The zune has a wireless sharing feature that lets nearby people share songs and music. Why don’t cameras have a wireless sharing feature? With the push of a button, you could send a photo directly to another nearby camera.

One person takes a picture, and then presses the share button. All the other cameras in the area get the picture. A feature like this must be possible for camera manufacturers to make.

I think tripod is the trick, it give the setting a very formal “studio” feel and you a better command of the situation.

The best solution I’ve found so far is to carry a USB universal flash card reader and to give my parents my flash card to download my pix when I’m home and for me to download their pix onto my laptop. that seems to be fast and easy. But yes, if memory cards were universal that would help.

here’s the other thing, all the elderly folks are still completely lost about all this. My boyfriend’s elderly parents have literally thousands of mB of photos sitting around on flash memory cards. They don’t have any idea on how to use the internet. In a perfect world they would have a digital photo frame I could “push” content to when I wanted. With memory so cheap, ti would be great.

Facebook simply can’t afford to host 10MB JPEG’s of everybody’s pictures. This is silly because everybody has a 100GB hard drive or more in their home computers, but the ISP’s have declared that our utopian world-wide peer-to-peer network is to be port 80, 443, and maybe 587 only, and absolutely in only one direction.

There should be a way to have your family’s photo albums automatically show up in, say, iPhoto, like on a LAN, and all they’d have to do is check a ‘share this’ box on each photo, and maybe youy’d have exchanged some kind of certificate beforehand (with a nice GUI) to establish trust. Perhaps somebody could make a bittorrent iPhoto plugin to do this since that seems to leak all the way through the NAT boxes.