The Peculiar World of Web Photo Sharing

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday March 13, 2005 @05:01PM 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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why doesnt it? by calvinandhobbes · 2005-03-13 17:08 · Score: 0, Offtopic

talk about breasts!! that why i come to /. for!!!!
1. Re:why doesnt it? by Patrik_AKA_RedX · 2005-03-13 18:00 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  Google to the rescue!
absolutely shameless self promotion by demian031 · 2005-03-13 17:14 · Score: 0, Offtopic

try my hacker friendly zen-ish python based gpl web gallery system pix.