Whereas photosharing has become so popular for the last years, it is well known that most of the time, looking for "good photographers" - which means someone who takes pictures YOU like, has become more and more challenging. Arthur Chang has already written an excellent post about this. Curation is indeed a real challenge as the flow of new pictures is…
Photostreams are now just a commodity for any social service, and has improved dramatically for the last months. Facebook and Flickr recent improvements may be two obvious examples. Let's list first some trends in 2012: Bigger is better That's obvious: the experience improves with the picture size and photostreams are now able to display much bigger pictures. Adjust to your screen…
Yes I know, it is no more "Picasa", nowadays man must write "Google+ photos".Yes, but it is still "Picasa" as you need to download it first. Thank you Google, I love you, but your engineering inconsistency is typical of the geeks I know so well! So I will try to clarify the mess due to a somewhat clumsy if not incomplete…
Whereas its photo services have improved dramatically for the last months, despite a 1 billion dollars acquisition, you should not believe, even a second, than Facebook is the photographer friend. Actually, I like their honesty: they don't want to be cool, they want to become a utility. They don't like photography, they like you spending your life on their website. Users…
When you want to store and share your pictures, well you really have many options. But social projects are hype if not in a bubble state. I like to review the existing, old or new photo sharing websites. So I had a look at Snap My Life. I jumped quickly to their "10 reasons to love them", and created a profile.…
I am a big fan of open source and of photo sharing. Both together can bring something quite unique on the table but you should ask yourself whether every open source projects works really or not as an open source initiative - useless to write as a useful project by itself. Most of the time, however one should carefully understand the…