"A picture is worth a 1000 words" may change soon

If you like to insert pictures into your blog post you already know how hard it is to find images without copyright. Of course there are websites which offer free downloadable pictures, but the image pool isn’t always satisfactory.

This might change as Corbis, a well known stock photography website, is currently testing a service, PicApp, which will allow bloggers to download for free pictures and embed them in their blog posts. Of course there’s a catch: each picture will display some kind of advertising. It’s not clear yet if it will be an over layer or something which will appear when users move the mouse cursor over the picture.

The only thing that I find a downside is what will happen if I embed a lower resolution image with a link to the bigger version. It isn’t clear yet how Corbis plans to track the pictures and display ads on them. Also I don’t know if they intend to share revenues with fellow bloggers. I sure hope they will.