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aurora — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:38:03 -0000

tried to send you an invite ~ seems you are already a member

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aurora — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:56:22 -0000

pownce by the revision3 digg folks ~ i can send you an invite if you like

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Greg (Wise Bread) — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:00:46 -0000

Drupal (http://drupal.org) + leech module (http://drupal.org/project/l... will do exactly what you want. But alas, it's not a service and must be home rolled.

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WFS — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:53:11 -0000

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.

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bobby — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:41:25 -0000

I am shocked, almost 30 comments and nobody mentioned Fotki (www.fotki.com)

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Emre — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:44:10 -0000

Possible with Grou.ps (http://grou.ps)

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Cuneyt — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 01:47:46 -0000

Flotzam

http://flotzam.com/video.htm

Enjoy.

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Vitas — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:30:56 -0000

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.

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tomhigley — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:12:19 -0000

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?)

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Brandon — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:41:55 -0000

Hi, I think Apple's new .mac service allows all of that, though it's not free.

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skimaine — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:32:57 -0000

i second markitecht and would try out ning.com

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Derek — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:04:44 -0000

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.

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dave — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:01:07 -0000

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.

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David Pollak — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:55:28 -0000

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.

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markitecht — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:07:32 -0000

Ning, baby!

Flickr importing through the API plus ability to load feeds. Private network is a snap.

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Jonathan — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:44:57 -0000

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.

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ipollak — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:32:21 -0000

Barak for sixapart says you can do it using vox http://www.vox.com/

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RG — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:12:42 -0000

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?

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Ryan Spoon — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:34:07 -0000

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!

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Peter Pezaris — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:25:22 -0000

Multiply was designed from the beginning to satisfy this specific need.

Check it out: http://multiply.com

Peter Pezaris
President & CEO Multiply

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Dave — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:08:19 -0000

.mac web gallery

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Christian — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:43:01 -0000

I was browsing a mix of Feeds and Photos on Spark:
http://simplespark.com/cata...

And found this right at the top:
http://simplespark.com/cata...

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RacerRick — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:28:09 -0000

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.

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-Barbara — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:05:55 -0000

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.

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rob — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:05:09 -0000

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.....