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Hibernation status

I didn’t really find the time so far to continue my work on Atomique and I probably won’t be able to in the near future. The last thing that I added is a minor extension, that includes the geocoding of photos as shown on this demo page.
As Atomique is not the only project aimed at […]

Technical demo at ACM Multimedia 2007

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 […]

Call for action: Let’s decentralize photo sharing!

Shameless 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 […]

We have a mailinglist (update)

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 […]

Decentralized and Distributed Photo Sharing on the Web

Yesterday I have handed in the mini-thesis covering my internship project: Decentralized and Distributed Photo Sharing on the Web (PDF) and this is the abstract:
Tagging-based communities allowing users to share, organize, and explore resources such as photos and bookmarks have pioneered the combination of social networking and resource sharing. Formerly rather tiresome activities such as […]

Welcome to Atomique

I have spent the last six months in Santiago de Chile at the Web Research Center doing an internship about distributed social software with Javier Velasco as one of my supervisors. Both of us are aficionados of photography while being also interested in usability and social aspects of the web. With Javier’s support i have […]