Beta: Scrapblog

Posted on | September 23, 2006 | No Comments

Scrapblog is a flash-based photo-blogging & -layout-tool similar to tabblo. starting a photo-page (’scrapblog’) is pretty straight-forward: just choose a template (there are not too many to choose from, though), upload some pics and drag&drop them onto the page. flickr-users will love the nice import-feature (take care, popup-blockers might interfere!), which even allows to filter for flickr-tags. [mashups like this are the reason I think flickr is still the king of photo-sites]

the layout-engine supports scaling and rotation of images, picture frames, text-blocks & -bubbles and layering of objects. the solid user-interface feels very much like a desktop-app, some glitches aside. f.e it seems to be impossible to fill predefined frames with photos, instead users are required to manually arrange frames around pictures. while the layout-engine allows multiple pages on a scrapblog, the pages itself are of fixed size with no ability to scroll.

Scrapblogs can be either kept private or made public, with the ability for visitors to subscribe to a particular photo-page via email or RSS. while each Scrapblog has its own feed, the application lacks a general feed syndicating all blogs of one user – this means my friends won’t take notice if I start a new Scrapblog.

check out my demo-page to get a feeling for Scrapblog’s capabilities!

 

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