Comments on: Organising photographs: when, where and who? http://www.iacons.net/writing/2006/11/30/organising-photographs-when-where-and-who/ Fri, 09 Apr 2010 01:26:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Iacovos http://www.iacons.net/writing/2006/11/30/organising-photographs-when-where-and-who/comment-page-1/#comment-81 Iacovos Fri, 08 Dec 2006 12:11:37 +0000 http://www.iacons.net/writing/2006/11/30/organising-photographs-when-where-and-who/#comment-81 <p>Thank you Marios. I have tried Picassa 2 and I am quite impressed by its features. However, I was sad to find out that you can not specify a range of days for <em>smart albums</em>. Anyway, I guess that things could become better for upcoming versions.</p> <p>By the way, I have noticed that <em>smart photosets</em> is a popular and common request among other <a href="http://www.flickr.com/forums/ideas/" title="Discussion Topics in FlickrIdeas | Flickr" rel="nofollow">Flickr ideas</a>. Good news, huh? :)</p> Thank you Marios. I have tried Picassa 2 and I am quite impressed by its features. However, I was sad to find out that you can not specify a range of days for smart albums. Anyway, I guess that things could become better for upcoming versions.

By the way, I have noticed that smart photosets is a popular and common request among other Flickr ideas. Good news, huh? :)

]]> By: Marios Tziortzis http://www.iacons.net/writing/2006/11/30/organising-photographs-when-where-and-who/comment-page-1/#comment-65 Marios Tziortzis Tue, 05 Dec 2006 02:57:07 +0000 http://www.iacons.net/writing/2006/11/30/organising-photographs-when-where-and-who/#comment-65 <p>Take a look on Google's <a href="http://picasa.google.com/download/index.html" rel="nofollow">Picassa 2</a>. It offers pretty good organizing methods..for you and your peers. I really like the 'Timeline' and the 'Slideshow' features. This might solve a couple of your problems (:</p> Take a look on Google’s Picassa 2. It offers pretty good organizing methods..for you and your peers. I really like the ‘Timeline’ and the ‘Slideshow’ features. This might solve a couple of your problems (:

]]> By: Iacovos http://www.iacons.net/writing/2006/11/30/organising-photographs-when-where-and-who/comment-page-1/#comment-64 Iacovos Mon, 04 Dec 2006 22:46:35 +0000 http://www.iacons.net/writing/2006/11/30/organising-photographs-when-where-and-who/#comment-64 <p>Thank you Andreas. You are right, it is not hard to collect or save data in our days. The difficult part is to interpret and convert those data into useful and meaningful information.</p> <p>Regarding the user interface issue: information does not have to be explicitly stated, it can be indirectly stated as well. Sometimes the latter is more informative, despite the fact that programmers do not recognise it. What I am proposing here is an <em>improved</em> way of organising and therefore browsing our photographs.</p> <p>Consider the following scenario: I have take a few photos on June 2005, in Namibia. What does that mean to you? Why did I travel to Namibia? How long did I stay there? Where Namibia is after all? If the answers of those questions are purely printed below the photo no one will bother to read them. But if you are browsing my photostream through a combination of a map and a timeline, then you will know that last summer I have travelled to Namibia, a country located in South Africa (even if you are not really interested in that kind of information).</p> <p>I have more to add but I will come back later with another post!</p> Thank you Andreas. You are right, it is not hard to collect or save data in our days. The difficult part is to interpret and convert those data into useful and meaningful information.

Regarding the user interface issue: information does not have to be explicitly stated, it can be indirectly stated as well. Sometimes the latter is more informative, despite the fact that programmers do not recognise it. What I am proposing here is an improved way of organising and therefore browsing our photographs.

Consider the following scenario: I have take a few photos on June 2005, in Namibia. What does that mean to you? Why did I travel to Namibia? How long did I stay there? Where Namibia is after all? If the answers of those questions are purely printed below the photo no one will bother to read them. But if you are browsing my photostream through a combination of a map and a timeline, then you will know that last summer I have travelled to Namibia, a country located in South Africa (even if you are not really interested in that kind of information).

I have more to add but I will come back later with another post!

]]> By: Andreas Louca http://www.iacons.net/writing/2006/11/30/organising-photographs-when-where-and-who/comment-page-1/#comment-60 Andreas Louca Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:19:38 +0000 http://www.iacons.net/writing/2006/11/30/organising-photographs-when-where-and-who/#comment-60 <p>Nice ideas. The data collection isn't that hard nowadays.</p> <p>The key problem with the implementation tho, is the user interface. What bothers me most, is how the programmer will display this massive stream of information to the user, in a way that will be efficient.</p> Nice ideas. The data collection isn’t that hard nowadays.

The key problem with the implementation tho, is the user interface. What bothers me most, is how the programmer will display this massive stream of information to the user, in a way that will be efficient.

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