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The Peculiar World of Web Photo Sharing

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the please-link-to-your-photostream dept.

theodp writes "Can't get enough pictures of dogs' noses? Circular objects framed within squares? Newsweek reports on photo-sharing sites and picture blogs, where amateur shutterbugs looking to share their passions with the world happily blast their photos out to millions of people. Fotolog CEO Adam Seifer, who posts a picture of every meal he eats on Get In My Belly!, calls the Fotolog-Flickr-HeyPix-Smugmug phenomenon 'a million reality TV shows, only without the pain and humiliation.'" Update: 03/14 07:09 GMT by T : Reader onethumb points out an important aspect of such sites: "The new breed of photo-sharing services expose their APIs for geeks everywhere to enjoy. Both Flickr and Smugmug have growing APIs with thriving communities around them. Write your own photo-sharing application, sister web service, or software toy today!" (Here's a link to Flicker's API, and one to smugmug's.)

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  1. My new photo blog by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashshot.org - My photo reactions to every Slashdot story.

  2. I don't see any photos... by EnronHaliburton2004 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Funny, I don't see any photos. I just see numbers like '404' and '503'. ...

    Does my screen not support those types of images?

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    1. Re:I don't see any photos... by Spoing · · Score: 4, Funny

      Try this link! It's never failed me! Slashdot THAT! HA-HA!

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  3. Without the pain and humiliation? by datastalker · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Fotolog CEO Adam Seifer, who posts a picture of every meal he eats on Get In My Belly!"

    I hope this guy gets to be known for more than just that... ;)

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    1. Re:Without the pain and humiliation? by nacturation · · Score: 3, Funny

      Four hours later, he posts another picture on his blog "Get Out Of My Belly!"

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  4. Oh, I get it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Blogging for people who don't know how to type! It's a brave new world.

  5. riiight by The+Amazing+Fish+Boy · · Score: 5, Funny

    "only without the pain and humiliation"

    I know of a few photos this guy hasn't seen yet. If he sticks around Slashdot he'll certainly run into them, though.

  6. IMO... by goss · · Score: 5, Funny

    "a million reality TV shows, only without the pain and humiliation"

    Aren't those the main components of "reality" tv shows?

  7. Re:Why are we interested in this sort of thing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I eat macaroni and cheese with catsup everyday, eh. I could just take one photo and leave it up all the time.

  8. Re:It has transformed photography for many people. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    ...I think I'm gonna take pictures of the people who take pictures of wierd things...
    And I'm gonna take pictures of people driving gas-guzzling foriegn SUV's with "Support our Troops" magnetic yellow ribbons (made, of course, in China), for a Blog called "Support our Shieks".
  9. How about a ... by ggvaidya · · Score: 3, Funny

    Slashdot-like website, except that every article *has* to be a single "shot" - a one line single statement, with either a word or sentence limit? So the front page will be like:
    * Google changes dictionary provider [categories: google, business, wikipedia, dupe]
    * Adam West in new Batman cartoon [notserious, batman]
    * Apple litigation in ending stages [legal, apple]

    Some suitably smart mechanism will make the categories be votable (allowing category tags like "w00t", "dupe" and, heck, "boobies" to be added by readers, for instance). The most visited websites will get onto the front page. People posting crap will get categorized "crap", and stuff which is silly but funny can become "unintentional-funny" or something.

    My rather worthless two cents :P. But slashshot.org sounds cool - keep us updated. Why don't you write about it in your journal?

    1. Re:How about a ... by ggvaidya · · Score: 3, Funny

      Oh yeah :P ... thought my idea sounded kinda familiar.

      Well, categorization would be better, commenting would be more slashdot-like, and the site would be more SFW. Also less squirrels with big nuts :P

      Also, getting stuff up on the site would be more of a community thing (yes, like K5) and would be tech-focussed (like /.). Sorta like the quicker, faster, neater younger brother /. never had ...

      I could be just dreaming. It's all I ever do at college, anyway :P.

  10. Re:I like internet pictures. by trawg · · Score: 4, Funny

    You would probably direct more users to her site if you added "... and yes, there are boobs"

  11. Re:This too shall pass by superdan2k · · Score: 3, Funny

    And sadly, six years ago, if he'd taken the idea to a venture capital firm, they'd have probably dropped a check for $10 million in his lap.

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  12. Great... by drigz · · Score: 3, Funny

    'a million reality TV shows, only without the pain and humiliation.'

    so just leaving the relentless boredom? - sounds accurate.