an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . february 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message thinglink oy type private industry internet technology founded 2010 headquarters helsinki finland key people ulla engestr m ceo janne jalkanen cto products rich media tag number of employees 14 2011 website www.thinglink.com thinglink inc. thinglink oy in finland is a finnish american provider of in image interaction tools . thinglink launched in 2010 and led by ulla engestr m and janne jalkanen develops tools for image interaction that allow content sharing via online images . the purpose of thinglink according to its developers is to allow photos and other images to be made into web links mainly for the purpose of advertising and education . company history edit thinglink was developed by social objects oy a helsinki based incubator owned by ulla and jyri engestr m in 2006 . thinglink was first incorporated in palo alto california in 2008 by ulla engestr m. a closed test version of the service was launched in 2009 followed by the public release in 2010 . thinglink oy did initial fundraising and found financial backers in helsinki . in 2011 thinglink launched rich media tags an initial form for linking images to websites and social media . rich media tags have so far been developed for several social content platforms including facebook youtube flickr spotify vimeo wikipedia soundcloud google apps and twitter . thinglink and soundcloud launched the first use of a sound music player inside a digital image . citation needed atlantic records launched simple plan s get your heart on cd using thinglink the first major record company to tap into the engagement potential of interactive images . thinglink hired neil vineberg former head of vineberg communications as cmo to open up u.s. market to relationships with key companies in music entertainment publishing and digital marketing . rich media tags edit in 2011 thinglink launched rich media tags making interacting with different social content platforms possible within a single image . when linked with a url to one of the rich media enabled sites a tag appears revealing the related content . these tags will then be revealed every time a viewer scrolls their mouse over the uploaded image . by using thinglink publishers can also include links to other social networks blogs news and commerce sites that are yet to have rich media tags created . references edit gigaom http gigaom.com 2011 06 15 thinglink launches rich pictures plans images 2 0 techcrunch europe http eu.techcrunch.com 2011 06 15 thinglink takes the fight back to stipple with rich media image tagging the next web http thenextweb.com eu 2011 06 15 thinglink launches rich media tagging making images social and interactive arcticstartup http www.arcticstartup.com 2011 06 16 thinglink launches rich media tags wired http www.wired.com beyond the beyond 2011 06 spime watch thinglink rich media tags the new york times http www.nytimes.com external gigaom 2011 06 15 15gigaom thinglink launches rich pictures plans images 20 93025.html partner rss & emc rss san francisco chronicle http www.sfgate.com cgi bin article.cgi f g a 2011 06 15 prweb8573092.dtl the washington post http www.washingtonpost.com business technology thinglink takes the fight back to stipple with rich media image tagging 2011 06 15 aglrpzvh story.html the washington post http www.washingtonpost.com business technology thinglink takes the fight back to stipple with rich media image tagging 2011 06 15 aglrpzvh story.html the wall street journal http onespot.wsj.com technology 2011 06 15 e1268 thinglink takes the fight back to stippl retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title thinglink & oldid 744149442 categories index publishing identifiershidden categories articles with a promotional tone from february 2014all articles with a promotional tone navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages suomi edit links this page was last modified on 13 october 2016 at 12 09 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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