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Wanted: Social media scrapbook service

January 6, 2010

Our parents and grandparents recorded their memories in baby books, year books, photo albums and Super 8. We have Twitter, Flickr, Facebook and blogs. Our tools have the virtue of immediacy: 140-character updates and cell phone cameras make it quick and easy to add to our collections, and the web enables real-time sharing. Until Apple [...]

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Feature set for a social media scrapbook

January 15, 2010

Last week I wrote about the non-existent web application that is currently at the top of my wishlist: a social media scrapbooking service. But I have looked into a bunch of photobook and blogging services, and nothing quite fits the bill. And after a bunch of “have you tried…” conversations, I realize I need to [...]

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Web services and software for creating family albums and scrapbooks

January 16, 2010

I’ve been writing about my wish for a family scrapbook solution that would create photobooks that use tweets as captions, and I’ve described the features I’d like. Fuelled mostly by incredulity (surely something like this must exist) I’ve worked my way through lots of options. Commercial album creation services from Shutterfly, Apple, Lulu, Qoop, Scrapblog [...]

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