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  • 500px Now Back in the App Store After Apple Yanked It for Porn

    After a week in App Store limbo, photography app 500px has made its return.

    As you may remember, Apple booted the app from its App Store for violation of Apple’s rules on pornography. Apple said that the app was removed after many user complaints regarding the porn.

    But apparently, Apple has rethought their decision. It looks like 500px has done enough to assuage Cupertino’s concerns.

    Upon yanking the app, Apple had this to say:

    “The app was removed from the App Store for featuring pornographic images and material, a clear violation of our guidelines. We also received customer complaints about possible child pornography. We’ve asked the developer to put safeguards in place to prevent pornographic images and material in their app.”

    It appears that 500px has inserted at least one new “safeguard” into the app – a new “report this photo” button.

    They’ve also instituted a new age warning within iTunes. It now says that you must be 17 years or older to download to app due to “frequent/intent sexual content or nudity.”

    But nudity is still accessible within the app. And Apple has approved it. Perhaps all of that media attention surrounding Vine and its porn problem (many pointed out that Apple was allowing it to stay in the App Store, alongside Twitter, which also contains frequent nudity) softened Apple up a bit. Or maybe it’s just another hard-to-explain move from a company whose nudity policies are notoriously hard-to-explain.

  • 500px Offers New $20 Premium Plan

    Toronto-based image hosting site 500px, which calls itself ‘the best photography site in the world,’ has just unveiled a new level in its pay plans, simply called called ‘Plus.’ At first glance, one might suspect that 500px is to Flickr as Vimeo is to YouTube: it’s a flashier looking platform, catering more exclusively to artists than to the masses. Below is 500px interviewing one of its contributing photographers:

    For a long while, 500px offered an “Awesome Membership” for $50 a year, twice as much as Flickr Pro at $24.95 annually. So now, for $19.95, one can obtain the pro-level features at 500px for $5 less. According to the site, Plus features include unlimited uploads, a personal store, unlimited collections and advanced statistics. The only thing missing from the Awesome Membership is a personalized portfolio, featuring customizable domains and the inclusion of Google Analytics. Yahoo’s Flickr has yet to offer much by way of targeted maketing, and appears to be catering more towards social networking, putting 500px in a good spot as a choice for photo professionals and freelancers.

    500px, sporting a front page reminiscent of Pinterest‘s interface, was founded in 2009, and grew to over 3 million registered users by 2011. Each user gets a ‘flow’ page, where his/her activity on the site appears. Followers can rate user pictures, with highly voted ones ending up in the ‘popular’ field. Other categories making up the sharing community include editor’s choice, upcoming, fresh and market – these represent highest rated, trendy, newest and for sale.