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Snailmail Photos To Friends With Facebook’s New Postcards Feature
- brlewis 14y agoOh yeah, Facebook keeps enough resolution now to make acceptable postcards. Now if they would just keep basic metadata, they'd be an acceptable import source for all kinds of other services.
- plusbryan 14y agoHey, Bryan from Sincerely here. If you want a similar integration with your app or service, we have a simple web api: http://dev.sincerely.com http://dev.sincerely.com
- lewisflude 14y agoLooks pretty awesome! Can you give me some use cases?
- plusbryan 14y agoShip API literally just launched, so the sky's the limit. Mailing a postcard is as simple as hitting two methods (upload and create). After running Sincerely for a little over a year, we've definitely witnessed how meaningful getting something in the mail can be. Our Ship Library partners have done some interesting stuff: http://dev.sincerely.com/partners http://dev.sincerely.com/partners
- ConstantineXVI 14y agoBeen aware of Sincerely for a while (though haven't been dealing in photos so no cause to use it). Headline made me think this was going to be a Sherlocking, pleasantly surprised to see that's far from the case. Nice catch!
- JoeCortopassi 14y agoStill don't know why Facebook doesn't sell collated physical photo albums. I would without a doubt order ones for my wedding, multiple of our kids birth and birthdays (for grandparents as presents), along with other special events like graduations. You and your friends already upload the best pictures from these events to Facebook, just give me a way to select 20-30 and place them in a template to be printed and mailed.
- subpixel 14y agoI'm not sure of the resolution at which FB stores photos. At any rate I don't think it's standard practice for people to upload originals in the first place. So large scale printing might not be that simple.
- plusbryan 14y agoMax they store is 2048px on a side, which is plenty for a 4x6 print. That doesn't mean that all of Facebook's photos are stored at this resolution, as I believe the max size was increased relatively recently.
- JoeCortopassi 14y agoHome photo albums usually hold 4"x6" photos, if I remember correctly. Most of the pictures in Facebook's lightbox view, are displayed above this on my 15" MBP without a problem. Should be ok resolution wise
- frankdenbow 14y agoThey used to. Back in 2007 I remember ordering some of my facebook photos as physical prints. Not sure what happened to that.
- kalleboo 14y agoDoes anyone use "postcards" features? I've seen this on cell phones since about 2003 when they started getting cameras, but I've never heard of anyone ever sending or receiving one.
- kjw 14y agoWhile I haven't personally printed a photo in the past decade, the market is surprisingly large for photo printing services. A new revenue stream could be quite meaningful to Facebook as their ad revenue slows -- in 2011, Facebook did $3.7B in revenue while Shutterfly did $473M in revenue.
- ct0 14y agoWhat a great way to get addresses!
- nnancy 14y agoSome people just have to look at everything negatively