April 19, 2011
Out of all the things you can do on Facebook, uploading photos via the Photos application is still one of the most popular. According to Facebook, over 50 billion user photos have been uploaded. That’s over 1.5 petabytes of photo storage used. With all of those photos, you’d think Facebook would have some really cool things you can do with them. Where are all the cool apps?
April 19, 2011
If you love mobile photography, then you must have heard or used Instagram. This popular photo sharing app for iPhone stands out among other similar photo sharing apps. The most notable features of Instagram is its set of image filters. But there’s something missing from this great app: a web interface.
April 7, 2011
Are you ready to try something a little new? How about a social network designed with smartphones in mind, rather than one based on desktop computer principles? Well, that’s what Color have put together. It’s a nifty little app for Android or iPhone which lets you take photos and share them with your friends.
March 20, 2011
Now that Instagram has released a public API, sites that were formerly shut down, have the chance to re-open, and are competing with the many third party sites that are popping up around one of the most popular iPhone camera apps to hit the iTunes store. While Instagram’s popularity is undeniable, one of the main [...]
March 17, 2011
I think that the real work of any photographer starts after taking the pictures. Managing photos requires a lot of effort, especially in the digital era where anybody can easily take hundreds of shots using various cameras at hand. That’s why we tend to let our photos scatter amongst different devices, mostly on computers and [...]
February 6, 2011
As the pro-democracy protests throughout Egypt held the world captive, a flood of photos has been coming in from photojournalists and activists. The photos were posted through various online services from Flickr to Twitpic to Facebook. Unless you knew who to follow on Twitter, it was impossible to take in all of the incredible images [...]
February 1, 2011
Gone are the days when people would write fancy diaries, documenting their lives for a lucky finder to explore. Or are they? In fact, with the rise of social networks and microblogging, sharing your life has become something of a trend. Now writing a diary seems like a time intensive project that takes a lot [...]
January 31, 2011
I’ve been on the hunt for a good, lightweight yet powerful photo blog engine for my website for a long while now. The other day I happened upon Pixelpost and it seems to have answered the call of duty. If you’ve got some free webspace, a spare MySQL database and a burning desire to share [...]
January 22, 2011
If you use Tumblr primarily to share photographs, there’s a new startup that could easily tear you away from your tumblelog in favour of an even easier platform. Pinterest, labelled as a social catalog service, gives its users the opportunity to share photos from all over the web, or uploaded from their computers, on their [...]
January 13, 2011
Instagram, the popular iPhone camera app, has been shutting down third party sites, accessing their content. According to a post on Quora, the developers behind the app have been going after third party sites that attempt to integrate their site with the Instagram experience. Up until now, Instagram has only been available to iOS users, [...]
