A Day in the Life of my PhotosRamanujam Parthasarathy

CS 6604 : Personal Information ManagementSpring 2010

Flashback!• Physical Photo Albums

(Till late 90's)

• Stepping into the digital era (Early 2000's)

• Photo management.... What?• Click, transfer and forget!

Cameras

1998-------------2004------------2008

Recent Past• Undergrad in India (2004-2008)

• Windows XP desktop• 40 GB hard disk• No defined organizing style• Few thousand pictures• Flickr for sharing/online storage• Multiple accounts to cut costs• Partial backups in CDs/HDDs• Hard-disk to hard-disk transfer using SATA cables

One Day...

... Lesson Learnt!

Folder Based Org

Picasa for MacOne-click Web Sync

Device Organization

Macbook Pro Windows/Ubuntu

Dropbox

Local HDDWebserver

iPhone

Online Organization• Social Networks

• Facebook - Folder/event• Orkut - Folder/event• Twitpic (Twitter) - Unorganized

• Web Albums• Picasa Web - Folder/event• Flickr - Unorganized

Privacy Based Org

20 pictures

Same album/folder containing same pictures

100 pictures 50 pictures

To Ponder! Change in organization manner

• Size of the pictures (200kb per pic in 2002 --> 2MB per pic)

•Cost of storage •Free- Dropbox/PicasaWeb•WebServer/Cloud - very economical

•Better photo organization tools•Change in devices/cameras/phones.

Thoughts? Comments?