she says.

It also allows us as a platform to scale infinitely, almost, she adds. Because we dont store those images we pull the data, save the data and our search algorithm works with the data.

She also claimssocial platforms like the approach as it does not seek to draw their users activity elsewhere, and might even help them sustain users interest in posting to the social platforms if they aregetting some financial recompensefrom their activity, too.

Ive been offering revenue shares many times but the social networks and the clouds say that the engagement that they get or envision to get out of it is much more valuable for them.

At this point Lobster has around 30 customers, with clients including the likes of Hills Pets, Colgate Palmolive and their agency Red Fuse/WPP. (As you can imagine, Hills Pets was looking for cute photos of dogs.)

And while its currently focused on licensing visual content,Egorsheva says it could look to move into other areas in the future such as licensing user-generated music, via a platform like SoundCloud.

How much can content contributors make from licensing their stuff? It sounds as ifits mostlikely to be beer money (at least to social media users in the West), thoughEgorsheva says a userwhose content styleattracts the attention of an agency might be able to make a few hundred pounds (versus a few pounds or tens of pounds for others).

Still,Lobster is intended to be passive work, given its piggybacking on content a personwould probably be uploading anyway so its real lureisthe chanceof free money, at least for anyone actively uploading multimedia content to social media.

Its a good incentive that, by just connecting your accounts, and continuing to post as you usually do organically, you can earn for an extra cup of coffee or a beer, argues Egorsheva.

What we see in developed countries, in Europe and the U.S., is that the bigger incentive is getting noticed and getting into some agencys campaign and supporting the culture of not stealing or screenshotting images but legally getting permission, she adds.

Its very different for users in, for example, India or Eastern Europe, because for them this money naturally is a bigger deal So in them we see they are stimulated by earnings as well.

from All Of Beer http://allofbeer.com/2017/12/02/lobster-nets-1m-to-scale-its-user-generated-content-licensing-marketplace/