Techcrunch featured a report on a new startup yesterday which aims to let photographers sell images from their site without sending visitors off to a third party store. Currently in closed beta for US customers only, Fotomoto allows you to add a couple of lines of code to your templates and their widget will index your images. As Techcrunch explains,

Fotomoto does things differently: photographers only need to insert a few lines of codes in their website, after which the images on his or her website will automatically be indexed and automatically provided with a ‘purchase photo’ link. Sellers can tweak the settings so the ‘buy’ links appear completely integrated and branded to match their sites’ look and feel, and the back-end of the tool enables them to set the availability next to the sizes and pricing of the photos. When visitors click the link to buy photos, a Fotomoto widget pops up and enables them to instantly purchase images through PayPal (with the ability to pay by credit card coming later this month). There’s also a sharing link, which lets people send the picture to others as an e-card, with the ability to push to social networking and bookmarking services coming in a couple of weeks.

There are no monthly costs, just a commission fee based on the image price and product chosen. At the moment there are just prints available, but this will expand into t-shirts, mugs etc in due course. I’m looking forward to this being available for UK sites – it’s definitely going on my blog then. 

Read the full article on Fotomoto at Techcrunch here, and if you’re interested sign up to the beta program here.

Japanese startup Appliya have launched an Iphone photo application which includes a button to make a meow noise to get the cat’s attention before you take the shot.

Appliya also make Bow Cam and Baby Cam with similar buttons and different noises. I wonder what noise Student Cam would make?