Your Digital Life

It’s not necessarily a popular position, but I believe Google+ is the better social network when it comes to sharing photos (I explain why here) and last week, Google made some additional changes to the service that makes a good thing even better. Here are the highlights. Many features that Google has introduced on its [...]

Today, our photos are increasingly scattered between hard drives, camera memory cards, phones, social networks and the cloud. A new software program from Nero, dubbed NeroKwik promises to help — at least with your photos stored on social networks. NeroKwik is an app for your iPhone or Android phone that connects to both Facebook and [...]

When asked why he robbed banks, Willie Sutton reportedly replied, “because that’s where the money is.” If pressed, that’s probably how we would justify posting photos on Facebook: that’s where the people are. And it’s true — with over a billion users, Facebook can lay claim to an amazing reach. Every day, tens of millions [...]

There’s no better way to tell a story today than by combining photos and videos and with Photobucket’s new “Photobucket Stories” feature the story-teller in all of us has a much easier way to accomplish this. Photobucket Stories allows you to easily create and collaborate on living stories by inviting your friends and family to [...]

Let’s say it up front: Facebook is a great place to share photos. Don’t take my word for it – every day, millions of photos are uploaded and shared on the world’s most popular social network. Who are we to argue with that? But just because Facebook is a popular destination for your photos doesn’t [...]

One of the treasures that has been lost in the digital world of photography is the mystery behind not knowing exactly what you captured with your camera until after you developed the photos. Hipstamatic now has an app dubbed Disposable that is attempting to bring the excitement of the unknown back to some extent. Billed [...]

If you’re like most people, New Year’s Eve may include a little letting loose with friends and family. Chances are, someone will have a camera and some of those party pics will find their way to the world’s most popular social network. Writing in CNN, Alene Dawson offers some useful “Facebook photo etiquette” to ensure [...]

Very, according to a new study from ComScore. Mashable has a video recap that sums it up nicely:

Facebook has reached such a scale (roughly 500 million users) that studying behavior patterns of its users is more than just a passing curiosity. If you’ve ever wondered what people are doing on Facebook – and why – this infographic via TechnoBuffalo does a nice job laying it out.  

The Google+ social network now features automatic face recognition in its photo app. Tagging photos can be a lot of work, Google says, “so today we’re launching Find My Face, an easier way to tag photos of yourself and your friends.” Google+ will “prompt people you know to tag your face when it appears in photos,” the [...]