Download - A Day in the Life of my Photos
A Day in the Life of my PhotosRamanujam Parthasarathy
CS 6604 : Personal Information ManagementSpring 2010
Flashback!• Physical Photo Albums
(Till late 90's)
• Stepping into the digital era (Early 2000's)
• Photo management.... What?• Click, transfer and forget!
Cameras
1998-------------2004------------2008
Recent Past• Undergrad in India (2004-2008)
• Windows XP desktop• 40 GB hard disk• No defined organizing style• Few thousand pictures• Flickr for sharing/online storage• Multiple accounts to cut costs• Partial backups in CDs/HDDs• Hard-disk to hard-disk transfer using SATA cables
One Day...
... Lesson Learnt!
Folder Based Org
Picasa for MacOne-click Web Sync
Device Organization
Macbook Pro Windows/Ubuntu
Dropbox
Local HDDWebserver
iPhone
Online Organization• Social Networks
• Facebook - Folder/event• Orkut - Folder/event• Twitpic (Twitter) - Unorganized
• Web Albums• Picasa Web - Folder/event• Flickr - Unorganized
Privacy Based Org
20 pictures
Same album/folder containing same pictures
100 pictures 50 pictures
To Ponder! Change in organization manner
• Size of the pictures (200kb per pic in 2002 --> 2MB per pic)
•Cost of storage •Free- Dropbox/PicasaWeb•WebServer/Cloud - very economical
•Better photo organization tools•Change in devices/cameras/phones.
Thoughts? Comments?