Rebel Fish talked with Kevin Swan about his new Black Rapid Double Strap. He gave it a 5 out of 5 stars! Improvements over previous models:
2 cameras instead of one (duh!)
Improved hardware to secure to camera
The strap doesn’t slide around like the single did
More comfy (better weight distribution)
Rebel Fish has been using Quickbooks Online for a couple years. It’s purrfect! Her accountant can just get online and pull any reports she needs. The only downside? No Macintosh compatibility. 
It required Internet Explorer (feh!).
Until today.
Oh, happy day! Free at last! Free at last!
Rebel Fish has never promoted a workshop, but she will promote this one. Bob and Dawn Davis are a phenomenal team, well worth learning from.
Here’s their site: http://davisworkshops.com/index2.php?v=v1
Go. Learn. Love.
Having recently been inspired by Dane Sanders, at his WPPI presentation, Rebel Fish was delighted to stumble across this video, by Zack Arias, along a similar theme. She hopes you enjoy.
Rebel Fish doesn’t have enough time in her day to keep up with all the great business books out there. She discovered and signed up for this awesome service, Brevity. She loves it already!
It’s only $95 for a subscription that will last until March of 2010. That’s 62 issues. They’re accepting 1000 charter members at this price, then it will go to something like $200/year. The sooner you join, the more value you get from it as you don’t have access to any of the past archives. So if you sign up next week, you won’t be able to see this weeks book, only future reviews.
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It looks like Pictage was sued, and settled out of court, because they are using digital images to sell products in a shopping cart online.
Um. That seems like a tough patent to try and protect, but someone successfully did it. What companies (and photographers) are next? They sued several photographers along with Pictage.
Here’s the letter from Pictage:
Dear Valued Pictage Partner:
Last week Pictage completed a settlement of a patent infringement lawsuit brought against Pictage and some of our clients by VPS, LLC. Among other things, VPS’s patents cover the online display of digital images and sale of products based on those digital images. VPS has licensed these patents extensively and requires that companies (including professional photographers) providing online sales of products based on online digital images pay VPS a license fee or royalty on all such online sales.
As part of the settlement with VPS, Pictage is paying a multi-million dollar fee for a license covering past and future online sales on Pictage.com. All of your past sales and those you will make in the future on Pictage.com are covered by the license to Pictage and the fees paid by Pictage. However, it is important to note that any sales that you have made or will make on any other website (including your own) are not covered by the license to Pictage.
The fees that we are paying VPS make it impossible for Pictage to continue to honor our legacy commission rate of 10%. Effective immediately, our commission rate will be 15% of online consumer sales. Those currently at 15% will see no change. In addition, we will now charge a monthly fee of 1.5% (still substantially below the best available credit card processing rates) for all sales made though our Pictage Payment Processing (P3) system.
I thank you again for your ongoing support. If you have any questions, comments or concerns please feel free to contact me.
Best regards,
Jason B. Kiefer
Founder & CEO
Bob and Dawn were gracious enough to spend an afternoon with New School. We interviewed them about working with famous folk, designing albums, favorite places to shoot, photography tips from Bob, gear they use, and much more.
Rebel Fish hopes you enjoy the video!
PhotoJunction Remixed used to be $250/year. Well, they’ve made a slight adjustment in their fees: Now it’s, well, free. All you need to agree to is a monthly emailing of Queensberry’s newsletter. Not a bad price to pay, especially if you’re good with email filtering. 
[b] was kind enough to recently let Rebel Fish have a preview of the upcoming [b] school. It’s looking very slick and you’ll all be lovin’ on it when it comes out. For now, you can enjoy a couple videos around the [b] School Beta BBQ!
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