My guest for this week’s podcast is Antonio Rodriguez, founder of Tabblo, a photo site that’s used to create online photo albums that can be transformed into a variety of print formats.
Among the topics of discussion were:
- How photo albums tell stories about key events in peoples’ lives
- Strategies for archival storage of images
- Strategies for organizing collections of images
- The relationship between photo applications that live on the desktop and applications that live in the cloud
- Whether people share their photos online, and if so, with whom
- What Tabblo’s layout engine does, and how it might be extended
- Automatic geotagging
We also revisited a topic we’d discussed earlier in the week, on a panel at the MIT Enterprise Forum. The question, also explored here, is: How might certain features of social networks, notably group formation, be factored out of invidual sites and made available in a more federated way?
February 12, 2007 at 11:31 am
[...] Udell interviews Antonio Rodriguez, the founder of my favorite photo sharing site, Tabblo, in his latest [...]
February 14, 2007 at 9:33 am
Jon, I thought you did a great job leading this panel, and I found this extended discussion with Antonio quite interesting as well.
I haven’t been following the Open Identity discussions closely, but the idea of open and distributed group formation and access control on top of that is intriguing. As a social web app designer, I’d love to see standardized building blocks for this kind of functionality–that would be a lot of complexity we don’t have to implement over and over. As a user, I’d love to see more consistency in the concepts and UI across the social web, so that I don’t have to do that tedious work over and over.
On the other hand, I’d hate to see the UI for distributed group membership driven by an OASIS committee!
February 22, 2007 at 10:35 pm
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