#shared albums

[googlephotos]

When you asked your family to take a hike. Share the photos with each other and relive it with #SharedAlbums

[googlephotos]

Welcoming the sweet face Uncle Toni will never say no to. Wherever you are, never miss a moment with #SharedAlbums

[codeunreachable]

San Francisco in Albumium

Last week I completed the “Public Album” feature in Albumium. I had deployed the new changes while I was in San Francisco. While I was there, I also took a lot of pictures and those can now be found in the first Albumium Public Album -- http://bit.ly/1IPc4sv.

The Public Albums feature allows other people to share their photos by requesting to be invited into the album. For instance, other San Francisco tourists could post their photos into my San Francisco album.

Users can make any album publicly accessible through the options menu. They can also easily revert it back to a private album if they choose to.

[arcivr-blog]

Sneak peek at Arcivr 1.0

After four months in private beta and hundreds of conversations with early users, the first full-featured version of Arcivr will release to the public in just a few weeks. And it's really (really) good!

As a small thank you to our beloved beta users, we added two currently unreleased features to all beta accounts. Next time you log in, you'll find a simpler interface and be able to drag and drop photos from your desktop directly into any part of Arcivr, including new or existing albums.

Here's a quick overview of the new features:

Have you logged in and used the new interface? Let us know what you think at [email protected] or @arcivr.

Stay tuned for the big announcement in the coming weeks!

Cheers, Team Arcivr

[smithieddigest]

Up to 50 Facebook users can now contribute to the new shared photo albums that Facebook is starting to roll out. Each individual user can add up to 200 photos, which means albums could contain as many as 10,000 photos. This is quite a step up from the previous limit of 1000 photos that could only be added to users’ own albums.

Bob Baldwin, the software engineer at Facebook who spearheaded the project, had this to say about one of the frustrations they are trying to solve with this new feature:

“Right now, if you were at a party and there were three different albums created, you might not be able to see all the photos [based on privacy settings], which is kind of confusing and frustrating.”

Speaking of parties, this feature is very similar to Google +’s party mode, where many users who are guests of an associated event can share their photos and videos in real time.