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Fotobabble

Posted by on Mar 11, 2010 | 4 Comments

Have you ever looked at a picture and wished that it could talk to you and tell you more about that moment in time that was recorded? That may sound weird, but all of us have seen pictures where you needed to hear the stories behind them to truly appreciate them. You can hear these stories when the person who took the pictures shows them to you and you can also find out about the stories by reading the descriptions that accompany the pictures on photo sharing Web sites. With Fotobabble, pictures can finally tell their own stories.

What am I talking about? Well, this online service enables you to upload a picture and record some audio that plays with it. Your creation will get its own URL that can be shared with others, and it can be embedded outside of Fotobabble. This site is a great place to share pictures and memories from vacations and special events, and there’s even an iPhone app for sharing moments while you’re out and about. Pictures just became a lot more interesting.

  • http://www.ekkotechnologies.com Geoffrey Stern

    My firm provides Snapfish with physical (printed) photo cards that record and play 10-seconds of audio and we launching a bona fide printed photo book (up to 50 pages) that plays up to 32 minutes of audio split dynamically between 20 different locations in the book. Do you think that there’s a market for such printed audio products?

  • http://www.fotobabble.com Zoe

    Hi Brandon–
    Thanks for the review! I love what you said about wanting to hear the story from the person who took the picture. Fotobabble’s a great tool for friends to keep in touch.

    These are some great fotobabbles from one of our big users–I think you’ll like them:

    http://www.fotobabble.com/l/justthoughtyoumight

    We’d love to see and hear any fotobabbles you create, just tweet them @fotobabble or post them to our Facebook page. Let us know if you have any ideas or suggestions for Fotobabble.

    Cheers,
    Zoe from Fotobabble

  • http://www.blackwaterops.com Brandon Wirtz

    What kind of A__-Hat doesn’t have a Wifi Router with Auto Channel Switching, so that these issues don’t come up, and why do you need to switch why can’t he? I can’t come up with a scenario other than “I have a 2.4ghz security camera” that would warrant changing channels. 1 is one of the suckiest channels to be on to, because the antennas tend to be optimized for the middle of the spectrum so that they work across the frequency range. This is why so many routers default to 6 as the default channel.

    • http://chris.pirillo.com/ Chris Pirillo

      Well, I have my access point set to “auto” – seems to be set to 10, for the moment. Still, I have no idea if this is an optimized setting. There’s only one “6″ in range, according to KisMAC.