The network effect of photo sharing

If you're like me, you've taken countless videos and photos during the holidays.  Unfortunately, if you're like me, these photos are likely scattered across a number of camera phones, memory cards, digital cameras, photo-sharing services and old computers. A year or two ago, I wouldn't have guessed at how much messier our digital mess would get. Today, not only are we trying to organize our photos and videos, we're trying to organize the photos and videos friends want to share with us. I guess it's what's to be expected in this collaborative and open-source Internet world.

Consider this: People take about 2,000 digital photos a year, according to Lars Perkins, who founded Picasa, which was bought by Google. Digital camera sales topped 50 million in 2003, according to PMA Marketing Research. So, if you've been putting your photos online since then, you'd have roughly 6,000 photos to manage by today.

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I'm testing out various services to see which one offers the easiest solution for me to share my videos from my Treo camera phone and digital camera. So far, my blogs pretty effective. The only problem is that this blog is pretty public. I'm sharing these personal videos that I took at a recent Rolling Stones concert as part of my commentary this weekend on MarketWatch's business magazine show. 

Mick Jagger at the Rolling Stones concert in San Francisco

More of the Stones

Comments

[Mike]

Bambi, what happened between the time you were promoting GOOG through Robert Schactner and now? It seems you are now on the "bash GOOG" bandwagon. Or have you figured out that taking the contrarian and more controversial stance is better publicity? Don't be a Cramer like flip flopper...be true to yourself and your readers (whomever they are, because i have been completely turned off by folks with agendas based on how the wind blows).

[Bambi]

I'm not a Google basher! If I were to be critical toward my children would I be against them?

[Fabian]

Bambi, i enjoy reading your articles but this one i think is a little off target. I think any company dealing with China should take what the Chinese government gives them for now and hopefully they can help bring more liberties to the chinese people in time.
Googles only other choice is to be banned from China altogether and that certainly doesn't help shareholder value.