The photo tagging phenomenon has officially jumped the shark on Facebook with the All my Friends! application which lets you instantly tag your friends in pre-made images. It’s not exactly a new concept but for some reason this iteration of the application has been extremely successful having attracted over 5 million users so far and growing daily.
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Facebook previously enabled iPhone users among other users to email in their photos to have them uploaded but then the service was eventually disabled. As of today, anybody can email their photos to be uploaded to their Facebook profile via their personalized photo upload email. Everyone has their own email address which they can find via the Facebook mobile page. You can email as many photos as you’d like and all you need to do is enter a subject which will be used as the caption for the photos.
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Face.com, the company behind the Photo Finder, has revealed a new photo-related app today called Photo Tagger. It’s about productivity versus discovery, which is the main differentiating factor between the two applications. What Photo Tagger does is search through your albums or the albums of your friends, and tags people in batches.
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Trying to upload more than 60 photos from that recent trip you went on? Up until recently it wasn’t possible. While some users were reporting back in January that the limit had been raised up to 175 photos, Facebook had no official announcement then. Earlier today Chris Putnam posted on the Facebook blog that the company was now able to officially raise the album limit up to 200 photos thanks to the new Haystack storage system.
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Cooliris is a browser extension that lets you browse photos, videos games and news stories from various websites. A new Facebook application for Cooliris is taking the browser extension to the next level with Facebook-specific media enhancing features, including an interactive 3D wall for speedy browsing.
The Cooliris Facebook app allows you to scan all of your friends’ photos at once, in this 3D wall. The interactive portion comes into play when you note you’re able to skip to more photos of a friend based on their tags. These photos will also be seen in an interactive 3D wall.
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No, your Facebook photos aren’t lost. But Facebook’s photo storage hard drive did have some major problems over the weekend. According to the Facebook blog, a routine software upgrade on Friday night resulted in the loss of some 10-15% of its users’ photos. Considering the millions of users (and billions of photos) Facebook has, even a 10% loss is catastrophic. The affected photos are appearing with “question mark” graphics instead of the images themselves.
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One of the limiting features of Facebook Photos is that users are not able to download the photos they uploaded without individually viewing each one and saving them to the computer. Keep in mind even that may technically violate Facebook’s terms of service. If they are your photo albums though, you should be able to download them back to your computer, right?
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Over the weekend I took a trip through Facebook to look at the various Facebook profile photos that my friends and their friends had posted. The profile photo is probably the single most important component for personal expression. That’s why studying our profile photos will often reveal what is most important to us. Below is a list of 30 profile photos styles that you’ll find most often when exploring your Facebook friends list.
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This evening I attended the fourth D.C. Techcocktail and when I returned I logged into Facebook and an entire album of photos from the night had already been uploaded and tagged appropriately. What I also noticed was a new feature that I hadn’t seen before: the ability to see what other users were tagged within that album. The feature also lets you view the specific photos that any individual has been tagged in.
It’s a small change but for Facebook it’s a huge upgrade given that they are currently the most popular photo sharing site on the web. Facebook rarely makes large upgrades to their site but minor ones like this can make all the difference. If you went to an event, it’s frequent that multiple photos will show up in an album but it’s difficult to single out an individual within the album.
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This is a guest post by Rob Banagale. Rob Banagale is co-founder of Neutrinos, LLC, a digital media company specializing in iPhone application design and consulting based in Boston, MA. Rob advises clients on how they can extend their marketing reach to iPhone users, including the iPhone application publishing process. He has authored a Facebook application and remains interested in the design of social media platforms.
Coolwhip hair dude.
One of the most important parts of a person’s Facebook presence is their profile photo. This is displayed in the top left corner of a page. The photo can be a newly uploaded image or it may be drawn from any of your online albums.
Typically, a profile photo shows someone’s face, and appears in front of the light blue-grey line that connects from the left side of the profile to the left-most tab. View an example of a typical profile page with a normal photo.
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