Owen, AAPL, & Photo Transfer Services (.com)
Advice, Owen Frager, Non-Domain Related October 26th, 2007My apologies to Steve Jobs and his Apple employees for neglecting to mention iPhoto in my previous entry about photo sharing websites who are preserving history. It is especially sad considering I use a Macbook and have the iPhoto icon anchored on my desktop.
My post discussed the value of photo sharing services for preserving history. However, Owen brought up a good point about pre-digital photos:
“Now Elliot takes the matter further with a GREAT post about the value of online photo-services. This still doesn’t take into account all of the analog and paper assets sitting in boxes and albums; like the ones that are too much trouble to sort through and scan that I’ve been wanting to share with you about my past.”- Source: The Frager Factor
So… what do you do about your photographs that can’t be easily uploaded to your computer? The answer?? Photo transfer services! First off, being a domain investor, the first thing I did was search to see if PhotoTransferServices.com was registered. It wasn’t, but it is now!
A few months ago, the Wall Street Journal revewed several photo transfer services and reported on them. DigMyPix.com was one of the companies they reviewed. The company offers a variety of photo transfer services, and the prices are pretty reasonable - much moreso than doing it yourself! It takes a few weeks to receive your photos, but I believe its worth the expense and wait. You can receive your photos on a DVD/CD and you can view them online.
Owen, they have you covered!
October 26th, 2007 at 4:52 pm
Well this is also an argument against generics. You want to trust your memories to a vault that will be there in ten years and that’s the power behind the worlds most trusted brand.
Yahoo has already pissed people off twice by shutting down photoservices and files disappeared. Flickr and other free services get you to sign off on the rights to your own photos and sell them as stock. Plus Apple is a PRIVATE server so Chelsea’s “gone wild” photos won’t show up when HR goes to “google” her after being impressed with her resume.
All “fruit for thought.”
***UPDATED BY ELLIOT***
All very good points indeed. For me, I would probably download all of the pictures from their servers onto my hard drive or a flash drive, but I suppose you’d have the same problems in the event of an emergency. You can’t control things like the company shutting down though.
However, on sites like Webshots and Shutterfly, I believe you can privatize your photos.