More Photos
Finished commenting all the photos from my tour of Italy during spring break (way back when). Photos are now online in my gallery. I just finished the last of the comments while sitting in Malpensa airport outside of Milan waiting for my flight to Zurich. I had to get all the comments done before heading back to the US, if only for the principle of the thing!
I’ve been giving some thought lately to switching over to Flickr. One feature in particular that I like is the ability to create albums with certain groups of people. All your new photos are available in a shared album—everyone can see everyone else’s photos as they’re added. This makes sharing photos for events such as parties and weddings really easy, because you deposit photos to a central location and everyone who’s allowed to access them can do so with very little trouble. That kind of functionality is really only useful if everyone has a digital camera and web access to regularly check on the collective album. But if everyone’s into it, it can be quite fun and interesting. Aram, one of my classmates at IDII, has been an avid member of Flickr, and he’s got a ton of photos online. I’ve got a few which I used just to test out the service way back in November sometime.
Right now they’ve got a really interesting deal where you get unlimited disk space, 2GB of data upload per month, and archiving of all your photos for about US$25/year. Not bad, considering most of my webspace is taken up by my gallery. And thats with all the lower resolution photos too. With the unlimited space on Flickr, I could be posting photos in their original resolution. Flickr also allows you to set some permissions, so you can determine who can access your photos and who can download copies. I’ve just put a lot of time and energy into my gallery, so I’d hate to see it go to waste…but the benefits of Flickr are becoming very tempting…
There’s also this new service called Vimeo which allows you to share you video clips. Looks like there’s finally a demand to share all the digital media we’re collecting. Vimeo isn’t quite as compelling just yet, but I’m sure it will become more attractive as personal video recorders (PVRs) become more widespread.
Ok, they’re calling my flight for boarding…unless I find wifi service in Zurich, my next post will be from the other side of the Atlantic!