Flickr upload tool turns 3.0, goes open-source
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Let the porting begin: Uploadr 3.0 is not only out of beta, it's also governed by the GPL now.
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls... It's with much anticipation that I say this. I have a new product that may be familiar to those of you who used Radio 8, and in other ways may be completely new.  The idea is simple.  There's a convergence between big screen high-definition televisions, and photography as an Internet based activity. The purpose of this product is to smooth that convergence, to make it easy to set up a connection between the Internet and your television. To allow photography to come into your living room in new, powerful and easy ways. Think of it as the networked living room and you'll understand the vision. Some of the work I've done is technical, some is user interface, and some is working with media organizations to try to create a comfort level, or at least a spirit of Let's Give This A Try. In the latter case, it's much like working with the NY Times to get their news headlines and summaries to flow through Radio's RSS aggregator in 2002. Only this time we're working with photographs, and we think, the best news photographers in the world. And the pictures are beautifully high-def, they look really great when displayed on LCD and plasma screens. I use it with my 52-inch Samsung and 46-inch Sony. Of course what looks great on a wall, also looks great on a 15-inch Macbook or 24-inch iMac.   And while we connect those pros with your TV, it's equally important that we connect your friends and families too. One of the early testers found the pictures that Doc Searls uploads to Flickr a great revelation. Me too. That's because Doc is not only a great photographer, he's also a great story-teller. I find that I can follow the lives of far more friends visually than I can through text messages (which I love to do too!). Viewing great photos on bigscreen TVs, desktops and laptops -- that's one focus, but not the only one.  I wanted to provide a complete two-way tool for people who love Flickr, as I do.  Why Flickr? Well, they've got this great thing called an API. It makes it possible for people like me to make software that runs on a desktop computer that does things like automatically backing up your new photos every night, and providing a drop-folder on your desktop for quick uploads. (It understands tags too, it's incredibly simple.) We also made it easy to post pictures you like to Twitter. Why Twitter? It's that API thing again. They made it easy for us to love them. I wish more network service developers understood how powerful this outstretched hand is.  But that's not all! Not by a long shot. The reason all this will be so familiar to Radio 8 users is that it builds on the same engine, the one that was released as open source in 2004. So I've been working on other tools to drop into this base platform and once we have a good-sized base of people using it for "really simple photos" on the desktop, there will be other tools. And because it's an open platform, other developers can do the same. Not saying they will, but they can.  Anyway, I'm in the last stages, preparing the download site, and a FAQ, and tweaking the installer. One caveat, the first beta release is Mac only. That's because I'm doing all my work on the Mac, and this is a one-man show. Later we will work it out for Windows too, and with a bit more work and a bit more luck, for Linux.  It should be ready before the sun goes down today.
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Google Releases Updated Picasa Photo Sharing and Management Tool  Google today released Picasa 2, a free photo management software that makes it simpler than ever for people to organize, edit and share their digital pictures. Google's new version of Picasa offers photographers of all skill levels easy-to-use tools that automatically organize ...
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Microsoftâs bid is shaking up the community of the photo-sharing site Flickr, which is owned by Yahoo.
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Places Organizer is one of the most-awaited new features in the upcoming Firefox 3.0.
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Gallery 1.5.4 is now available for download.  Gallery is a slick Web-based photo album written using PHP. It is easy to install, includes a config wizard, and provides users with the ability to create and maintain their own albums in the album collection via an intuitive Web interface. Photo management includes automatic thumbnail creation, image resizing, rotation, ordering, captioning and more.  Albums can have read, write, and caption permissions per individual authenticated user for an additional level of privacy.      This release is a pure bug fix release with no security fixes.  The most annoying bug was the broken permission dialog.  See the Changelog for more detailed info.  We recommend all Gallery 1 users upgrade to 1.5.4 to keep their Gallery up to date and avoid problems.  Download Gallery 1.5.4 from: http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7130&package_id=7239
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A pilot project aims to share Library of Congress photos on Flickr and enlist the collective wisdom of Web site visitors to endow them with descriptive tags.
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Blog: Yahoo Photos members now can start moving their photo archives to some alternative sites.
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A great way for Windows users to organize lots (and lots) of photos
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Blog: Cooliris' PicLens lets Firefox and Safari generate instant slide shows off Flickr, Google Images, and many other photo Web sites.
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Python implementation of the Flickr API. Actually, it is the easiest to work with, most complete, best documented and most actively developed Python implementation of the Flickr API.   Another day, another release. This version adds some new features, brings back Python 2.4 compatibility and uses a much better way of launching a browser.  Download it at:  http://downloads.sourceforge.net/flickrapi/flickrapi-0.14.tar.gz
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A new website provides an innovative tool that expands and contracts images while minimizing  distortion.
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Uber-Uploader is a web based file upload mechanism that uses AJAX to display a progress bar.   This release makes significant improvement to the PHP finished page. Notable improvements are an XML formatted param file and an advanced debugging tool. If you are not redirecting to the PHP finished page there is no need to upgrade to this release. Anyone currently running a 5.x release can overwrite the 'uu_upload.pl', 'uu_finished.php' and 'uu_finished_lib.php' files.
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Canon G9 review...Photophlow gives Flickr a new face...Mozilla's Weave project...People paparazzi...new SLR rumors...hardware hacking.
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The Yahoo photo-sharing service will soon be retooled to make more use of geotagged photos.
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Photophlow enlivens the Flickr experience with photo-sharing chat rooms--and shows what the Yahoo photo-sharing could be. Next up: a new face on Facebook.
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Open source is changing the game by making software free.  About time.