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Re: Radar.net is the Anti-Flickr

jessica — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:53:16 -0000

i want to know how to make a collage.

Re: Radar.net is the Anti-Flickr

Liesel Pollvogt — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 22:15:31 -0000

Hi John--

To answer your question, Tabblo is a site you use if you want to tell a story or do something meaningful around a group of photos. The idea is to give people a really easy way to combine text and pictures in an attractive layout, and then give you various options for sharing that content with specific people only or the world at large. The community/public sharing element is a big (and fun) part of the experience and as much as that's all the rage these days I definitely agree with Pete that there's also a huge demand for more private uses of "web 2.0" technologies as these sites penetrate more mainstream audiences.

Re: Radar.net is the Anti-Flickr

John Erik Metcalf — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:49:44 -0000

I'm sold on radar. Here is one reason: I look at my collection of photos fairly often, itâ€™s like studying, the more times I look at my pictures the better I can recall them in my mind and the better I can recall the event they are associated with. Here is the problem. What about the other events, ones that may have been more important or had a greater impact on my life. If I forgot my camera that day, are they are lost forever? As I place greater importance on my narrative photo collection and as time drives memories into the distance, I feel like they are.

I donâ€™t forget my cellphone â€“ which happens to have a camera.

It seems using radar I could capture the story of my life using my cameraphone and, by default, it will always be in chronological order.

What about kids going off to college. â€œJust watch my radar, Mom. See what Iâ€™m up too.â€ Filter the beer-bong photos of course.

Image quality and network speeds will only get better. If radar continues to grow and innovate their potential is huge.

Liesel, Tabblo seems great. Gonna check it outâ€¦ is it not just flickr with templates?

Re: Radar.net is the Anti-Flickr

Liesel Pollvogt — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 14:47:54 -0000

We put a lot of thought behind the public-versus-private issue when we designed Tabblo. It doesn't need to be an either/or situation. There are times when I'm going to want to share pictures with the world (when it's something I've posted to my blog, for example), and sometimes when I'm not (like tabblos of my kids). Our theory is that the user should always be able to control who sees what. I think users are going to start demanding this type of control over their digital identity as both personal and professional aspects of their lives move online.

Re: Radar.net is the Anti-Flickr

jayOh — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 10:20:46 -0000

i absolutely love the design of this site.