News April 12, 2009

Daily Booth – Capture Your Lifetime In Pictures

We all know there is no shortage of social networking sites on the internet. Some help us get in contact with long lost friends, others let us follow the moment by moment happenings of celebrities and so on. Every once and a while a social networking site pops up that’s just plain fun. Such is the case with Daily Booth.

The concept is simple. Dailybooth allows you to track your life through pictures. In theory you take a picture, using your computer’s web camera (they recently added the ability to e-mail pictures to upload as well) or upload one, once a day. And after time goes by you can look back on how you’ve changed over the year, or more.

Other Dailybooth users can comment on your pictures and respond back with a picture of their own if they desire. There is a Twitter like feature where you can choose to follow other users and thus be alerted via e-mail when they’ve snapped a new picture.

Once you’ve set up an account, your Dailybooth dashboard becomes the place to view all of your friend’s activity. You’ll see their latest pictures, comments etc. You create a personal profile where all your photos are stored and add as much or as little personal information about yourself as you wish.

The site has some widgets which enhance the experience as well. You can view all of your snapshots across a 2D scroller or view them in 3D in a iTunes “cover art” type set up. There’s a Mac OS X dashboard widget and the ability to view all your images via a YouTube video too.

Dailybooth is a fun way to see the day to day changes of friends. It’s also fun to see how you yourself change on a day to day basis. There is talk of an iPhone application being developed as well.

M.S.R.P – Free!

What I like: Fun way to see your life and the life of your friends through images.

What I don’t like: Nothing.

Tags: Digital Camera Gear and Photograph Services, Social Networking

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I have always had a passion for gear and gadgets. It all started for me with the release of the very first Palm Pilot. I've always had an interest in handheld electronics. From handheld PDAs, to cell phones, Mp3 players, watches and other products, I'm the first person my friends, family and colleagues call when they need advice on tech. I have roots in the online tech. forum community. I served as the Administrator to Howard Forums.com and as a Moderator at both Treo Central.com and Blackberry Forums.net. Under the screen name “lgreenberg” I've amassed 50,000+ postings. I also manage my own YouTube channel under the user name larrygreenberg. I'm always eager to help.

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dancohen

I had a friend in graduate school who did the low-tech version of this. Every day he took on Polaroid picture so that he could look back over the year when it ended. The bum even woke me up one day when I was crashed on his couch and I was his “shot for the day”. Ah yes the ol' “wake up to a flash going off three feet from your face” trick.

I like this idea of this a lot although seeing how far you have fallen since you ended doing South Beach might be a bit of a downer…
lgreenberg

Funny, I do find myself “primping” a bit before I snap my daily photo. Don't want anything too haunting when I look back at everything in a year from now.
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Drew

Certainly not for the camera phobic..
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calebbritton

Absolutely love this site. A fantastic community with an ingenious concept is bound to take you far, as dailybooth most likely will.
David

very nicely done. I think Daily should use this in the “about us” section.
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