I write this in San Francisco. I arrived a few minutes ago to present Jupitermedia at the ThinkEquity Internet Conference at the Ritz Carlton on Wednesday the 14th. On my way to the conference I visited our stock photo offices in Peoria, Illinois and Tucson, Arizona. Our teams at both offices are very excited about JupiterImages and cannot wait for the rollout of several new services this fall.

Several employees mentioned that two blogs have been covering the news of Getty Images' entrance to the subscription arena. Dimdump is operated by Bahar Gidwani of Index Stock. Stockphototalk is the other blog that I learned about today.

In any event this link summarizes a little "back and forth" on the state of subscriptions amongst Getty Images, Index Stock and JupiterImages.