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Ned is right. There are no similar alternatives. For those of you who think creating a photo sharing site means cloning something else out there, take a look
by brlewis 15y ago
Ned is right. There are no similar alternatives. For those of you who think creating a photo sharing site means cloning something else out there, take a look at Tabblo. There are many dimensions to photo sharing worth exploring.
- patio11 15y agoPG wrote something similar once (http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html) and it strikes me as accurate. The social context of sharing kind of overwhelms the technical difficulty of implementing it, so it becomes less a "where are we going to put the bits" problem and more of a "who is sharing what with whom and how" people problem. It's never been a huge thing to me, but as I grow older I've come to learn that a lot of people close to me really, seriously care about the life stories of their families as documented by photos, and they're (still) not really well-served by the existing techy-friendly options. (And that is a subtly different use case than other photo sharing needs those same people have, to say nothing of what other people have.)
- joebadmo 15y agoIt seems to me that to wait for yet another startup to solve this problem and hope it becomes popular enough to become successful and continue to hope it doesn't outgrow itself or get bought by a big company to get neglected is not the way out of this mess. That's part of the reason I'm so excited about OpenPhoto and the consumer productization of self-hosting solutions. And BrowserID. And the Locker Project. It sort of looks like a decentralized social networking standard is in our near future.
- brlewis 15y agoThose non-techy people close to you who seriously care -- what are they doing with their photos now?