The digital photography opportunity

Forget digicam manufacturers and retailers. The real opportunity lies elsewhere.

Have you noticed how as soon as you free consumers from having to pay for film, they start taking more pictures? And sooner or later they need somewhere to put them.

Flickr of course has already made its money in this area. But now there are a number of other businesses all looking to leverage this trend, in printing and storage.

I particularly like some of the Flickr symbiotes. Moo is particularly nice - it prints mini business cards using your Flickr photos on the back.

The one area that's really been saturated, I suspect, is snapshot printing. There's a plethora of services including one provided by Asda. Look for larger sizes, though, or for T-shirt or mug printing, and the number of options slims down. Perhaps those are areas a moo-style Flickr symbiote should get into?