Become a member of the web's hottest photo community. Contact Info Find out more about Advertising prospects. For much of the past decade, consumers have greeted digital photography with a big yawn. But because of little companies like Zing, digital photography finally has a reason for being.
Users attach the digital camera to a PC and upload photos to their own Website.
They can then edit and organize the photos into online albums and e-mail electronic snapshots to friends and relatives. But eyeballs alone won't bring in enough to pay the bills, so now Zing is looking to transform itself into an e-commerce destination. It will sell photo prints and enlargements, and customers can order mugs and T-shirts with their pictures scanned onto them. No. 1 among photo sites by Media Metrix, with more than 1.7 million unique visitors in April. Kleiner partner John Doerr is stumping hard to engineer deals with big-name players.