The document discusses various photo sharing options and their pros and cons. It notes that while services like Flickr, Picasa, and SmugMug have large storage capacities and communities, they can be unintuitive to organize photos. Facebook is easy to use but has privacy and discoverability issues. For the author, SocialSafe allows customizing Facebook's privacy settings while ImageEvent and Mejuba are too basic. In the end, Facebook works for sharing select photos with comments.

1. Photo Sharing

2.  Digital cameras and smart phones produce
hundreds (thousands) of photos – small
tsunamis of images.
 Photos are very demanding. They need:
 Naming/tagging/descriptions
 Editing (fixing/cropping/culling)
 Storing (high res photos can be space hogs)
 Sharing with others
 Select peeps (relatives/close friends)
 Larger groups (includeing acquaintances)
 Everyone (public)
The Problems

3.  Photo sharing options that are:
 Efficient (fast)
 Reliable (no loss of photos)
 Intuitive to use esp. at the beginning
 Easy for others to access and use and return
to
 Attractive and/or clean or not unattractive
 Affordable and/or free
What you want

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5.  Free for 1 GB (200 photos)
 Share videos (1 min. maximum)
 $25 per year for unlimited
 26 million users (2010)
 Huge photo sharing community – mostly amateur
photographers who chat amongst themselves.
 Everyone loves it (except for me)
 Yahoo offshoot
 Uploading isn’t difficult
 Organizing is not intuitive and is maddeningly
cumbersome
 Nice slideshow with lots of options
flickr

6.  No batch downloads
 Editing pictures isn’t straightforward – links
and title captions don’t always work or stick
 No thumbnails (lot of scrolling and no view all)
 Cannot give multiple images same name
 No export from iPhoto
 No email notification if someone comments
 No control over images on your home page
 Privacy control possible but hard work
 Why isn’t a set called an album?
flicker … cons

7.  Collections
 Top tier
 Sets
 aka Albums
 Galleries
 Galleries are a way to curate up to 18
public photos or videos of your fellow
members into one place. It’s an
opportunity to celebrate the creativity of
fellow members in a unique way i.e.
around a theme, an idea or just
because.
flickr … structure

8.  Free for 1 GB of photos and videos
 $25 per year 25 GB, $50 for 100 GB
 More of a social community
 500,000 users (2010)
 Everyone loves it (except for me)
 Google offshoot
 Uploading isn’t difficult
 Organizing is easier than Flickr … a cleaner
interface
 You can edit photos
 Basic slideshow
picasa

9.  Facebook wannabe (Circles)
 Could end up expensive
 Quality of photos?
picasa … cons

10.  Photographers site
 Everything is absolutely beautiful
 Support Heros are beyond terrific
 And you pay for it
 $32 year for basic w/unlimited photos
 $48 year for your own domain + unlimited hd
videos
 $125 for professional photographers
smugmug

11.  Limited community – your photos may not be
discovered (if you care)
smugmug

12.  $25 year for 1500 images (one time additional
fees for 1500 extra images)
 Public galleries separate – you have to go to
them to see them (as opposed to Flickr/Picasia)
 Albums and sub-albums
 Organizing is super straightforward and logical
 Unlimited video
 Slideshow is OK
 Sharing is super easy
 Editing captions in thumbnails is quick and easy
imageevent

13.  Not at all beautiful
 Uploading can be sluggish
 Slideshow not as beautiful
 Back to thumbnails in a stupid place
imageevent

14.  Free for unlimited photos and videos
 Transfer photos from other sites (Picasa/Flickr)
 Straightforward
 Pretty easy to use including organizing
 Album structure more like Image Event (pc-ish)
mejuba

15.  Ugly
 No community
 Difficult to share
 Slow loading
 No support
 Transferring photos not so easy
 You get what you pay for …
mejuba

16.  This is where it’s at IMO
 The structure forces you to choose select photos
 And to add some fun, witty, interesting comments
 Your friends get involved
facebook

17.  You wouldn’t upload 2000 holiday pics from your
cruise to Alaska
 Privacy – it barely exists (even if you think it does
or try to make it so)
 Finding photos can be a challenge
facebook

18.  http://www.socialsafe.net/
 Cheap!
 $3.50 year for 1 profile
 $7.00 for up to 4 profiles
 This makes facebook work for me …
 I can search for a ‘story’
 Their support is incredibly responsive and
nice (George and Pascal)
SocialSafe

19.  SlideShare is awash in slideshows
showing you how to use the various photo
sharing sites http://www.slideshare.net/
SlideShare