Seattle's Picnik is on a roll and has been awarded a 2009 Webware 100 award for the Photo and Video category. Readers of CNET's Webware.com cast more than 630,000 votes in an online voting poll which ultimately selected the winners. The 2009 Webware 100 Awards recognize the best Web 2.0 sites, services and applications that are leading the next wave of innovation.
Picnik has continued to experienced remarkable growth and currently has an astounding 10 million unique users per month. The Picnik team, headquartered in Seattle, is consistently adding more delightful, fresh and advanced features and capabilities to the already popular app. The momentum of growth is further supported by new partnerships like Wetpaint, Twitgoo and more.
"Every year, members of my team tell me how cool it would be to win the Webware 100 award," said Jonathan Sposato, chief executive officer of Picnik.com. "To finally win this year after being a finalist for the last couple of years scratches a huge itch for us. There are a lot of fantastic companies being acknowledged this year and we're super lucky to be amongst them. Thank you Picnikers and thank you Webware 100!"
Out of the 300 finalists, 10 were chosen as winners in the Photo and Video category. Picnik is in great company with the other winners including Hulu, Flickr and YouTube.
Picnik cleaned up at the Seattle 2.0 Awards two weeks ago with four awards.
Picnik.com world’s leading online photo editing service. Picnik combines the power of desktop software with the ease and convenience of the web.... [more]
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