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…
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…
Photo sharing is hype, we know it. Open source is cool. So a match between both should be fantastic. Open Photo would like to be this great player, able to put together some freedom to what has been so far a proprietary thing. I like very much the idea to split where you are storing your pictures from the presentation itself,…
For the last months, many bloggers and journalists have noticed the raise of 500px, instagram, and other photo sharing websites whereas the old and fading lady of this kind, Flickr, was just doing... nothing. Some were saying, more in a provocative way, that Flickr is dead. First, one should understand why: that's easy, Yahoo! has been into a major restructuring for…
Instagram, hipstamatic, flickr, lightbox and much more... Some are more hype or cooler than other but at the end of the day, they may, can or will do the same job: 1. Shoot with your smartphone, 2. Apply a digital filter (with a 70's look), 3. Share it in a way or another. But frankly, it would be very primitive to…
I don't say it is not cool but I am not a great fan of Instagram (I would prefer from far a social service like Path). I don't like its photos style - or rather that it obliges you to have Instagram's style. Apart from the fact is well done and famous, I don't see any rocket-science here. That said, the…
There is a common belief: smartphones will replace cameras and new photosharing websites are making the others obsolete. Since a few month, thanks to a skyrocketting growth, Instagram is the new kid on the block. I cannot disagree about some new trends and I will not say that photosharing is somewhere broken and must be fixed. But I don't think things…
I have listed already quite a few photo sharing websites, actually from far too many, and it looks clear to me some real breakthrough are very much welcomed. So whereas there are too many players, a start-up could be successful. Picture life is another hype start-up, like so many in 2012 as soon as they are dealing with something "social". But…