I’ve recently fallen in love with Instagram (I am @aka_me there), the photo-sharing tool. It’s managed to put me back in a mood I was last in in the early Flickr years: the pleasure to take photo on a near daily basis pay more attention to my surroundings in search of interesting snaps to share [...]
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Instagram web apps round-up
Posted by pbaron on April 9, 2011
http://blog.aka.me/instagram-web-apps-round-up/
Migration from Gallery to Flickr
For people looking to transfer their photos from Gallery to Flickr, I have spent $200 for you. A nice fellow I met on Flickr, Myrmi, made a nice little Gallery2Flickr script for me. And I have just recently finished uploading all my pictures to Flickr. So here, I share the script with you. Myrmi’s great [...]
Posted by admin on November 14, 2005
http://blog.aka.me/migration-from-gallery-to-flickr/
Upgrading Photo Galleries
Following recent hackings into my photo galleries, I have decided to do a little clean up and upgrade here and there. Updated: Actually not upgrading to Gallery 2, my current Gallery software is so heavily customized that it would take me months to upgrade and make the same mods again… And there isn’t a moblog [...]
Posted by pbaron on September 17, 2005
http://blog.aka.me/upgrading-photo-galleries/
Urban geometrics poetry
[Pallalink] The perspective of “daily scenery”, which is corrected by the grid, has been transferred into another dimension by some simple geometric manipulations, such as repetition for axis, rotation for center etc. Images, which are generated by those manipulations, contain a metaphor that is hidden description for various events; the spectrum of the lost boundary [...]
Posted by admin on August 2, 2004
http://blog.aka.me/urban-geometrics-poetry/
busy annotating Japan
[Jikukan-Poemer] We aim to provide a social information space for local communities or towns. Users can annotate not only text notes but also photos to physical spaces by sending photos and GPS information from their mobile phones. Any users using such mobile phones can annotate information to physical spaces when and where they want to [...]
Posted by admin on April 15, 2004
http://blog.aka.me/busy-annotating-japan/
Moblogging Uptake Weak, Even in Japan. So?
[TheFeature] A new study shows Japanese aren’t moblogging, but they still send snapshots to other handsets. If carriers want people to moblog more, we look at some interface improvement suggestions from around the web. This kind of somewhat shallow and rushed article makes me wanna speak like Andrew Orlowski. I mean, the title is misleading [...]
Posted by admin on April 13, 2004
http://blog.aka.me/moblogging-uptake-weak-even-in-japan-so/
Photo Navi
A new navigation service called PhotoNavi offers to get you to your destination by showing a mix of maps and photos on their mobile site. They claim it is a more natural and easier way to orientate yourself. From what I understand, they offer you a selection of spots in Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba, Kyoto. You [...]
Posted by admin on March 30, 2004
http://blog.aka.me/photo-navi/
robots expo
My pics & details from the International Robots exhibition in Tokyo 2 weeks ago got some press around the web. Thanks for spreading the joint grease. Robots.net Gizmodo.com Roland Piquepaille’s Technology Trends BoingBoing.net Roboticspot.com
Posted by admin on December 9, 2003
http://blog.aka.me/robots-expo/