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February 5, 2008
PicLens and Photophlow
I've been playing around with a couple of great new photography tools for the web: PicLens and Photophlow. The first is a useful plug-in for Firefox which allows users to browse PicLens-enabled websites such as Flickr, Picasa and Facebook in 3D. Its a lot of fun, and I can guarantee that once you play around with this plug-in, you'll never want to go back to browsing images the old way.
Photophlow brings Flickr into a chatroom environment so that users can share and discuss photos with one another in real time. The design is slick, although the interface takes some getting used to. Users navigate 'rooms' where they can meet with other users with similar interests. They then can search for particular photos, discuss them as a group and leave comments for the photographer.
Its all very web 2.0 – lots of lower case, big fonts, gradients and irony. I'm guessing some users will find the site's deliberate quirkiness annoying, but I stopped paying attention once I began meeting up with friends and commenting on the images.
Photophlow is invitation-only for the time being. You can either request an invitation from the Photophlow website, or ask one of your friends to invite you. I still have a couple of invitations left – let me know if you want to try it out. Naturally, its first come, first served. Oh, and this being a Yahoo! product, Hotmail addresses won't work (for the time being!)
Posted by Marcus at February 5, 2008 11:06 AM
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Great find - PicLens rocks!
Posted by: Feodor at February 7, 2008 9:38 PM