Try Zenfolio.com - great online viewing experience, uncompromised image quality, supports RSS feeds, allows creating collections to organize photos from several people. Subscription based, no ads, and it allows ordering prints.
markitecht
· 2 years ago
Ning, baby!
Flickr importing through the API plus ability to load feeds. Private network is a snap.
David Pollak
· 2 years ago
CircleShare does a lot of what you're looking for. We take an "open" approach to photo sharing. Our desktop clients integrate with existing desktop photo management programs (iPhoto, Picasa, Adobe Elements) and make sending photos (including batches of thousands of photos) as easy as dragging and dropping. Receiving photos "just happens" with no need to log into web sites, etc. It's all secure (all data is transferred over SSL and 3/4 of our team worked at VeriSign.)
CircleShare also allows you to "publish" photos to existing web sites (SmugMug, Picasa Web, and Facebook are currently supported and others coming soon.) We plan to "slurp" photos from those sites as well so you can grab the old photos from the disparate sites where they may exist back onto your current desktop machine.
CircleShare can automatically back up your photos to our servers (with backing store @ Amazon's S3).
CircleShare can also "Harmonize" photos across your machines so you always have the latest photos on all (or a subset) of your machines so you never have to worry about which machine the camera was loaded onto.
Finally, CircleShare allows you to email photos from mobile devices up to CircleShare (you get a unique email address) and we automatically put those photos on your machines and will be adding features to distribute tagged photos to the recipients of choice.
It's not exactly what you described, but may address many of the issues you have with existing photo sharing services.
RG
· 2 years ago
It seems like a perfect challenge for a yahoo pipes developer! figure out a way to integrate feeds/data from a standard web gallery (depends on software package), flickr (easy), blog (easy), and facebook (api? existing pipe block?)
The security may add another layer, but there ought to be a way to hack this together in some reasonable manner.
Anyone else? thoughts?
Rick
· 2 years ago
No, nothing like that exists.
You could hack it together. Everyone uploads photos on their own to Flickr or similar service that has RSS feeds. Have a specific tag for photos that are going into the group.
Then "pull" all the group tags via rss into one space and add disqus comments.
Actually, it could be done. But it's a hack.
Andrew Ferrier
· 2 years ago
Flickr probably will do what you want. You can set up private groups, and even share them with people without a Flickr account. It might not fully fulfil (3) though.
bg porter
· 2 years ago
Have you looked at SmugMug? They're targeting this kind of use (families, private groups), and have associated tools for sucking pix out of Flickr (SmuggLr).
Phil801
· 2 years ago
Other than the privacy part, you could accomplish a lot of this with Tumblr.
gchittim
· 2 years ago
You can do with Yahoo! Pipes with a little bit of hacking: - pull the photofeeds from various services - use the single feed to create posts on a password protected weblog that allows for comments - set your parents up with a photosharing site that allows upload-by-email, and have them copy that email address whenever they send pictures around.
nick davis
· 2 years ago
There needs to be so much work in this area. I have 5000 photos on Flickr, and a Flickr app for Facebook, but I absolutely love the social tagging aspect of Facebook photos. The only problem is that Facebook photos has a 30 photo limit per album, and does not store hi-rez copies. What to do?
For now, I just pull some of my choice shots from Flickr to Facebook using a bookmarket (http://www.keebler.net/flickr2facebook/) and then tagging in Facebook. Not ideal, by any means.
You're right about photo aggregation - but when I show people like my parents the value of distributed tagging, they're amazed. "Here's every picture of you and X" is a pretty powerful way to (and probably only) organize photos. For instance, I recently did Shoebox Scanning on all my parents poose photos sitting in drawers - about 1500 of them. I've tagged many of them, but it would be nice to have help, especially since I don't know all the people in the photos.
Alan Chapell
· 2 years ago
Fred, check out Plum.com as that might do the trick. I know their CEO if you'd like an intro....
billg
· 2 years ago
not sure if the solution exists, but people are working on it.
WiredReach has described a service its developing called CloudFire to simplify media sharing across existing services. I found a reference here: http://www.wiredjournal.com/
rob
· 2 years ago
For #1 and #2, I've left the "standards" (ofoto, snapfish, flickr) and settled on Picasa from Google.
The Yahoo Pipes idea could be very interesting.....
-Barbara
· 2 years ago
Some sites have some of what you want, but I'll be curious to see if one/more has ALL. Picasa and Google have a nice set up, but don't allow comments. I like the public/private features. It also has RSS.
I do this using a web domain I purchased for our family and installed wordpress (.org - not wordpress.com). Uploading photos is *very* simple. Commenting is fully enabled. RSS is available. And you can set the blog / folders to public or private - you can also enable specific users as editors, readers, etc. It's not really considered a photo service - but WP does the job for me!
Faces.com covers a good deal of what you need, importing from flickr and facebook is easy. We're working on a timeline feature to display images in chronological order.
dave
· 2 years ago
Sort of. Private RSS is tough to do. But we're working on a project (http://readr.com) that will hopefully pull this together, with access controls, in the near future. Right now, it pulls together public RSS feeds from a bunch of locations, and pushes out updates to friends & family (with an e-mail digest).
Unlike Multiply, we're trying to be completely open and flexible about this (though we're not there yet) -- we're going to have RSS and an API for everything that's site-specific.
We don't host photos or any other content on our own, and we don't want to -- others have already done this better, and will continue to do so. We're just trying to make it easier for people to stay in touch.
Derek
· 2 years ago
I was going to suggest pipes as well...
I've always wanted to play around with it, so maybe I'll give it a crack tonight.
Hi, I think Apple's new .mac service allows all of that, though it's not free.
tomhigley
· 2 years ago
Hi Fred. We're building it - with an initial focus on live music events. (You've seen all those cell phones held aloft; where DO those pics and videos go?)
I am shocked, almost 30 comments and nobody mentioned Fotki (www.fotki.com)
WFS
· 2 years ago
For the picture part, Pickle.com allows you to define a set of people who can view and a set of email addresses that are permitted to submit pictures either for your approval or directly. It doesn't have direct blogging that I know of, but can link to an existing blog elsewhere.
All Comments
Flickr importing through the API plus ability to load feeds. Private network is a snap.
CircleShare also allows you to "publish" photos to existing web sites (SmugMug, Picasa Web, and Facebook are currently supported and others coming soon.) We plan to "slurp" photos from those sites as well so you can grab the old photos from the disparate sites where they may exist back onto your current desktop machine.
CircleShare can automatically back up your photos to our servers (with backing store @ Amazon's S3).
CircleShare can also "Harmonize" photos across your machines so you always have the latest photos on all (or a subset) of your machines so you never have to worry about which machine the camera was loaded onto.
Finally, CircleShare allows you to email photos from mobile devices up to CircleShare (you get a unique email address) and we automatically put those photos on your machines and will be adding features to distribute tagged photos to the recipients of choice.
It's not exactly what you described, but may address many of the issues you have with existing photo sharing services.
figure out a way to integrate feeds/data from a standard web gallery (depends on software package), flickr (easy), blog (easy), and facebook (api? existing pipe block?)
The security may add another layer, but there ought to be a way to hack this together in some reasonable manner.
Anyone else? thoughts?
You could hack it together. Everyone uploads photos on their own to Flickr or similar service that has RSS feeds. Have a specific tag for photos that are going into the group.
Then "pull" all the group tags via rss into one space and add disqus comments.
Actually, it could be done. But it's a hack.
- pull the photofeeds from various services
- use the single feed to create posts on a password protected weblog that allows for comments
- set your parents up with a photosharing site that allows upload-by-email, and have them copy that email address whenever they send pictures around.
For now, I just pull some of my choice shots from Flickr to Facebook using a bookmarket (http://www.keebler.net/flickr2facebook/) and then tagging in Facebook. Not ideal, by any means.
You're right about photo aggregation - but when I show people like my parents the value of distributed tagging, they're amazed. "Here's every picture of you and X" is a pretty powerful way to (and probably only) organize photos. For instance, I recently did Shoebox Scanning on all my parents poose photos sitting in drawers - about 1500 of them. I've tagged many of them, but it would be nice to have help, especially since I don't know all the people in the photos.
WiredReach has described a service its developing called CloudFire to simplify media sharing across existing services. I found a reference here: http://www.wiredjournal.com/
The Yahoo Pipes idea could be very interesting.....
http://simplespark.com/catalog/photos/feeds/
And found this right at the top:
http://simplespark.com/catalog/vfxy-photos/
Check it out: http://multiply.com
Peter Pezaris
President & CEO Multiply
Unlike Multiply, we're trying to be completely open and flexible about this (though we're not there yet) -- we're going to have RSS and an API for everything that's site-specific.
We don't host photos or any other content on our own, and we don't want to -- others have already done this better, and will continue to do so. We're just trying to make it easier for people to stay in touch.
I've always wanted to play around with it, so maybe I'll give it a crack tonight.
http://flotzam.com/video.htm
Enjoy.