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Imgur (pronounced like image-er; imager〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=How do you pronounce Imgur? )〕 and stylized as ''imgur'') is an online image sharing community and image host founded by Alan Schaaf in 2009 in Athens, Ohio, United States. Imgur describes itself as "the home to the web's most popular image content, curated in real time by a dedicated community through commenting, voting and sharing."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=imgur (@imgur) - Twitter )〕 It offers free image hosting to millions of users a day, and a comment-based social community. The company supports itself with revenue generated from ad sales, commercial hosting and merchandise.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://imgur.com/blog/2013/05/28/tech-tuesday-takeover-self-serve-ads/ )〕 On October 22, 2012, Imgur released a user-submitted gallery, which allows users to submit directly to their gallery for public view, comments and votes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tutorial: The New Gallery )〕 On June 26, 2013, Imgur released its first content creation tool, the Imgur Meme Generator, which offers simple image macro creation as well as a public gallery of popular meme templates.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Imgur Meme Generator )〕 The official Imgur mascot is the Imguraffe, which was created originally as an April Fools' Day joke, but was "too cute to give up", thereafter becoming the official mascot.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Imguraffe )〕 ==History== The company was started in Athens, Ohio as Alan Schaaf's side project as he attended Ohio University for computer science. The service, which the creator describes as "an image hosting service that doesn't suck", was created as a response to the usability problems encountered in similar services. Originally designed as a gift to the online community of Reddit, it took off almost instantly, jumping from a thousand hits per day to a million total page views in the first five months.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Interview: Imgur's Path to a Billion Image Views Per Day - Liz Gannes - Social - AllThingsD )〕 The website became widely recognized following its rise to popularity on social news websites such as Reddit and Digg. In the beginning, Imgur relied on donations to help with the web hosting costs. As the site grew, it needed additional sources of revenue to keep up with demand. Display ads were introduced in May 2009;〔 sponsored images and self-service ads were introduced in 2013.〔 In order to scale and manage its growth, Imgur used three different hosting providers in the first year before settling on Voxel, then switching to Amazon Web Services in late 2011.〔 In January 2011, the company moved from Ohio to San Francisco.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Imgur’s Startup Journey (Infographic) )〕 As of June 2013 they had 10 employees, and won the Best Bootstrapped Startup award at TechCrunch's 2012 Crunchies Awards.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Imgur Wins Best Bootstrapped Startup, Sees 1 Billion Pageviews Per Month )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Imgur」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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