This weekend I got to take a peek at the Photophlow site that is now in a limited beta and experience the Flickr community like never before. At the moment the site is growing through an invitation only process not unlike Googles Gmail back in the day. What is unique about Photophlow is the truly real-time discussion of photography in a very clean interface. It’s not often that a site comes along building on Fl
Yesterday Dave Winer announced the release of FlickerFan. FlickrFan (see FlickrFan.org for product details) enables Flickr users with a MacMini connected to their TV to display photography from their Flickr Contacts. This automatic feed is actually very cool and the type of use is a really nice way of displaying some great photography in a larger format. Robert Scoble ran a quick demo and fielded questions about Flic
Food for thought from Larry Lessig on how current laws are hampering creativity and new media technologies. Larry Lessig is a great speaker whom I’ve seen present in person and have great respect for. His points are spot on in my opinion, but I often find myself thinking about what he says at least twice, once as your average Internet user and once as a photographer. The propagation of photography online on som
Tonight I attended the Fake Steve Jobs interview put together by LinkedIn at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. I went out of my way to leave my camera behind so as to enjoy the evenings festivities. Even still I took a few photos with my iPhone. I’ve always been an Apple / Mac geek so meeting Guy Kawasaki, who interviewed Fake Steve Jobs (AKA Daniel Lyons) was a highlight. I was also luc
This week Photoshelter’s Photography 2.0 came to San Francisco as part of their City Tour campaign. With the momentum of four previous events, an all-star collection of participating speakers, a well orchestrated video log of previous speakers & panels on the Photoshelter blog and a variety photographers blogging about the event the attendees were primed and ready to experience everything Photoshelter. Thre
It’s not too often that you come across a new technology that makes your mouth drop open. Raoul Pop pointed me to a video demonstration of Content-Aware Image Sizing Demo by Dr. Ariel Shamir (YouTube). I highly recommend taking a look at this. In short software has been written that allows for images to be “retargeted” or “resized while adapting image content and layout”. The cool thing
So you use Flickr… what else is out there that is going to enable you to get the most out of it? Thanks to Flickr’s API a lot of people have come up with some very interesting tools. As I’ve learned there are a lot of things to discover from GreaseMonkey scripts to external sites that enhance the Flickr experience. Below (in no particular order) are my favorite external sites that enable me to more
Like most everyone the past week I’ve been overwhelmed with iPhone hype and I swore I wouldn’t let it get to me. Well the inner Apple nut in me took over. I became a possessed man in the 11th hour and ended up getting one. Having used my iPhone now for a decent amount of time I wanted to share some of the apparent short comings and many of its amazing features as it relates to real use in the field. iPhon