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My parents (my children's grandparents) are moving away from physical photos. The thing that pushed them over the edge was us starting to use an EyeFi card (ht

My parents (my children's grandparents) are moving away from physical photos. The thing that pushed them over the edge was us starting to use an EyeFi card (http://www.eye.fi/ http://www.eye.fi/). It's an SD card that can wirelessly transmit pictures and upload them automatically to designated endpoints. All of the pictures we take are automatically uploaded to my flickr account that my parents have access to. When we talk regularly on the phone, they've already been out to flickr to see the latest photos. For the few pictures that they think are good enough to have physical prints of them, they can order them from snapfish directly from flickr. Previous to owning an EyeFi, it'd be weeks or months before I got a chance to manually go through and curate the photos to find the "best" ones actually worth sending to a service like PicPlum and I'd always get complaints from my parents about the delay.

PStamatiou 15y ago
We are trying to separate the culling process from the uploading process. Doing some of the culling bit by bit instead of having this one big overwhelming "ugh I need to connect the camera, import 200 photos, go through them and find which ones to print" task. We've got a few ideas we're going to be testing in the coming months.
- tednaleid 15y ago
  The biggest pain for me was the uploading process. Once they're on a website (like flickr) viewing and selecting good ones is easy and relatively quick. If you can become a target for an EyeFi uploads (I think they have 20-30 built in so that doesn't seem like a stretch for them to add one more), I think that'd be a good consumer story and would decouple the uploading (the real pain) from the culling.