Personal Eye-Fi site for sharing photos with my family and close friends

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I'd like to share photos without adding them to albums, sending, e-mails, etc., with my family and close friends. I'd like to receive photos into my event library, give the event a name, then click a few photos from within the event and, presto, that event would be shared, limited to only the photos I selected, on http://eyefi.com/berendo! At any time, I can add more photos to the share by clicking individual photos while in my event library, or rescind them from the share by un-clicking them.

This would make the flow of baby photos from our Mobi card to the grandparents and close friends as frictionless as possible. I have little interest in sending invitation e-mails, rescinding individual invitations, or seeing when the items I've shared are viewed for 90+% of our family's sharing.

(Originally posted by berend)
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Would this be something similar to "live albums" but instead "live photos" and they're automatically seen at eyefi.com/[username]? How would you prevent non family/friends from seeing your photos? Is this password protected?

(Originally posted by victor_hernandez)
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Victor, the way I've thought about it, this would be an alternate sharing path that "bypasses" album creation all together. I'd almost propose it in place of the talked-about "whole event sharing" button.

Our problem as a family is that we don't have the time to curate photos twice - once in our own photo library for our own consumption, then again in separate albums for our family. Almost always, what we share with the family and close friends is an "album" titled with the same name we've given to those photos in our library. It's just that the sharing is a subset of the photos (of course). When we look at our library, we'd love to immediately see which of the photos in an "event" (and I use the term loosely) are shared, and have the ability to visit the same content with our sharees, but see more photos in the same contexts (e.g. "Amelia Goes to Disneyland", where we've curated the photos once, merged the multiple days, etc., and we see 300+ photos in our own library, and our sharees see 50 or so). Couple that with an automatic "highlight detection", it would make a number of grandparents very happy because it would reduce the time from shutter-click to their screens pretty much minimal.

And yes, it could be password-protected, but so far we haven't seen the need for it... We have our photos up on Phanfare (I'm embarrassed to say) without a password...

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I have a similar flow. I go to an event and take 300 photos of which I choose 50 to share with the world. These 50 photos usually have to be added to an album I create beforehand and like you said this album shares the same title as the event.

I want something similar I believe. A simple example could be a shared timeline that looks exactly like my own private timeline view but instead only photos that I have marked/flagged as public are displayed. Then anyone can go to eyefi.com/[username]/ and see photos I'd want to share.

It would be even better if you could share multiple different timelines.

eyefi.com/[username]/ - for all the photos I mark/flag as 'public'

eyefi.com/[username]/family - for all the photos I mark/flag as 'family', password required

(Originally posted by victor_hernandez)