It’s pretty significant for Microsoft (and definitely a big deal for Aviary), but you’ll have to indulge me in a bit of nerding out to hear why.

In a nutshell, a new platform is only as good as the apps that populate it. And right now, Windows 8 is starting from scratch, with Microsoft courting the thousands of developers out there creating programs for other tried-and-true platforms like Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. So to convince developers to build apps for yet another platform like Windows 8 isn’t an easy sale.

But Aviary’s SDK release may make it just a little less difficult. Instead of developers building photo-editing software from scratch into their applications, picking up Aviary’s tool kit allows developers to quickly integrate and deploy a host of photo-centric tools into their apps, cutting out some of the heavy lifting and freeing up resources to do other things.

So, in theory, the less time it takes a developer to write a Windows 8 app, the more likely they are to do it. That’s a win for Microsoft (if enough developers do it, that is), and it’s certainly a win for Aviary — if the company can coax said coders into using its tool kits.

A number of larger companies already swear by Aviary’s wares — Twitter, Flickr and Photobucket, to name a few — instituting the company’s software in mainstream, consumer-facing applications. That’s a pretty ringing endorsement for Aviary to use in its sales pitch.

Aviary’s Windows 8 SDK will launch with six partners to get things going. Now all Microsoft has to do is hope that the increased set of tools encourages developers to create more apps for the platform.

Not Oskar Kalmaru, the Swedish co-founder of the Memoto life-blogging camera. Kalmaru and the company’s CEO, Martin Kallstrom, brought the tiny device with them to Austin and have been taking a photo every 30 seconds since last Thursday.

This wearable square device got its early buzz late last year, when it hit crowdfunding site Kickstarter. The five-megapixel, eight gigabyte camera has a two-day battery, an accelerometer, a compass and built-in GPS.

Memoto raised more than $550,000 through Kickstarter to fund production of the $279 camera. It is currently set to ship at the end of April or early May. It’s being manufactured in Taiwan, after early samples were made in Stockholm.

When I asked Kalmaru today how many SXSW photos he now has stored on his laptop, he said it was around 10,000, which would take up 14 gigabytes of memory (Kalmaru cleared the camera during the festival).

Considering the frequency of shots, plenty of these were off-center, blurry, dark or black photos. Others were cool images of SXSWers crossing Sixth Street in Austin, with the sun bouncing off buildings and crisp blue skies in the background.

That’s where the Memoto software comes in, Kalmaru says: The subscription-based, photo-storage service smartly organizes your photos in a timeline, and chooses the best photo from a moment or an event. Tapping on that photo in the Memoto mobile app will reveal the collective photos from that event, but they’re not all cluttering your feed.

But Memoto could also face a privacy firestorm when the wearable camera does come on the market. One of the use cases Kalmaru gave me for the camera was meeting your significant other for the first time. Most people don’t have a memento or photo from this event; with this camera, you could. A better use case for the camera might be when you lean over to look at your new child for the first time, or when you’re on vacation and seeing a new landscape.

However, it’s hard to imagine a person you’ve just met would be comfortable with their photo being taken every 30 seconds. It could be terribly obtrusive during business meetings. And I’m guessing even friends you know really well would sometimes ask that you ditch the camera.

Kalmaru said Memoto has carefully considered this and has made the camera “pretty visible,” despite its small size. “We didn’t design it like it was some sort of spy camera. That was really important for us,” he said.

He also said the final version of the camera — which currently doesn’t have an on/off button — will turn off when you place the Memoto face down.

Which might be a good thing to do as you’re headed into the bathroom.

That has been the theme of Facebook’s revamped News Feed unveiled on Thursday morning — a heavy emphasis on fuller photos, larger check-ins and location displays, and an overall re-think of the way people experience the ceaseless barrage of information flowing through the feed. (Expect it to trickle out on the Web today, and across the mobile apps in the coming weeks.)

The company’s conceit for the new look takes a media-focused tack: “We want to give everyone in the world the best personalized newspaper in the world,” Zuckerberg said at an event at Facebook’s Menlo Park campus on Thursday. And design director Julie Zhuo said that this newspaper is populated with “stories,” or Facebook’s redesigned take on the status update.

But forget all of that. This redesign is about visuals, not the bland, black-and-white text that makes up the stuff of status updates. Photos are full-bleed. Check-ins and “Liking” brands puts more prominence on the photography and less on the words. You can even sort by different categories, including exclusively updates featuring only snapshots. (You’re able to sort by other types of content — like music — as well.)

This is all not entirely surprising. According to a source I spoke with recently, Facebook News Feed engineers see the most engagement from users on photography and visuals that appear inside the News Feed. And every time Facebook tweaks the algorithm to show the best content that users engage with the most, photos still float to being the most prominent inside the feed — so much so that Facebook must tweak the algorithm to show more text-based status update content, even if that isn’t the stuff people want to look at the most.

Zuckerberg acknowledges the importance of photos, and the ways people use them. “The types of stories that we tell when we communicate with a photo as opposed to text are completely different,” he said onstage.

But Facebook’s actions make clear that this is the direction it has gone in for some time. Look at the massive $730 million dollar buy of Instagram. Look at the slow “Pinterestification” of certain topics. Look at how much attention photos have received on the phone.

One outlier — how will Facebook integrate Instagram, the quintessential “visual” app of the day? Zuckerberg said it’ll be treated like any other app in the ecosystem.

Which is sort of curious, considering another one of today’s themes was “consistency” across platforms. Facebook’s News Feed redesign looks the same on the Web interface as it does on mobile now. But Instagram has a standalone Web site and continues to have a mobile app separate from the main Facebook app. Not sure how that’ll sync up across Facebook as a whole.

It’s a bit funny, too, if you look across the aisle at one of Facebook’s main competitors: Twitter. The microblogging service also revamped its product in a major way this year, adding more prominence to photos, videos and story links from outsiders. It also launched redesigned iPad and mobile apps, aiming for a “consistent” design across all platforms. Even Google+ is heavily invested in the photo-centric focus, blowing up images across all platforms.

So essentially, it’s a race across all platforms to look as pretty as possible. That’s where engagement lies, and how you’ll hook your user base in the long term.

After all, you need to give the people what they want.

I was so delighted to get your instructions last week on how to delete pictures from my iPad but it doesn’t work for me. I can check off the photos I want to delete and the red delete button does comes up — but it doesn’t delete. It’s dimmed. Any ideas on how to get it to work?

A:

I apologize that my answer last week was incomplete. You can only delete photos in the Photos app on an iPad if they were either taken on the iPad, received on the iPad via email and saved to the Camera Roll, or loaded using the iPad USB or SD card camera adapters. If the photos were synced to the iPad from iTunes on a computer, they can’t be deleted on the iPad. This is almost certainly why your delete button isn’t working. Apple says it bars such deletion because synced pictures are considered to primarily exist on the computer. If you want such synced pictures off your iPad, Apple says you have to go into iTunes and turn off syncing those particular photos or albums to your iPad, or turn off photo syncing entirely.

Q:

How do you create a new photo album on an iPad and get the pictures in the order you want?

A:

To do so, first use the Edit button, select multiple photos, and then use the “Add to…” button, add them to a new album and name the album. Once the photos are in the album you created, you can arrange them by hitting the “Edit” button again and dragging the photo thumbnails into the order you prefer.

Q:

I’m looking for a very light laptop to take on the road. Would it be possible to use an 11-inch MacBook Air on the road while using a PC in the office? All my files are on Dropbox or Evernote. Can I run Office apps like Excel on a Mac and modify files on both the Mac and PC?

A:

Yes. Microsoft makes a native Mac version of Office that uses the same file formats as the Windows version. And Dropbox and Evernote are available and access the same content on both platforms. Most other common file types, like JPG photos, MP3 music and PDFs, work interchangeably. And the MacBook Air is an excellent thin and light laptop. It can even run Windows itself — and the Windows version of Office — if you choose.

Email Walt at mossberg@wsj.com.

I gave my wife an iPad for Christmas and she is delighted with it. Unfortunately, I discovered that it would be useless for my purposes. I would need a tablet that acts like a desktop or laptop but is smaller and lighter. Specifically, I would need a tablet that would allow me to have three browsers open and visible on the screen simultaneously. Are there any tablets that would allow me to do this?

A:

I’d suggest you look at one of the new Windows 8 tablets that are powered by a laptop-class Intel processor and can run full, standard Windows. Perhaps the best known of these may be Microsoft’s Surface Pro, but there are others. You can see some of them at http://tinyurl.com/d2j5bay.

A warning, though: These tablets are typically heavier, pricier and have less battery life than an iPad.

Q:

Is Windows 8 now reliable? I want to invest in a good desktop, however having gone through the Vista version I am skeptical. Have YOU invested in Windows 8?

A:

Windows 8 has its flaws, such as a confusing dual interface and a lack of apps for the new tablet-like Start Screen. But in testing numerous Windows 8 computers, I haven’t found it to be unstable or buggy, at least in new machines. And, yes, I own a Windows 8 laptop and tablet.

Q:

Any suggestions about simple ways to delete photos from an iPad? There’s no trash-can icon available when operating in the photo function.

A:

It’s actually very easy, though not obvious. You just open the standard Photos app, press Edit in the upper right corner, select the photo or photos you want to delete (a check mark will appear on the selected images) and then select the red “Delete” button at the upper left.

Email your technology questions to Walt at mossberg@wsj.com.

The milestone comes just over a month after Instagram began releasing its active user numbers for the first time, in the wake of widespread rumors that the service was bleeding users. (Those reports stemmed from Instagram’s short kerfuffle over its Terms of Service changes.)

It’s also an impressive growth rate when compared to Instagram’s closest competitor, Twitter. The microblogging service hit the 200 million user mark at the end of last year, though that’s over a six-year time span. Instagram has managed to gain ground at a much faster rate.

“It’s easy to see this as an accomplishment for a company, but I think the truth is that it’s an accomplishment for our community,” said CEO Kevin Systrom in the company’s blog post. “Now, more than ever, people are capturing the world in real-time using Instagram—sharing images from the farthest corners of the globe. What we see as a result is a world more connected and understood through photographs.”

That’s important, considering both platforms seem to be competing for the same space: Consumer interests. Twitter has long dominated the “interest graph,” or the measure of all things people are interested in at individual and interpersonal levels.

But as seen during the past few major events like the Grammys, the Oscars and the like, Instagram is making a serious bid to represent the pulse of a given moment in time, as documented through photos.

Twitter isn’t taking it sitting down. The company has revamped its discover tab and main stream to more heavily emphasize photography and videos. And Twitter’s cards initiative still remains a top priority for sharing previewed content within tweets themselves.

Still, Instagram’s rapid growth curve must give Twitter concern, and perhaps a hint of regret, ever since losing out to Facebook on buying the photo sharing service.

Now, after Facebook spent three quarters of a billion dollars on the app, all Instagram needs to do is monetize. We’re waiting, Mr. Systrom.

The new features include photo albums, quick previews for PDFs and other documents, and easier sharing to Facebook, Twitter and email. All of them are specifically for the Web version of Dropbox, and all are expected to be released to all users within the next month.

This isn’t anything that’s going to make anyone’s jaw drop. But the thrust of the features speaks to a larger aim of Dropbox to be less of a secure personal storage system, and more about bringing content to wherever people need it, said Dropbox’s Chris Beckmann, who is product manager for Web and photos.

“We’re moving away from a file-system centric view to a more content-focused view,” explained Ramesh Balakrishnan, the company’s engineering lead on photos.

So, for instance, Dropbox previously hadn’t had a notion of a photo album. In the new system, once photos are grouped together into an album, Dropbox understands them to remain that way, no matter if the files are moved around or subsets of them are shared elsewhere.

These small moves that Dropbox is making to improve the way it handles content show how far the company has to go. For instance, there’s no way to navigate photos besides scrolling through them in chronological order. And within the document previews, there are no editing tools.

Sorry, Twitter — not every new product debut can go swimmingly.

Vine, Twitter’s video sharing app which launched officially on Thursday morning, ran into a few snags directly out of the gate, including some potential crossed-log-in issues that could affect user privacy.

Vine user Keith Whamond reached out to AllThingsD directly, telling us he was logged into another user’s account inadvertently. The small, slightly annoying part: Whamond could potentially post to Vine as the other user he was logged in as — one Tyler Petersen.

Additionally, a number of Vine users reported activity being posted to their accounts by people other than themselves. “[S]omeone else has posted from St. Louis using the @poptip handle (not us) — crossing users?” wrote Poptip founder Kelsey Falter in a tweet on Thursday.

There’s a larger problem here, however. As Whamond was erroneously logged into Petersen’s account, Whamond was able to view Petersen’s private contact details — including email and phone number — inside the settings menu. If this were happening on a larger scale that’s a gnarly breach of user privacy.

As of Thursday morning, it’s unclear how many users are experiencing the switched accounts issue. And for what it’s worth, Whamond told me that he was able to log out of Petersen’s profile and back into his own after re-launching the application.

As many may have already noticed, only hours after launch, Vine has disabled sharing videos from the app to Facebook and Twitter. And a number of users are reporting that they are no longer able to sign into the service through their Twitter account.

As for the switched accounts problem, a Twitter spokesperson told me that the team is currently looking into the issue. And to Twitter’s credit, the Vine team has acted fast in jumping on the account issues.

Update: Okay, here’s the deal. After chatting with a Twitter spokesperson, I’ve got the issue narrowed down a bit. It looks like a server-side bug, amounting to a bunch of crossed wires in user accounts. Your Twitter account, Facebook account, email account or any of those passwords weren’t accessible through the bug. But if affected by the bug, clicking through the app could sometimes land you on a randomized user page that wasn’t your own. And if one of those clicks was you sharing your Vine video, that could have been posted to another user’s Vine account.

What you are not able to do is assume someone else’s identity intentionally. If you found yourself looking at another user’s information, a quick reload of the page, would take you back to your own account.

It’s still not clear how many users were affected, or if it’s completely taken care of at this point. But as of 1:20 pm PDT, Vine sharing via Facebook and Twitter is back up and running, and I haven’t seen or heard any more user complaints about the issue.

Still, it’s a bummer of a way to kick off a new product launch, especially one that many are calling “the future of Twitter’s video efforts.” Disabling sharing through Twitter and Facebook on Day One could certainly dampen the app’s initial reception, not to mention limit the potential viral spread of the new service.

Better luck tomorrow, Twitter.

(For good measure, I’m embedding my first Vine video using the service. Say hello to my dogs.)

Animal testing. vine.co/v/b5HpgZT3ZwL

— Mike Isaac (@MikeIsaac) January 24, 2013

And here’s our own Lauren Goode discussing the issue on The Wall Street Journal’s Digits show:

]]> http://allthingsd.com/20130124/vine-twitters-new-video-sharing-app-gets-tangled-up-on-launch-day/feed/ 9 http://allthingsd.com/20130123/vine-twitters-instagram-for-video-launching-soon-at-apples-app-store/ http://allthingsd.com/20130123/vine-twitters-instagram-for-video-launching-soon-at-apples-app-store/#comments Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:42:28 +0000 Peter Kafka http://allthingsd.com/?p=287919 Yep, that was Twitter CEO Dick Costolo using video from Vine, the video-sharing startup he bought last fall, in a tweet he sent out today. And yes, that means Vine is ready to go.

Perhaps as soon as tomorrow, people familiar with the company tell me.

But when Vine does launch, you won’t find it on Twitter, at least not as a fully integrated feature.

Prior to the Twitter acquisition, Vine was going to be a standalone iOS app. And that’s still the case: The startup still operates on its own, and if you want to use the service you’ll need to download it from Apple’s App store.

Why would you want to download Vine? Because it’s supposed to be a fun tool for making and sharing very short video clips — no longer than six seconds a pop — in the same way that Instagram worked for photos. And it’s designed in a similar way, with the ability to follow other Vine users’ clips, explore stuff from people you don’t know, etc.

There are other apps that do something similar, but one notable difference with Vine is the way you use it — after hitting a “record” button on the app, you hold your thumb on the screen to start filming. Take it off, and the camera stops.  You can use the app to create one straight take, or take lots of little shots, and make digital montages or flip-books (take a look at Costolo’s clip, below, which looks like it’s composed of eight or nine very quick takes).

All of that’s according to people who’ve seen the app.

Those people also tell me that one thing you don’t see on Vine is any kind of Twitter branding. This is a Twitter-owned video service, but for now, at least, it’s not “Twitter’s video service.”

As Costolo demonstrated today, you’ll be able to share video from the app to Twitter. But that’s about it as far as integration goes. You could see how Twitter might want to link more deeply with Vine at some point, perhaps with a “record” button on Twitter’s own app, but not right now.

For more info, you might want to follow Vine’s own Twitter account, which hasn’t had anything to say quite yet.

Steak tartare in six seconds. vine.co/v/bOIqn6rLeIDvia @dhof

— dick costolo (@dickc) January 23, 2013

 

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What is the best way to store a large number of photos without relying on cloud systems?

A:

If you have more photographs (or any other large files) than you would like to store on your computer’s hard disk, but don’t care to use cloud storage, the best option is an external hard disk.

Some of these are networkable, which means you can connect them to your home network and access the photos via Wi-Fi from multiple PCs, Macs and other devices. This is called Network Attached Storage.

Q:

I’m a senior in high school preparing for college this fall. The shared family computer contains a lot of stuff that is mine, including music, Word documents and photos. What would be the best way to transfer these to the laptop I end up getting? Would a service such as iCloud (since it is an iMac) work best for music and then transfer Word docs and photos through a flash drive?

A:

That would work, especially if your photos and documents amount to a relatively small amount of data. But, if your laptop is a Mac, there is an alternative.

Apple builds in a utility that appears during setup and will migrate data files, settings and apps from an older Mac, either over a cable or a wireless network.

This might be faster and more complete, especially if your stuff is the bulk of what’s on the iMac. After migration, you could always delete anything you didn’t want.

Email your technology questions to Walt at mossberg@wsj.com.

]]> http://allthingsd.com/20130122/depending-on-the-cloud/feed/ 0 http://allthingsd.com/20130108/what-you-dont-know-about-sharing-photos/ http://allthingsd.com/20130108/what-you-dont-know-about-sharing-photos/#comments Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:39:27 +0000 Katherine Boehret http://allthingsd.com/?p=283545 The visiting family members have left, the Christmas tree is out on the curb and the New Year’s Eve party confetti is all vacuumed up. If only sharing your holiday photos was as easy to manage.

After watching friends and relatives struggle to navigate the complications of photo sharing using Facebook, Apple’s Photo Streams and Google’s social network, Google+, I’m here to help. In this column, I’ve organized tips and tricks that might surprise even the most share-happy shutterbugs, and will serve as a helpful guide for people who want to feel more in control and comfortable while sharing photos. While there are numerous alternative methods for photo sharing, including thousands of apps, I zeroed in on Facebook, Photo Streams and Google+.

People can share albums from Google+ with anyone, including people who don’t use the network, by generating a link that can be sent to others.

Sharing With Friends Who Don’t Use the Network

Here’s an all-too-familiar scenario: You spend hours uploading, editing, captioning and “tagging” (identifying people by name) photos to create an album on Facebook, only to be asked by the one person who doesn’t use it if she can see the album. If you’re like most people, you say you’ll send the photos along, eventually. Then you change the subject to something more pleasant, like the cavity you recently had filled.

Unbeknownst to many users, Facebook, Google and Apple enable sharing with people who don’t use their services. Not surprisingly, these out-of-network sharing options are buried in an effort to force people into using the services. So where are they?

In Facebook, after creating an album, open the page that shows the album’s title and contents, select the small gear icon to the right of the album title and click “Share Album.” A Web link to the album will appear that you can copy and send to anyone, even if they don’t use Facebook or aren’t one of your Facebook Friends.

Facebook’s iOS and Android apps enable uploading multiple photos to existing albums, using the icon, above, or new albums.

Any Apple device running the company’s newest operating system, iOS 6, can create and view Shared Photo Streams. These are collections of photos on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch that you can share with friends via email. If your friends also use iOS devices, they can use them to view the Shared Photo Stream.

People who want to see these photos but don’t have an Apple device can still do so, as long as the album creator moves a slider labeled “Public Website” to the “on” position. This public album link is included in an email invitation, but it’s easily overlooked because it appears below a much larger blue button labeled “View this Photo Stream,” which only works on iOS devices. Be sure to click on the text at the very bottom of the email invitation that says, “You can also view this photo stream on the web.”

When people use Google+ to share photos, they’re immediately encouraged to click once and share to “Circles,” which are select groups of people within Google+. But they can also share with friends outside the network by adding their email addresses into the line that says, “Add names, Circles, or email addresses.” This enables sharing with friends who don’t use Google+ or don’t have Gmail accounts.

A Shared Photo Stream as seen through a public album link.

Entire albums can be shared outside of Google+: Within Albums, select one and click the “More” drop-down menu to find “Share album via link.”

Sync Mobile Photos as You Go

Facebook, iCloud and Google+ allow people to wirelessly synchronize their mobile photos with their accounts, saving them privately until they’re ready to be shared.

To set this up on Facebook, you can use the mobile app or the website. From the app, select Photos on the left-side panel, then Sync at the bottom right of the screen. Tap the gear in the top right to set whether your phone will sync over Wi-Fi or cellular or just over Wi-Fi. From Facebook.com, open your Timeline, select Photos, “Synced From Phone” at the top, then follow instructions to share images. People can sync up to two gigabytes of images.

Anyone who buys an Apple or Android device is prompted during setup to turn on Photo Stream or Instant Upload, as the companies call their respective offerings. Shared Photo Streams don’t count against your overall iCloud storage, nor do they work against your count of photos in Photo Stream, which syncs the last 1,000 images across your iOS devices. Google+ stores its synchronized mobile photos under a section called Instant Upload; these remain private until shared with others. Google+ has an overall limit of 5 gigabytes, but standard-sized photos like those captured on smartphones don’t count against this limit.

Other Helpful Tips

Facebook Camera is the free app that first made it possible for people to upload multiple photos to Facebook via iOS. Now, the main Facebook app also enables uploading multiple photos on Android or iOS, and images can be added to new or existing albums by selecting New or tapping a small album icon. Facebook also makes it simpler to post several photos at once in a status update using your Web browser: Users can now click a small “+” icon that appears beside uploaded photos to add more. Also, it’s now possible to drag and drop images right into the status box for sharing with Facebook friends.

If you’re ready to share your Apple Photo Stream with a broader network of friends, these can be uploaded to Twitter or Facebook, but the steps are practically hidden from view. Do this by opening Photo Stream and clicking the small, blue arrow to the right of the Stream you want to share. Make sure it has a link associated with it by switching the Public Website slider to “on,” then hit “Share Link” and select your preferred social network destination. Apple’s own message system, iMessage, is also a sharing option here.

Photo sharing should be more intuitive, and Facebook, Apple and Google are obviously still figuring out the best ways to pack multiple features into their websites and mobile apps. With any luck, your friends and family will have an easier time viewing your photos than you did sharing them.

Email Katie.Boehret@wsj.com

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Co-founder Kevin Systrom says the company will change part of its new contract with users that deals with advertising, and will use the same language the company has always employed. Here’s an excerpt from his newest blog post.

“Going forward, rather than obtain permission from you to introduce possible advertising products we have not yet developed, we are going to take the time to complete our plans, and then come back to our users and explain how we would like for our advertising business to work.”

But to be clear: Instagram still plans on introducing advertising to the service. And that advertising could conceivably incorporate users’ photos. And to be clearer: Instagram’s original language already said that.

“[Y]ou hereby agree that Instagram may place such advertising and promotions on the Service or on, about, or in conjunction with your Content. The manner, mode and extent of such advertising and promotions are subject to change without specific notice to you.”

To sum up: Instagram officials (and, presumably, their new bosses at Facebook) feel bad about the way users reacted to its legalese, and they want users to feel better.

But if you don’t want to see ads on the service, or want to be assured that your stuff won’t show up in an ad, you’re going to want to look somewhere else.

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Why did I quit Instagram? It’s the thoughtlessness, stupid.

– Mat Honan, in Wired magazine

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