Welcome to PhotoPing.com
Hi. My name is Frank Leahy. I live near San Francisco, am Director of Engineering at an Internet startup, have been playing with digital photos for just about as long as there have been digital cameras, and PhotoPing.com is an experiment that I’ve been wanting to do for quite awhile.
While we were in Cornwall, England for two years I started a weblog to document our time away. I wrote many pieces about our life there, but also wrote some tech pieces specifically about photos. In particular I wanted to make my photos more searchable and was frustrated by the search engines’ ability to pick up and identify photos correctly. I wrote a piece about this on my weblog, and was astounded to get something like 15,000 readers for the series. Clearly I was on to something.
I wrote some software for uploading photos to the web, creating a format I called PhotoRss in the process to address the issue, but I realized I needed something bigger to get the word out. It dawned on me that one of the primary ways that Dave Winer had gotten traction with RSS was by creating Weblogs.com, and so I thought “hey, why not try to build something similar for photos?”.
Fast forward to today, and here it is.
So try it. Let me know what you think. And I’ll try my best to keep up with comments and suggestions I receive via the PhotoPing.com Support Forum.
Oh yes, one last thing…one of the things we all know about photos and video on the internet is that a lot of it is adult in nature. I’m no prude, but I would like to be able to show the site to my two boys without having to wonder what’s going to show up on the front door. Therefore, we’ve made it possible for you to label your photos and videos as “adult”. Please use this flag for adult content so that we can segregate photos and videos in an age appropriate manner.
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Hi. My name is Frank Leahy. I live near San Francisco, am Director of Engineering at an Internet startup, have been playing with digital photos for just about as long as there have been digital cameras, and PhotoPing.com is an experiment that I’ve been wanting to do for quite awhile.
While we were in Cornwall, England for two years I started a weblog to document our time away. I wrote many pieces about our life there, but also wrote some tech pieces specifically about photos. In particular I wanted to make my photos more searchable and was frustrated by the search engines’ ability to pick up and identify photos correctly. I wrote a piece about this on my weblog, and was astounded to get something like 15,000 readers for the series. Clearly I was on to something.
I wrote some software for uploading photos to the web, creating a format I called PhotoRss in the process to address the issue, but I realized I needed something bigger to get the word out. It dawned on me that one of the primary ways that Dave Winer had gotten traction with RSS was by creating Weblogs.com, and so I thought “hey, why not try to build something similar for photos?”.
Fast forward to today, and here it is.
So try it. Let me know what you think. And I’ll try my best to keep up with comments and suggestions I receive via the PhotoPing.com Support Forum.
Oh yes, one last thing…one of the things we all know about photos and video on the internet is that a lot of it is adult in nature. I’m no prude, but I would like to be able to show the site to my two boys without having to wonder what’s going to show up on the front door. Therefore, we’ve made it possible for you to label your photos and videos as “adult”. Please use this flag for adult content so that we can segregate photos and videos in an age appropriate manner.
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