Photos

[Wendy Cornelisen]

We love communicating through pictures! Share your experiences, questions, and conundrums from Tenn-Share Learn and Discover's Week 2 - Photos exercises. Please welcome this week's resident expert: Tao You of Vanderbilt.

The photo on the front page is from one of my favorite sites: icanhascheezburger.com which is full of funny, captioned pictures of kitties. It has its own language, which is known as “lolspeak,” ”kitteh,” or “kitty pidgin” and which parodies the poor grammar typically attributed to Internet slang. They even have their own Wikipedia entry.

[Michelle Nielsen Ott]

Hi

I have been using picasa for a while. My family website is designed around it. You can view it at

http://adamr.ott.googlepages.com/home

Use the links at the left to view our different photo albums.

Attached is the photo I made at picnik.com I love this site. Thanks for introducing it to me.

[Tao You]

Michelle:
That is a very smart way to use google picasa album! The capability of generating slide shows from Flickr and Google Picasa album to embed in personal websites made them standout from other printing focused photo sharing websites.

Thanks for the great example. You have a lovely family.

[Christi U.]

That's cute! Isn't that pic also on your Facebook?

[Michelle Nielsen Ott]

yes it is...I like is a lot

[Jason Vance]

I'm a big fan of Flickr. It's a great way to organize and share pictures online. I usually just use my the Microsoft Office Picture Manager on my PC to do basic cropping and resizing. Here's a link to my pictures on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonvance/ Feel free to leave comments on the pictures. I like comments.

[Amy]

I use flickr, as well. These days it's mostly a place to share all of my baby -- now toddler -- pictures with family and friends, and I'm starting to realize that that's not really in keeping with the culture of flickr, which is typically more artsy (though not exclusively so). I didn't realize when I chose flickr over something like snapfish or photobucket that there was a different vibe for each. I'm sticking with flickr because I like it, and maybe someday I'll be cool. Here is my acct: http://www.flickr.com/photos/acyo/

I use the built-in Picnik editor to crop and take out red-eye.

[Tao You]

I won't say flickr is more for the art stuff. One nice thing about choosing flickr to store/organize/share your family photos over snapfish or photobucket, is the many mash-ups build on Flickr API. Those mas-ups make it easy for you to create fun ways to share your photos. Some of my favorites are bookr (create flippable photobook ), flickr badge, and splashr (a tool to present your photos in 20ish fun ways). You will be cool with your flickr images!

[Amy]

You're right. The mash-ups are one of the things I like about flickr. And I also like the community aspect. It surprised me the first time someone else added tags to one of my photos, but I liked it. I have used the flickr badge app, but I've not tried the others. They sound interesting. I'll have to try them out.

[Christi U.]

Jason Vance also mentioned that he likes for people to comment on his photos too. I believe we all love that community element. That's one of the main aspects of Web 2.0- the interaction and conversation that can happen in comments, blogs, and responses.

[Polly]

moar funny pictures

[Genny]

Polly, your avatar still has the power to make me grin - 1 year later! ;) And I love it with the new LOLcat/kitteh text!

[Polly]

Genny, I am glad you like the greenie. I was afraid the blue hair avatars were taking over ;-)