QOOP was a web services company founded in
Mill Valley, California
Mill Valley is a city in Marin County, California, United States, located about north of San Francisco via the Golden Gate Bridge and from Napa Valley. The population was 14,231 at the 2020 census.
Mill Valley is located on the western and ...
in 2005. They ran the website QOOP.com, which was presented as a 'social commerce network' for authors, artists, media archives and publishers.
QOOP.com
The company and website closed down permanently in 2012.
This website provided tools for uploading documents and images, compiling them into calendars, books and other products, and printing the result. In addition to printing, users could use QOOP to create a store with listings of their digital content that they could share to friends and networks online.
Partners and services
QOOP had grown through partnerships with sites for creators that allow them to quickly take their favorite works and turn them into cards, posters, and the like. For instance they had an early partnership with
Flickr
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, and later developed a
Facebook
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app, to make it easy to print and ship photos from those sites.
Stats showing roughly 2,000 users of the service a day
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QOOP also provided on-demand publishing services, and had partnered with publishers such as CK-12 Foundation, Stanford University Press
Stanford University Press (SUP) is the publishing house of Stanford University. It is one of the oldest academic presses in the United States and the first university press to be established on the West Coast. It was among the presses officiall ...
, and PLoS
PLOS (for Public Library of Science; PLoS until 2012 ) is a nonprofit publisher of open-access journals in science, technology, and medicine and other scientific literature, under an open-content license. It was founded in 2000 and lau ...
(Public Library of Science) to provide printing of textbooks and compendiums.
External links
An early review
by Kottke on using QOOP to print his Flickr photos
Press release about the website
March 2009
References
American printers
Defunct websites
Defunct companies based in California
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