Posted in Photo Sites, Social Software on Jan 4th, 2008 No Comments »
Flickr Guest Pass
Wow, I didn’t know that. Very useful. Of course, I don’t have any private sets or photos but if I did this would be useful.
[via Daring Fireball Linked List]
Posted in Photo Sites, Social Software on Sep 18th, 2007 2 Comments »
Check out the Roswell2K Route 66 VW Beetle Road Trip for a nice use of flickr for a collection of collections of images. This is a creative use of one little used aspect of flickr for organizing and presenting collections with thumbnails showing what they’re about.
[via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in Ideas, Photo Sites, Social Software on Aug 24th, 2007 33 Comments »
The vast photo-sharing site Flickr has a feature called Explore that has been around for quite some time. It is essentially a popularity contest driven by many factors, some listed below in this blurb from flickr:
Flickr labs have been hard at work creating a way to show you some of the most awesome photos on [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Photo Sites on Aug 7th, 2007 2 Comments »
Great things announced today including a new version of iPhoto. Check this out for iPhoto-.mac integration: .Mac Web Gallery Demo Movie.
[via Daring Fireball Linked List.]
Posted in Photo Sites on Aug 2nd, 2007 1 Comment »
Jon Moss has written a simple flickr guide for those considering or new to the flickr photo sharing community.
[via theappleofmyi.com.]
Posted in Ideas, Photo Sites, Social Software on May 15th, 2007 2 Comments »
In The Real Story of JPG Magazine Derek Powazek, one of its founders tells of how he and his wife Heather Champ invented it and built the business, and, painfully how they just left their own startup company.
I have to say, while I loved the design and some of the spirit of JPG Magazine, I [...]
Posted in Photo Sites, Social Software on May 5th, 2007 9 Comments »
Yahoo Asks Users to Switch Photo Sites: “Yahoo is shutting down Yahoo Photos and asking users to move instead to its photo-sharing site Flickr, which emphasizes community features.”
This might be because flickr is floundering and Yahoo needs to keep its numbers moving at the same pace that they were before it floundered. From the inside, [...]
Posted in Photo Sites, Social Software on Feb 1st, 2007 No Comments »
Fotolog overtaking Flickr? Quick! Which photo sharing site community thingie is more popular: Fotolog or Flickr? You might be surprised at the answer…but first some history.
This is a fascinating post by Kottke and given the problems flickr is having at the moment being “absorbed” by Yahoo all the more meaningful. I’m not dumping flickr for [...]
Posted in Photo Sites, Social Software on Jan 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
TechCrunch has an interesting piece called SmugMug: The (Anti) Web 2.0 Company.
SmugMug is a popular and successful photo sharing site that has a different feel from flickr and other sites built to enable social connections as well as photo sharing.
(Source TechCrunch.)
Posted in Photo Sites on Dec 17th, 2006 2 Comments »
Flickr Backup is a utility for copying a flickr photostream back down to a computer. Many people are using flickr for archival storage which is a good idea in case one’s computer goes down but what if flickr goes down? This utility allows copying back down to a computer. Hey wait, but what if the [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Photo Editing Software, Photo Sites on Dec 10th, 2006 No Comments »
Connected Flow’s Flickr Export plugin for Aperture is out. James Duncan Davidson recommends it.
(Source Daring Fireball Linked List.)
Posted in Photo Sites, Social Software on Nov 30th, 2006 No Comments »
Pikeo is a new photo sharing web site that’s more mult-lingual than flickr and incorporates maps more elegantly.
I wonder if any social photo sharing site get traction with flickr having so many users worldwide? This site looks beautiful but users seem to care less about beauty and more about community. Time will tell.
(Source TechCrunch.)
Posted in Photo Resources, Photo Sites on Oct 19th, 2006 No Comments »
PicLens is an extension for Safari (Macintosh web browser) that allows the full-screen display of photographs on major photo sharing web sites. It’s quite useful and beautifully designed and free. It’s in beta now but I’m using it with no problems at all. If you’re a Mac user who’s also a photographer and you use [...]
Posted in Photo Resources, Photo Sites on Aug 28th, 2006 2 Comments »
Flickr just added a map and geotag feature to their organizer. Yes! Great shot - where’d you take that?
You can now drag your photos to the places where you took them on a map of the world. This is version 1 of this feature so it’s a bit crude in terms of integration into the [...]
Posted in Photo Resources, Photo Sites, Photographers on Aug 1st, 2006 10 Comments »
This site (Richard’s Notes) is not a real photo blog and even though I’ve been posting my photography on flickr and posting thumbs and links to those images here (many of you don’t click through to flickr, I know, although you should), I’ve realized that I needed a place to show my photographic work by [...]
Posted in Photo Sites on May 9th, 2006 2 Comments »
InstantGallery is a Mac OS X application for producing galleries of images for viewing on the web. It looks quite interesting as an alternative to products like PixelPost and other content management tools.
Posted in Photo Sites, Social Software on Apr 5th, 2006 No Comments »
Nigiri Sushi is a theme for WordPress for doing photoblogs. It’s still in beta (as I post this) but is being used (see list of users on Eric’s site).
Posted in Photo Resources, Photo Sites, Social Software on Apr 5th, 2006 No Comments »
Folderblog is a free php script that displays images placed in a given directory. It’s one of the simpler photoblog engines around. Check out the featured photoblogs using it for examples.
Posted in Photo Resources, Photo Sites, Social Software on Jan 3rd, 2006 10 Comments »
Pixelpost is photoblog software and it looks quite good. Like Wordpress that runs this weblog, Pixelpost uses PHP and mySQL and a CSS-driven template system.
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