{"id":3265,"date":"2015-12-10T11:55:48","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T19:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=3265"},"modified":"2015-12-10T11:58:18","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T19:58:18","slug":"shared-albums-arrive-in-google-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/10\/shared-albums-arrive-in-google-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Shared Albums arrive in Google Photos!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think you\u2019re gonna dig this. Quick demo:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=taxad270uvQ\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=taxad270uvQ<\/a> \u2028<\/p>\n<p>For details check out Drew Olanoff&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2015\/12\/10\/google-photos-get-easy-to-use-shared-albums\/\">TechCrunch chat with David Lieb<\/a>. Dave leads the Photos PM team, and at Bump (where he was CEO) the team learned some important lessons building the collaborative photography app <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/46398388\">Flock<\/a>. Dave says from experience,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s gotta be <strong>really simple<\/strong> to use this product. Lots of startups have tried to solve this problem, but failed. The <strong>friction is too high<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To that end, to collaborate with Google Photos:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>People don\u2019t need a Google account <strong>or any app<\/strong> to view the photos you share with them. To add their own, they just need a Google account.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0Drew mentions some of the creative potential that can be driven from pooled assets:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>One of the more popular set of features in Google Photos is everything that happens within the \u201cAssistant\u201d tab. Right now, the photos that everyone shares in an album don\u2019t get any special treatment, but hopefully that\u2019ll change. Imagine sharing a few photos, your friends and family do the same and then boom\u2026you have a killer collage or animation from many different perspectives. It most certainly is doable, and when you think about the possibilities for video, Google\u2019s latest <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2015\/11\/06\/google-acquires-fly-labs-to-join-its-photos-team\/\">acquisition FlyLabs<\/a> could become very handy for all of this.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Feedback is, as always, most welcome!<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=taxad270uvQ\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think you\u2019re gonna dig this. Quick demo: \u2028 For details check out Drew Olanoff&#8217;s\u00a0TechCrunch chat with David Lieb. Dave leads the Photos PM team, and at Bump (where he was CEO) the team learned some important lessons building the collaborative photography app Flock. Dave says from experience, It\u2019s gotta be really simple to use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3268,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions\/3268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}