When it comes to uploading photos, there are numerous sites for hosting - flikr, picasa, photobucket, shutterfly, just to name a few. Their specialty are photo edit, organization, display sharing and printing. Some of them require a fee to provide advanced service. On the other hand, all the social network such as facebook, myspace, tweeter offer their users to upload photos in the photo album for sharing and commenting.
Momentile s a new photo sharing service that combines photo sharing and lifestreaming with the social networking services such as Facebook and Twitter.
The basic idea behind momentile is that you can upload one picture per day (you can upload pictures as many times as you can but the last photo you decide to upload of that day will be the picture of that day). The idea is after a year, you will have a collection of 365 pictures that represent that year.
The unique feature (or could be limitation depends on how one sees it) is you cannot add caption to the picture you upload. When one uploads a new photo, h/she can add a short message that will then be sent out to their followers (momentile calls them 'stalkers') by SMS, Twitter, or email. Other people can add caption to your picture (one caption per photo per viewer only). However, if you attempt to add caption to your own photo - a message will pop up stating "Sorry, but you can’t caption your own Momentiles.? Because you were there, you lived it. Give someone else a chance to give their narrative to it."
Without the text, it is only the picture left there for viewer to interpret what are on the picture, how it was taken, what was the photographer intended to communicate, and what did this picture mean to the photographer. With the rule of one caption only for each photo from each viewer, it forces people to think twice before they give any comments, and it prevents the site become another photo sharing site that comment become a exchange of dialog. In fact, it seems the creator of this service want people to dialog, share, communicate through the images of their life, not extensive texts that describe it.
Does it say something about the culture we live in today?
that's indeed interesting, particularly for us!
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