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OpenPhoto who? I had never heard of OpenPhoto until now, so I guess that kind of weakens the point of this article by about 50% straight up. Flickr in my opinion while having failed to stay relevant in a world of Instagrams and Facebook, it's still the best place to store your photos and from what I hear Marissa is focusing on Flickr quite heavily recently. Free might seem better than $25 per month, but $25 per month…
Even though it would be cool, I think that the situation is similar to Diaspora/Facebook, i.e. end users won't run their own servers and it would not be profitable for third parties to run them either.
This comment tugs at me. "end users won't run their own servers" The reason it tugs at me is because I can't tell if it is because they don't want to, or that they can't .
What I do learn from this is that it would probably be a good solution for hack-it-yourself enthusiasts from the Linux community who always look for the open source solution.
I'm personally sick of lockins and wouldnt mind a "desktop like" interface to installing and using software on servers. There were some startups that seemed to start down this path. Know of any that's moved further along in this direction?
>"OpenPhoto is Free Open Source Software that anyone can download at no cost and run on their own servers" So, back to the 1990s? Not that it's a bad thing, but aren't php scripts and wordpress plugins to do this kind of thing old hat and pre-date flickr, picasa, skydrive et all? A well-designed 2013-era take on the problem may be interesting to see, but the mere existence of software to store, present and manage pho…
Openphoto works like this (among other ways):
You can get [name].openphoto.me account and link it with your dropbox. You upload photos to your openphoto account by dragging them into a window - but the files actually go to folders on your dropbox account. Hence - full control, backup ability and everything. Anybody (you, the FBI, a hacker) can delete your openphoto account tomorrow but you don't lose a single photo.
I hope at some point in the future it will be useful for its intended purpose: viewing photos.
Seems to be down at the moment as well...
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This comment tugs at me. "end users won't run their own servers" The reason it tugs at me is because I can't tell if it is because they don't want to, or that they can't .
I mean can you imagine say a high schooler having to maintain a server running their facebook profile?
>"OpenPhoto is Free Open Source Software that anyone can download at no cost and run on their own servers" So, back to the 1990s? Not that it's a bad thing, but aren't php scripts and wordpress plugins to do this kind of thing old hat and pre-date flickr, picasa, skydrive et all? A well-designed 2013-era take on the problem may be interesting to see, but the mere existence of software to store, present and manage pho…
No. Openphoto works like this (among other ways): You can get [name].openphoto.me account and link it with your dropbox. You upload photos to your openphoto account by dragging them into a window - but the files actually go to folders on your dropbox account. Hence - full control, backup ability and everything. Anybody (you, the FBI, a hacker) can delete your openphoto account tomorrow but you don't lose a single pho…
I hope I don't come off as cynical, but there's no way this project will ever 'defeat' Picasa or Flickr. It could very well end up being a successful project, but it will never be on top. Also drop the whole 'Open' and 'Free' thing when it comes to naming. No one outside of the dev community cares about or even acknowledges the existence of FOSS. This project sounds great, it just doesn't seem tailored or marketed to…
Here's a graphic that depicts just how dominant Facebook is. http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/42150/facebook-digital-photo...
The problem with things like this is that it's doubtful whether this product will be ten times better than the alternatives, which is how much better it needs to be if it wants to displace the entrenched players, which already enjoy some lock-in through 3rd party integration. Simply offering a cheaper and open source alternative or a free alternative that requires somebody to link it up with Dropbox doesn't cut it. T…