{"id":310,"date":"2012-03-22T10:07:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T10:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tristanromain.wordpress.com\/?p=310"},"modified":"2023-07-11T14:21:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T12:21:57","slug":"why-i-am-not-a-fan-of-picture-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tristanromain.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/22\/why-i-am-not-a-fan-of-picture-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I am not a fan of Picture life"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have listed already quite a few photo sharing websites<\/a>, 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<\/a> is another hype start-up<\/a>, like so many in 2012 as soon as they are dealing with something “social”. But so far I am not impressed. To be fair, the start-up is really in beta and it looks challenging to get more details about their supposed innovative offer. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Let’s come to what I am aware of and what I don’t like it so far:<\/p>\n

1. No freemium<\/strong>, you want to join, you need to pay. Ok Smugmug dit it this way, but for one Smugmug, how many failures?<\/p>\n

2. Their innovative offer looks very similar to Dropbox and Picasa<\/strong>. I know skilled people which would demonstrate the opposite, but frankly, whereas Picasa has many drawbacks and limits, its ability to make available pictures everywhere is real. Same for Dropbox. Last and not least, quite a few players will also enter this market. If you are not aware, cloud offers are growing like hell. Like Google+ knows already, to fix something which is not broken is never easy, so good luck to Picture life if this is really what they are looking for.<\/p>\n

3. They want to be a “Flickr-killer”.<\/strong> Well, I am afraid, whereas a big fan of Flickr, than Flickr does not need anybody else than itself to kill Flickr… Please, Yahoo!, do me a favour, sell Flickr to some people who like photo sharing and photography.<\/p>\n

So, wait and see, as usual, but it seems to me to be just another photo sharing website. If you are a fan of Picture life, please let me know why, I would love to hear from you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. 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