Pikeo picture file sharing

October 30th, 2006

This looks interesting

Pikeo is a beta product from France Telecom Research and Development LLC in South San Francisco and is not a “certified” France Telecom product. What does this mean in normal language? It means that:
1). Bugs are possible. Maybe even inevitable. Like nasal hair.
2). We still have a long way to go before everything runs perfectly, but please let us know when (gulp) things go wrong – at support@Pikeo.com.
3). There is limited customer support right now. But it’s nice and friendly limited support. You can reach us at: support@Pikeo.com – and we’ll do our best to sort you out.
4). We think that pictures tell better stories when you can give people some idea of where they were taken. Pikeo lets you look at your pictures along with a map showing ?the scenes of your crimes?.
5). Pikeo also helps you organise your pictures in smart albums based on ‘what’, ‘where’, and ‘who’ information (called ‘tags’). You can decide which of your pictures you want to share with your family, friends and everyone else, and which ones you want no one to see. Ever, ever.
6). Best of all, you’ll be in full control of your community via our innovative ‘Contacts’ browsing tool which lets you keep the riff-raff out (unless your family and friends are riff-raff. That?s for you to decide?).

Pikeo blog

Frederic Dumney says

Orange is about to officially launch www.pikeo.com Part of the mash-up-2.0 strategy of the group, pikeo (invitation only at the moment) is a flickr-like. We don’t know much from the website, but it seems to rely a lot on tags and images mash-up capabilities, geotagging and mobile UI seem to be at the menu too.
Beyond the service itself, it’s a very interesting move from the converging company as it’s developed and launched outside of the orange-branded world and it’s beta.
As far as I remember it’s the first time they actually launch a service without spending months (years?) preparing it before a big noisy launch.

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