Google Announced Open Gallery -- what do you think it means for photo hosting ?

Google has begun to roll out their Open Gallery, on invitation only.

It's oriented to displaying studio work and is intended, I believe, to be a more sedate, business, platform than, say, Flickr or Tumblr.

I found the set up easy, and will be adding more photo sets to it.

Naturally, it comes at Google's price: 0.


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This looks useful. Thanks for the heads up!

Beware that this needs to sign in with your account, giving your email and password to Google...
God save us from friends who give my email in their mailing list due to ignorance to other potential source of trouble... No wonder my account has this much spam and then google come back and says your storage limit is reached, either delete or start paying Google for more storage!

Pictures grabs for Google. No thanks. There's no such thing as free.

Alveric wrote in post #17090594
Pictures grabs for Google. No thanks. There's no such thing as free.

haha so true

nevertheless it is intersting to see who will use Open Gallery or in general need that tool.

Be very carefull with Google -

• DO read EVERY word of their terms
  
• DO read the history of Google
  
• DO understand that Google can and does change their terms often
  
• DO understand that you are not their customer, you are their product to sell
  

Here's the FAQ

https://support.google​.com …lery/answer/600​2688?hl=en

And, here's the Terms of Service:

https://www.google.com​/opengallery/terms

It's still looking like a very good option to my eyes. Not sure what would be a better option (other than hosting and maintaining my own material).

From the terms:

As long as the bolded portion stays in the TOS- I would have no problem using it.

Kumsa wrote in post #17090725
Here's the FAQ

https://support.google​.com …lery/answer/600​2688?hl=en

And, here's the Terms of Service:

https://www.google.com​/opengallery/terms

It's still looking like a very good option to my eyes. Not sure what would be a better option (other than hosting and maintaining my own material).

I am sorry that you don't get it, but if you are my friend please do me a great favor and remove my email data from your contact address books....
There are too many people suffering from friends that's why they say: With friends like this, you don't need...........s

samsen wrote in post #17090911
I am sorry that you don't get it, but if you are my friend please do me a great favor and remove my email data from your contact address books....
There are too many people suffering from friends that's why they say: With friends like this, you don't need...........s

Do you think that you're safe from sharing information on the net if you keep your email address safe? Everytime you turn on your computer, you're sharing info to someone out there. Just because you can't see spam emails doesn't mean it's not happening.

looks promising to me. and our photos will be hosted on Google so, we'll get more exposure on that

gewb wrote in post #17090711
As an example, not long ago Google wanted to enter the social media business so they developed BUZZ. Then Google made all GMail users a BUZZ member, without user consent. Upon activation of this "service" ALL name in a users address book were made visible to all the others in the book!!

This is the main reason I don't keep an address book or contact list on any of my Yahoo or Google accounts.

Seems interesting, thanks for sharing.

As far as spamming etc... beside the fact that some Google services are a bit fast to grab data from your contact list (the Buzz exemple is a good one and I think they learned from that), usually it's not Google's fault if you get spam in your mail, much more the user's... I work in IT, I know how to be careful and try to limit the personal data without getting paranoid, I've used GMail daily for more than 8 years now and I don't get more than 1 or 2 spams per week in a crowded week, and they are automatically detected as such.

Don't blame the tool if you don't know how to use to

Reiep wrote in post #17131056
I work in IT

Don't blame the tool if you don't know how to use to

If you have to be a professional to use a tool, DON'T provide it for mass population.

Or better, general people Beware!
No paranoia here. Google is rich for a good reason, "YOU" being their product and they will sell you no mater what.

Yahoo is still a lot better and that is what I am using for more than 15 years.

Seems like just a fancy version of GoogleDrive or OneDrive. I use both these just a little bit for temporary sharing - I put a batch of pics up, send out link emails, give them time to view/download what they want, then delete the pics after a few weeks.

For an amateur like me, it's easier than distributing using disks or usb's.

I think Google is looking for business/pros to fill up their space so they can eventually charge $.