Smugmug/Facebook Integration?
JDSX
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Although I couldn't find any threads on exactly this topic I'm sure they're out there. I've been with SmugMug a while now but am increasingly encountering difficulties reconciling between Facebook and SmugMug. Sure, I have the Facebook apps for SmugMug like SmugFoto and Simple Mug but those are really just stopgap measures. The real issue is in the social tagging and sharing. Today I encountered a very simple example. My friend had one set of photos from an event and I had another set from that same event. He posted his on Facebook (as that's all he uses) and tagged everyone in it. We all saw ourselves tagged, it showed in our feeds, and they will remain connected to our profiles. I uploaded my set to SmugMug and, other than a news feed entry from Simple Mug, had no way to merge or reference back to my friend's album or tag the people in it.
SmugMug is obviously the better storage system but my personal community is elsewhere. I'm slowly being forced to decide which is more important when I'd obviously prefer the best of both. Is there anything in the works here that would address it?
SmugMug is obviously the better storage system but my personal community is elsewhere. I'm slowly being forced to decide which is more important when I'd obviously prefer the best of both. Is there anything in the works here that would address it?
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We've got a couple bugs in it being fixed as we speak.
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If Facebook expands its own video/photo quality and functionality -- which is inevitable -- I think SmugMug and Flickr will take a significant hit. You'll lose a lot of your non-pro subscribers like me. It's not completely avoidable but it can be diminished if you integrate with Facebook in advance. I spend $60/year on SmugMug in order to have a place to store high quality photos/videos in an organized manner. In order to steal me away, Facebook would only have to offer better quality photos (they already allow 20min 720p videos), the ability to organize with sub-folders, and the ability to store videos inside those folders instead of separately as they are now. That's it. Facebook albums already have sufficient granularity for security.
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Is this one of bugs you are working on?
Thanks
"Never leave home without a camera"
Thanks to whoever worked on the fix.
"Never leave home without a camera"
The two galleries I've tried this with tonight are:
http://www.moose135photography.com/American-Airpower-Musuem/Berlin-Airlift-C-54/9463087_ksn2N#634980227_bWNdt
http://www.moose135photography.com/American-Airpower-Musuem/B-25H-Barbie-III/9464246_VzNBG/1/635130151_dudmS
http://www.moose135photography.com
I agree entirely. I'm finding my direct competition are posting & tagging on FB and I'm getting left behind with a seemingly empty FB stream because my photos are hosted at Smugmug. Sure I put links and send 'em over but they don't comment there and I can't tag directly in Smugmug so I'm not getting any referral as I would on FB.
I see that Flickr has now added tagging on their photos. Would be great if we could somehow tag our FB friends (inside Smugmug) and it appears in their/our streams and points back to our Smugmug images etc.
Just a thought (don't even know if it's possible) .. albeit a very handy & rewarding one!
If you are posting your photos on Facebook, kiss the rights to your Intellectual Property (IP) good-bye. If you have never read Facebook's TOS, take a peek at section two. If you are a Pro, you work too hard to relinquish these rights. I offer this as a point of information.
From Facebook's TOS:
"Never leave home without a camera"
Thank you BELPhotos, I am aware of this hence why you'll find my name and website clearly posted over the photos. If someone wishes to pass my images around or so forth at least it is giving me further exposure & referral.
For the free network tapping I gain through tagging clients in Facebook, I am happy to put my images there (watermarked of course) and allow anyone to market & spread the word for me.
I've learnt to embrace the changing tides & use them to my advantage instead of being left behind. Each one has to decide their comfort thresholds.
In saying that however, it still does not answer my question on how to correctly code incorporating the Smugmug badge or slideshows into FBML. If anyone is able to help, I will be sincerely appreciative.
Thanks in advance.
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BTW, I use the site it links to to monitor the kids who are screen-capping my images. if they don't friend up, then don't get a password..
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and I do believe its true.. that there are roads left in both of our shoes..
I shoot nightlife regularly as well as car events. I'm not even on FB, and the partyiers find my images because they're second to none. I'll do simple marketing of the gallery like post a link on a local nightlife forum, the dj/band website, the venue, but that's about it. I allow external linking, but not right click, so people will link to the gallery in FB. It also helps when the band/dj/venue helps spread the word by putting a link on their FB, but this rarely happens.
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Yes, I'd also expect them to charge for the extra functionality but I'd happily pay it.
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I already agreed that FB would have to store the original quality photo as part of this speculative expansion of their service along with other easily-added features. I also wouldn't be too worried about FB's ability to back things up properly. Last I checked they're up to 30,000 servers worldwide.
I don't know how you can say that FB will never be ad-free. It's not unheard of to exclude ads from premium sections of a site.
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