Google+ is ready to take on Flickr and Instagram by offering photo sharing with real-life meetups and its Google+ mobile app.
The Hangouts video chat is gaining in popularity, especially with photographers who share their work online and chat with fellow artists.
GigaOM interviewed photographer Trey Ratcliff this week at the Google+ Photographers Conference in San Francisco (the post includes the interview video).
For those pundits who have argued that Google+ is becoming a ghost town, it’s interesting to note that Ratcliff “is hosting Hangouts about photography, sharing his latest pictures with his more than two million followers, and meeting people all over the world for real-life events,” according to the article.
GigaOM cites the influence of Bradley Horowitz, VP of product management for Google +, who “studied image recognition at the MIT Media Lab and built a visual-information retrieval company” before overseeing the acquisition of Flickr while employed by Yahoo.
Horowitz is bringing his vision of social photography to Google+ and hinted during the San Francisco conference that photo processing is next.
According to the article: “’Today, the tools are too segmented,’ he said, summing up the discrepancy between an Instagram filter and a full-blown app like Photoshop. ‘Either they are toys, or they are for the pro.’ Google+ has some rudimentary online editing for photos built in, but Horowitz hinted at the possibility of extending these much further.”
Google+ is ready to take on Flickr and Instagram by offering photo sharing with real-life meetups and its Google+ mobile app.
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