Demo: “Sharing pictures is still an unsolved problem”

By Paul Kedrosky · September 9, 2004 · ·

Christian Lindhold of Nokia is up on the stage here at DemoMobile right now and he just said, “Sharing of pictures is still an unsolved problem”. He is, of course, pushing Nokia’s new Lifeblog and its just-announced partnership with SixApart, but this sure makes Flickr look awfully timely.

Stewart and Christian need to meet.

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Comments

  1. Stewart Butterfield says:
    September 9, 2004 at 3:58 pm

    We’ve met, actually :) Of course, I haven’t talked to him since we actually go started on Flickr, but it’s a small world. And I’m all for interoperation.

  2. Christian says:
    September 10, 2004 at 9:26 am

    Hi Paul, Thanks for the pointer.
    I am following Stewart and I am a big fan of Flicker, but not an active user, I do actually not know why, I guess it is because my family is not using it…
    Stewart is showing the way in sharing, he is closer to solving the problem than most ;-)
    I still do not think even he has solved it yet…
    CL

  3. Stewart Butterfield says:
    September 10, 2004 at 10:43 pm

    We definitely don’t have it solved – and we probably never will. In five years, there will be a solution, and it will comprise the whole consumer photography/sharing ecosystem. We’ll be an important part of it though ;)

  4. Paul K. says:
    September 12, 2004 at 5:59 pm

    I should start a dating service :-) I’m glad you two could chat a little more about photo sharing.
    More seriously, Flickr is not the end of the path on this subject, but it is an interesting attempt, one that nicely marries server-side technology, syndication, lightweight organizing tools, and meta-tagging. In many ways I think photo-sharing is what blogging would like to be: a speedy mechanism for sharing content and creating communities. Put another way, it’s sure easier to take a picture than to type 125 interesting words.
    As a side note, Christian’s comment on not using Flickr mostly because his family doesn’t use it is an important one. On the one hand it shows the essential viral (oh-oh, that 1990s DFJ word) nature of photo sharing, but it also helps demonstrate the path to ubiquity for such services.