PhotoSpace Blog | Sharing Photos and Hot Pics

I was thinking the other day about how great it would be to get ‘real’ pictures of food options at some of today’s best restaurants to get an idea of whether I really wanted to order it. I mean, the photos on menus at the chain restaurants are clearly touched up versions of what actually comes out of the kitchen. And the sloppy plates of food on the windows of most fast Chinese and Mexican food restaurants are hardly appetizing.

I guess that is one of the benefits of a site like Photospace. You can start your own photo blog or photo album dedicated to the food you have ordered and eaten. You can leave comments on whether it was worth it and recommend it or help us all avoid it. It’s really easy these days with cameras built into your phones and simple programs for downloading and posting them to your favorite photosharing site.

Have a favorite meal you’d love to share with your friends? Have a horrible experience that you want to make sure no one duplicates? Post it on your profile page or comment here.

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Photo sharing networks are gateways into visual information.  These social gatherings help us keep in touch, share our lives and explore new things. That’s the basics.  But how can you and I best use the vast amount of photo information we have access to now that these social networks are at our fingertips?  Immediately, I thought of Orlando.

Why Orlando?

Well, I used to travel a lot for my previous job.  Part of that travel was choosing hotels and meeting sights for client events.  Based on the west coast, I had to make these choices 90% of the time without ever seeing the space. Most hotel sites give you only pictures of the parts of the hotels that THEY want you to see. These photos, in my opinion, can only be half-heartedly trusted.  What I really would have wanted in those situations are photos from some random traveler who stayed their for a weekend and experienced the room, the food and the service.  That is where photo sharing can help.

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Scott Cohn at the Tower of Pisa

The Italian mafia is getting glorified on Facebook and this worries the Italian authorities.  Over the last few months thousands of people have joined Facebook pro-Mafia groups that glorify mob bosses Salvatore “Toto” Riina and his successor Bernardo Provenzano.  One side says having these groups damages Facebook, another says this is open discussion and free speech. Facebook has taken down a few of the Mafia-praising content because it violated their terms of use but many groups are still flourishing. 

Ultimately what the authorities are worried about is that these groups are more than just a few kids with a fascination with the mob but rather a new mechanism for gangsters to pass information. In the end, nothing criminal has been reported so there’s not much they can do but watch and see. 

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