Digital Photo Printing

Free Digital Photo Frames

April 5th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed

With the introduction of high speed connections directly to homes, it is possible to share pictures and movies without going through a central service. The advantages of peer to peer sharing are reduced hosting costs and no loss of control to a central service.

The downsides are that the consumer does not get the benefit of offsite backup, consumer Internet Service Providers often prohibit the serving of content both by contract and through the implementation of network filtering, and there are few quality guarantees for free digital photo frames recipients.

However, there are typically no direct consumer costs beyond the purchase of the initial software, provided the consumer already has a computer with the free digital photo frames at home on a high speed connection.

Software that can come in free or commercial use can be found on the Internet to generate your own free digital photo frames albums, usually to share photos on the web, using a home web server. This in general is for advanced users that want to have a better control over the look and feel of their web free digital photo frames, and the actual servers they are going to run on, making sure that the final product is looking the way they really planed it.

Photo sharing sites usually propose several ways to classify images. Most sites propose at least a taxonomy where images can be grouped within a directory-like structure in so-called “galleries”. Some sites also allow users to classify images using tags to build a folksonomy. Depending on the restrictions on the set of users allowed to tag a single document and the set of tags available to describe the document, one speaks about narrow and broad folksonomies. A folksonomy is broad when there is no restriction on the set of taggers and available tags. When there are limitations, the folksonomy is called narrow. An example of narrow folksonomy is Flickr, an example of broad folksonomy is Atpic.

Atpic introduces a mechanism coupling taxonomy and folksonomy where tags associated to galleries and artists are cascadated to the galleries and artist’s pictures. Broad taxonomies have interesting properties like the power law. Shareware authors often use file hosting services to serve their software. The inherent problem with free downloads is the huge bandwidth cost that are auto implied. These hosts also offer additional services for the authors to use like allowing all kinds of statistics or other marketing features.