jalbum

[marsden_online]

So, what have we accomplished today?
Tagged an album
One load of laundry
Watched PotCIII, so have now seen all of them
Messed around with jalbum enough to know it's not going to do what I want.

It is quite a nice piece of software and it would probably work well for slothphil's style of gallery but for my current requirements:
Commenters must have a jalbum.net account - fail (too niche essentially)
No tagging - fail
- facial labelling via Polar Rose (beta) is not a substitute.
-> Can't specify areas to tag if the service hasn't decided it's a face, and it only really picks up good front on shots anyway. Results on my test gallery were poor.
-> Searching on a name does not return a particularly useful gallery, only linked crop-shots of the faces.
-> I don't see kaosians in general being happy to have their names plugged into the Polar Rose search engine as data

So back to the search. What else is out there?

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[Edit]
Update to requirements: multi-word tags. Capitalisation in tagging would also be nice. I've been -so- taking that for granted.

Comments

[geolbt.livejournal.com]

Tried Bebo.com? Its much like facebook but you get to ignore all the annoying applications, and it is generally much much less annoying. It appears that you can keep on uploading as long as you want to and you can both label and tag photos. You can have many many many albums, it has a bulk upload facility and you can also blog and comment etc. Very handy :)

[marsden-online.livejournal.com]

Hadn't even considered it. The 'social networking' sites were off the radar.

I'll remember that for next time I'm conducting this exercise. Although joining yet another social network ... I'm beginning to suffer fatigue :-/

Jalbum

[(Anonymous)]

Hi!

We just released the first version of Jalbum widgets last week, so bare with us. Many of the features that you are looking for is in our road map, like guest commenting, tagging and specifying areas in pictures to tag. Check back early next year to see if you like it better :)

Thanks for checking us out.

Kind regards,
/Carl
jalbum.net