Comments on: Idea #14: Instant Photo Sharing

By: Donnie Hale

Donnie Hale — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:13:09 +0000

You might want to implement the upload as HTTP and honor the IE-configured proxy settings, instead of FTP. Lots of places have FTP completely shut off, but HTTP through a proxy still works.

Donnie

By: Dilip

Dilip — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 13:19:47 +0000

This is definitely an itresting idea, but i guess there are enough players already.
Unless you provide some good client for this, I do not see much use for it.

See this (http://riya.com/) these guys have even implemented search.

–some where down the line, these kind of applications should get integrated. It should be something like blogging and RSS feed.

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 18:57:37 +0000

Correction: Obiously “Flikr” should be “Flickr” in my last post.

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 18:47:12 +0000

I still wouldn’t discount the idea just because Flikr has done it. How well known is Flikr outside of the tech community? If the general population is anything like my non-techie friends, I’d say that not many people know about it.

By: benji

benji — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 08:01:52 +0000

cja says:
“Flickr has a tool that does what you describe.”

Huh.

Well, I’ll be damned.

I’ve looked around at photos on flickr before, but I’ve never looked at the actual features of their software. I just took the tour, and I’m completely impressed. It looks like they’ve done everything exactly right.

Ummmmm…stay tuned for Idea #15, which will really kick ass and will also be totally original and never-before-implemented-on-the-internet, even by those knowitalls at flickr.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 07:44:11 +0000

Couldn’t this also be a peer-to-peer system? Then you wouldn’t
have to worry about providing disk space on servers. Users would
just choose which of their photos they want to publish by dragging
them onto the icon….

By: cja

cja — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 06:49:49 +0000

Flickr has a tool that does what you describe. It’s very easy to use but is obviously only for use with Flickr.

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 05:08:50 +0000

Heh. I got the same idea right after my brother’s wedding last month. It’s almost like insurance against a bad photographer – there’s bound to be a few good pictures taken by the attendees, so even if the photographer stinks, you’ll still get some good pics.

By: Ali

Ali — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 01:36:02 +0000

You’ve listed at least 5 great ideas on this blog and this is one of them. I would say build all of these one at a time. At least one of these is sure to be a hit!

By: Boofus McGoofus

Boofus McGoofus — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 00:39:05 +0000

You might want to take a look at what these guys are doing: http://www.photoreflect.com . They’re targeting professional photographers, but it’s a fairly similar concept.