I have two plugs for Tabblo today. Here’s the first: For every 4 fans you get to come to Tabblo, we’ll give you a free 11×17″ poster.

You get to design the poster yourself with your photos and artwork. Get your fans to come to Tabblo, and we’ll do the rest.

Wired magazine reviewed the popular photo sharing sites and Tabblo got the highest score – we even edged out Flickr! We got 8, Flickr got 7, Webshots and Zoomr got 6, and down from there. It’s worth pointing out that when Wired reviewed the video iPod, it got an 8, too. For Wired, an 8 is high praise.

It’s nice to get recognition like that, especially when work is particularly difficult. We’re pushing out two major releases, one next week and one the week after. It’s a lot of work, and a fair amount of stress. What aspects of new feature X are the ones that you have to fix, and what aspects will never be noticed? Did I spend to long trying to figure that out, when I should just have fixed both of them? The questions don’t stop. Even when you stop to write a blog entry.

The good news is that if Wired liked us last month, they will love us next month. We’ve got some neat stuff.

Tangent: I can never read Wired without thinking of the Simpsons:

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> Quotes and Scene Summary  {jp}
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% Lisa sits on the couch reading the magazine "Wired" when Homer comes in and
% takes it from her, thinking it is the magazine "Weird".

Homer: Heh-heh-heh.  I love their hilarious send-ups of hit movies.
Lisa:  Dad, it's not--
Homer: "Gigabyte"!  [laughs] They've done it again.  Gigabyte.  Wait, this
isn't "Weird"!  [looks at cover] Why, there's no magazine *called*
"Weird", is there?
Lisa:  [takes magazine] This is *"Wired"*.  It's about computers and
technology.
[Homer stares]
Hey!  Look, there's a cyber-café opening here in Springfield.  Will you
take me, Dad, please?  I'll show you how to order pizza over the
internet.
Homer: The internet?  Is that thing still around?
Bart:  [walks in] I know a web site that shows monkeys doing it.
Lisa:  Bart, the internet is more than a global pornography network it's--
[Homer, in the car with Bart, honks the horn]
Homer: Come on, Lisa -- monkeys!
-- "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo"

http://digcam.meetup.com/134/calendar/5205054/

Thursday November 9 at 7PM at Flattop Johnny’s in Cambridge.
Discuss photosharing, storytelling and networking.
What’s working and what’s not.
Demo Tabblo.com.

Flattop Johnny’s is a 5-minute walk from Kendall on the Red
Line. If you’re driving, there is plenty of parking at the
Kendall Cinema next door.

Flattop Johnny’s has a decent menu, so feel free to come
hungry. I think we’ll rent a pool table or two as well.

http://digcam.meetup.com/134/?gj=sj2

When?

Tuesday, Oct 17, 2006, 7:00 PM 20061017T230000Z

Where?

Trident

338 Newbury Street, Boston

Boston, MA 02115

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Antonio pulled off a fairly neat hack of his new camera. Now, because of an integration with our “auto-tabblos,” his camera can wirelessly pipe his photos directly into a tabblo. It’s sort of like “live-blogging” but it’s a photo-blog.

I can see this being totally cool for travel, among other things. Go to Starbucks, upload your photos, grab a coffee. Travel. Go to internet cafe, upload your photos, travel. Go to hotel, upload your photos, travel. Go anywhere with a Wi-Fi connection, upload your photos, travel. The uploaded photos are emailed to the auto-tabblo.  It’s an up-to-date  travelogue you can give your friends and family.