Jeff Clavier's Buzzlog

Check this out people: your favorite photosharing community has brought to you a lot of new cool stuff over the past few weeks:
Journals, so that you can publish your thoughts and personal diaries alongside your photos. And you can add links to pictures with just a few clicks.
Book and poster printing, in partnership with our friends at QOOP A new search interface: keyword search and a powerful people search. The keyword search is also integrated in your home page (below your list of galleries).Presence: you can now see who in your friends list in online.
Many more functionality to come, as well as the much expected overhaul of the back-end server infrastructure.

And if you are in LA on Sept 1st, don't miss the Buzznet Party (the first 300 Buzzneters showing up will get a free admission).

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MC Brown got a flash adapter for his Nokia 6680 (or his 6630, or - I just don't remember - he always gets the new toys), and had to use it for some pics.

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal (who also organizes the great Reboot conference) launches a new photosharing site at Innovate!Europe: 23people. It is functionally very similar to Buzznet and Flickr, has a very nice UI and will provide unlimited capacity for 29 EUR/year.
I should get an account soon to play with it, but it is great to see the quality of the product new entrants are putting in the market.

Great picture taken by Russ: me taking a picture of Marc presenting the new Buzznet mobile application.
Test: http://www.naturestapestry.com/geomag.html

Marc during his half of the presentation.

You are all familiar with the gallery of HIM, the Finnish Goth band that uses Buzznet to collect fan pictures.
This morning I spotted that a $*(%$ spammer had inundated the gallery with fake Rolex spam. The whole point of the gallery is to let fan post their pictures freely. We fixed it, but it would be a shame to have to change the posting policy because of these abuses.
And this was in the middle of a Buzznet presentation. As I said: "We're now mainstream, we are being spammed".
Duh.

I was called last night at 9PM last night to replace Caterina Fake from Flickr at a media conference, and talk about the issue of media and disintermediation. I took this picture as I was on the panel to demonstrate the immediacy of photocommunication, and why pictures are so powerful to share a moment with one's network.
You may recognize Steve Gillmor, Ross Mayfied, Scott Rafer.