Fotothing's Fotothing

an easy link to the Fotothing fotothing would be handy...

5 Teeny weeny (say 50 x 30?) thumbs of friends fotothings layed out vertically below the navigation links on the left hand side of the page.. Not to be too specific or anything! :)

Who, What, Where, When, Why?

Keep the full-resolution upload stored behind the scenes. Then you can implement two totally keen features:

1) Click to zoom in. I have this on my personal photography pages and it's a lot of fun.

2) Partner with someone like Shutterfly to allow people to buy prints. This would be an optional setting by the photographer - whether to allow it at all, and how much to charge above cost.

And another feature that would totally rock but would take more work: TiVo-style thumbs up / thumbs down buttons feeding into a collaborative filtering system for finding new photographers and pictures you will like.

I think something like this is the only long term solution to the Brazilian problem that fotolog and orkut have run into. Collaborative filtering isn't a single global best/worst rating system, it's a separate personalized metric for each viewer. The Brazilians, and people who are into puffy-lipped camgirls, will settle into a mutual adoration cloud, while those with other interests will find each other and form their own affinity areas.

Back when I was running the unofficial reverse friends database for fotolog I did a test implementation of this idea, and it worked great. Didn't even take very much CPU power.

And: are you going to do anything equivalent to fotolog's group logs?

All three of these URLs go to my page:

http://www.fotothing.com/fotothing.php?id=jef

http://www.fotothing.com/jef

http://www.fotothing.com/jef/

They all work with the &imgid= stuff too. You ought to pick one form and use it consistently.

Oh, and shouldn't URLs posted here in the comment area be active? Don't allow full HTML, that's a huge exploit hole, just scan for strings that look like a URL and wrap them in your own HTML.

jef knows what he's talking about. He's watched and suggested and been hero and also ignored by fotolog. Personally, i think he has a keen eye for the social/technologicality of what's going on and besides all of my silly suggestions have been suggested (as of the moment).