the kid pics are back

[jrtom]

after a hiatus of some months:

http://picasaweb.google.com/joshua.omadadhain

I'm trying out Picasa as a new hosting location for the pictures; I'm assuming that eventually I'm going to have to stop using UCI's computers for this. If you have trouble viewing them (or any other feedback about or experience with Picasa), let me know.

Comments

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

I really like the features and appearance of Flickr.

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

Flickr's not bad; I've used it before. The on-screen focused annotations are kind of slick.

Do you have any particular issues with Picasa? Seriously, I'd like to know; better now than later. :)

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

I have not extensively used Picasa, so it's more that it appears to lack some things I like in Flickr. Two revolve around the social networking features of Flickr, such as (1) having different permission levels to photos - it's not as detailed as LJ's friends groups, but "contacts" is the most general level and your contacts can be further marked as "friends" or "family" and you can set different permissions. For example, I could allow only family to print out my photos and only friends to see the full resolution photos. I could allow everyone to see all my pictures, I could (manually) choose that the photos with me in them are visible only to my contacts, and if I find one of me drunk off my ass I could show it only to friends and not to family or other contacts.

(2) Flickr is social networking around photos. For example, there are also communities that you can become a member of and post the image to deliberately, or you can tag images and then search for everything under a certain tag. If you find someone you like in your searches, you can then add them as a contact. And you can set up for Flickr to send you emails when contacts upload new photos (I have it email me when friends or family do, once a day), or you can subscribe to RSS feeds for your contacts as a group or individually.

Feature (3) that I don't see is convenient code to embed photos into webpages or blogs, at various sizes. You should be able to see this page for a sample of what I'm talking about.

(4) Creative Commons licensing is also nice. You can set a default license to all your photos and alter for individual photos. For example, the Barack Obama team uses a by-nc-sa Creative Commons license.

(5) You already mentioned the annotations - you can annotate other people's photos too, and they can reject the annotation I believe.

So like I said, it's not that I have things *against* Picasa, it's just I like Flickr more.

(Edited for clarity, and also to say:) It's possible that Picasa does have these things and I just haven't used it enough to see them, I'd be curious to know.

[paisleychick.livejournal.com]

cute kids! Does one of you work at Google and the other at Microsoft? ... I really like the feature of using the right arrow key to get to the new photo on Picassa. That is wicked cool. (I discovered that on accident.) Wish flickr had that.

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

Thanks. We try to make sure that they spend at least an hour practicing being cute every day. :)

Yes, I work at Google, Megan works at Microsoft. (For a while we both worked at MS.)

Thanks for the note on the arrow keys, that is handy (and I'm not sure I would have tried it if you hadn't mentioned it).

[danyeke.livejournal.com]

Nice work. You all look great. The captions are amusing, as always.

I'm particularly fond of the one of you in Paris on the silver couch, all dressed in black. (No surprise there, I'm sure...)

I also really like the slight silver streak you've got going. ;)

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

Color me unsurprised, indeed, on both counts. :) (Although that picture is the only place that anyone's really seen that streak; the silver's really pretty uniformly distributed.)