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Posted at 12:36 pm on Wednesday, May 13, 2009, in Technology, and tagged apple, facebook, flickr, google, tumblr, twitter.
One more thought on Twitter before I am shown the exit… If it helps people communicate, god bless. And I mean that for all sorts of web services that are widely available to everyone and anyone.
The Facebook photo application is horrible. The best photo sharing service is clearly Flickr (and for most users, the free account accommodates them; however the $25/year pro account is well worth the upgrades*). Flickr easily beats out Shutterfly or whatever Kodak offers, and mightily trumps Google’s Picasa Web Albums. There is no comparison. However. If Facebook’s photo application gets you to share your photos, use it. People want to see your photos. The least you can do — if you are willing — is share them.
Same with Twitter. If Twitter allows you to update your friends and family that you are traveling through southeast Asia or Africa, then it is a godsend. People do want to know this stuff (that is obvious), and if a poorly-designed web interface like Twitter (or one of it’s many well-designed clients) gets you to share that information, great. Use it. If blogging is too much, even a tumblelog on Tumblr, then tweet away. (I would suggest keeping your tweets private, but that is just me, and that really depends on whether or not the people you want to read and be informed are Twitter users. If they are not, then private tweeting doesn’t make much sense, unless you’ve built a hack, which I have, but that is another story for another day, or maybe it is worth only a tweet.)
And if the iPhone and its myriad capabilities and limitless apps are the only way for you to share on Twitter, or Flickr, or Facebook, then yes, the iPhone is the solution to the world’s greatest problem, because there are people in this world that do want to know what you are doing, and you owe it to them.
Share, but please do it safely.
* Pay services are the future of the web. You will soon be asked to shell out $10 per month for unlimited Facebook features (this is a guess), and if you truly utilize the service, you will pay for it, because it will be worth it (just like the bills for your cellphone and cable tv, and increasingly, just like the bills for your hosting and storage). Sites will always have limited free accounts (if only to get you in the door), but in order to sustain growth, fees must be assessed. This is inevitable.
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