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Posts tagged Flickr
VisitOslo making use of social media
12 years ago
I’m happy (and grateful) to see that VisitOslo has chosen to include some of my pictures in their galleries on Flickr. It’s is great to see that they are making use of social medias in their marketing of Oslo, but most of all, I am grateful for being able to contribute with 5 pictures. I love Oslo, and I’ve been living in the areas around Kampen for 10 years now. It is such a great place to live! It is not the first time that somebody ask for permission to use some of my pictures from Kampen, back in 2007 Schmap!! did the same. Schmapp!! also asked for permission to use pictures for their Budapest guide. Of course, I said yes! Finally, I have also contributed with a picture in the German bike magazine Radfahren SPEZIAL “RadParadiese ‘07“, something I of course blogged about.
I’ve tagged several of my pictures with Kampen, Tøyen and VÃ¥lerenga. Feel free to take a look, and add a comment or two.
Update – 2009-11-18:VisitOslo keeps adding pictures I have taken to their galleries, and here are some more:
In total they are now using 9 of my pictures in their galleries 
Adobe Lightroom 3 Public Beta
0I guess Lightroom is the only Adobe product that I can say that I truely love. I have problems keeping my mouth shut when I hear somebody talk about Adobe Acrobat, Reader and Flash! The recent security problems with the Acrobat products haven’t helped either. I have never really used Photoshop and I don’t use Dreamweaver in my web work any more. My first experiences with Digital Editions have not been good either. So what is this with my love for Lightroom? Why didn’t I choose Apple’s Aperture. I have no idea. After one week with Aperture, I ran straight in to the arms of Lightroom.
Lightroom 2 was really good. I missed only a few things. And that was Flickr uploading functionality and HDR support. I am so happy to say that Flickr support was the first thing I noticed when I started Lightroom 3 beta for the first time. HDR support seems not to have been added.
Thank you Adobe, I will be playing with your beta many autumn nights!
Flickr with face recognition
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Flickr today launched something that I first thought that was a great new function: Face/People recognition. The service is called People in Photos. There is just one sad thing with it, the new feature can only be used to highlight members of the Flickrverse that you’ve photographed, find photos of members you know, and manage which photos you’re in.
What a disappointment! This is social media gone bad …
DestroyFlickr, an interesting Adobe Air application
0I love Flickr and many of the great applications around this photo solution. Today I tried a new one, DestroyFlickr. A horrible name, but not a bad application!
The application runs on Adobe Air (I have earlier written about Times Reader 2.0), and is a great example on the fact that Cloud Computing doesn’t have to be done from within a browser. DestroyFlickr explores alternative methods for viewing and sharing Flickr content. The application lets you plug into your Flickr account and view photos on a virtual canvas, and it is mighty fast. And here is why: It only has to pull the thumbnails once (they will be stored on your harddisk after that), unlike Flickr’s own site. By using workspaces and canvases, DestroyFlickr is then also able to retain a constant history of where you have navigated, offering the ability to revisit an area without the need to reload the entire page. And something you might like even more, is that DestroyFlickr lets you download the highest resolution version of a photo without having to see it first—just drag it’s thumbnail to the download menu and the download begins.
This small downloadable AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) application is actually one of the semifinalist in this year’s Adobe Design Achievement Awards, so I was not alone in liking this application. I hope you enjoy the application as well!
Can Expono battle with Flickr and Picasa?
0I have had access to Expono for a while, but never gotten around to use it. Before you read this review, know this: I have been using Flickr 3-4 years already, and have all my pictures there. I have only briefly tested Picasa. It is difficult to review Expono as a start-up company, as it is competing directly with two of Internet’s biggest players, Google and Yahoo. Both Google’s Picasa and Yahoo’s Flickr are popular services and just about feature complete. So the questions for this review are: Is there space for Expono and what extra does Expono give, that should make established users of Picasa and Flickr consider to move. I consider it wrong to ask the question: If I was to start sharing pictures today, what would I choose?
There are a fair number of photo sharing sites available, and it was therefore strange to see the announcement of Expono opening for the public on the very same day as Fox Interactive Media lays off one third of the staff (of 120) at the competing photo-sharing site Photobucket. I hope Expono makes it.
Expono is fairly easy to use and comes with a clean and simple user interface for most of it’s functionality. I found the connections to Facebook, Twitter and Friendfeed a mess. The uploads have an ok speed, but miss not having the possibility to upload directly from Adobe Lightroom and Windows Live Photo Gallery. Perhaps someone will make a plugin in the future? Expono has all the features you expect to find on a media sharing site: Online backup, easy sharing, albums and tagging (also face and geo tagging), find duplicates and iPhoto photocast support. It also comes with a fine-grained access control, actually quite a bit better then the one in Flickr. Just take a look at Expono’s feature list, and you will be convinced. There are a lot of people that has not chosen a photo sharing solution yet, and Expono has timed there launch well, opening their service to the public in July. Just in time for people to upload and share their holiday memories.
Launching after Flickr and Picasa gives them the advantage of knowing what functionality users want, and also an opportunity to implement the features in better ways! Expono is for instance far easier/better on creating a new album and then adding photos to the album. And these functions are key functionalities in any photo sharing solution!
Expono is also one of the best examples I have seen of cloud computing so far. The company does not have their own server park, but have rather based their service on Amazon AWS (Amazon Web Services) combined with RightScale Cloud Computing Management Platform.