Leander KahneyTuesday, 10 January 2006
Except for Intel-based hardware, the big thing here at Macworld seems to be syndicating photos over the net -- or Photocasting.
Not only did Steve Jobs showcase a new photocasting feature in iPhoto on Tuesday, on Monday ex-Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki introduced the Mac version of a new photocasting application called FilmLoop.
Photocasting isn't new -- several photoblogs offer syndicated snaps via RSS, as do photo-sharing websites like Flickr and Buzznet. But until now, few desktop applications made it easy to download pictures from a camera and push them automatically to friends' and relatives' machines.
In his keynote speech, Jobs demonstrated how photos and galleries in a new version of iPhoto can be pushed, or photocast, to subscribers' computers.
"This is podcasting -- for photos," Jobs said.
Instead of publishing to the web, photos are delivered automatically to subscriber's computers. In iPhoto, the user creates a photocast album. All the pictures added to, or deleted from, this album are automatically pushed to subscriber's iPhoto libraries, where they show up in a gallery in the source list.
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