I am using Flickr, but I wanted to give SoO a shot. I created both SoO & Flickr accounts at the same time, and being a newbie to both, I found SoO to be more usable and I loved it. Yet it has been a PIA, because one day it's here, one week it's "unavailable for this region". Freak, I even spoke to the product manager!
Just yesterday I cam back from the Jordan trip, I launched it and it was working, was optimistic, and uploaded pics from Day1 and Day2 of the trip to both Flickr and SoO. I linked all my friends who were on the trip to SoO (and not Flickr) because you know, I am a Nokia fan and I have enrolled in the S60 ambassador program, and... argh, now it's back unavailable! They won't be able to see the pics now! How can I convince them to use Share on Ovi if the one time they may find it useful, it let us all down?!
Just pick one thing: you're either open in Lebanon, either unavailable! God I am ANNOYED!
If it works I use it, if it doesn't I don't. Being a fan of anything doesn't necessarily make it worthwhile the trouble.
As OVI Share is a new concept I'm steering clear of it, who know the longevity of the whole OVI thing will be.
Flickr is an established product and is improving, and finally Yahoo is starting to "get" the whole Web2.0 thing.
sorry to hear about that. somehow, this doesn't really surprise me, considering the inconsistent and sometimes opaque strategy/behavior of nokia on the global level. btw, do you use the flickr uploadr app? it makes uploading pics to flickr much easier... http://www.flickr.com/tools/
Yup but fact is Abul that Share on Ovi is much more usable than Flickr, in my own opinion. Maybe because you have been using Flickr for a while, and you're used to it, you like it more. Being new to both of them, I had no trouble what so ever finding myself on SoO, and I didn't like Flickr. Just the easiness to embed a picture, or a channel, or to arrange photos on SoO makes it a winner in my eyes. Plus it accepts all kinds of files, that's heaven because I don't need to have 30 accounts on 30 sharing sites. Crap, it's one of the good things that Nokia did, and now they're blowing it away for me!
@afr I used the uploading tool when I was using @rcadden 's Flickr account to upload pics for S-G. But now I am using Shozu, even if it's pic by pic, because I am sending each pic to both Flickr and SoO and this is the onlye solution that I know of that can upload to 2 destinations. Uploading speed is a PIA on my connection speed, so i'd rather upload each pic by itself to two destinations than upload batch pics to each destination alone.
@khouryrt: Haven't had enough time to play around with it to be honest. I'm happy with Flickr, just upgraded to a 2 year Pro account recently so will use that.
Until OVI decides what the heck it wants to be, there is no appeal from users already using existing solutions.
I always believe an all in one solution sometimes isn't the answer. You can have all your pictures, videos, games, applications in one place, but what happens when that crashes and burns? You lose everything. Multiple solutions are the way for me.
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Just use Flickr?
1 year, 8 months ago by adonisdemon
I am using Flickr, but I wanted to give SoO a shot. I created both SoO & Flickr accounts at the same time, and being a newbie to both, I found SoO to be more usable and I loved it. Yet it has been a PIA, because one day it's here, one week it's "unavailable for this region". Freak, I even spoke to the product manager!
Just yesterday I cam back from the Jordan trip, I launched it and it was working, was optimistic, and uploaded pics from Day1 and Day2 of the trip to both Flickr and SoO. I linked all my friends who were on the trip to SoO (and not Flickr) because you know, I am a Nokia fan and I have enrolled in the S60 ambassador program, and... argh, now it's back unavailable! They won't be able to see the pics now! How can I convince them to use Share on Ovi if the one time they may find it useful, it let us all down?!
Just pick one thing: you're either open in Lebanon, either unavailable! God I am ANNOYED!
1 year, 8 months ago by khouryrt
If it works I use it, if it doesn't I don't. Being a fan of anything doesn't necessarily make it worthwhile the trouble. As OVI Share is a new concept I'm steering clear of it, who know the longevity of the whole OVI thing will be. Flickr is an established product and is improving, and finally Yahoo is starting to "get" the whole Web2.0 thing.
1 year, 8 months ago by adonisdemon
sorry to hear about that. somehow, this doesn't really surprise me, considering the inconsistent and sometimes opaque strategy/behavior of nokia on the global level. btw, do you use the flickr uploadr app? it makes uploading pics to flickr much easier... http://www.flickr.com/tools/
1 year, 8 months ago by afr
Yup but fact is Abul that Share on Ovi is much more usable than Flickr, in my own opinion. Maybe because you have been using Flickr for a while, and you're used to it, you like it more. Being new to both of them, I had no trouble what so ever finding myself on SoO, and I didn't like Flickr. Just the easiness to embed a picture, or a channel, or to arrange photos on SoO makes it a winner in my eyes. Plus it accepts all kinds of files, that's heaven because I don't need to have 30 accounts on 30 sharing sites. Crap, it's one of the good things that Nokia did, and now they're blowing it away for me!
1 year, 8 months ago by khouryrt
@afr I used the uploading tool when I was using @rcadden 's Flickr account to upload pics for S-G. But now I am using Shozu, even if it's pic by pic, because I am sending each pic to both Flickr and SoO and this is the onlye solution that I know of that can upload to 2 destinations. Uploading speed is a PIA on my connection speed, so i'd rather upload each pic by itself to two destinations than upload batch pics to each destination alone.
1 year, 8 months ago by khouryrt
@khouryrt: Haven't had enough time to play around with it to be honest. I'm happy with Flickr, just upgraded to a 2 year Pro account recently so will use that. Until OVI decides what the heck it wants to be, there is no appeal from users already using existing solutions. I always believe an all in one solution sometimes isn't the answer. You can have all your pictures, videos, games, applications in one place, but what happens when that crashes and burns? You lose everything. Multiple solutions are the way for me.
1 year, 8 months ago by adonisdemon