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It’s FREEEEZING here in Calgary.
You need to dress for it.
… Most people keep their photo libraries on their computers. And that’s the way it should be. While Web applications are great, there’s really nothing like desktop software for speed, especially when you are dealing with large files such as photos.
But to share images, we generally upload them to Web sites because it’s easier for our friends to get to those sites than to the images on our computers …
I believe you should be able to make changes to photos on your PC and have those changes automatically reflected in your online albums. You should also be able to make changes on the Web and see them on your PC. Anything else is a recipe for disaster or at least confusion. As users’ photo libraries grow and we all share more libraries online, it’s won’t be practical for us to keep track of the different versions of our media that we’re now storing in different places.
There are (at least) two tools that enable computer-to-Web photo synchronization now: Phanfare and Sharpcast. …
Works for Me: Photo synchronization: the right solution – CNET reviews
I checked out these two “killer apps“. Neither are good enough for me on a Mac.
I’m using flickr now. It does not have synchronization but will probably add it at some time in the future.
Even people who hate computers want to be able to see photos conveniently.
Leave a comment if you have a synchronization solution that works for you.
Harbun in Northern China has an ice sculpture festival every year. Check out the pics:
… it’s being irked at Toronto thinking itself the centre of the universe.
larger version on flickr – by ryandt33
Thanks Warren and BoingBoing
Yahoo! is a great company, but one which can do no right lately.
Yahoo Sr. VP Jerry Maguire Brad Garlinghouse seemingly leaked a critical memo now dubbed the “peanut butter manifesto“. He called for radical change in the company.
It’s generating more heat than light.
Even I’m ticked off by his hint of merging awesome flickr with lousy Yahoo Photos. Yahoo! owns both products.
Flickr isn’t just technology. Yes, it’s a great UI with a killer back-end and open APIs. But it’s communities. It’s a sense of place. It’s love. …
I have almost 13,000 pictures on Flickr. I love the company, the people who created it, the fact that they don’t think they own my data, that they have open APIs, and that they have created, single-handedly, with no patents and no (or little if any) IP, a whole new market ecosystem for digital photography. A big high-five and a toast to that.
As a photographer, I have a relationship with Flickr. Not with Yahoo. That’s not to say I don’t have relationships with Yahoo, or that I don’t respect Yahoo. I have lots of relationships with Yahoo, and lots of respect for the company. But my relationship with Flickr predates and transcends my relationships with Yahoo. (In fact, I hate the clunky way I was forced to “merge” the logins for both.)
The Doc Searls Weblog : Monday, November 20, 2006
Whatever happened to Jerry Maguire’s Manifesto, anyway?
This is Sandra and Gregi’s baby, Jessica, age 11-weeks.
My good friend ET (Elaine Tyerman) just delivered an early Christmas present.
A month early.
Mom and the new baby boy both doing well though they are watching Christopher closely. He weighed in at 4lbs, 12ozs.
more baby pictures on flickr – Warren Long
Congratulations ET!
Looking forward to meeting the boy at New Years. Will bring Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh.
On one of the small properties in the west hills of Calgary, rapidly being engulfed by residential communities, is this Inukshuk.
It’s a shame so many houses are being thrown up so quickly. And so close together.
This stone man will not be here much longer.
Click the image for a larger version.
Wow!
This is by far the best translation of the magazine experience to the internet I’ve seen.
Click the corner of the page and it rolls over. But with some interactivity.
Latitudes makes other on-line magazines look dull.
Lusciously photographed Latitudes Magazine has got a new issue out today and I take seriously my responsibility to let others know about this superb travel magazine. I hardly ever hear other people talking about Latitudes, and that is a shame. It is a lovely magazine with an Internet version that crackles with color and impresses with clever hidden “easter eggs” inside each online issue. … in Windows you can actually download a full, bursting version of the magazine to your laptop so as to carry and read when wireless and on the road.
This month’s issue features jaw-dropping images from Amsterdam, Thailand, Los Roques (“An Eden in the Caribbean”), Slovenia and more. I’d link to the specific stories, but the whole thing is in Flash (one of the format’s drawbacks) and there’s no bookmarking function. But look at it this way: now you’ll have to browse the magazine yourself and to savor all the wonderful visual surprises inside.
Luscious Latitudes Magazine – Gadling
Rick McCharles 