Comments on: BubbleShare Live brings screen sharing to photos

By: Techcrunch » Blog Archive » AOL Pictures goes social and it’s not pretty

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:05:00 +0000

[...] The new Yahoo! Photos came out last month and is better, but Flickr is much better still. If you’re going to follow Flickr’s lead, as everyone appears to be doing – at least do it well. Or acquire someone who’s doing something really interesting. Online video editing is the most obvious next direction for video sharing and Yahoo! just bought Jumpcut this morning. There are any number of interesting little photo sharing sites that are at least doing a better job at the state of the art than AOL Pictures. Two off the top of my head are Photoblog.com and BubbleShare (who are doing some very cool stuff). Zooomr is apparently on the market as well. [...]

By: Social Intelligence » Blog Archive » BubbleShare - share photos with friends - Custom Social Networking Research and Analysis

Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:19:14 +0000

[...] (via TechCrunch) Posted by justin.smith Filed in entertainment, photos [...]

By: Rehan’s blog » Is Toronto the Web 2.0 capital of the North?

Rehan’s blog » Is Toronto the Web 2.0 capital of the North? — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 20:12:01 +0000

[...] Kiwi Bloke makes a great case for Toronto becoming the Web 2.0 capital of the North. The recent activity from Toronto startup and the tech community in general has been very positive. Joey DeVilla also posted some thoughts in his On Becoming Silicon Valley series of posts. In the last couple of weeks, several Toronto-based projects have received their short bits of fame — Bumptop on digg and other sites, FileMobile (local demo coming soon) on TechCrunch, and BubbleShare also on TechCrunch…that’s all great stuff. [...]

By: Albert Lai

Albert Lai — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 03:07:51 +0000

Scott,
Thanks for the kind comments. Its rather strange how many of us Canadians are in the digital photo arena. It must be in the water. =)

We’ve tested the system performance up to about a dozen viewers (its was built really as a one to one/few users), but we’re intrested in finding out how much it’ll move up to. So if anyone has any experiences with tinkering with it with more than a dozen users, please let us know. =)

We have much respect for your work at Yahoo Photos/Beta, very cool stuff.

By: Scott Schiller

Scott Schiller — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 16:03:57 +0000

Looks like a good use of Flash’s ExternalInterface / XMLSockets, the response between two instances of IE on my system was very snappy. Well done.

(Fellow Canadian myself, also work on a large Photos site.. perhaps there is a pattern here indeed!)

By: SorenG

SorenG — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 14:16:06 +0000

Why do you make a post listing the TechCrunch sponsors (the one after this) then give no way for people to respond? As if your users cannot see who the sponsors are — their ads are huge; I see them everyday. You really do not have to fill the entire screen with them. I may be in the minority, but if I go to the homepage, I do not like to see posts as ads. To me, the ads are more than visible on the right. Is their reason why you make posts thanking your advertisers? Why not just give them a call or send them an email if you want to thank them. That would be my preference.

By: Pro SEO

Pro SEO — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 08:40:19 +0000

Regardless if the same thing has been done by someone else these types of things fail or succeed on the grounds of will it be marketed right.

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » BubbleShare Live、写真のスクリーン共有を実現

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » BubbleShare Live、写真のスクリーン共有を実現 — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 08:33:42 +0000

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By: Albert Lai

Albert Lai — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 07:41:30 +0000

Skeptic,

we will be making money off ads, prints, and soon, premium services/subscriptions, as well as a couple of more surprises to come.

If you’re happy with Ofoto and Yahoo, that’s great. If you want to do something more with your photos w/ voice and captions, etc. make it more fun… we welcome you to play with BubbleShare.

By: Skeptic

Skeptic — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 07:21:15 +0000

Nice site, great user interface, neat-o features. I mean all of that sincerely. Now, how do you make money so you are still in business in a year or so?

If I am a ‘regular user’ why would I invest the time/energy to upload tons of photos to your site when all my friends are on Ofoto, Yahoo, and (maybe) Flickr?

More of my thoughts on this one here: http://www.dead...bleshare-burst/

By: striatic

striatic — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 06:56:21 +0000

meebo could do that very well, with the meebo user seeing these things integrated into the thin client and the non-meebo users having things launch in a browser window while they continue to chat in their multi-headed or standard client.

that’d be slick.

By: striatic

striatic — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 06:50:10 +0000

hm .. that’s an interesting untapped arena.

things that standard IM clients can do, but the non-standard ones can’t. the web-service as the neutral ground to supplement the client.

browser based video chat, image sharing, file transfer. account-less group sessions that can be triggered by dropping a link into chat or IM. Take those three, package them together .. file transfer is so flakey out of gaim.

hm.

By: Changing Way » Blog Archive » BubbleShare

Changing Way » Blog Archive » BubbleShare — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 04:22:23 +0000

[...] In the rather crowded photosharing market, Bubbleshare has a few things going for it: ease of use, audio captioning, and now BubbleShare Live. For the last of these, TechCrunch provides explanation and enthusiasm: Without installing any software users can effectively share browser windows to look at photos together. Interesting though BS Live sounds, it is BS’s ease of use on which I want to comment here. It would be a lot easier for me to use if I could select photos from my Flickr photostream, rather than from disk. It is possible to allow this; Tabblo does. I recently created a BS album, and the upload took ages due to the size of the images. Yes, I know I could resize them before uploading, but I already had the photos I like resized… when I uploaded them to Flickr. [...]

By: Albert Lai

Albert Lai — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 01:13:18 +0000

straiatic,

thanks for the feedback.

I too use trillian, and I guess one of the nice things about BS Live is that I can now finally do live photo chats with other GAIM/Trillian users. We don’t really know whose ultimately going to pick up on the tool, but we just thought it would be a cool to have a fun live service like this for people to play with and based on your feedback, we’d push the envelope where we can. The idea behind BS Live is that you can instantly turn any photo album into a Live session.

One thing we really wanted to push was also around lowering the barriers to adoption, but eliminating the registration as with the primary service. We wanted to build something where our users can just jump in, play, and tell their stories.

Speaking of “play” one of our newer features is the ablity to instantly create a jig saw puzzle of your photos to send to your friends… check that out the next time your back on the service.

Enjoy!

By: striatic

striatic — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 00:45:38 +0000

“I think we’re trying to do something a bit different — more lightweight, private group, real-time sharing”

indeed.

i really like the whole originality that bubbleshare brings to the table, especially the remorseless flickr-clones out there like zooomr and 23hq.

this slideshow sharing is especially important since most of the major IM clients don’t ‘get’ how do a proper photosharing UI, electing to stuff photos into the chat window where they are tiny and disappear in seconds.

YIM has an excellent interface however, and bubbleshare live sort of reminds me of it.

which is great, because i use GAIM, not YIM. i can see people with multi-headed, non-standard IM clients being drawn to a service like bubbleshare live. i’m not sure that it is really your ‘masses and novices’ market, but you could develop plugins for these clients. that’d be swell.

By: Varun Mathur

Varun Mathur — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 00:42:53 +0000

What’s with us Canadians and photo sharing sites (flickr-vancouver ; bubbleshare-toronto)

By: Web2.0Fan.net

Web2.0Fan.net — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 00:20:13 +0000

我很喜欢的一个图片网站 – BubbleShare…

已经过了10个月生日的 Bubble Share 不能算是一个Start-up的网站了，但是它不断推出的好玩的新功能却每次都能让我玩得爱不释手。
就像这个刚刚出来的有点像幻灯片演示的Live Slide Show，它可以…..

By: Search Engine WEB

Search Engine WEB — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 23:44:40 +0000

This is an interesting Service, it will come in useful for journalists or Blogers in different locations working on the same story.

Also it will be nice to collaborate with others around the world with Shared Interests..

Just started an Album about the current Miss Universe Contest 2006 – Delegates are ariving here in Los Angeles Today

ttp://bubbleshare.com/album/45251.16f8183c00d/

By: Albert Lai

Albert Lai — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 23:43:39 +0000

The “So-Pre-Alpha-It’s-Funny” was a dig/joke at ourselves… we were made fun of before about using the alpha/beta tag, so we’re just trying to have a little fun. =)

Its funny, I never thought of us as doing the reverse of Flickr Live — which I thought was supercool. I think we’re trying to do something a bit different — more lightweight, private group, real-time sharing vs. IRC style sharing (i.e. flickr live).

By: Richard Hong

Richard Hong — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 23:41:04 +0000

I just gave a it try, it’s awesome! Now I can share photos with my family using this one and Skype.

By: striatic

striatic — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 23:24:46 +0000

..and to think that flickr used to have a “flickr live”. i would say that bubbleshare was building a similar service, in reverse, if only the whole endeavour didn’t feel so fresh and different.

that said, perhaps too early to show off something “So-Pre-Alpha-It’s-Funny”, even on techcrunch.

By: Chris Sukornyk

Chris Sukornyk — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 23:23:16 +0000

Hi Paolo,

We agree that most people would rather just send an Album for people to browse and their convenience. But BubbleShare Live might find a niche for all sorts of things unexpected. Perhaps families separated by distance might come together once a month and bore one another with slideshows Or perhaps this is a cheap net-meeting type service. You can easily export your Powerpoints as JPG’s and using BubbleShare Live give a web presentation for free. We really don’t know how it will be used yet, but that’s the fun part!

By: paolo

paolo — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 23:13:18 +0000

but it’s not easy to set an online meeting about a slideshow… people have different times an works and problems: I think it’s better to publish pics and send mail

By: Albert Lai

Albert Lai — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 23:12:58 +0000

Thanks for the comment Aidan, you may be right — we’re not quite optimizing our user interface for the power user, but rather for the masses and novices. Thanks for cheering on a fellow Canadian. =)

By: Aidan Henry

Aidan Henry — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 23:09:51 +0000

I think BubbleShare has a great user interface – very clean and easy-to-use. For the average user, I think it is a great solution. Although, I’m not yet convinced it is the optimal solution for the power user. Obviously, competitors such as Flickr, SmugMug, and Kodak’s EasyShare provide robust functionality and advanced features which may be more suitable to the expert user.

Nonetheless, I am very impressed with what I have seen thusfar.

Hail Canadian web 2.0…

Aidan Henry