Fotopedia, a cross between Flickr and Wikipedia, just raised $1.1 million in additional funding from Ignition Partners, Banexi Ventures and founder Jean-Marie Huillot, as reported by TechCrunch earlier today. The company had raised $2.3 million in seed funding previously. Fotopedia, which is the brainchild of Hullot – former CTO of NeXT and Apple’s application division, turns your photo albums into collaborative Web pages with different topics and subjects.
The latest from Fotopedia is a very compelling social photo Wikipedia platform that gives users the ability to turn their photo albums into a web page entry on the Fotopedia site. You can add tags, associated Wikipedia entries and Google Map information to your own Fotopedia web album as well. This new platform moves Fotopedia completely onto the web by eliminating the need to install their former desktop client.
On the Fotopedia web site itself, users can access an ever growing and expansive set of albums from a variety of topics, places, and people all around the world. With over 150,000 high-res photos and nearing 5,000 Wikipedia articles in queue, Fotopedia is quickly turning into your visual global Wikipedia resource.
Huillot has said Fotopedia has experienced significant growth since their launch earlier this year. This new round of financing will go to continue the startups impressive initial growth and expansion. By focusing their efforts solely on the web platform, and away from the desktop, Fotopedia is poised to scale their photo Wikipedia into a social photo network.
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