On 10/14/11 5:01 PM, Tim Bray wrote:
I work for Google, so feel free to discount this as highly-biased raving.
Having said that, Google+ is really pretty nice for a photographer:
I've been pleasantly surprised. I don't get along well with Facebook,
especially since they cluttered it up (more), and Twitter still gives me
a headache, but G+, I dunno, seems a little more to my liking.
1. The presentation of the photos is pretty good compared to anything
else with "social" in the name
yep.
2. There are a lot of really good photographers already there
and me
, so you
can arrange to have your stream filled with great shots every time you
check in.
true
3. There's this "hangout" thing, essentially a glorified
videoconference, up to 10 ways, and you can screen-share. Got into
one of those led by Mike Spinak (author of the amusing 10,775-word
rant against the "Golden ratio" at
http://naturography.com/the-golden-section-hypothesis-a-critical-look/)
and in that hangout, people were screen-sharing so we could all look
at pix together and argue about composition and lighting and so on
I'm still a hangout virgin, and will probably remain one for the near
future. Gotta think of the children.
4. The interface for uploading your pictures seems to pretty well just work
Yeah, especially compared to the root canal that is FB photo uploading.
Check some of the links here out: http://goo.gl/7mSu5
Here are my albums:
https://plus.google.com/photos/107606703558161507946/albums
People here might be amused by the ones prefixed by "Backgrounds:"
This is a total of a couple hundred pix designed for use as wallpapers
on your mobile device.
For pix I care about seriously, I still use my own blog space. But G+
sure makes it awfully easy.
I'm moving toward a G+/500px combo.
Biased raving over. Return to your regularly-scheduled cormorants.
-T
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