*While supplies last.
Remember that offer of 10 free MOO MiniCards? Well, it’s now open to all Fotolog members, not just Gold Camera accounts!
Just click the “Get printed MiniCards of your photos” link under your main photo, and then click “Make a 10 Pack,” and follow the directions. It’s quick, easy, and very fun.
Check out the MOO Cards Group to see the cards your fellow Fotolog members are creating, and then when you receive your cards, which should be within 10 business days, you can share yours with the world too.
Have fun. And thanks for being part of the Fotolog family!
Five years ago, on May 23, 2002, heif and spike uploaded the first “live” photos on Fotolog.
from heif
from mike
It wasn’t the first time heif (aka Scott Heiferman, Fotolog Co-founder) had posted a photo on the Web—he had been doing his picture of the day on his own Web site for a couple years. But, along the way he had a key insight: posting your photos online doesn’t just have to be a publishing thing—it can be a social thing.
And that’s why we built Fotolog.
And that’s why, 5 years later, more than 8 million members have shared nearly a quarter billion photos. Fotolog isn’t just a tool for archiving and cataloging all of your photos. It’s a place where you share your photos with your friends and their friends (and their friends), and end up connecting with new people from around the world. Fotolog isn’t just about pictures… it’s about the conversations that happen when people show up every day to share a little window into their lives.
It’s been a fantastic five years: Fotolog has really come a long way.
From that first, super simple homepage to where we are now, showcasing recent and interesting photos from members in every country around the planet.
(Click image to see a full-size version.)
From the uncertainty of those early days when we were never really sure if we’d be able to keep up with the insane growth, the Fotolog technology and team have really evolved. We now have a great team of 25 people who have built (and rebuilt and rebuilt) a really solid foundation to keep Fotolog humming increasingly more quickly and increasingly more reliably. And, possibly best of all, because we’re not putting out fires every day (boy I’m glad those days are over), the team is spending more and more time on what comes next.
We’re having more fun than we’ve ever had working on new product features (and improvements to what’s already there). There’s some really neat stuff coming down the pipe: Fotohunt photo contests should (finally) be launching in the next couple of weeks. We’re working on expanded member profiles, additional page customization tools and what we think will prove to be some very juicy search tools—all ways to make it easier and more fun to connect with the people and photos that are most interesting to you.
So stay tuned. And thank you for being part of the Fotolog community—when I say Fotolog is as much about people as it is about photos, the people I’m talking about are you. We look forward to checking out your photos and getting to know you for another 5 years.
Adam Seifer
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Fotolog Co-founder
By now you’ve probably noticed the link under your photos that says “Get printed MiniCards of your photos.” If you’re like me, you’ve even clicked that link, followed the quick and easy directions, and ordered MiniCards of your photos. Wasn’t that cool?!
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, it’s time to get with the program! Fotolog MiniCards are made by MOO, a great little printing company that is dedicated to helping you share your photos in the offline world. MOO’s MiniCards are about half the size of a normal business card and printed on nice heavy stock, with a matte finish. They come in packs of 100, and you choose and crop your photos directly out of your Fotolog archive. You can mix it up however you like—100 different cards, 10 each of 10 different images, or anything in between. Then you decide what you want to print on the back of the cards—name, URL, email, title of photo, etc.—and that’s it. Click purchase, and you’ll have your box of MOO cards within about 10 business days. A box of 100 MiniCards costs $19.99 (€14.99; £9.99). Shipping is a flat rate of $4.99 (€3.99; £2.99) to anywhere in the world.
From personal experience, I can tell you that the Fotolog MiniCard ordering process was quick and easy, they arrived in a pleasantly surprising 7 days, and they look beautiful. (Click on the image below to see a larger view of my own cards.) The printing is expert, and the color fidelity and clarity are really good—better than I imagined they would turn out.
And the news gets even better: In celebration of Fotolog’s Fifth Anniversary (which is this week!), we are giving Gold Camera members one free set of 10 MiniCards. Starting tomorrow, May 23, simply click on that link under your main photo while you’re logged in to your Gold Camera account and follow the directions. (The give-away will continue through May 31.) It’s just our “small” way of saying thank you for supporting Fotolog, and being a part of the greatest photo-sharing community in the world.
THANKS!
Want to display your Fotolog thumbnails outside of Fotolog—on your blog or social network home page—so visitors immediately see your latest and greatest shots and can easily click through to your Fotolog page? Yeah, we heard you and we thought it was a good idea too. Fotolog’s latest feature, called the FotoWidget, lets you do just that: create a FotoWidget of your Recent Photos and add it to your own personal blog. (The FotoWidget is now in Beta; the ability to make a Friends & Favorites FotoWidget is in the works too.) Check out The Daily F’log’s own FotoWidget in the sidebar on the right.
A vertical FotoWidget with tiny thumbnails, actual size.
Creating your own FotoWidget is easy: while logged in, go to the FotoWidget page (this link will be on the Fotolog Home Page) and customize the way your FotoWidget will look. As you can see from the examples here, your widget can be either horizontal or vertical, and you can choose to display from one to six recent photos. You have the choice of two thumbnail sizes—100×75 (normal Fotolog thumbnail size) and a tiny 50×37 size. You also have full control over the colors of the text, link, background, and border, with two expanded color palettes and even a color slider to create your own shades.
Once you’ve set all your options, copy the code and paste it into the appropriate file or section of your blog or home page. (Note: some sites don’t allow javascript code.) The thumbnails will update automatically when you upload new photos to Fotolog. Try it out, and let us know what you think!
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I know you’re really busy, but have you noticed the little orange icon and link below everyone’s Recent Photos? Hallelujah, RSS feeds are here. “Cool,” you say, “but… what are you talking about?” Well, for those of you who haven’t explored them yet, an RSS feed—RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication—is a tool you can use to be alerted to new content appearing on Web sites, blogs, and now, Fotolog. So if you’re online working on ten different things, with no time to surf Fotolog, you can still check your RSS feeds, which update automatically when new photos are posted. Your Fotolog RSS feeds could essentially become a brand-new F/F list, one you can see without even being on Fotolog. (You can also add your Friends and Favorites list as a feed, allowing you to see the six most recent F/Fs, just like on your Fotolog page.)
You can use Fotolog’s RSS feed in two ways.
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