dpreview.com - lots of reviews… great in depth breakdown of functions and features of the latest and greatest gear. When people ask me about cameras, this is where I go to get a general feel of what’s available

fredmiranda.com - an online community where one can get critiques, view examples, read gear reviews, and swap ideas. Weekly and Monthly photo challenges are always interesting to look at.

photo.net - another community with great examples, gear reviews, and flowing ideas. The galleries available on this site are top notch!

luminous-landscape.com - a favorite of mine, and where I went to get a general idea of apature, shutter speed, depth of field, etc. They just posted a great article about tilt-shift lenses. Waaaaay beyond my scope of comprehension, but interesting nonetheless!

google.com - the venerable! When in doubt… just search it and see what comes up. Like any other question nowadays, you’re not the only one with that problem.

These are my personal favorites. Feel free to leave a couple of your own!

moop

Recently commented albums are now being aggregated to the front page of the site, so get in and start being involved in the discussion surrounding your own and other users photos. In addition to the above we also added some updates that should help to speed the system up and hopefully create a better all round user experience.

More community related features to come soon.

fOTOGLIF, It Pays to Share

Mike

In the mean time, if you have any questions or comments, feel free to leave a comment on this post or email us at feedback@fotoglif.com

moop

We are always happy to talk about what we are up to here at fOTOGLIF, any opportunity we get to share our story and help direct more people to our users photos the better.  Any press inquiries can be directed to press at fotoglif dot com.

Thanks again Mashable,

Mike

We have been hard at work here and the feedback from our beta testers has been instrumental in how we have shaped our service to reflect the needs of users. Along with the open release of fOTOGLIF today we are also announcing the following additions to the service.

A contribution based advertising share program. Today we are announcing that any advertising revenue generated by fOTOGLIF will be shared 50/50 with our users based on the activity their photos generate. That means no matter where your content is embedded or viewed any activity you generate with content uploaded to fOTOGLIF will be tracked and you will be able to participate directly in the revenue generation and growth of fOTOGLIF!

A fully integrated facebook application available here, now you can access all of the functionality of fOTOGLIF from within facebook and share all of your created content with your facebook friends or just keep track of the top albums on fOTOGLIF straight from your profile. With more social networks to be supported very soon!

A new website design that allows users and website visitors alike to access, search, see and comment on public fOTOGLIF slideshows.

Increased privacy control enabling users to create and share albums with specific groups of people without having them added to the publicly available content search and top albums.

Improved slideshow player capabilities that allow a users to showcase all of their created content from the browser no matter where it has been embedded as well as share directly to top social networks just by clicking the “share” button.

We are really excited about the improvements we have made with fOTOGLIF over the last few months and even more excited to see the great content our users are going to be able to create and share using the fOTOGLIF service.

It Pays To Share!

Mike

A special thanks to the team at digital journal for covering our launch, their coverage of the fOTOGLIF service can be found here.

We have also added a “My Galleries” tab - This gives you the the ability to review and share all of your albums from a single place. As well as a place for people to view all of your galleries at once. Yes, we are adding a comments module soon.

We also built in the ShareThis widget; as a side note, kudos to the guys at ShareThis, great, easy to use application which allows you to easily share links to your photos to most of the places you currently use facebook, digg, delicious, and reddit to name a few. So login, try the changes, send us your feedback or leave it as a comment to this post and let us know what else you are looking for.

Mike

Samir is currently with Sigma Systems as their newly-appointed CFO and was formerly with Fortress Capital and was the CFO of Q9. Samir brings a wealth of financial expertise to Digisphere as well as a great understanding of what it takes to grow a company in the tech space.

Dean is currently the President of Calotto Capital TTO.P (CVE) a publicly listed company on the Canadian Venture Exchange. Dean comes with 20 years experience in the technology sector helping companies grow and meet their
strategic targets. He has worked with companies like Critical Outcome Technologies and DDP Therapeutics. Dean brings a great deal of experience and knowledge in junior capital markets finance and investor relations as well as marketing and
sales.

We are really excited to have these exceptionally talented individuals on board and welcome their
participation in the growth of Digisphere and fOTOGLIF.

Mike

Back up and running at full swing again and I wanted to take a few moments to thank our current beta testers for all of their feedback so far. A lot of your suggestions have been very helpful and to be honest are really helping us to fine tune our business model and strategy as we continue to try and make a great web-application for all.

So. Thank you!

And for those of you who feel like you registered to participate ages ago and its unfair that you haven’t received an invite yet, write me at feedback@fotoglif.com make sure to include/use the email you registered with and I will try and get you set up ASAP.

Remember to check back here for any news and updates on new features added to the system!

Mike

fotoglif is designed to change that experience and automate the creation process so you need not worry about the technical details of creating compelling and engaging interactive experiences from your digital photographs.

And yes, it will be free to use, store, create and distribute up to 2GB of photos anywhere!

Now specifics on what fotoglif can do for you:

• Create Zoom-able Interactive slide shows
• Create virtual tours
• Create interactive and engaging classified and auction listings and send them directly to all of the marketplaces simultaneously.
• Link or embed your content directly to your store, web site or blog
• Track all your content to see where it is viewed the most

We are preparing for our private beta and if you would like to be one of the first on fotoglif, please go ahead and follow this link to leave us your email so we can get you started as soon as we are ready!

It has been a great ride for us building this, and I am really excited to share it with you.

Mike Betts