What I Learned Today…

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Category Archives: Photo Sharing

Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo

June 16th, 2007

To quote Richard Wallis from Talis – “Take yourself to this video of a presentation at the 2007 TED Conference. Don’t argue just take a look!”

WOW! At first it’s just neat … and then it’s gets neater … and then … WOW!!!

Favorite quote (with some editing out of ums):

What the point here really is is that we can do things with the social environment. This is now taking data from everybody, from the entire collective memory, visually, of what the earth looks like and linking that together and make something emergent that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Camera Finder – Part 2

November 26th, 2006

I said before (earlier today) that I didn’t think the Flickr Camera Finder was useful, but I’ve played with it more and have changed my mind.

I did a little browsing to find pictures taken by a particular camera. I can use this to figure out which cameras take the best pictures (for me). I have added the FujiFilm E900 to my wishlist per a recommendation from a friend (and an amazing price). I did a little looking at pictures taken with this camera and it’s a huge improvement over my current camera.

Family Photo Sharing

March 20th, 2006

Amiglia is an awesome looking photo sharing site. It lets you share photos with your family in a sort of family tree layout.

Confused? I was too – but then I played with the little demo on the home page and I think I get it. Basically you can link your album to your family’s albums and it makes a sort of family tree out of your ablums. I’ll have to play more if I have time – probably not this week – but soon.

Big Brother is hiding in Flickr

November 27th, 2005

I was looking at some pictures I took of these stray kittens in my backyard and I noticed that Flickr knows what kind of camera (FujiFilm) I have and what software (Photoshop CS) I used to edit the picture … and more! I did not notice that before … it's not like I mind, but it is a bit creepy.

Flickr does have a way to prevent this:

If you like, you can prevent the link to your EXIF data from displaying on the photo page. Set this in your privacy options.

Keep that in mind if you don't want me to know what camera you're using :)