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Weihnachtsbilder mit der Familie teilen - Vergleich einiger Online-Dienste

Heute abend ist es wieder soweit. Funkelnde Momente, glitzernde Impressionen, knisternde Stimmung. Opa fällt in den Weihnachtsbaum, Oma kippt die liebevoll zubereitete Vorspeise über Ihr neues Kleid und die Tante jammert, dass der 8000-Dollar Ring ihr nicht mehr um den Finger passt während die Kinder vor lauter Kartons und Geschenkpapier nicht mehr wissen was vom Christkind und was vom Coca-Cola- äh, Weihnachtsmann kommt. 

Jedenfalls will das alles ja auch festgehalten und mit Vertrauten oder sogar den Betroffenen geteilt werden. Viele von euch werden das bei Facebook machen oder vielleicht sogar DVDs durch die Gegend schicken. Aber ist das der passende Weg oder noch zeitgemäß? 

Kürzlich, beim Testen von 7moments.com sind mir dazu ein paar Gedanken durch den Kopf gegangen. Fakt ist, es gibt nicht die universelle Lösung, die für Jeden gleichermaßen geeignet ist. Einfachheit steht oft im Widerspruch zu Sicherheit. Weniger Features heißt nicht unbedingt schlechter. Das Bewusstsein bzgl. Privatsphäre im Netz steigt und somit auch die Anforderungen an die Lösungen. Manche Leute sind generell abgeneigt gegenüber Registrierungen bei fremden neuen Diensten, somit muss man die Hürden klein halten aber dennoch vertrauenswürdig wirken und auf Empfehlungen bauen. 

Ich habe ein paar Dienste verglichen und überlegt welche Fragen man sich vor dem Hochladen stellen sollte. 

1. Mit wem will ich die Bilder teilen?

Spricht Oma englisch oder verstehen die Verwandten in den USA deutsch? Wirkt schon die Startseite überfordernd? Sind alle Familienmitglieder und Freunde, mit denen man die Bilder oder Videos teilen will bei facebook oder einem anderen Netz meiner Wahl? Muss etwas installiert werden, oder entstehen sogar Kosten?

2. Will ich, dass die Bilder kommentiert werden können?

Wenn das der Fall ist, fallen einige Dienste durchs Raster. 

3. Sollen andere in der Lage sein weitere Bilder hinzuzufügen?

Das ist ein schickes Feature, dass nur wenige Services mitbringen. Ich denke hier an Urlaub mit Freunden, Weihnachtsfeier mit Kollegen o.ä. 

4. Wie wichtig ist Zugriff über mobile Geräte?

Sollen die Empfänger sich die Galerie auf einem Touchpad ansehen können? Will ich Bilder über eine mobile App hochladen?

usw...

Hier ist der grobe Vergleich in Form einer Tabelle

tabellarischer Vergleich einiger Online-Dienste zum Teilen von Fotoalben

Bei 7moments - für das man momentan noch eine Einladung braucht - fehlt mir persönlich heute noch die Möglichkeit mobil Bilder hochzuladen. Ich mache fast nur noch mit dem iPhone Bilder und Videos und teile gerne im Moment selbst und nicht erst Tage später. Eine Kommentarfunktion wäre schön. Außerdem müsste ich Oma erst erklären wie und warum sie sich anmelden muss. 

Die Jungs von 7moments haben bestimmt noch einige Themen auf der Roadmap. Ich hatte Markus auch vor einiger Zeit schon meine Einschätzung zukommen lassen und seine Rückmeldung klang vielversprechend. Auch die FAQs lassen hoffen. 

Es wird bestimmt bald ein Update geben... Vielleicht ja schon zu Silvester!? ;)

Frohes Fest euch allen und ein paar tolle Momente!

Merry Xmas. 

 

tumblr vs. posterous?! my thoughts in a nutshell

mhm, i hope i will find time to add more comments here or there. some of it is plain bullshit in my opinion, some things you cannot compare - tumblr is huge because there's a lot of porn and teenie content, because it's easy to reblog, because it's older, because people use it to communicate like others do on twitter or facebook, not within comments (like here) but with a new entry (weird) because... because.

not well designed? did you see that it's up to you to change the template? just like tumblr. "simple plain white" design doesn't mean bad design. posterous is about content (!) and simplicity ... i really like it, this is why i didn't change my template so far. I like the one Garry made.

the only thing that posterous doesn't have is automatic import (via RSS etc) - but it works the other way round, you send from posterous to the other sites. Like i say you cannot compare the two in every aspect.

Probably find time to go into this a little more later.
Add your thoughts if you like.

Simple Blogging Faceoff: Tumblr vs. Posterous (via mashable)

...This isn’t the first time we’ve put these two web services in opposite corners: we compared the two in a head-to-head comparison (Posterous won, but not by much). Since then though, Posterous has added custom themes and Tumblr broke 255 million pageviews.

So which simple blogging platform deserve to earn the title of winner of this week’s Web Faceoff? The answer to that question is up to you. Cast your ballot in the poll below. The voting booth will stay open until noon EST on Friday, October 2nd.

And don’t forget: once you vote, let us know your logic and reasoning in the comments.

Who would win in a fight: Tumblr or Posterous?(polls)

social bookmarking with posterous?!

When i first saw that you can autopost to delicious i thought i should try posterous as a new social bookmarking service.

I am using mento since 15 months now but it's lacking some things i long for and it seems that it's not being worked on anymore, so no improvements and new features in sight. Luckily i have always sent my bookmarks to delicous as well (mento offers this through the api), so there is kind of a backup and quicker way to search through them. I have a need to search through my old bookmarks from time to time or through those of my network, when i think "man, there was this site but i can't remember the name or URL...". Mentos search result page is not very helpful in this case unfortunately, very confusing and unclear with duplicates so i mostly used delicious when searching. 

So why not use delicious in the first place? Well, for me delicious is definately missing a visual glance at the bookmarks. A thumbnail, screenshot, logo,... Mento has this, posterous has this. You can easily add images with their bookmarklets. Yesterday i tested delish, a mac OSX desktop app, but it's very slow and it only shows you the thumbnails which are created "on the fly", so it's only about half the deal.

Well okay, having screenshots is not everything. What am i looking for exactly? How do i use mento nowadays and what should posterous have to fulfill my need here? 

I use Mentos Firefox plugin when i use Firefox and the bookmarklet in Safari. The plugin has some more features but the bookmarklet is okay in most cases. When there is no nice visual on the page i want to bookmark i use skitch to upload a screenshot of the prefered area to mento first, the uploaded picture is shown with the next bookmark then automatically. This btw was a great great feature Greg implemented! Mentos bookmarklet lets you add tagschannels and descriptions, gives you a chance to directly share this link with a network friend (or a facebook contact) or via twitter. This is something i am missing with the posterous bookmarklet: Adding tags directly. 

Network: my Mento network consists of a few very likeminded people whose boomarks i like a lot, early adopters, designers, coders, people that like and need the same things i do. Posterous does make it easy to follow people and create a new network, even though i am missing something like channels, topic groups and explore pages to find new people and content, to have a bigger feeling of a community and a togetherness. Edit: i just found there actually is an explore page.

Autoposting to delicious creates a bookmark to the posterous article not the target. This could be very confusing for people searching and finding my bookmarks at delicious, it's about sharing, so i want it to be nice not only for myself. Another fact is that you can send exclusively to delicious only via email (not the bookmarklet) or by autoposting to delicious later, when the post has already been published. 

By default "autopost everywhere" is checked in posterous' bookmarklet and it's hidden behind the "advanced options" link. I do not want to flood all my linked networks like facebook, twitter, friendfeed, tumblr with this as well, but it would happen once i forget to uncheck and select the right posterous from the list ( i want to use a seperate blog for the bookmarks )

I think posterous' search would do the job for me, although i would love to have a quick result view with only the titles listed as well (not only but as an option, see delicious). I know, this is the exact opposite of my wish for screenshots but sometimes this is handy. 

But that is about it i think. Anything else here at posterous feels so supersmooth that it makes me smile each time i use it. It's easy as 1-2-3 with the ability to send everything in via email and Garry and Sachin really seem to be nice guys listening to their users.

I already exchanged some thoughts about this whole topic here at Andy's posterous (german). 

Please leave your comments if you have ideas or solutions... thanks alot for reading!

 

comparing expono to ipernity

A few days ago i got an invite to expono - which looks like just another photo-sharing site at first sight. It has a few features ipernity doesn't, but it's not always a question of features.

I have 0 invites left, if you want to check expono out, send me your email address please

Here are some screenshots (ipernity) - also you can view them here (expono).

What i like about it (that ipernity is missing):

  • getsatisfaction.com support
  • twitter and facebook integration
  • clean website design, look and feel
  • nice javascript slideshow with keyboard navigation
  • album & picture sharing with passwords for non-members
  • the credit idea & rating pictures
  • find duplicates
  • photo stack
  • inbox look and feel / distinction of system and real messages
  • viewers can filter and sort pictures instantly
  • the activity dashboard
  • see featurelist for details

What i don't like or miss about it:

  • not enough space: only 1GB of free space
  • too expensive: pro accounts are 45$ with 10GB a year, at ipernity you can get 10GB a month for 24€ a year, i think even flickr is cheaper
  • feature and icon-overload for people that are not used to it
  • quite new, so the community is missing

Actually i feel home at ipernity and i do not want to "move" again, even though i could use some of exponos features. Some of them are on my personal wishlist for ipernity for some time now.

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