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FotoSwap is an online digital photo sharing software application that allows people to instantly share a whole collection of personal photos with friends and family over the Internet. The Nikon Coolpix 950 Casio Exilim Digital photography, as opposed to film photography, uses an electronic sensor to record the image as a piece of electronic data rather than as chemical changes on film. ...
Photo sharing is a term given to a crop of mid-2000s websites which provide means to publish a collection of digital photos online in a centralized and organized fashion. ...
Application software is a subclass of computer software that employs the capabilities of a computer directly to a task that the user wishes to perform. ...
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P2P Photo Sharing
FotoSwap is one of a new breed of p2p photo sharing applications that use a peer-to-peer infrastructure to remove the need for users to actively upload their photos to a web site. These applications thus make it possible for users to share their entire photo collection with minimal effort. A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network is any network that does not rely on dedicated servers for communication but instead mostly uses direct connections between clients (peers). ...
A website, Web site or WWW site (often shortened to just site) is a collection of webpages, that is, HTML/XHTML documents accessible via HTTP on the Internet; all publicly accessible websites in existence comprise the World Wide Web. ...
P2P photo sharing applications generally combine some form of photo album managmenent software with a means to serve photos on demand directly from the user's own computer. These applications generally fall into two categories: "true p2p" where all users in the network use the same client, and "personal web servers" where people with photos to share use the application itself, but friends of users can browse the photos with a standard web browser. Both categories have advantages and disadvantages. The term client may have the following meanings. ...
The term web server can mean one of two things: a computer responsible for serving web pages, mostly HTML documents, via the HTTP protocol to clients, mostly web browsers; a software program that is working as a daemon serving web documents. ...
A web browser or Internet browser is a software application that enables a user to display and interact with HTML documents hosted by web servers or held in a file system. ...
True p2p photo sharing applications have the advantage that they can automatically transfer full-size photos in the background. Moreover they can easily circumvent firewall and routers through use of a proprietary peer-to-peer protocol. However the disadvantage is that friends of the user must download a client application before they can view the photos. Firewall refers to: Firewall (construction) Firewall (networking) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
This article describes the computer networking device. ...
A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network is any network that does not rely on dedicated servers for communication but instead mostly uses direct connections between clients (peers). ...
For meanings in specific fields, see protocol (computing) or protocol (cryptography). ...
Personal web server based applications have the advantage that friends do not need to download the client before browsing the photos. However the disadvantage is that they require the user to configure a firewall and router to allow incoming http connnections in order to work properly. This is usually beyond the ability of most non-technical Internet users. The term web server can mean one of two things: a computer responsible for serving web pages, mostly HTML documents, via the HTTP protocol to clients, mostly web browsers; a software program that is working as a daemon serving web documents. ...
HTTP (for HyperText Transfer Protocol) is the primary method used to convey information on the World Wide Web. ...
Hybrid p2p photo sharing applications combine both a personal web server and a p2p network layer to acheive the benefits of both category of application.
True P2P
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Hybrid
History The first incarnation of FotoSwap was created in Christmas 1999, when Charles Wiles noting the growing popularity of Napster decided to build a peer-to-peer application for sharing photos. This first version combined a simple virtual album management graphical user interface with a peer-to-peer network layer that allowed multiple users running the same software to browse thumbnails and download each others photos. Second version (revised 2001) of Napster logo: Cat wearing headphones. ...
A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network is any network that does not rely on dedicated servers for communication but instead mostly uses direct connections between clients (peers). ...
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A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network is any network that does not rely on dedicated servers for communication but instead mostly uses direct connections between clients (peers). ...
A wide variety of systems of interconnected components are called networks. ...
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In August 2002 FotoSwap 2.0 was launched. FotoSwap 2.0 was redesigned from scratch with a personal web server underneath the peer-to-peer layer, allowing friends of users running FotoSwap to browse and download photos using a simple web browser. The term web server can mean one of two things: a computer responsible for serving web pages, mostly HTML documents, via the HTTP protocol to clients, mostly web browsers; a software program that is working as a daemon serving web documents. ...
A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network is any network that does not rely on dedicated servers for communication but instead mostly uses direct connections between clients (peers). ...
A web browser or Internet browser is a software application that enables a user to display and interact with HTML documents hosted by web servers or held in a file system. ...
In January 2005, Version 2.1 added automatic router traversal, removing the need for users to configure their router for port forwarding. Other features included a new friends panel and instant messenger and a sophisticated in-application photo album browser. A Linksys NAT router, popular for home and small office networks A router is a computer networking device that forwards data packets toward their destinations through a process known as routing. ...
It is common to configure port forwarding on routers over a web interface. ...
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External links - FotoSwap website
- Reviews of p2p photo sharing applications
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