I’m a big fan of Twitter, it’s a pretty simple service and a great way to share thoughts with the “cloud” and interact with people, is even useful for organizations to get closer to their followers/clients/etc. Magnum Photos is one of those organizations that seems to know how to use it, and if your were paying attention to their Twitter account last week you may had seen the tweet shown above, where photographer Larry Towell spared some time to answer the questions of all of those interested in photography and photojournalism.
You can’t get more live than that, but you can still catch up with the virtual interview right here.
Spam really gets everywhere, the screenshot on the right is from the Tags box in the front page of DotNetKicks, a Digg-like online community dedicated to .Net programmers.
Traditional social bookmarking sites like Digg and Delicious are great for finding articles and other text that other Web surfers have tagged as interesting.
For the visually oriented, the pickings have been slim. Now, however, a handful of photo-oriented bookmarking sites are emerging to entertain the eye as well as the mind.
Tag That Image: Visual Bookmarking Sites Worth Browsing [Bits Blog]
I haven’t tried FFFFound (no invite for me) and only had a glimpse of what vi.sualize.us can do, most of my experience comes from testing we♥it.
Photo bookmarking, or visual bookmarking, it’s such a clever idea that you think “why haven’t anyone came up with this before?”. Nevertheless it’s a kind of service that’s still on its infancy and has some issues that aren’t solved:
- Browser integration- still no proper extensions are available, vi.sualize.us has a Firefox extension but they could go much further than that (I’m thinking of something as feature rich as the Delicious plugin).
- Current photo communities- how would such a service deal with the Favorites feature in photo communities like Flickr? Some kind of integration (if I’m a Flickr user then “favorite” that photo also) or think of at as a complete replacement? Because I still think I’m doing the same thing when “favoriting” a photo in Flickr/Zooomr or visual bookmarking in one of these services.
Either way I’m very curious to see how visual bookmarking services will evolve, and what others that may appear in the future can add to those already around.
Technorati Tags: delicious, we♥it, we heart it, ffffound, vi.sualize.us, visualizeus, social bookmarking, bookmarking
Gadling, one of my favorite travel blogs, realized that people have a “nasty” habit of taking photos while traveling, probably from looking at huge amount of pictures available at their Flickr group’s public photo pool. What they may have also realized is that some of them aren’t that good, and it’s always heartbreaking to see fabulous places shown in boring photos.
Whatever the reason may be, the guys at Gadling started a new series, entitled Through the Lens, where the basics of photography are explained in a simple way, specially target for backpackers with almost no camera skills. Their latest entry is dedicated to the simple concept of exposure, or how shutter speed and aperture diameter affect the amount of light that goes inside the camera and how a funny thing called ISO allows me to take photos with low light.
PS- With the valuable lesson you may even get a Photo Of The Day.
Through the Gadling Lens: apertures and shutters and ISOs, oh my! [Gadling]
After the first week playing around with Google’s browser and a few things caught my eye:
- I’m not sure the idea of putting the tabs on the top improves anything in usability terms, but it doesn’t bother me either. I guess it’s more like a design statement to make a difference than a real improvement.
- Sometimes I have some font rendering problems issues (I already submitted a bug with that).
- The lack of plugins is an issue, I need my Delicious extension and Greasemonkey scripts while others have other needs, that’s the beauty of extensibility (this is Firefox’s turf) that is lacking on Chrome, .
- I like the security and stability of having each tab, and each plugin, running in their own process, which can be confirmed using Process Explorer:
This is something Firefox still is behind, even the 3.1 version shares the same process (Internet Explorer 8 will also handle a tab as a separate process).
- I much prefer the darker colour scheme of the incognito window than the default (minus that icon with dude in a raincoat), it’s much more sober and less annoying than that XP style blue that comes by default.
Theme support would be nice but a handful of colour schemes other than “baby blue” would be nice.
- Lots and lots and lots of eye-candy! Everything is smooth and sleek: the animation while opening a new tab, the search results that appear in the scroll bar, the resizable text boxes, and so on. Everything’s is smooth an
- It’s fast.
For now I’m impressed but I still need a Linux version, because the current option ain’t a decent alternative.
Technorati Tags: google, firefox, ie, chrome
I’m not very happy with the current hosting of this blog: the platform is becoming a bit outdated, looks like no activity going on over there (I don’t like “dead” services) and the it’s becoming a bit too slow for me. I have paid hosting with lots of storage and traffic available, and with a fully customizable Wordpress installation available with just one click.
So sometimes, many times actually, I wonder why don’t I migrate to my own host, or at least to Wordpress.com, and end this once and for all. Probably because I have to buy a new domain, I don’t think I could fit a tech oriented blog like this under temujinphoto.com, and importing all the posts from one blog to the other won’t be an easy task.
My other blog, the one less geeky than this one, had a facelift.
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The latest incarnation of deviantART, one of the largest online artist communities, is out but this release, like all the others throughout the years I’ve been there, is more focused on “sleekness” and having a cool interface than adding real features.
deviantART still is missing the point in a few important issues: crappy RSS support or no API or similar among other things.
There’s no way to embed deviantART elsewhere, I can’t put my messages or my contacts photos on my Netvibes, I can’t put deviantART News on my Google Reader, I can’t use data via a public interface to create things like a desktop uploader or a cool mashup. In other words: deviantART is closed, outdated and monolithic and is clearly missing how the Internet is evolving, and a fine example of that is their FAQ item #335:
Are RSS feeds available?
to be updated……….
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Managers and many other marketing or management people tend to use buzzwords a lot, more often than it should be, and web 2.0 probably is the most misused of them. Whenever that happens, and if the reference article is way took long to read, there’s a little simple way to explain what web 2.0 is about, with the added bonus that already paves the way to what’s web 3.0, which will probably include Mahalo-like search engines or “intelligent” FriendFeed services to filter and create a context to the huge amount of information things like Facebook or Twitter flood us everyday.
Explaining Web 1.0, Web 2.0 & Web 3.0 [Resourceful Idiot]
Technorati Tags: mahalo, friendfeed, twitter, web20, facebook
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