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September 26, 2007

Seadragon and Photosynth

A colleague at work sent me a link a while ago that he said was amazing. Today, whilst cleaning my inbox, I came across it and it blew my mind. It is worth all 7 minutes, showcasing a mindblowing bit of technology for photography and images online. If you are into web technology, photography, or just innovation in general, watch this video.

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Friend Mapper

One of the core principles of "Web 2.0" is sharing of ideas. There are a lot of "mashups" these days, where someone takes the API of one site and then builds something else. I just posted about "delivr" which takes photographs from Flickr and allows you to turn them into eCards to send to people.

I found (on Digg) a post about another cool one today called a "Friend Mapper"

On this site you Login to Facebook and it reads where your friends are and then plots them on a map using Google maps.

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September 22, 2007

Send your Flickr Photos as Postcards

I read an article recently that surprised me when it said that Photobucket has the lion's share of the "photo sharing sites" category. Whilst I can't find the article I read, I did find a post on TechCrunch, which referred to this post from Hitwise which proved it.

The article I was reading was saying that the Flickr audience are extremely proud and loyal of their site, which I am. I have always been so shocked that people I know aren't automatically registered with Flickr, or have registered but don't remember their password. But that's only because I've always assumed that Flickr owned the market. It should, but then again I'm biased because Flickr is the first website I've really used as a method of sharing photos.

I used to (and, in fact, still do) have a photo gallery on one of my personal websites, but I host my websites through a friend's company (Shelfspace.com) and he gives me really good rates, so I do my best not to overload his servers with lots of large files. I also had a son and started taking a lot more photographs than I used to. I did some research into the "photo sharing" world and read so many good things about Flickr (mostly about their "tagging system", or folksonomy as it has come to be known) that I joined.

In all honesty, I don't spend enough time tagging my photos and always wish I did... however I am definitely an extremely loyal customer.

One of the reasons is the fact that it keeps changing. I just found a site called Delivr on which you can search (by tag) for just about anything, including your own photos, add a message to it and send it to someone over email.

That is really cool... I'll post again about things I like about Flickr.

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Laughing at my previous post...

Ha!

After having given the presentation on Web 2.0 at the conference I was going to, I did a lot more investigation after I read the O'Reilly article and found that it is linked to and referred to often.

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September 12, 2007

What is Web 2.0?

This entry should have been written in 2005... but I'm doing some research for a presentation I'm doing and came across a really interesting article explaining what Web 2.0 is (that actually was written in 2005) and love the way it was broken down here. This to me is going to become part of the official set of references to one of the marketing world's favorite buzzwords, that is actually a real thing and needs to be taken seriously. Read the article by Tim O'Reilly if you are interested in this subject.

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