At the end of September 2007 Atomique will be presented as a tech demo at the ACM conference on Multimedia in Augsburg, Germany. Check out the preprint version of the accompanying 2 page paper. At the conference we will show how Atomique can be used to organize, explore, and share photos in groups. The demo […]
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Call for action: Let’s decentralize photo sharing!
Published by June 25th, 2007 in Announcements. 1 CommentShameless crosspost from the Flickr forums FlickrCentral discussion
Why move to another social data silo where censorship can happen again? It is time to think about decentralized alternatives to Flickr & Co. While the blogosphere shows that it is possible, we can also do it with photo sharing.
Check out the open source project Atomique. In the […]
This is another release for you. The main improvement of this version is that photo groups now also aggregate tags. They are displayed in a nifty tag cloud (see above) and you can browse group photos by those tags. To install this release anew, check out the install procedure and the known issues.
Remember: Atomique […]
To better coordinate progress, discuss things and tackle problems i have started a mailinglist over at the big G. It is open and everybody can join. So feel free and pitch in into the discourse about Atomique and decentralized social software in general.
Update: Even though it doesn’t seem like it, but you don’t need a […]
On my personal blog i have ranted* more than once about centralized communities where censorship is technically possible. After we have seen how YouTube deletes thousands of videos due to copyright claims now another Web 2.0 prime example gets bad karma from its community. Flickr employed censorship-like mechanisms filtering photos flagged as ‘moderate’ or ‘restricted’ […]
The conference is going and very interesting. Check out my posts covering WWW2007 on my personal blog.
I am very happy to say that I will be attending this year’s World Wide Web conference in Banff (Canada) from May 8-12 as a student volunteer. This is _the_ conference about where the Web is going and where we want it to be – so I am really happy to be able to attend […]
Today I (successfully) defended the internship thesis about decentralized photo sharing with a presentation in front of the Information Retrieval group and some co-students. The slides (PDF) that are mostly in German feature some new graphics depicting the way groups work in Atomique.
Pyr0 (aka Valentin Laube) did a nice visual comparison between two different patterns for social software. On the one hand the service oriented approach where users are scattered around separate communities and on the other hand the rather decentralized approach where users can control the way they interact with other users on the basis of […]
As yesterday’s release did feature some bugs, i have just re-released it with fixes for photo sharing in groups and tagging with spaces. Check it out. The installer should make setting it up almost a breeze.